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carlisimo

I asked one of our finance guys at work about this. He doesn't follow F1, but he's familiar with cost caps in other sports. His preliminary thoughts are (filtered through my ignorance of accounting vocabulary): - It's normal to assume that tax rebates will happen. In some industries, you're legally ...

carlisimo

Just a little note concerning the car being missed during the race; I don't believe it is the task of the race director or the technical delegate to keep track of the detailed technical status of the car during the race. That is something for the team to do. Having said that, I do think it is very ...

carlisimo

I get why Haas did it; asking for consistency is good. But the answer from the FIA should've been, "You're right, we should've shown Alonso the flag and we'll review our procedures so that it's applied more consistently in the future." Instead, the message from the FIA is that teams need to self-mea...

carlisimo

The covers make the change pointless, imo.

carlisimo

The firing was warranted even if you exclude the end of the last race. He lost control of the season early on, and it was never clear what was legal and how penalties were determined. While I think Verstappen's lap 6 pass was fair and disagree with the decision made, the real problem was that we did...

carlisimo

I always believed that Masi’s intentions were to try and finish under green flag race conditions but this information really does change things now. How the race director could be so easily manipulated by one team is staggering. I think all F1 fans accept that the result can’t and shouldn’t change ...

carlisimo

Opinions will differ about who deserved to win the championship, but it's an incontrovertible fact that Hamilton was faster all day except when Perez tactically slowed him down, after which he pulled away again. Being faster for one lap on fresh rubber after the gap was artificially wiped out isn't...

carlisimo

Read the room, mister president =p. --- I can't say I know anything about him but he couldn't have come in to the job at a worse time, he's inherited quite a mess. But his insistence that rules have to be followed sounds like a step forward at least. I don't know much about him, but I thought his na...

carlisimo

After rewatching the race, I've come around to the opinion that Max's lap 1 overtake should've been allowed and Hamilton should've had to return the position. It's totally debatable, and indeed it looks like opinions are pretty evenly divided... and it's something I'd like to see the FIA talk about ...

carlisimo

Would Red Bull be able to take any previous decisions to court in response? e.g. try get Hamilton's ineffectual penalty at Silverstone increased to cost him a place or two.

Re-litigating just one decision of many feels incomplete.

carlisimo

Leclerc was pretty awesome to watch in Formula 2. He earned his reputation as a fast driver an and effective overtaker there, and I can see why several people think he has more potential. On the other hand... Vettel was also a fast driver who lost championships due to mistakes. Probably a good idea ...

carlisimo

I've long been a Honda fan, but that's obviously difficult because they aren't consistently in the sport. (Poor performance isn't that big a deal.)

carlisimo

I saw the same on the BBC News gossip, but that often picks up things that are no more than rumour. Think I'll wait for more reliable sources than DM & PF1. It's not that big a surprise. Journalists like Joe Saward were talking last week about the possibility of RBR buying Honda engines in 2019. ht...

carlisimo

I know that Toro Rosso are breaking their contract with Renault, but it seems odd that they're allowing Sainz to join Renault as part of this deal. It makes some sense - breaking a contract is expensive, and they're giving up Sainz as part of the payment to Renault. What I'm saying is that there is...

carlisimo

Interesting stuff here: https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/pure-speculation/ Like most people, Joe Saward expects McLaren to use Renault engines and Honda to supply STR. But he goes into more detail. He thinks Red Bull is looking for an exit plan from F1 by the end of 2020 for both its teams...

carlisimo

Reading the forum here there continues to be a small group of folks who continue to support Honda and think that Alonso's best career move is for him to stay hitched up with McLaren Honda. I find this amazing, even shocking considering how awful Honda's performance has been year after year after ye...

carlisimo

I think it was fair. It was the worst on-track penalty available to the stewards, and Vettel didn't cause any damage. It's an exaggeration to call it dangerous based on that outcome. As others have pointed out, outcomes do play a role in determining the penalties. I also feel that the stewards would...

carlisimo

That Vettel hit Hamilton on purpose is not in question. I think the degree to which Hamilton slowed down on the exit of the corner is the point of debate. From the footage I have seen (which I can't find a link for unfortunately), it was not a lot. Just got back from watching it recorded. It certai...

carlisimo

A shame? Hardly. Should have happened a long time ago, when she sold the same seat to two different drivers. Joe Saward is saying that the "three drivers" situation was more complicated than reported - in such a way that he doesn't think Kaltenborn didn't do anything wrong - but the team decided no...

carlisimo

He didn't perfect the skills. His inexperience at restarts showed every time. His pitstops were usually slower too but I don't know if the driver had any impact on that His crew, and those of any other one-off driver, hadn't worked together as a team before. It's a minor disadvantage all guest driv...

carlisimo

Because then it wouldn't be faster.

