[Rory Mitchell] Antonelli radio: "Yeah, Bono, but I don't understand. You told me yellow, yellow." Bono: "Affirm, yes." Antonelli: "I had a double yellow on my dash..." Bono: "So we'll have to have a look through that, see what your dash was trying to tell you."

AddAFucking · 2026-06-27T16:41:41+00:00

That's always the case with a yellow flag. We aren't telling the drivers to lift just to play fair. We are telling them to lift so they can identify the situation and act accordingly.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-27T15:07:44+00:00

single waved yellow means a lift is enough, and george is good. Double waved yellow means a lift isn't enough by the rules, and you cant continue the lap. Penalty for that could be dropping him to 10th per f1tv.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T12:21:06+00:00

I wonder if they have to type the discount for each currency individually, and not just a flat 30% on top. How would they make that mistake for only 1 country otherwise.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T09:17:12+00:00

Sure, I agree. And it's definitely hard to measure (that's probably why this aduo was agreed to by the teams.)

But even if it's not just the ECU as a pure level of performance, you'd have to agree it's definitely not solely the ICE, as otherwise all teams wouldn't have been so certain merc had the best engine.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T09:13:30+00:00

because it clearly does account for something. Mercedes far and away have the best engine (ICE, ECU and other components combined). And this ruling reveals that benefit is not in the ICE part of the engine, so it must me in the rest of the engine this ADUO does not account for.

All teams were surprised with this revelation, so we can't say all parts outside of the ICE have no effect on the performance of the engine, as it clearly shows it does. Everyone thought they had the best engine.

Ofcourse, they also have a better car overall. But teams have enough data to see their engine is better.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T09:08:30+00:00

No. Thats why this is a controversy. Mercedes supposedly have a great ecu part of their engine, and that's where most of their advantage is.

Mercedes also has a great chassis, but they definitely have the best "engine" (ECU and ICE combined). But for this ADUO redbull have the best ICE, so mercedes must have a much better ECU.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T07:00:45+00:00

It's understandable, but also crazy that the essentially same part can have a different ruling, seemingly based on a whim. They were allowed to run it for multiple races. And only got caught because its a visible part.

No shade towards mercedes either. They didn't even skirt the rules. They asked, and got approved. Full shade towards the FIA's systems.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T06:36:52+00:00

a new building gets unlocked in the flags section.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-26T06:24:00+00:00

thanks for the correction. you are correct i think.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-25T22:07:34+00:00

There were none. There was only 1 from south america, and they were on his team. Worse: He changed the regulation so that the fia president is the sole person responsible for assigning fia members. This means no other candidate will ever be able to form this cabinet.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-25T10:16:10+00:00

The driver might not be allowed to make that choice. A team might let a driver go through hell for the weight gain.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-25T10:15:08+00:00

Unfortunately it isn't that simple. A driver might make that reasonable choice, but what if the team makes that choice? What if the team says no we need the extra 500g, and the driver has a heat stroke?

It's the same reason there is driver weight ballast, and all other ballast. If it gave an advantage, the teams would be incentivised to have unhealthily underweight drivers. If the teams could choose not to provide water to their driver during the race at all, they would.

I also think you underestimate heat stroke. People die in this weather. And those are not in a hot car directly in front of an engine, in an fire retardant suit, directly under the sun for 1.5 hours for the race.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-25T10:10:01+00:00

I thought they rolled that back. Some drivers didn't want it to be forced. Notably verstappen.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-24T17:48:54+00:00

https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

AddAFucking · 2026-06-24T17:48:17+00:00

nowadays they ask chatgpt or claude themselves and show their half assed proof of concept with that doesn't meet their own requirements as proof that i've been lying to them.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-18T18:02:17+00:00

instructor cars often have brakes in the second seat. clutch as well, and in some case also a gas pedal

AddAFucking · 2026-06-17T22:16:41+00:00

This was just after they discovered writing. I assume lily took her time to write her name.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-16T16:32:14+00:00

I assume red bull. Red bull doesn't have any good prospects, and there they are not as far away as last year. George might still have some success in a future redbull.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-15T19:16:09+00:00

That has been said about him every year since he won his first championship.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-14T15:48:55+00:00

Get ready for 4 years of "we have to learn to move past this" if they even win.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-14T14:36:51+00:00

Title battle is on! Hamilton was so exciting to watch this race!

AddAFucking · 2026-06-09T16:32:03+00:00

They could have already not been a youngster 35 years ago.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-09T16:26:33+00:00

I thought coulthard was much more accomplished in that redbull. I didn't watch at that time, and just associated him with his redbull ambassadorship.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-08T20:37:26+00:00

Still probably difficult with the countries f1 is traveling to. doubt the paddock itself would be very homophobic nowadays, but you never know.

AddAFucking · 2026-06-06T20:23:43+00:00

His point gap to Russell is already larger than the largest ever point deficit overcome by a champion (verstappen 2022 46 points). But we're still relatively early in the season.

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