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I’m not going to weigh in on the tyre issues. I just want to say that the French GP in 04 was one of MSC’s great drives.

@Hohum Ah, fair enough then. However, there’s still those 20 races and testing to consider.

Interesting question regarding the engines though. I do wonder what the FIA would do if an engine was a clear few […]

@sonia54 I don’t base judgements in F1 on things that occupied over 20 years ago. They may have had the best engines back then, but in recent history, they most definitely haven’t. *cough* BAR and Jordan GP.

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I doubt they’d be allowed to “retrofit an engine into a 2012 McLaren and spending as much of 2014 testing privately as they like”, thus no advantage.

And I highly doubt they have an engine made up to the regs, […]

@calum I don’t really see it as being “good news” for McLaren. It’s an immensely risky move. Honda will be 20 races + testing behind other engine manufacturers, in terms of meaningful running and testing, not just […]

Unsurprising, but still sad :(. I for one, hope Mark manages to reach 300 race starts (and hopefully end up beating Barrichello’s record)

@alphaa

F1 isnt about road relevance, its the pinnacle of motorsports

Well it is actually. Max Mosely said so himself when he was president of the FIA. He then decided to freeze engine development in ’06 (even […]

Has anyone noticed how useless the drivers stewards have been this year.

“Cars X and Y are under investigation by the stewards”… 10 minutes later “Incident between cars X and Y to be investigated after the […]

A dominant victory from Vettel. Seeing this only 4 races in to the season doesn’t bode well for the WDC competition at all

That’s 4 races now, and they were having problems with it during testing. With all the money the FIA has, I hope they’ve been investigating new telemetry systems to implement instead of trying to fix what looks […]

It sounds bad, but I’m very happy Webber and Hamilton have penalties. The opening few laps should produce some great racing. Hamilton, Raikkonen and Button starting next to each other. 3 WDCs duelling it out […]

Oh yes, getting closer and closer to decent viewing times for us Brits. No more sleepless nights!! :)

Happy days!! My favourite driver is back… kinda. Hopefully he gets a fully-fledged seat next season :)

@mnm101 This.
I try to ignore both sides of the comments from drivers regarding the tyres. The only people who have commented on them are those who either thrive on them, or suffer because of them. I’d love to […]

If Ferrari can improve their qualy pace and get FA or FM on the front row, I fear for the championship. It’s only early days but that Ferrari’s race pace really is incredible, I’m happy with them starting third or […]

Yes, and the sand always causes Bahrain’s track to be more abrasive than most. Good call.

@cmckinleyf1 Source?

Ricciardo for me.

@venom He didn’t maintain it over the llast 5 laps. He lost 0.4, 0.9 and 1.8 seconds over the 4 laps he did on the tyres respectively. But it worked because even his slowest lap was faster than Hamilton’s on 18lap […]

The FIA seriously need to change the rules. They go on and on about “the show”, yet have the silly rule that dictates the top 10 must start on the tyre they set their fastest qualy lap with?!

It’s just a let […]