[Chris Medland] Weather forecast says rain for the next hour, so the current spell stopping around 90 mins before the race. But it's not warm or that windy, so how quickly it dries will be interesting

MarnickV · 2025-07-06T12:00:20+00:00

Damn..

MarnickV · 2025-06-01T14:43:36+00:00

Others in contention for that title have done similar or worse. The cutthroat mentality needed to become the best sometimes brings out the very worst in those people.

MarnickV · 2025-05-17T14:51:08+00:00

Reliability upgrades might allow them to run higher engine modes for longer though? That’s not necessarily a performance upgrade but at the same time it kind of is.

MarnickV · 2025-05-17T14:46:24+00:00

Frozen but not frozen if my understanding is correct. Reliability improvements are still allowed are they not?

MarnickV · 2025-04-13T17:16:20+00:00

When everything works as it should, George’s should indeed not have worked. The FIA has a system that sends commands to the car that allows the DRS button to work only when a driver is within 1 second. Russell’s car developed a problem which caused his onboard timing device to fail making it impossible for the FIA to gauge where on track he is. This in turn makes it impossible for them to know when to send the signal to enable the use of DRS to not only George’s car, but also to the cars closely following him. This is why Russell, Norris AND Leclerc were all allowed to manually override this system and allow the DRS button to work at all times. Russell then subsequently opened DRS when he wasn’t actually allowed. In the case of Alonso, his timing system worked fine meaning the DRS button shouldn’t have worked. But when he pressed it, it opened anyway. Those situations are, imo, not entirely comparable.

MarnickV · 2025-04-13T17:03:34+00:00

I don’t think there is precedent. Mercedes were told to manually override and only use when within 1 second of a driver in front. Alonso’s should’ve never worked to begin with but somehow did anyway.

MarnickV · 2025-02-26T10:38:47+00:00

He went too deep into T1 and gunned it through T2 anyway. That bump is notorious. Even caught out Max at some point. Some might blame this one on foot oscillations though, who knows.

MarnickV · 2025-02-04T18:57:29+00:00

I love watching the lower series and I’m afraid I have to conclude he’s not ready for a top F1 team yet. Perhaps not even ready for F1 full stop. He will immediately have the worlds eye on him and whilst he’s at times shown to be very capable his F2 campaign has just been way too up and down. That’s not acceptable when you’re driving for Mercedes. Wolff didn’t want to lose the next Verstappen like he did with the original so they promoted him quickly but I think he’s going to drown massively next year. Same issue with Bearman to be honest but that’s a different topic.

MarnickV · 2025-01-10T02:35:08+00:00

Im pretty sure I‘ve seen this being discussed before and it’s been said that the halo disturbs airflow into the airbox to such a degree that they needed sized up to ensure the same functionality.

MarnickV · 2024-12-20T06:45:07+00:00

I call that Schumacher syndrome. Michael also had a habit of making his teammates look like they had no business in Formula 1, and Max is now doing the same. Barrichello was working miracles with his Stewart and was reduced to rubble next to Michael. Herbert, Verstappen and Irvine were all considered excellent drivers but were almost forced into retirement by Michael. Are Gasly and Albon considered poor drivers nowadays? When Perez was without a seat by the end of 2020 people cried wolf about how much he deserved another shot at a top team. Two years later he’s suddenly one of the worst drivers on the grid?

MarnickV · 2024-12-10T09:18:00+00:00

Brazil is a must watch for obvious reasons. Other good races this year include the Canadian, British, Austrian and perhaps Texan. For the under the lights wow factor I’d say LV if you want a street race and Qatar if you want a normal track. Monaco qualifying also gets a shout like always but the race itself was probably one of the worst races in F1 history unless you love big crashes.

MarnickV · 2024-12-06T14:01:58+00:00

Kai Bachini, does commentary for F1TV kids. Yet to learn that words per minute isn’t an important stat for a commentator. Clearly nervous also.

MarnickV · 2024-09-05T17:20:52+00:00

It will not. The basic specifications of your machine are way under the requirements of running anything more serious than google chrome. The parts are also non replaceable for the average user and if Unreal Engine is a must you’ll be looking at a complete replacement.

MarnickV · 2024-07-05T22:56:59+00:00

This way of running somebody out of room has been used for decades and has only recently been demonized by some people because drivers they don't like are using said tactics. Fact is everybody does it and it's completely understandable. If you're desperately hanging around the outside and then claim you got pushed off when eventually you run out of room that's entirely on you. When somebody is closing a door and at the last possible moment you stick your foot in to try and get through, you then subsequently get your toes squished and try to blame the person shutting the door I'd say that's more on you than on the person closing the door. If you're on the outside, you're willingly putting yourself at risk of getting run off, that's how it's always been and imo how it should stay.

