The thing that bugs me about the Ricciardo penalty is that the Mercedes drivers and probably Max would have been let off with just a reprimand. If even that much. If a racing series steadily enforced such things as a safety rule, then I'd be fine with it. The driver messed up, its always the same pe...

I've long gotten used to the fact that McLaren always puts out massive piles of BS before the season, and the English media just laps it all up. I've gotten to the point where I just laugh at it and the idiots who claim to be experts that repeat it. Alonso was talking about podiums this year. Well, ...

I cry anytime ESPN buys the rights to something I like. I normally get to watch the sky coverage. There pre- and post- event coverage is good, in fact excellent. Well, once you fast forward past all the Hamilton-is-God segments. Crofty makes me hit the mute button within a few seconds. I like Brundl...

Hey Blake! How's it going? I dunno if we'll end up with them, but I love SkyF1. You don't? The Sky track-side, pre-race team is excellent. However, I could be quite happy if I never heard Crofty ever again. They are of course, very, very, very pro-Hamilton and will never say a bad thing about him n...

I called them the Three Stooges of Motorsports. Hobbs used to be interesting and funny. That was back when it seemed as if he showed up drunk after a Saturday night on the town. But that ended decades ago. Hobbs became this very unfunny bitter man. I used to think they could record before the season...

BTW, I think the NFL draws quite comparably to F1 when they compete in the same places. IE, the NFL draws a total crowd for its games in Wembley Stadium that is comparable or exceeds what F1 draws at Silverstone. The NFL draws a crowd in Mexico City for games played there comparable or exceeding the...

Don't forget to thank Bernie for all of the classic F1 tracks being eliminated from the schedule. To be replaced by boring tracks in places that can't draw a crowd but where someone's been conned into paying Bernie a lot of money. And, the huge problem in F1 decision making right now is that the pro...

"Max the @$$" is showing why teams need to wait and hire drivers with more experience. He made the typical dumb move of an inexperienced teenager by trying to go up the inside of La Source at the start of Spa. Yes, it looks like there is room. But any experienced driver realizes that there really is...

So, let me get this straight. Bernie replaced the classic European tracks with established fans who loved F1 with a bunch of twisty, boring tracks with little or no established fan base, and he did it for the basic reason that he could con some promoters and/or governments into making Bernie a bit e...

F1 has a lot of fake journalism ... ie, 'reporters' who basically serve up press releases. We saw this in the US with the aborted USGP team. The 'reporters' on the old US SPEED network were falling all over themselves about how wonderful this was going to be. There were no problems at all at the tea...

I think they still give a bit of an edge to some of the newer manufacturers that haven't won yet. I think I heard a broadcast going on about how many engines a team could use in a season, and the teams like Suzuki or Aprilla got more. Not sure about Ducati, but I think they may be even with Yamaha a...

Gonna be fun! This is definitely the premier racing series that I look forward to the most. :) They've managed to get three manufacturers all with bikes and teams that can compete for a win, and a fourth that's not too far behind and gaining fast. Seems like in every race now the first three or even...

One year, NBCSN was showing the Champ Car races. The 'Voice guy' on the team wasn't too annoying for the breed, and they had a couple of ex-drivers who were quite good at explaining what was going on. I think the last year they used that group one of the ex-drivers was also a team principle who stil...

I can't stand the US coverage. Stopped watching it several years ago. Fortunately, I've got other options. Hobbs used to be funny .... back in the 1980's or so. I got the impression that he was still drunk when he got to the NC studio in the early AM to do the race. Had a wry sense of humor and coul...

Wasn't Qualifying brilliant? First, Lorenzo set the fastest time, which wasn't really a shock since he'd been fastest all winter. But, when Lorenzo made a mistake on his final hot lap, that left the door open. First Marquez came and took a shot at it, with an earlier faster sector time, but then fel...

Been very impressed by Mr. Ricardo's driving. Its always fascinating to see a young driver get into a good car and then realize that they do truly belong in that seat. Not so impressed by whoever wrote the article on the Planet F1 home page referring to Ricardo's "disappointing start". Apparently wr...