As a driver, I would have wanted them to turn the engines down a little bit. But if I were a team owner with 4+ cars, I'd be more accepting of that (rather high) failure rate. It's the team owners that deal with the engine manufacturers...

carlisimo

I got some info from IndyCar fans who have a better idea of what happened between Sato and Helio Castroneves at the end. Basically, the stronger Honda engine was key. Castroneves was running less downforce to make up for the power deficit, and that was fine on newer tires but it'd meant they'd wear ...

carlisimo

Regarding Takuma Sato's victory at Indy… A Colorado journalist named Terry Frei was fired for posting the following on his Twitter page… “Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend”. Apparently his fathe...

carlisimo

I'll have to look into your claim that McLaren is slower in the races than Sauber. I'm really not convinced of that but I will take a look. In terms of the bolded statement; you can try to do a one-stopper instead of racing as if you're in a car that's capable of scoring on raw pace. Unfortunately ...

carlisimo

Unusually, the Spanish sports press has been writing editorials telling Alonso, "Look, we get it, but the Honda bashing isn't helping."

carlisimo

Don’t forget that the FIA takes into account the immediate results of the incident when deciding penalties. If Hamilton had retired but Rosberg hadn’t, they might have taken more action.

carlisimo

If they stated that Lewis was significantly along side, then Nico has to be punished. I disagree with that. They have enough leeway to decide that even though Hamilton was significantly alongside Rosberg (therefore Rosberg technically broke the rule), it wasn’t deliberate or flagrant enough to warr...

carlisimo

And apparently, a small fraction of a second was not considered by the same stewards to be "significantly beside him", or otherwise driver 44 would be said to had have right as per the rule, and not that he but believed that he had right. But you may interpret any way you wish, of course. The full ...

carlisimo

im a bit confused , can you tell me what the point of the halo is? is it to stop things like Massa's spring accident or to stop cars driving over the top of a driver or to protect from things like bianchi?? Wheels and other cars. Only the proposals with screens would help against springs, and while...

carlisimo

Personally, I would do away with almost every technical rule the designers have to abide to these days. I'd give engineers complete freedom in designing their cars, whether it was to do with aerodynamics, engines, tyres, or driver aids. I'd only keep certain rules that keep driver safety in check. ...

carlisimo

Wouldn't McLaren be Kiwi black?

carlisimo

I doubt it would have done much for Bianchi to be honest. It would be designed to deflect a tyre or large piece of bodywork and does not look anywhere near substantial enough to withstand a high-speed impact against a solid object. Such a construction probably would have saved Henry Surtees and Jus...

carlisimo

Fk u Lorenzo for hiring Marc Marquez to do ur dirty tricks. We booed him so much on Sunday till he left podium without celebrating. Márquez and Lorenzo don’t actually get along very well. Márquez used to like Rossi, but wrongly or not, he blamed Rossi for the crash in Argentina and it sounds like V...

carlisimo

They probably will, and that's fine. We tend to think of each race as simply another event in the course of a season, but to some people each grand prix is an annual event. From that point of view, the upcoming Japanese Grand Prix is more of an anniversary than the Hungarian GP was.

carlisimo

(It's Juan Carlos, not just Carlos.)

carlisimo

mcdo wrote:But those sparks looked horribly manufactured. They're really unnecessary

They were more noticeable than usual because it was dusk/night.

carlisimo

Azerbaijan is pouring a lot of money into tourist ads and onto soccer jerseys. This is similar - basically getting their name on TV so more people will take a vacation there. The German government doesn't feel the need to do anything similar.

carlisimo

Isn’t it just tire degradation being more pronounced than it used to be? The undercut works because you get at least one lap on new tires, and that lap is significantly faster than the other guy’s lap on old tires. 5-10 years ago, lap difference at the beginning and end of a stint was relatively sma...

carlisimo

Without wanting to be rude, it's a daft idea anyway. If you start sending cars out into a race knowing they don't have enough fuel on board you will just make your operation look like a farce. Sponsors aren't stupid, they wont just say, "OMG look; fast car!!" When everyone knows it's a false positi...

carlisimo

I can't imagine a country making a legal exception just for F1.

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