1) Saying Ferrari’s qualifying performance proves there’s no impact due to the directive is just lazy and 2) it’s not clear yet whether Ferrari’s rumored system was technically illegal.

That’s fair. All good points.

True, but only in terms of racing intelligence, and it’s worth noting that Hamilton had similar issues and only figured that out in his late twenties.

Revisionist history. McLaren’s cars in 2016/17 were actually quite good, as evidenced by their performance at high downforce tracks where outright power wasn’t much of an issue. At power tracks, well:

Why do you think so? I’m not saying he is or isn’t, just interested in the reasoning behind it.

It does, though I also think a part of Ferrari’s troubles at COTA were track specific.

They’ve done such an amazing job. At the very first testing week in Barcelona, they were in real trouble. They had already figured this out much earlier, took the public criticism on the chin, and basically showed up a week later with what was effectively a completely new car that proved to be the base for another…

Not really, though. If Lewis had retired then Ocon would’ve likely had that seat and I think it’d be genuinely close between him and Bottas. Bottas is massively quick at times, but he’s still really inconsistent. At his age, that’s not likely to change.

the ferraris were nowhere today.... so sad

It feels like Verstappen is an old veteran now for how long he’s been in the sport already, I have to keep reminding myself he’s still only 22.

Albon’s doing a fine job a Red Bull, but Max still is significantly quicker. And younger.

She doesn’t come close to qualifying for a super license, also, she would do much worse than Kubica.

Two seconds? No. But since it’s actually more like 10-15 seconds, yeah. Also, IndyCars are required to be structurally stronger than F1 cars, due to the tracks they run on, making F1 cars more sensitive to things like bumps.

Dead last to 6th (in this case 5th, with Vettel’s retirement) should be a given in a top three car nowadays, sadly. I’ve been really impressed with Albon at Red Bull so far, but I actually don’t think he had a really good race yesterday, even after the first corner incident. He seemed to struggle with tyre management,…

I don’t believe the W Series has that kind of money to spend. Honestly, I have no idea how they’re going to be able to run the series itself if they don’t start attracting major sponsorship soon.

True. I loved Tyrrell. Their final car, the 026, is one of those cars that I’ve always found to have a wildly underrated livery. Particularly the Takagi car with green accents.

In which F3 series though? And which team are they going to force the W Series champ on?

I generally agree with the ‘win and you have to move on’ deal the FIA has for feeder series, but yours is the first valid argument I’ve seen here that actually shows it could makes sense to hold off on that strategy (for now) in the W Series. The series is already so low on talent that removing the best one each year d…

How about Sauber-BMW-Sauber-Alfa-maybe Sauber again?

OK. Prove it.