I still think Alonso is the most talented, by far. The guy was one race away from winning the championship with the fourth-best car on the grid. Other than that Hamilton season - which was against Hamilton, and also had a LOT of behind-the-scenes shenanigans with his team working against him, and even then he finished…

The problem is, it’s not really financially viable to run a team that only appears in pre-qualifying. Any team that isn’t virtually always making it into the race itself is going to go bankrupt quickly. Even a team that makes the race but is always at the back is going to struggle to survive. Remember why there are 13…

FWIW, you actually can set up a new English football club and pretty much just demand to be included in the schedule, and this happens not that rarely. You can’t play immediately in the Premiership, because it’s a promotion/relegation system and you can’t just buy your way in as a new club, but you can rise through…

I don’t really get how anyone can put Hamilton ahead of Senna, but not Schumacher. If you’re applying the “but he won so many more races than Senna” argument, then that applies just as much to Schumacher as to Hamilton (the one big difference is that Schumacher never lost to his teammate, whereas Hamilton did). I’m…

Best - yet entirely realistic! - case scenario for Alonso?

Legally, that would be a violation of human rights, and the Pope would end up imprisoned just outside the Hague.

Well, they saw that last year, at the end of the year, their car was the 2nd fastest on the grid and nearly the fastest (they got a 1-2), using the zero-sidepod approach. So it’s maybe not unreasonable that they thing that approach has potential. They also know that the perfomance costs of switching to an entirely…

Is his resume stacked with aerodynamics degrees? If not, it’s not really relevant. It’s all very well him saying “just make the balance better!” or “make those bits on the sides blobbier and higher up!”, but that’s not really of any use to the actual engineers who are trying to build it. Hamilton does not “know what a…

Hungary regularly delivers fantastic races - hard to pass, heat, dust, occasional monsoons, a track difficult enough that good drivers can find time on it.

Oh boy yes.

“Hey, guys, I just thought of a way to bring about world peace! Also, if you just give me a little funding, I’m pretty sure I can cure cancer!”

Sadly, this is a myth: everyone’s swastikas have always faced in either direction. In general it does seem that in East Asia north of the Himalaya, the left-facing swastika is preferred, and this includes most Mahayana Buddhist use. But south of the Himalaya, the right-facing swastika is preferred, including in…

It would hardly be a ‘technicality’. It’s plain irresponsible to allow people with effectively no driving experience to compete at the highest level. Just look at Mazepin’s performance - and Mazepin was far more credentialed than Chadwick.

The problem is, there’s only so long you can keep saying “one more year” for.

There was talk of the Mercedes reserve spot, which would have been a genuinely interesting move - with Hamilton likely to retire in the near future, he’d have had a good chance (assuming he did well in the sim) at a seat alongside Russell and a chance of more GPs, or even the championship. [a long shot, obviously, but…

Do the people receiving positive discrimination (or ‘affirmative action’ as I think the Americans call it) “deserve” their special treatment? In terms of demonstrated merit, no, by definition, since if they did they wouldn’t need affirmative action. [whether they morally ‘deserve’ it is a trickier question, of…

Until recently, there were no rungs on the ladder. Now there is one rung, W Series. Soon there will be two runs, with FA. That surely is an improvement, even if the ladder is not yet fully built.

It’s a great idea. It’s a great place for her to get the eyeballs she needs to find more funding, it lets her network with a whole new set of potential sponsors, there’s the chance of a no-questions-asked guaranteed scholarship into Indycar if she wins, and it opens up the idea of an Indycar career as a consolation if…

That’s rubbish, with respect.

Just to flesh that out a little: auditing and accounting are extremely complicated. Or at least they can be. And given that these are multinational sports teams, in most cases wholly or part-owned by other multinational companies, and in relationships with often-owned-or-part-owned-or-sibling supplier and services…