The only reason I kept cable for as long as I did was to be able to watch F1 live and reliability. When F1 TV came out it was a no brainier, big cost reduction and get some added features. The first year was a bit rough, I think they underestimated the bandwidth requirements or didn’t have the budget to to do it right,…

Not only that, but if you don’t have electricity, you don’t have refineries. Those distillation columns requires a DCS and air compressor minimum to operate. No electric, no gas.

I wont argue with that first point, I don’t necessarily see a garage or carport being a barrier to entry for electric cars but its a matter of opinion.

Regarding the second part, your statement is true only if car age is on a normal distribution. Its not though, it’s very non-normal. Part of that is because you can’t…

I don’t know about decades (plural). 2037 is technically not even 2 decades away.

The number of times Seb has spun himself around due to unforced error in the past 1.5/2 years would disqualify him from a RBR seat using your criteria...

I love wrenching more than I love driving, but one thing I can assure you is that its a lot different when you can walk away from it at any time vs. having a customer over your shoulder while you try to remove a stripped and rusted solid bolt. Not to mention that typical mechanic salary is ~40k/yr, there are other…

And $20 million richer to show for it!

Nearly every pro race starts and ends on the trainer, this isn’t anything new to them. A properly fit road bike is a whole lot more efficient at converting calories to motion. The angles, frame stiffness, wheel weight, rolling resistance, etc. add up in a big way when you’re only make ~300w

I honestly expect this to become even more an engineer’s race than before. I recently listened to Beyond the Grid’s episode with Gordon Murray. His comments on the state of F1 today and the role of a Design chief was enlightening. In my opinion, F1 will be a return to an era where being the Design Chief had a far more…

The hospital in question was closed 2 months ago, not 2 years ago...

I’ve been chasing a cold idle issue on my Golf Harlequin VR6 turbo. So far I’ve confirmed the issue is NOT the throttle body, crank position sensor, ignition switch, cam position sensor, engine grounds, spark plugs, fuel pressure, or O2 sensor. Only thing left is coolant temperature sensor (should be here Tuesday :p)…

Its still pretty good, and much like the earlier episodes so are gold and some are just OK. Honestly, any not-100% scripted show about people doing car things is going to have its ups a downs (top gear, grand tour included.)

That being said, I still subscribed to motor trend TV. There is a lot of other “road kill”…

Seb literally drove into Hamilton at Baku 2 years ago because he didn’t get his way. No way they would work together. Seb is a man-child that runs away anytime he gets shown up by a teammate (red bull and now Ferrari)

Clearly Dale Jr. is an option for Ferrari

Fortunatly, Wiki had that info in tables already. The budget and team size is a bit more secretive and unlikely to been found outside the recent past

I’d argue that it is no more engineering based than it has been in the past. I pulled the list of F1 constructors champions for the last 70 years and sorted them by team % win margin (ie how lopsided, points wise, the constructors championship was won). In the top 40 by that metric, only 11 have come in the past 20…

There is no shortage of open wheel low(er) dollar and simplified racing. If that’s what you want then go watch that. F1 has been about engineers and then drivers for a long, long time and that is what makes it unique.

Both Benetton and Red Bull have demonstrated that buying speed is a real thing, and in racing going fast is how you make your money.

As a fellow connoisseur of the extremely rare but not particularly valuable, I have one rule, no structural rust. Everything else on these sort of cars is pretty cheap to repair, but rust takes no pity on cheap cars.