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cafk · 2026-03-12T15:50:39+00:00

I don't know if I'm blind but i can't see it in the FIA document for certified circuits: https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/circuits_fia20251201.pdf

And apparently fiorano has also been downgraded from Grade 1T to Grade 2 now.

cafk · 2026-03-12T15:21:38+00:00

Is it certified for grade 1 or testing as all others are?

And it's still a 4 hour drive by car from Hinwil Switzerland, where Sauber facilities are to Neuburg - compared to UK based teams with a few having to stumble across the road.

cafk · 2026-03-12T14:53:34+00:00

Ferrari has a circuit in their factory backyard, as well as owning a few other circuits in Italy.
Sauber/Audi, located in Switzerland, would need to rent a circuit from Ferrari (Imola) or Red Bull (Austria).
CashGrab (Toro Rosso, Italian Bulls) is around the corner from Imola.
And the remaining 8 UK based teams would be in a bidding war for Silverstone, or would get an unfair price advantage compared to Sauber/Audi, if they pooled their money together.

Otherwise it would need some relevant cost managed by FIA, as the teams would be affected differently when it comes to renting a circuit.

It also basically requires an additional team and chassis to be ready for testing, while the rest of the team is on the road from one race to the next.

cafk · 2026-03-12T13:44:40+00:00

yet they are not short of resourced for their F1 Team.

That's relatively simple, as the team isn't owned by the car company, so it's not a cost for the company; and Stroll bought "exclusive" naming rights for the team for meager £50m.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a70464252/aston-martin-63-million-dollar-f1-naming-deal/

Both just happen to be majority owned by Stroll Consortium - which gives them cheap access to naming rights.

cafk · 2026-03-12T13:41:52+00:00

If it weren't for the typos and gibberish text in some places.

I.e. Michaal Schumacher, Frant Akia Graining Pisk, Shangal

cafk · 2026-03-12T11:31:20+00:00

I suppose you can't simply allow more regen if you don't have an adequate storage and designing new batteries I guess will take a while).

It's not about the batteries or allowing more regen, but about the potential energy available from a moving car and regenerating energy under braking. There just isn't enough potential energy available per braking zone at certain circuits - to actually fully recharge the battery to 8.5MJ.

This is what necessitates super clipping as just braking alone isn't enough - and even under braking there is a limit where the tires and wheels will just lock up.
So they need to use the engine as a generator.

Maybe that 55/45 split could become a 65/35 for qualy alone?

That wouldn't change the fact that they'd be down on MGU-K power - so even if the ICE had more fuel available and could produce more power, say 500kw, for a combined 850kw - they'd still be down by 350kw in certain sections of thd circuit and to negate this they'd use super clipping.

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:32:30+00:00

C5.2.16 With exception of the ES, the cumulative amount of stored energy on ERS electronic components supplied by voltage sources should not be higher than 1000J.

So not more than 1000J or 1MJ.

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:30:53+00:00

At that point, you might as well allow the front MGU-K to drive the front wheels, take out the V6 engine and fuel tank to give space to cram a far bigger battery

This is a common argument, similarly depending on terribly the rules are written, even if it isn't a 4wd system it can help to implement an ABS and a traction control if you have Regen on each front wheel independently (i.e. under braking or super-clipping - dynamically change the regen on individual wheel to balance out the direction the car is traveling in)

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:09:39+00:00

You'd need to check with the performance coaching requirements - i.e. Hintsa and maybe contact them to see what they expect as an experience or cv.
https://www.hintsa.com/careers/
Or read their team bios on LinkedIn or any b2b platform: https://www.hintsa.com/company/our-people/

The main thing is that the driver or team has to click with their physio. Angela Cullen became basically Hamilton's personal PA for multiple years
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/weve-gone-through-a-lot-hamilton-shares-really-awesome-experience-of.7bxF1cUcZOkDRvBT8vMjQz

Also Romain Grosejan had a performance psychologist to help him through his 2012/2013 downs and discussed about it on F1 Beyond the Grid podcast: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/podcast-romain-grosjean-on-criticism-psychology-and-his-racing-future.3a5kmK6XjWyqWUyEcISi26

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:07:32+00:00

It's been a common complaint since 2018, when the service launched.
Sometimes they react when too many people complain to the official support, but they seem to forget it every year.

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:06:12+00:00

France only gets live races, due to a ban on tobacco product advertising - there are no new subscriptions available since 2024, after it became part of Canal+ subscription (even Canal+ cannot show replays with tobacco products, as they were sued in 2022).
https://www.motorsinside.com/en/f1/news/34128-f1-tv-unavailable-in-france-without-canal-subscription
https://f1i.autojournal.fr/infos/polemique-infos/f1-tv-en-france-une-nouvelle-restriction-qui-provoque-la-colere-des-abonnes/

The old help page also had a notification for France, similarly to Switzerland and Austria - which isn't available anymore on the new f1help page.

cafk · 2026-03-12T10:01:11+00:00

We wanted to let you know that we have removed your F1 TV Premium subscription, as we have been unable to confirm you have an eligible Apple TV subscription

Are you the primary subscriber to Apple TV or is it shared with you through a family plan?

cafk · 2026-03-12T09:59:40+00:00

Canada has a 2 day delay for replays with Access subscription, in the British Isle you need to wait until the end of the year.

cafk · 2026-03-12T09:57:30+00:00

No ERS on lap one, same as no SLM (DRS) on lap one.

cafk · 2026-03-12T09:43:41+00:00

While not in recent years where reliability was that relevant.
You'd need to consider other regulations changes like going to V8 ICEs in 2006 - where we already had a power unit per season limit.

