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  #3475515 30-Mar-2026 13:06
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tdgeek:

 

Jaxson:

 

George will be well worried now. Like Lando and Oscar last year, the new guy has some skills and the same good car too. 

 

 

He even said he should have won due to safety car.

 

Lets make that 2nd to Oscar

 

 

 

 

Russell is a hard driver to like. I often felt similar with Hamilton but have come round to him more in recent years. I feel my dislike for Hamilton originally was maybe unwarranted, he just wears his heart on his sleeve a little more.

 

Russell, just seems, well, hard to like. Verstappen is another hard to like driver, but at least I feel like he tends to be quite blunt, but honest, and some of his Dutch interviews he can be quite open.

 

Piastri, what's not to like really. Just goes out and gets it done. His few words are often funny and more cutting than say the former Kimi.

 

 

 

Didn't see a lot of footage from the down pecking order, was relying on the timing to keep an eye on Lawson. As I said, if he keeps scoring points, his team mate can do whatever he likes, even if he beats him, just scrape points and the team will remember. 




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  #3483697 24-Apr-2026 11:47
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Long time between races now, so just random news.
See drivers being investigated for Italian tax evasion.  I recall a conversation about that concept in Australia, that the drivers have to leave quickly after the race as they'll pay more in tax if they stay in the country longer.

A lot of talk of Max departing.  The idea that it's the end of the world amuses me. He has been flagging the potential issues with this style of regulation car for a while though, but if Red Bull were on it I suspect he'd put up with it.  

Car wise I'm still a bit shocked at a battery that's half the cars horsepower, but which is charged predominantly off the petrol engine.  That's not particularly eco (akin to using a petrol/diesel generator to charge a tesla) and leads to a woefully underpowered petrol car at points of the circuit.

Will see if the rule tweaks change anything when we do get back to racing next.




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  #3485735 30-Apr-2026 10:38
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Warning of possible thunderstorms for the coming Miami GP...


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  #3485759 30-Apr-2026 12:27
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And that there has been an upgrade frenzy too. We will see how that pans out for days 1 and 2


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  #3486375 1-May-2026 18:44
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Rant alert

 

Im starting to get miffed by F1

 

Pinnacle of Motorsport.

 

Im investing myself in the Ryobi ecosystem for home, garden and DIY 18V OnePlus and 36V tools, yay.

 

But I'm not keen on watching F1 Miami Grand Prix sponsored by Ryobi, or EGO, etc

 

A colleague posted the other day, Vettel on a race lap, back in the day. High speed, high revs, full noise. Then a today driver, may have been George, cant remember, doing the same lap. Slow, a yawn fest, not much to see here.

 

While I am a HUGE believer in climate change and what we need to do, how much oil does an F1 weekend use compared to 3 days for the other 8 billion of us? Rounding error divided by 100,000 or 1 million or more I would expect, especially when there are race weekends less than 1 per fortnight, annually. 

 

When Mercedes nailed the 2014 new regs, didnt support me based on the teams I follow, but they nailed it and deserved it, no question. But if these days it depends on the battery charger, well, thats rubbish. 

 

Poor analogy, as cricket, rugby, tennis and indoor bowls aren't fuelled by oil. Imagine if you are only allowed x number of 4's or 6's? And bowling speed is restricted. Or you are only allowed x aces in Grand Slam tennis and a restricted serving speed. Thats what the Pinnacle of Motorsport is now.

 

Its ether racing or its driving to a battery, I prefer racing. If FIA stated that F1 is not now the Pinnacle of Motorsport, fine.They may as well cancel FormulaE and replace it with F1E, F2E and F3E

 

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  #3486394 2-May-2026 00:58
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Mate it’s a rant many of us are having. 

My core issue is it’s not even eco. You’re predominantly charging the battery from the petrol motor, not from a renewable source like wind or solar. And whilst you’re charging that you’re not driving the car forwards, hence the “super clipping” at the end of straights, where the revs remain high but the speed drops - causing its own approach speed safety issue in turn if others aren’t in the same mode and going slower at that point. The fuel is at least an eco mix now though, but couldn’t we just make that for the whole race?. There is some kinetic recovery but limited compared to engine recharging as a generator. 

