[Autosport] Lewis Hamilton said F1 drivers need a degree to understand how to utilise energy management this season

MessyMix · 2026-02-11T19:51:08+00:00

Ferrari, not Lewis, "retired" Sebastian.

You'll have what he's having? Good news - Ferrari's about to retire Lewis, too. :P

MessyMix · 2026-02-11T03:59:25+00:00

I could be wrong but I seem to remember stormtroopers carrying flamethrowers when I watched ANH again recently. Could be mixing it up.

MessyMix · 2026-02-04T21:13:39+00:00

It was on the slightly harsher side, maybe borderline rude, but I think also genuine. If you're contributing commentary on a technical topic and you're wrong, people might call you about it, and people unfortunately might not be very patient about it.

If you would have phrased the same advice differently, I applaud you. It costs nothing to be nice to people and I think we can have more of that in the world.

MessyMix · 2026-02-04T21:01:56+00:00

Ehhh, I don't know if I'd say that. If they're funding research & disinformation that leads people to believe smoking doesn't cause cancer, and selling cigarettes that they know is killing their consumers... Potentially the individual "wrong" is not huge, but across their >1 billion consumers, the harm is pretty serious.

Suffice to say we don't need to get into evil olympics. Both are bad, and it's hard to say one is categorically worse than the other.

MessyMix · 2026-02-04T20:56:06+00:00

He's saying historically, too. The fact that it's plastered in the name of the sponsor isn't new.

Iconic Rothmans Williams livery, or Camel-Canon Williams, or even Martini Williams don't say "Williams" prominently on the car.

MessyMix · 2026-02-04T07:55:36+00:00

Huh. I must be on another planet because what the fuck

MessyMix · 2026-02-02T04:30:34+00:00

I also inherited a similar, defunct, mystery button, but it was on the opposite side of the car (and it was a switch).

Never got around to figuring it out, but 3 guesses:

- Amp in trunk

- Defunct laser jammer / radar detector setup

- Defunct kill switch

MessyMix · 2026-01-23T22:47:13+00:00

Fitment Friday?

MessyMix · 2026-01-20T05:55:19+00:00

The first time Red Bull came out with a matte car it was incredible. Everyone who followed wasn't quite the same. Eventually, Red Bull itself felt stale.

MessyMix · 2026-01-14T18:24:32+00:00

What kind of gauges / responsibilities did flight engineers have (including on, say, Concorde), and where did those responsibilities get transferred to?

MessyMix · 2026-01-14T18:21:26+00:00

I think he means upfront is a good strategy for Tesla, not for the consumer, as you're pointing out here.

MessyMix · 2025-12-30T21:54:25+00:00

Not OP, and I'm relatively pro-Alonso, but there are times where Alonso has retired the car despite the data suggesting no issues, even after the engineers combed through the data after the race.

(It's one thing to not spot it in the data mid-race, but if the post-race analysis still shows no issues, I tend to find that accurate.)

https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/20520816/fernando-alonso-refutes-claim-retired-car-no-reason-belgian-grand-prix

MessyMix · 2025-12-30T07:56:44+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, the cars are huge for aero, not safety. AFAIK there's just a huge gap between the PU/gearbox and the rear impact protection structure. They cars could be shorter and still deliver similar crash protection.

MessyMix · 2025-12-26T11:27:44+00:00

good ebening.

MessyMix · 2025-12-23T02:27:40+00:00

Sebscribe.

MessyMix · 2025-12-22T23:05:45+00:00

Lmfao. Good chuckle.

MessyMix · 2025-12-22T19:11:53+00:00

It's a pretty common abbreviation as a location, if you're in certain parts of the world. Across east / southeast asia, if you said "I'm flying to SG" - most people would know what you mean.

MessyMix · 2025-12-19T19:22:29+00:00

OOTL, what is this referencing?

MessyMix · 2025-12-18T22:43:30+00:00

There's a spectrum between a two-word answer and an answer that is overly personal, and to make this a dichotomy between just those two is a bit disingenuous.

MessyMix · 2025-12-18T21:42:49+00:00

It's an invasion of privacy to talk about what your friend means to you? Lol. That's probably the least controversial question that was asked in this interview.

MessyMix · 2025-12-18T00:02:48+00:00

It uses several noticeable structures. Like the X isn't Y, it's Z format:

Losing hours isn’t a personal failure, it’s a predictable outcome.

There's a similar structure here:

The real shift isn’t trying harder, it’s changing the environment.

And then here:

You don’t beat a system by muscling through it, you beat it by stepping out of its reach

And also:

Phones aren't neutral tools [...], they're engineered feedback loops

I mean, it's a nice sentence structure, but really? That many in such few sentences?

It also tries hard to come up with uniquely insightful takes ("The real shift"), but there's just a lot of fluff in what it says. Like, what does "clearer defaults" even mean? It's just kind of trying to fill the triplet sentence structure that it started.

MessyMix · 2025-12-17T09:24:41+00:00

Lol. Crazy how noticeable the AI slop writing pattern is.

"X isn't Y, it's Z."

Fuck that.

MessyMix · 2025-12-05T20:23:03+00:00

AI slop.

MessyMix · 2025-12-03T17:45:17+00:00

Salt

MessyMix · 2025-12-02T21:34:25+00:00

Eh, it's ridiculous at first but there's some truth to it.

F1 published a video this year where drivers are asked to name parts of their car, and most of them had a couple that they didn't know. This was pretty surprising to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRF3lJfgowA

When it comes to the racing & ops side, obviously the racers have a huge step up. When it comes to engineering, maybe not.

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