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If Bernie thought it was *smart* to host a Grand Prix, there’d be one at Ricard. Bernie’s a buisnessman. He certainly knows that hosting a GP is a losing proposition for almost anybody that tries to do it in […]

Given that the stewards delayed investigating until after the race (even in the case of Button where there would have been plenty of time to conclude an investigation), the penalty seems far more likely to be a […]

Yes. But not the one you’re thinking of, though – that family sponsored Williams.

If you don’t believe anything that team officials say, why do you bother reading F1 news sites, which are largely based on what team officials say, whether on or off the record?

They caused Hamilton to raise his game after a largely disappointing 2010 and very disappointing 2011, and turn in what would have been a championship-winning performance but for team incompetence? Sounds like a […]

At the signing of the first Concorde agreement, the identity of the person who it would have been useful for someone, anyone, to have a veto over, would have been Jean-Marie Balestre, not Max Mosley.

Which, if […]

It’s true. Senna would have been told to slow down and save fuel instead, that being the limiting factor for the turbocharged cars of the era.

Ah, thank you for reminding me this feature existed Keith. I have to add Bianchi. And remove Lotus.

Well somebody is going to have to, Cosworth aren’t producing a V6, and Renault aren’t interested in increasing the number of teams they supply…so that leaves two.

Though it may only leave two for one year, if […]

Unlikely. What do we remember from 1993, 20 years ago?

-The European Grand Prix, one of Senna’s greatest victories. Kind of a pity F1 never went back to Donington, after holding one race which was a classic, […]

Why would he? Brawn’s call was correct and it achieved what he wanted it to.

Why on earth do you think that the idea that the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing is a preposterous notion when the team in question was McLaren, which tends to make at least one catastrophic […]

Meanwhile, Jenson Button is off in a corner muttering “sure, you guys have number two drivers…but our entire car is a number two…”

Of course Webber has never had to deal with that problem in his career, and can be thankful that Red Bull’s ultra-reliable KERS has always been there when he needed it.

@andae23

And what you in turn have missed is that Bianchi has twice qualified closer to the 18th placed runner than he was to the one behind him, that Bianchi would likely have beaten Pic without the latter […]

Patrese beat Berger by ten points, after all.

Two of them. The Williams FW14 was definitely faster than the McLaren for the majority of 1991; on the other hand it was less reliable. In any case, I don’t think his car gave Senna an *advantage* over Mansell.

Actually, most evaluations of Schumacher I’ve seen mention both of those issues. History is not a list of numbers and placings.

1992, very probably.

27 out of 99. Stewart did not start at the 1973 United States Grand Prix after Tyrrell withdrew following Francois Cevert’s fatal crash.