Race pace. Since I don’t have the time or effort to go into it all (I can’t go back and break down every stint of the recent Ferrari run), I’ll use a recent example: Sochi. Seb took the lead, and when pressed CL couldn’t quite keep the pace (until Ferrari made another one of it’s terrible calls, and screwed their…

Mercedes is currently spending more money on development of a powertrain for the new formula than they are on the entirety of their F1 operations this season. It’s nuts.

I don’t disagree that Red Bull have done a great job outside the powertrain, but Ferrari have actually been no slouch in the chassis department either. Mercedes just have the best powertrain, particuarly in the first 3 years of the formula.

Marquez doesn’t really make the championship boring. You can always count on a gravity defying move in practice as he pushes to make sure he knows the limit before the race and most likely he will do something similar during the race. The guy is simply amazing, but if Quartararo stays healthy and Yamaha finds a…

People just flat out choose not to recall reality. They remember one close battle or one amazing pass that gets played over and over in highlight reels only to forget that races would sometime routinely end with podium cars a lap down or race wins decided by mechanical failure lottery. 

I’m a little sad he’s referred to as simply a “MotoGP Rider” in the title. He’s not just a rider. Tito Rabat is a rider. Karel Abraham is a rider. Even Danelo Petrucci is a rider. Jorge Lorenzo is a multiple world champion. Even to someone that knows nothing about MotoGP, that means something. Would you refer to Lewis…

In the event that you were not aware, that is Really Not Good! This isn’t necessarily just an engine problem, it’s a significant failure to design an engine, period. The whole thing is bad.

he’s just that good on a bike that is at best the 3rd best bike in the paddock. seems like a good guy, doesn’t shy away from challenges (could have vetoed Lorenzo but didn’t, always spoke well of him...)

the Yankees always have the best bike but fuck it up anyway.  the cowboys have a shit team with a shitty owner and a…

“A fan favorite” is a stretch.  Jorge enjoyed some success, but was never embraced like Marquez or Stoner, much less a beloved as Rossi.  He was forever the other guy on the team while another racer endeared himself to the fans.  There’s no questioning his talent and skill as a racer, but his very-public complaining…

They’re actually much more reliable. They’re literally the most efficient PUs in the world. I’m too lazy to crunch the numbers for all the eras, but this article shows the difference between Ferrari retirements from ‘89-’95 with the V12 vs ‘14- now and the difference is quite substantial. I would assume the trend is…

this is a bad take

This is a vast over-dramatization of the engine issues. The engine design is top notch. For the first time since the dawn of the hybrid era, someone has designed a power unit more powerful than the mighty Mercedes.

It would force everyone to get a little more creative. Especially the big money teams. Hamilton is making 60M/year - that’s 1/3 of the allowed budget. I am kind of an asshole though; I’d apply that rule only to the big 3 in the hopes that it may level the playing field :)

I mean, Charles is a pretty good driver, so there is that.

1. 2020 engine and cars are mostly fixed by now. The damn cars need to run in 3 months.

The schedule has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with attendance. See, for example, the drop in attendance at the US Grand Prix in Austin after they introduced the Mexico GP and held it the following weekend. The schedule is designed to ensure increased attendance. If you have a race in Monaco and a…

She is serious.  And don’t call her Shirley.

Very nice

See, that’s the trick. F1 fans say they want competitive racing, but really what they want is for the upper echelon teams to swap places every once in a while. Half of F1 fans would be super pleased if Ferrari just walked away with every race, and the other have are split between being fans of specific drivers. They…

That would kill F1.  The whole point is to allow teams enough freedom to take different approaches to speed without one team finding some trick that allows them to dominate.  Removing the body differentiation would just make it Indycar with an extra couple engine suppliers.