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And to see guys like Kimi on the podium not even cracking a smile because they didn’t win, makes my blood boil.

Look at the poor people who just lost everything in the OKC tornadoes. THAT is a real reason not […]

Is that an olive branch I detect in Bernie’s comments about Pirelli?

And where did my avatar go, is it related to the site issues in the last day?

As I understand it, because Bernie wants 10 teams, five A teams who are true constructors and five B teams who buy the customer chassis. Under his proposal, the five A teams would be Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, […]

Vettel on the Type A trying out Pirelli’s new lower deg tyre construction?

after 26 races … Ricciardo has only ever been outqualified by Vergne 6 times

It’s actually 5 times in 25 races.

Keith’s 2012 form guide has the head to head qualy score 15-5, but it’s wrong – it was […]

Wow. Six comments (at the time of typing this) already proving that no matter what they do, Pirelli will cop a bagging.

@hohum It’s funny, I got a similar response yesterday, people seem to want to respond to a different issue to the one I am raising.

I’m not seeking to comment about the increase or decrese in the pace of […]

As I commented yesterday, I think the criticisms of the 2013 Pirellis are overdone.

Alonso’s total race time was 7 seconds slower than Maldonado’s 2012 time. That’s 0.1s per lap.

Guttierez’s fastest lap was […]

@beneboy you are comparing 3.0 litre V10 times with 2.4 litre V8 times. Those engines had another 250 hp or so. That is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.

My comment was directed solely to the […]

Block-quote fail. Darn.

And Maldonado’s time in 2012 was obviously 1:39’09.145

Who would have ever imagined that we would see drivers purposely drive as slow as they can in F1 while their teams are asking them to go even slower?

I’ve seen a lot of comments of similar effect this year. […]

@wsrgo the article, written at the time of his axing pointed out that Williamson had been placed in a team brand new to FR 3.5 which had a very difficult pre-season. His teammate Rossi, who was good enough to […]

Yes, surely he has been poached as Lowe’s replacement.

Don’t laugh, teams actually do that when they want to ensure an instruction isn’t broadcast and heard by other teams.

I second the notion Keith.

During V8 Supercar coverage in Australia we get to hear plenty of team radio, much more than in F1. It’s particularly interesting when they’re in pit lane. We also get to hear race […]

@prisoner-monkeys @wsrgo for a contrary view on why Williamson’s results, in his limited time in WSR 3.5 didn’t reflect his potential, have a read of this Autosport piece from last year (subscription required) – […]

da Costa is on a whole new level in FR3.5

AFdC is currently in fourth place, 32 points behind series leader Magnussen. There’s plenty of uncertainty in this year’s FR 3.5 season, and no guarantee that the […]

I’m not advocating rock solid Bridgestones again, just tyres that require 1 or 2 stops like towards the end of 2012

But that’s the very point. You assume that the teams’ understanding of the tyres is static, […]

The years before Pirelli started supplying tyres, where drivers were told not to race and to run only to a predetermined lap time so that they could leap-frog other drivers in the pits because of their fuelling […]