F1 Fanatic

@spawinte Hostility breeds contempt. If you want people to agree with you don’t abuse them, persuade them.

I have criticisms about the quality of racing at the moment. For example, I think DRS too often acts to […]

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F1 is a thinking persons sport and long may it remain so.

I don’t think you can put that point across without criticising the current state of the sport. But don’t expect anyone to have much […]

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The cars look silly.

The cars look unusual but I’ve really grown to
love them; the simple front wing, clean body, those fins that curl up around the rear wheels and the wide and low rear wing look […]

@spawinte If you’ve drawn the conclusion that drivers of the calibre of Dario Franchitti or Scott Dixon or are “accidents waiting to happen” then I don’t believe you “really truly honestly” have given it a chance. […]

@spawinte I don’t get why people scoff at IndyCar like this. They have some excellent drivers and great racing. They don’t have DRS and every race doesn’t end with a row about whether the tyres were too soft. And […]

@spawinte agreed: aero has had it’s time and there is no real innovation anymore, so I’d like the onus to be on powertrains (I’d prefer if F1 became a manufacturer developing ground for Hydrogen technologies). If […]

@spawinte Truthfully, you have no ground to stand on by assuming Formula 1 is ‘not the sport’ for @paulguitar. With all due respect, and I do respect your opinion as a fellow fan, we are all entitled to our own […]

@spawinte, you want to see real racing watch MotoGP, no pit stops-no problem just great wheel to wheel racing, like F1 used to be a long time ago, of course you have to be older to have seen it and know that pit […]

@spawinte the “hard to follow” comments are quite affronting and compete ** but the race was really very tedious and quite lacklustre. There wasn’t any racing and we were back pretty much to the refuelling […]

@spawinte – “I thought the compounds were staying the same and it was the structure that was being changed”

If the tyre structure changes (internal cross-bracing and/or stiffer side walls for example) then the […]

If they removed DRS and degrading Pirellis and went back to processional races

@spawinte: I’d take a processional race where everyone is pushing for most of the 50-some laps over a processional race where […]

@spawinte Between this and the night race/first race rumors, I’m starting to think he’s putting significant pressure on Bahrain to pay more to keep the race on the calendar (and maybe even make it Race 1). He is […]

@spawinte And his name is Ma, it seems.

it may be necessary to force certain drivers through to blaze a trail for others to follow. You don’t have to like it but if you’re serious about having female drivers then it needs to happen.

@spawinte – this […]

@spawinte I doubt it… if Massa keeps himself close to Alonso, he’ll stay…

@spawinte, Bernie tried the subscription-direct route back in the 90′s with the option to choose to view whichever camera you wanted or all cameras at once etc. but being Bernie (who apparently uses his daughters […]

*@magillagorilla ^

@spawinte – I have based all my comments on observation, expert analysis, press releases and of course the tests themselves. Purely from what I have seen, the Mercedes is undoubtably fast […]

@spawinte – So that everyone in the media gallery gets a better look at the car.

@spawinte – I don’t think the atmosphere at McLaren is anything to worry about. Drivers who join the team know what they are getting themselves into, so they can’t exactly turn around and complain about it once […]