I think the main understanding we seem to be getting form this, is that the very best drivers tend to be able to drive 'unstable' cars at a speed that the rest cannot match, but without such a property, the difference between them and the rest tends to be much smaller, and therefore makes ranking th...

Daft question but what if the Merc concept happened to be a red herring, just to get the other teams in a flap? I know it's highly unlikely - largely due to resources / cost being flushed away - but it would be quite amusing! Perhaps not so daft they clearly had two very different designs available...

I think it was right decision to race even though Mercedes was in disadvantage with back-marker out of the way . It could have happen the other way round as well if Max was in Hamilton position. That is how it happens in sports :-| Not according to the rules. They should have left the backmarkers i...

4.12.9 When ordered to do so by the clerk of the course the observer in the car will use a green light to signal to any cars between it and the race leader that they should pass. This wasn't the issue - since they weren't in front if Lewis - they were between Lewis and Verstappen, but no further ba...

F1 needs to remember it's a sport first and foremost What you really mean is that F1 is supposed to be a game , first of all - where the outcome is decided based on the player's own behaviour (within a structured environment), not a judge's opinion which turns it into a competition . Which is also ...

Can you provide a source that they were British? I can confirm one thing about that situation - the Race Marshal (examining observer) who originally reported/flagged him for overtaking on the formation lap was definitely British ;) :D (I know this because I went marshalling with him that season, ju...

Can you provide a source that they were British? I can confirm one thing about that situation - the Race Marshal (examining observer) who originally reported/flagged him for overtaking on the formation lap was definitely British ;) :D (I know this because I went marshalling with him that season, ju...

what technical issues did Leclerc have in qualifying? He said he thought it was a good lap and was shocked at his position. Leclerc was confirmed to have a cracked chassis -- sufficiently damaged that the FIA allowed Ferrari to replace it under Parc Ferme without having to make a pitlane start. I k...

It has to be worth testing it, right?

Steve_muzzy wrote:McLaren has signed a deal with Gulf!! If they get a gulf livery it will top all

Ooooooh... *Fingers Crossed*

Nice one Norris...

F1_Ernie wrote:Why did they pit Hamilton?

Traffic...

lucifers wrote:oh ferrari

That's not how you make more Ferraris

Bring back manual gears!

You know cars are too easy to drive because on the rare occasion one gets out of shape for a fraction of a second, the commentators get excited! Drivers should be getting all crossed up most laps. Bring back stick shift leaving just one hand on the wheel... Would you be in favour of seemless shift ...

I think the Planet-F1 site has got it wrong too? According to the timer on the front page the race starts in 4 1/2 hours - but 8am BST is 3 1/2 hours away?

By contrast, Marchionne is a CEO coming from the english-speaking financial environment. He is there to make money for the shareholders, plain and simple. If at any time in the future the board thinks e.g. Ferrari's stepping out of F1 is going to result in +0.something percent on their balance shee...

Jomox wrote:Boring yup.

F1 is now about two things.

DRS & Tyres.

Since reliability and gear-changes are no longer a large part of the equation - they needed something else to counter the processional races...

Should have brought back manual gears instead!

The overall problem (or disease) as some have called it, with overtaking and racing in F1, was caused by a very particular change, which better reliability only exacerbated, which KERS/DRS and now the current tyres try and make up for. I can't remember who it was who did the research (maybe Dolomite...

You mean F1 doesn't trump "football" and Nascar??? 600 million viewers world wide. The people who want to watch F1 will be watching, and the real fans will be in Austin. You do understand that the 600m refers to viewers for the entire season, right - not just one race, (which is anything from ~25-3...

I'm in Leicester these days, so my closest 'proper' track is Mallory Park... (I know there's a couple of karting places round Leicester too, but I don't count them ).

"There can be only one" (Ferrari) or "one for all and all for one, (until mathematically impossible)" (McLaren)? Oh wait - you mean principal, not principle... Well, I'm not really sure I can say, given those we have atm, though Williams and Brawn are definitely up there. Horner and Whitmarsh, howev...

off the top of my head: Schumacher black flag at silverstone 1994. now i was a massive Damon Hill fanboy in those days. but schumacher passed him a couple of times on the parade lap. really? who flipping cares ? also i loved how in that era (mid90s) drivers got race bans for causing accidents etc. ...

F1 is becoming too much about the show. We have all these devices (The jelly tyres, KERS, DRS) encouraging artificial racing. Theres lots of overtaking, drivers tyres fall off and they lose heaps of places, no team really understands how to go fast THAT well and some smaller teams luck out big time...