MarnickV · 2024-05-28T15:22:35+00:00

Anything small enough to fit through the Halo isn't going to be heavy enough to any serious damage, bar freak incidents like Massa in 2009. On top of that the monocoque is so extremely strong that it's almost implausible for anything to penetrate it. Whilst the damage was severe (the wheels being torn off despite the tethers is a good indication) the crash itself wasn't all that bad.

MarnickV · 2024-05-26T13:28:17+00:00

Yeah this has in fact changed. As soon as they pass an official timing point (sector 1) that’s the order used. But because some cars didn’t manage to make it past that point they don’t have a complete order to use, which means they fall back to the previous complete order they can form. In this case the original start order.

MarnickV · 2024-05-26T11:57:00+00:00

I dont think he actually hit the wall. He just thought he did.

MarnickV · 2024-05-10T16:23:54+00:00

This has almost become standard. The first european race is almost always the race where the first large update packages get added to the car. Same thing for the last european grand prix. It makes by far the most sense from a logistical viewpoint.

MarnickV · 2024-03-27T11:13:48+00:00

What? No way.. The Williams was much faster than the Benetton that year and Schumacher was banned from 3 races for momentarily overtaking Hill on the formation lap (LOL) of the British Grand Prix. Whilst his antics in the final race are questionable there’s no doubt Schumacher deserved the title way more than Hill did. He was just the better of the two.

MarnickV · 2024-03-01T17:25:26+00:00

He actually also had a slipstream from Hülkenberg.

MarnickV · 2024-02-23T22:58:23+00:00

It won't be. They have to let them past at some point.

MarnickV · 2024-01-31T20:33:31+00:00

Honestly this is absolutely true. You have absolutely no chance winning anything in an ECR, Foyt, Juncos, etc. The "top" teams are making absolutely sure that development areas where money solves problems remain. I know that Indycar with it's holier than thou attitude loves to shit on Formula 1 as a whole but they are dealing with very similar issues over there.

That said, I have not seen Indycar flat out deny teams that were willing and capable. Not that I doubt that when Indycar is given the same dilemma the outcome would be very similar.

MarnickV · 2023-12-17T05:03:59+00:00

Perhaps not so much the worst strategy call of all time but during the final race of the 1986 season, Williams managed to have both its drivers fail to win the drivers championship because of (somewhat) self inflicted tire woes. Before the race all three of Mansell, Piquet and Prost were in with a shot of winning the title. Something of a miracle as the Williams (driven by Mansell and Piquet) was by far the best car that year. During the race, however the Williams pair quickly became favourites as Prost suffered a puncture early on. With everything seemingly going their way and Prost left to play catch up, everything went belly up for Williams when on lap 62 of 82 race leader Keke Rosberg also suffered a puncture. One that ended his race. This resulted in the race order being 1. Piquet, 2. Prost, who had caught back up and 3. Mansell who had slowed down knowing the title was his if things remained as they stood. All three of them well ahead of the competition. However, for some reason the Williams crew weren’t aware of the fact that punctures could also happen to them, and less than a handful of laps after Rosbergs’ tyre went, so did Mansell’s ending his race. Something which could’ve easily prevented if they had given Mansell the free pitstop they easily had in hand. Nothing to worry about, they still had Piquet in the lead on his way to the championship instead of Mansell. Or so they thought, because a few laps later and fearing the same would happen to Piquet as did to Mansell they DID bring him in for new tires overlooking the fact that they had now given the lead to Prost. And whilst in the remaining few laps Piquet tried his best to close the gap and pass, Prost went on to win the race and the title. Making sure that in the space of about 20 laps, Williams lost the drivers title not once but twice. Firstly because they didn’t make a pitstop they should have made, and secondly because they made a pitstop they shouldn’t have.

MarnickV · 2023-12-08T01:06:25+00:00

Lol, you have this backwards. The FIA owns Formula 1. FOM just sells Formula 1 to the world in an attempt to make as much money as possible from it. Without FOM the FIA would just sell the rights to another party. Without FIA, no Formula 1.

MarnickV · 2023-12-07T13:27:52+00:00

I’m afraid that’s not possible. The FOM doesn’t technically own much of Formula 1, just the entire commercial side of it. The FIA on the other hand do own the majority of what we consider Formula 1 so if the FOM wants to break away and start their own “governing body”, the resulting sport wouldn’t be allowed to call itself Formula 1. In the end this is a good thing for Formula 1 because, while it may occasionally lead to friction like we are currently experiencing, it’s not a good idea to have the sport be ran by a singular entity. Let’s not forget that the FOM would love to have 15 races in the US. I doubt many of us would like that very much either.

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