Because it’s far more complex and demanding than the simplistic reductionism portrayed in your post.

Every one of the four wheels must be taken off and a new one secured properly in less than 2 seconds. With the new wheel sizes an F1 wheel and tire setup probably comes somewhere in the realm of 25-30lbs.

A front and…

it hit his chest and spun onto his arm. His arm was in a completely natural position and he had no ability to get out the way. That’s my opinion.

Gim...teering wheel.

Self-awareness will serve him well. Hope he gets faster and lasts a long time in F1.

He’s actually not very experienced. Only 79 F1 starts, which is 5 less than 21 years old Max Verstappen, with cars that were completely different.

To put it simply :

“Also, when electrification will become the norm, what prevents F1 to move to full electric cars ?”

The 2 paragraphs after the quote say it all. On the one hand he’s as experienced with F1 as any non-driver can be and should know what he’s talking about.

Your points aren’t bad at all, but unless you’re going for the hiding-in-plain-sight vibe, to invite this level of publicity - and therefore potential scrutiny - for your money laundering op would not be advisable if it could be helped. If it couldn’t be, hmmm...that means Haas sponsorship would need to be the vital…

They stole their logo. Why would stealing the livery come as a surprise?

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David Coulthard was the first ‘famous’ person I interviewed in my previous life as a journalist. I remembered before the interview that I was both excited and nervous as heck, simply at the thought of meeting someone whom I watched in F1 growing up.

You’re right sauceman. Talking about passes in F1 is like goals in fussball/soccer. Its not so much the number of them, but the lead up to them. As long as there’s competitive action and drama leading to it, the pass is icing on cake. But an endless procession of cars, not even in the same corner, yawn.

Iiiiiiittttttt’s a JOOOOOOOOOOOOKE.

Why do people constantly pretend like F1 has been about a large number of passes? It has never been like that. It’s always been about memorable, well executed passes, but each race usually just has a few highlight sections. In terms of passing - the V8 era SUCKED until DRS came around. The V10 era was even worse. Sure…

This is a pretty lukewarm take to anyone who has watched a recent race. For the last few seasons there have been _astonishing_ numbers of passing.

Especially when one of the big three teams starts from the back of the grid.

The half pass is what we call a Vettel pirouette 

You mean to tell me that running on ovals wasn’t your big take?

F1 does NOT have unlimited development. Among the many things it bans: team-specific tire development; using any tires outside the sanctioned Pirellis; numerous forms of active aero; ground effects; engines with more than four valves per cylinder; variable valve timing; ICE engines of any displacement, cylinder count,…

Denouncing is fine, you get to keep it. Renouncing, you lose it. Announcing, you tell everybody about it. Enunciating, you do so very clearly.