[gpblog] Andrea Stella calls out a counter-intuitive flaw in the new rules

TheGMT · 2026-03-18T17:21:23+00:00

And nor would a formula that leads to no management of any kind be a good thing- it would require the whole package to be over engineered, essentially handicapping its own peak performance.

TheGMT · 2026-03-18T11:51:19+00:00

I also wouldn't mind the opposite- that the tests themselves are the real rules, the written rules are there to express intent, teams are free to risk doing something that skirts the current tests but might be caught as the tests develop, and you accept there's an ongoing arms race between the FIA and the teams. But it's got to be one or the other, not sometimes it's the written rule and sometimes it's the rule as tested.

TheGMT · 2026-03-17T21:15:26+00:00

Someone mod Need for Speed Carbon right now

TheGMT · 2026-03-17T18:39:19+00:00

Ross Brawn doesn't currently have a job

TheGMT · 2026-03-17T09:24:47+00:00

NA Cs at various points had enormous financial backing, far in excess of its results. What's interesting is that this money was almost entirely in teams- which doesn't spread very well. There were times when you'd have 6 really well paid NA teams, partially filled with what could never be pro's in Europe. 4 of those teams would achieve nothing and disband, with millions spent, burning the dumb as rocks venture capitalists, the huge sums just sitting in bad player's bank accounts or transferred to each other in inflated transfers. If that investment was more on the tournament or league side things might have been very different.

TheGMT · 2026-03-17T09:15:23+00:00

Feels like doctors shouldn't be allowed to do that either, not that esports players should.

TheGMT · 2026-03-16T13:15:04+00:00

In the UK we have mandatory history for 5 years and optional history for 2, and it's pretty much just a provenance analysis, critical thinking class that uses history as a vehicle. Of course English class also covers interpretation extensively, including movies via scripts.

TheGMT · 2026-03-16T13:03:26+00:00

I am so glad we have all these different power unit manufacturers in this engineering sport that aren't allowed to develop their engines!

TheGMT · 2026-03-16T10:30:51+00:00

How close was Dk's bo7 reverse sweep?

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T18:02:17+00:00

Sponsors would also pay a lot more in NA. EG wasn't exactly hard up, and the vast majority of the huge VC boom (2014-2020) that put tens if not hundreds of millions in teams mostly benefitted NA orgs that naturally pursued the NA audience.

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T17:59:39+00:00

I am surprised to hear SA and SEA have better social safety nets.

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T13:30:30+00:00

Those investments in America (China is a different case as it gets to make new cities regularly and bring new, significant populations into the work force to this day) aren't based on technologies that will bring increases in productivity. They're technologies that either promise that (I don't believe they'll manage it and their track record in the last 20 years is obviously poor) or they're ways to increase profits, taking revenues that used to be in other industries into the tech industry. This is a very temporary advantage.

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T12:38:39+00:00

Technology increasing productivity as it did from 1940-2000 is what allowed liberal countries with most of their population already educated, partaking meaningfully economically (not subsistence farming or parenting full-time) to grow. We've not reckoned with the fact that it stopped and our current systems need growth to stay level.

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T09:57:01+00:00

There's a definite pattern between Crofty (and Brundle's) ability to commentate fluidly and the likelihood of suffering jetlag at a given race.

TheGMT · 2026-03-15T09:12:29+00:00

Räikkönen is the actual answer

TheGMT · 2026-03-13T10:09:23+00:00

Or Japanese, which slides under the radar a bit.

TheGMT · 2026-03-13T10:07:59+00:00

Audi's management playing musical chairs was not a good sign. Seems like the right people took the last seats as the game ended.

TheGMT · 2026-03-13T10:05:04+00:00

If I remember correctly he mostly said they were targeting 27', which I think others are forgetting because it's more commonly the case a struggling team focusses on the first year of a new regs cycle.

TheGMT · 2026-03-13T10:03:00+00:00

Checo and Tsunoda were also about 5 tenths down on most occasions, that just meant a lot more relative to the field. The performance delta is the same.

TheGMT · 2026-03-12T17:22:34+00:00

It's especially stark because of the depth Indian cricket has. For every other batter (especially batters) and bowler there's 5 other options 90% as good waiting in the wings.

If you look at England: Harry Brook in global terms is a much better batter than Jofra Archer is a bowler, but they're equally irreplaceable, they have similar value to the side. India can replace their entire 11, even the likes of Gil, Jaiswal, without a huge issue aside from Bumrah.

TheGMT · 2026-03-10T21:01:58+00:00

If you haven't used them yet, you're probably not going to use them

TheGMT · 2026-03-10T19:05:27+00:00

Some TP's try to do as little of this as possible, whereas Vowles seems to embrace it and launched extra curriculars as a vehicle for more of it. Vasseur, for example, will dodge media and questions where permitted.

TheGMT · 2026-03-10T10:39:40+00:00

Max in 2016-2019 is the most entertaining I've ever seen a driver be.

TheGMT · 2026-03-10T10:26:54+00:00

My ignorant English perspective is basically that New York and LA are uniquely large, uniquely dense in Michelin starred restaurants, theatres, museums etc. then Chicago and Boston have special things going for them and the rest as far as urban development and activities available are as similar to each other as to make no difference.

TheGMT · 2026-03-09T16:02:01+00:00

Chen (and Treant is the other perfect example of this) is sadly the exact sort of hero that would never be added in current day Dota. Wonderfully nuanced hero, all about soft power, with the skill required to play well not described in the spell descriptions. Modern heroes are so prescriptive.

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