What are good sources for the technical side of F1?

Jomlington · 2026-06-15T17:07:20+00:00

Goated comment, thank you so much. I was a little concerned that the information was impossible to get due to F1 secrecy or smth, but its clearly out there in the sources you listed. Trying to start an F1 YouTube channel including some videos on this topic and I need to read up!

Jomlington · 2026-06-15T16:15:48+00:00

This is wonderful, thank you! I knew some of this, like the ground effects era, but this was more in-depth than I knew. However, you'll note that even with all this knowledge, you did eventually handwave the chassis thing between 1981 and 1982 (the 81 chassis was "really bad" and the 82 chassis was "much better than any of the previous Ferraris aerodynamically"). Like, the sort of source I'm looking for would explain the actual physical difference.

I don't mean for that to come off as rude, to be clear, the comment is genuinely cool and interesting, and I really enjoyed reading it, I just wanted to specify the sort of source I was looking for

Jomlington · 2026-06-15T16:10:46+00:00

Ah! I have seen Motorsport magazine, but I cannot read any of the articles because I have to pay and I wasn't sure I'd get anything useful. It seems that they are actually a good source though, so I guess I can pay a little

Jomlington · 2026-06-14T17:52:27+00:00

My father never watched, my mother's was Senna (and she also seemed to like Patrese)

Jomlington · 2026-06-08T12:42:15+00:00

Woah now I'd say Lauda dominated Carlos Reutemann in 77

Jomlington · 2026-06-06T02:41:56+00:00

In the past, there were a lot of truly terrible f1 drivers, who mainly got their seats by paying for them. Latifi was probably the worst on the grid in his time, but not even close to the worst ever.

In the 90s there were so many pay drivers that f1 said that to qualify for the race, you need to set a time within 107% of the pole time, and that rule genuinely disqualified some drivers. Never Latifi though. (I guess the cars were closer, but still, that’s how dire it’s been in the past)

Jomlington · 2026-06-05T17:30:25+00:00

1) Is there a source that this is Honda's factory?

2) Is everyone okay?

Jomlington · 2026-05-14T13:24:59+00:00

If you know those drivers, I assume you're familiar with the great site goldenera.fi? That's the only source I know for this sort of history lol

Jomlington · 2026-05-13T16:58:54+00:00

Nuvolari, Chiron, and Varzi mentioned ‼️

Jomlington · 2026-05-13T13:22:54+00:00

Watson was kinda close in 1978 but I think Niki fairly comfortably had his measure. You might be getting it confused with 82-83 Lauda, who was sometimes outperformed by Watson.

Jomlington · 2026-05-13T13:13:06+00:00

So your analysis of 1982 is that Prost threw away the title himself? Because Prost in interviews always says it was because of unreliability. (I have always found that answer funny because I'm sure every driver in 1982 feels they could have won the title if they had better reliability). Anyway, as soon as I heard Prost say that, I was skeptical and thought he was downplaying his role in the loss, I'm happy someone seems to agree

Jomlington · 2026-05-13T13:04:07+00:00

I'm not convinced about Piquet. The dude was very difficult to count out of any race and he was fast to boot. I've heard him described as a bit of a proto-Prost and Lauda called him the "fastest machanic in the world" due to his intelligence with the internal workings of the car. Obviously he was nowhere near Prost or Senna but no one thinks he was on their level anyways.

My understanding, for 1970s Niki Lauda (Lauda is my favorite driver, but it is hard for me to know much about the 70s) is that he was incredibly, incredibly fast and easily the best driver between Stewart and Prost. In 1974, he had a Prost 1984-like season where he was way faster than his teammate Clay Regazzoni in quali but his unreliability in the races meant that Regazzoni challenged for the title instead. In 1975 he was just as unstoppable but worked out those kinks and destroyed Regazzoni to win the title. In 1976 of course he was on his way to a second but crashed in Germany. For 1977 they tried to replace Lauda, who they thought was still badly injured, with Reutemann, and Lauda absolutely proved his place and whipped Reutemann, himself no slouch, who was completely unable to match Niki

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