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I don’t think it was illegally low (is there even a minimum ride height rule?), but yes they had a suspension component fitted upside down which had them running at a ride height that would have made them bottom […]

I’m a bit buried in comments so I doubt this’ll get much notice, but I’m surprised nobody seems to have mentioned the wonderful F1LT project (http://f1lt.pl/).

It’s free, available on multiple platforms, and […]

Anyone else surprised by Rossi’s/Caterham’s plan for only really developing the car ‘spec’ by Barca? Obviously that’s when the first major upgrades come in, but to hear them put it as the first time they have a […]

There’s a knob on the RB steering wheel marked Multi. Don’t know what it does for their settings (maybe it’s some presets for multiple settings instead of individual adjusts) but I imagine it’s a reference to that setting.

My key takeaways from the race:
1) The Lotuses were not strong in the wet, similar to Q3. Is that a car issue or a setup issue?
2) Red Bull’s team radio about gaps and the tires were interesting. It sounds like […]

I wonder how the Lotus wet pace is. On his flyer, Kimi lost heaps of time in S2, aka the one with all the water. The camera cut away so I didn’t see it, but did he make a mistake or just have no grip?

Re COTD: Surely even those not in favor of DRS can’t have been displeased with it at Melbourne? I didn’t see anybody breezing past another car under DRS, with only a few successful passes happening into T3 (and I […]

It’s not the greatest quote in the world saying “robbed”, but to counter all the bashing that’s sure to happen, consider the intention as : “Had we been able to get around Jenson, we would have easily taken 7th […]

For 3) I don’t speak Italian, but I thought I heard “Kimi” in the message so it may have been telling him to just bring it home. Also worth noting that the timing of the radio message may have been at any time in […]

I was surprised how low the Lotus ride height was. Even at the end of the race with all the fuel burned off, Kimi was bottoming out at several points throughout the lap, sparks flying and I didn’t notice it with […]

The full wets do make the ride heights higher, they raise them ~.25 of an inch according to Brundle. The problem with raising them higher simply becomes that you lose more and more downforce, so that even though […]

Were I to hazard a guess, I’d say there are a few factors in favor of European testing., with a primary one being logistics. The proximity of the Spanish tracks to team bases make it cheaper and faster to get […]

Alguersuari and his management strike me as incredibly naive. That’s two years in a row where they’ve been surprised by a lack of a seat because they had a “verbal confirmation”. If you don’t get the contract […]

But would they actually get to race if they had an entry? I don’t think it’s terribly unreasonable to assume that an HRT put out for this year would be very close to, if not the same as, the HRT and the end of […]

I’m not sure what the New Jersey Addendum is supposed to show. It’s just an addition to the terms of someone’s lease. There’s nothing even remotely official about it, just a landlord adding terms to the lease. The […]

I think the biggest downside of the DRS tweak is going to be the loss of the change between race pace and qualifying pace for some of the cars. For those who gained more benefit from the DRS than their near […]

After reading the steward’s decision that it was force majeur and Horner’s comments, this sounds more and more like a fuel leak (though wouldn’t the car have ignited then?) or something else along those technical […]

I can’t possibly see how it’s an “up yours” to the fans. For one, I personally really couldn’t get less about a picture of a guy from 1 foot away walking down the pitlane is at all interesting. Secondly, he didn’t […]

Still, one guy who has another job (presumably with precedence) meant that Speed had to do short badly timed bursts. They might as well have had Buxton in front of a green screen compared to what the English media gives.

I recall a Buxton post stating he didn’t have a camera operator, so he was having to get an FOM cameraman to do his pre/post coverage. Maybe I’m wrong or that was a one off though. Either way it was tragically […]