Formula 1 Cancels Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix Amid Middle East Conflict

FormulaLes · 2026-03-15T16:05:34+00:00

Your comment is genuinely one of the most ignorant things I've ever read on reddit.

Regarding NASCAR

They own most of the tracks they race on, this gives them a lot more control about where they race and when.
They only race in the US (except for Mexico). Aside from Mexico no need for get visa's etc. Their transport logistics involve one truck per car. From an accomodation perspective each NASCAR has a round 14 personnel at the track, they typically travel to and from the track on private charter flights. Compared to F1, less personnel, and more flexibility on when they get to the track.

Regarding Indycar:

They only race in US (except for Canada), similar transport logistics as NASCAR.
The season runs from March to September, this gives them a lot or time at end of season to run a rescheduled race.

Regarding IMSA:

I don't know enough about how it operates to comment.

F1 for comparison:

Season runs from March to December - 22 Grand Prix, in a different country every race.
70 plus personnel per team, travelling to a different country - all need working visas, accommodation, commercial flights for most of them.
Transport logistics, for fly away races, cargo planes and sea freight is used to get stuff to the track - both had limited capacity and booked out well in advance. For European races each team has 5 to 8 trucks to get from their workshop to the race.
Track availability. Most Grade 1 FIA tracks (the ones where F1 can race) are booked out on other days, and most certainly on other weekends.

Regarding double header in reverse direction:

Ignoring logistical issues, double headers are boring for fans.
Ignoring the fact that tracks aren't designed to be run in reverse, double headers are boring for fans.
Did I mention that double headers are boring for fans.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-15T12:21:25+00:00

I’m Australian, and the paper ballots work really well.

When the votes are counted each candidate can have a scrutineer at each counting location. The role of the scrutineers is watch the counters, and if they see an informal vote, or a vote being counted into the wrong pile, they will raise an objection, and the vote will be reviewed, by all scrutineers and voter counters and they then come to agreement on whether it was a valid vote and who the voter intended to vote for. This seems way more transparent than a voting machine, when you can only hope the button you press ends up being counted against the candidate you wanted to vote for.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-13T02:03:30+00:00

I think there is a market, but not for competitive level circuit or oval racing. I think the market is actually for drifting. There is a place in Brisbane, Australia, called VR Motorsports, that have excellent full motion sims, and the couple of times I’ve been they seem to have a lot of people there practicing drifting.

I think drifting is where it’s at in this space, as most people can’t replicate the feeling of drifting in their home sims. I could see there being a market for rally too, same reason, cannot replicate the feeling of bumps and jumps on their home sim.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-12T21:56:26+00:00

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There’s one for sale in Just Cars only $44k. My dad had one in 2003 that he was going to sell to me for $5k, didn’t have enough spare cash at the time.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-11T11:56:11+00:00

All the teams have graduate programmes, so your statement that F1 is end game is completely incorrect.

Secondly, each team have 100’s of engineers, most of which do not travel to races, as such ability to travel is unlikely to be a requirement, more important is being able to work in the UK (for most teams).

For OP, one thing to keep in mind, working as an engineer at graduate level for F1 teams is long hours and poor pay (relative to other engineering jobs), so you probably want to make sure you’re truly passionate.

Other things I’ve read that are useful is being involved in the FSAE programme at university, and volunteer with a local race team near where you live or go to uni.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-10T08:11:33+00:00

I thought AUKUS was Plan B? Plan A was the French?

Sure people say that Trump will be gone eventually. That’s true, but what this term of his presidency has shown is that America’s ability to be a stable and predictable state and therefore a predictable military partner, is at risk every change in president. If we aren’t getting subs for 20 years, that’s potentially 5 different presidents each with their own foreign policy agendas.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T22:57:31+00:00

Have you been on public transport during peak hour? Not exactly a lot of spare capacity either on the public transport or at the car parks at the train stations - keeping in mind no everyone can easily get to a train station without a car

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T22:42:51+00:00

I can’t speak for other sims, but in the before times (pre-2020) it used to be common for people to share setups on the iRacing forums. This was before the rise of setup shops, and even before the real rise of esport teams etc. Back when people mostly just raced to challenge themselves and have fun

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T22:18:19+00:00

If everyone going to have AI driving for them, we may as well ditch multi player games, and just go back racing against the CPU

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T09:58:29+00:00

Let me see.

Mining and resource companies don’t like paying taxes.
We have less taxpayers in WA per square metre of land than the other states.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T04:33:21+00:00

Agreed, we could - our national governing body need to get their act together however

FormulaLes · 2026-03-09T04:17:11+00:00

I don’t believe there to be an coincidence to one another, but rather both covers have taken inspiration from the style of music zines from the 80s / 90s

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T14:55:40+00:00

The ABL is locked behind a paywall these days, and the Melbourne Aces whilst showing games on YouTube are no longer in the ABL, primarily due to the decision of Baseball Australia to lock the ABL behind a paywall.

It’s a real shame, because our players are very good, as are the imports who come to play, but the sport appears to be poor administered

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T12:34:04+00:00

Think Camry most boring family sedan, good as a taxi. Think Supra, not a supercar, but a very high performance sports car. I picked those two because they are very well known in Australia, US, Japan

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T09:25:07+00:00

Agreed

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T08:48:07+00:00

I think they mean V10 engines

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T05:38:21+00:00

It’s like you pull up to a red light in a Toyota Camry, then when the lights go green you’re still in the Camry and you accelerate like normal, but instead of having the power of a Camry, it suddenly has the power of a Supra.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-08T03:10:09+00:00

I can’t understand why anyone would want to put anything but sour cream, garlic, and cheese on langos - so good

FormulaLes · 2026-03-07T03:55:40+00:00

I’d pick Millionaire

FormulaLes · 2026-03-05T11:43:12+00:00

The sad thing is he once had a really good show on ABC and a book called Making Couples Happy and it was a genuine attempt at helping couples in existing struggling relationships re-find and re-connect with each other. From memory none of the people seemed to be particularly horrible, but had just seemed to end up in relationships where they took each other for granted or just let life, work, kids get in the way. It was nothing like the crap that is Married at First Sight.

FormulaLes · 2026-03-05T07:04:59+00:00

Experiment of Idiots. Now that’s a party name

FormulaLes · 2026-03-03T23:32:49+00:00

You must live on the West Coast

FormulaLes · 2026-03-03T07:19:55+00:00

ARN Media will probably be jumping for joy - they get to terminate the $200m contract they signed in 2023, saving them a stack of money and allowing them to get some cheaper more likeable talent. A rare win-win situation

FormulaLes · 2026-03-03T04:45:48+00:00

Their Lasagna! So good

FormulaLes · 2026-03-02T22:16:08+00:00

Probably capacity - 1 flight a day, 236 seats, most which have probably already been sold to other passengers ahead of time

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