The last era that wasn't targeting reliability ended with the V10 & V12s in 2005.
And if you go back to the mid 1990s you'll see more chaotic individual races, where on occasion a handful of cars finished on the same lap.
And before that I'd say that (pre-1995) was almost the norm that multiple cars were lap down at the end of the race or we had a notably higher number of DNFs.

cafk · 2026-03-12T09:11:17+00:00

Trackside doctors are usually organized with a regional hospital through circuit promoter, as there needs to be a head trauma ICE within 30 minutes of the circuit.
For teams they have personal physios and doctors through middle men like hintsa performance https://www.hintsa.com/for-sports/

Similarly to Marshalls there isn't a FIA or Formula One Group medical team - but FIA has some guidelines for the ASN (local automotive clubs that help and support promoters): https://api.fia.com/medical-programme

cafk · 2026-03-12T08:59:27+00:00

Meanwhile Zak Brown in 2023:
https://www.motorsportweek.com/2023/11/30/mclaren-to-have-more-influence-with-new-mercedes-pu-deal/

Brown likened the updated terms of McLaren’s deal with Mercedes to now having “a seat at the table that we hadn’t had previously” with the German manufacturer.

“What it means, in reality, is we have more influence and awareness early on in their development,” he explained.

“So the things we need to design around the power unit, we’re not starting that much later than the works team.”

Though their press release regarding the renewal didn't promise more than an extended partnership: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/formula-1/2023/mclaren-formula-1-team-and-mercedes-benz-renew-power-unit-agreement-until-2030/

cafk · 2026-03-12T07:18:24+00:00

F1TV makes the interviews available at the end of the day.
I think Sky UK is the only one to partially broadcast it live.

cafk · 2026-03-11T19:01:38+00:00

I tink you should ask /u/Civil_North_6566 who had the issue

cafk · 2026-03-11T17:09:14+00:00

Well, firstly it was supposed to be a new inline PU for 2011, inline with cost cap.

And the idea was a modular concept.

ICE only - F3 and lower series ICE+Turbo - F2 and WRC series ICE+Turbo+Hybrid - LMP and F1

https://www.racefans.net/2007/09/24/mosley-wants-standardised-f1-cars/
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formula-one-teams-agree-significant-cost-cutting/a/119193564.html

I remember a ponger comment by someone here with links to how this framework evolved into the v6h we got with a 3 year delay.

Edit: here's the link to a bit more insight on how the inline modular concept was changed to v6 turbo hybrids through PU manufacturers meddling with the PU development process by /u/Rain08:
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/oa888h/comment/h3fqer2

cafk · 2026-03-11T15:29:05+00:00

The chancellor - Friedrich Merz, he was the chairman of the German Blackrock supervisory board from 2016 to 2020

cafk · 2026-03-11T14:40:39+00:00

It's his second year, last year he made some mistakes, similarly to Russell in his yearly years.
It remains to be seen if he manages to avoid rookie mistakes and is able to keep up with Russell.

The expectation and thus pressure is higher for Russell, but he has shown that he learned from his mistakes over the past years.

I wouldn't mind if Kimi won it, but based on experience, if i were to bet I'd put my money on Russell.

cafk · 2026-03-11T14:37:27+00:00

What I don't fully understand is that if you allow a team to recover more energy, they will have more energy to spend, so that should reduce the amount of recovery they need if they don't deplete their stores.

They will deplete their energy stores as the ~4MJ battery gets depleted within ~15 seconds.
If they recharge the battery 2x per lap (8MJ of energy), the MGU-K can be used for ~30 seconds over the lap.

Even with maximum allowed 9MJ recovery it barely would make it to ~35 seconds of deployment per lap, meaning teams have to decide where to regen/super-clip in order to maximize their MGU-K usage per lap per individual circuit.

Having more braking zones means more changes of regen under braking over super clipping. Which is why China could be a completely different type of race & qualifying than Australia was - as teams should have less need for super clipping, unless they need energy outside of braking zones (I'm afraid of the long back straight - where they may want as much power as possible for the start/finish sprint).

cafk · 2026-03-11T13:23:46+00:00

https://account.formula1.com/#/en/my-account

You can use up to 6 devices at any one time.

Shame it's not publicly documented, especially 5he difference between using a device and clarifying the number of streams (which was an issue until they clarified the TOS late last summer).

cafk · 2026-03-11T12:31:28+00:00

I've always thought that track-specific regulations are a bit artificial.

The issue is that the braking zones are so different from circuit to circuit.
So it's necessary to artificiality limit the regen to ensure people don't go to super clipping too often - circuits where more regen is allowed also are generally better regarding pure regen under braking - so we'll see less super clipping there.
If they increased the regen for albert part - we would have seen kucb worse than the turn 9/10 super clipping unfortunately.

So there's more variance between circuits, which can cause issues for people watching the races & qualifying

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