 

I believe safety has been the biggest driver in car sizes increasing rapidly? but bottom line is these cars are fatter and heavier than past decades. Now they’re quieter and slower too, and exponentially more complex. Also wonder if many speed/drag aspects like active aero/drs are now automatically controlled based on where they are on the circuit, skirting the rule of the driver has to be in full control of all aspects at all times.   A few points I’d need to dig deeper to confirm there but starting to feel less pure/more manufactured excitement nowadays and driving more like a game with all the options available. 


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  #3486545 2-May-2026 14:41
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Given the fuels used in the ICE motors is all synthetic, surely it doesn't actually matter how much of it they use!?! 

 

But not all of the oil/lubricants used are synthetic, so there is still a small element of dino-juice used in the sport, but changing the ratio from 50/50 ICE/electric to (say) 80/20 wouldn't actually use anymore fossil fuels. Yes - those changes aren't really possible due to the fuel tank sizes in the regulations, but none of the issues should have been a surprise - drivers/engineers have been flagging this for at least the last 2-3 years!





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  #3486790 2-May-2026 16:44
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it's not the race fuel. the entire circus flies around the world. private jets, commercial airlines, and those race cars, tyres, cars, parts, wings, chassis, paddocks (yes they fly the paddocks around the world, which is why they all look the same at every GP) - these things don't travel on ebikes, they are flown around in cargo jets.

 

race fuel is the least of your concern.


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  #3486801 2-May-2026 17:34
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From my perspective, the issue I think isn’t anything to do with the battery/engine combo - that works fine.  To me most of the issues seem to be strategy and setup related.

 

the engine is a 1.6L 6 cylinder engine running a 16:1 compression ratio with a 15k rpm rev limit putting out 400Kw power on E100 fuel.

 

changing the fuel would not make much difference as far as I can see.  The electric motor makes another 300Kw of power and a bucket load of nm torques.

 

 





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  #3486808 2-May-2026 18:27
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Batman:

 

it's not the race fuel. the entire circus flies around the world. private jets, commercial airlines, and those race cars, tyres, cars, parts, wings, chassis, paddocks (yes they fly the paddocks around the world, which is why they all look the same at every GP) - these things don't travel on ebikes, they are flown around in cargo jets.

 

race fuel is the least of your concern.

 

 

Agree. 22 cars spending just a few hours running on a race weekend. Not much to save there, but the experience has faltered


 
 
 

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  #3487005 3-May-2026 13:09
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Bummer , they are starting the race 3 hours earlier due to weather concerns, so that ruins watching it live at breakfast time 





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  #3487011 3-May-2026 13:45
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tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

it's not the race fuel. the entire circus flies around the world. private jets, commercial airlines, and those race cars, tyres, cars, parts, wings, chassis, paddocks (yes they fly the paddocks around the world, which is why they all look the same at every GP) - these things don't travel on ebikes, they are flown around in cargo jets.

 

race fuel is the least of your concern.

 

 

Agree. 22 cars spending just a few hours running on a race weekend. Not much to save there, but the experience has faltered

 

 

Which is exactly my point. The whole 50/50 ICE/electricity argument from FIA/FOM is totally pointless - using more fuel, and therefore less electric which therefore means requires less lift and coast & superclipping to generate the battery charge won't make any difference to anyone anywhere, but they can't do that as they have now got caught in this circular argument now and the cars just aren't physically capable of running a Grand Prix distance with the size of the fuel tanks they have, so they are stuck in this restrictive generate electricity to keep performance... 





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  #3487064 3-May-2026 14:17
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bigreddog:

 

Which is exactly my point. The whole 50/50 ICE/electricity argument from FIA/FOM is totally pointless - using more fuel, and therefore less electric which therefore means requires less lift and coast & superclipping to generate the battery charge won't make any difference to anyone anywhere, but they can't do that as they have now got caught in this circular argument now and the cars just aren't physically capable of running a Grand Prix distance with the size of the fuel tanks they have, so they are stuck in this restrictive generate electricity to keep performance... 

 

 

As far as i understand it, the FIA/FOM wanted front axle regen as well but it was vetoed by the other teams as Audi have significant experience in this from WEC and they thought they would be at a disadvantage... doing this would have enabled significantly better regen opportunties and not relied on 'super clipping' to generate all the electrical power.


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  #3487134 3-May-2026 17:49
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vexxxboy:

 

Bummer , they are starting the race 3 hours earlier due to weather concerns, so that ruins watching it live at breakfast time 

 

 

Bummer. But it does mean I can watch it before work, instead of 8am to 8-30 then avoid the interwebs

 

Sky hasn't set the new time yet...


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