F1 Talk

06 Apr 2025 07:17:01
Think Mclaren used Piastri to find out how many laps it would take to catch the same gap as Max has over Lando. and observe the tyre deg involved!

07 Oct 2022 15:49:35
Thoughts on the budget cap overspend by Red Bull?

07 Oct 2022 22:40:20
Just shows Money talks.

02 Aug 2022 20:03:44
Is Ed Woodward running Alpine?

Their current antics feel the average post-Fergie Man U transfer window.

23 May 2022 10:24:26
All round rubbish day yesterday with Lec retiring and the mighty reds coming so close.
Hamilton though was different gravy yesterday. Immaculate driving.been uncluky this season with the safety cars and yesterday with the incident.
Surely he'll beat russell this season. i think he's been better than russell just miss unlucky.

30 May 2022 07:08:41
They're many, who would disagree with you there truered. Many out there prefers to taint LH 7 WDC with the "fast car" crap, while they support the bell end, whose WDC came by "human error." They say Roseberg beat LH to the title because he was better but fail to note that, although Roseberg was good but it was LH engine blowing off at Malaysia that gave Roseberg the win. The hate on LH is insane. Britain should be grateful to have LH, Russell and Norris.

Monaco on the other hand, is just a frustrating circuit and I don't know why FIA bothers with it. Overtaking is almost impossible. Was gutted for Charles LeClerc, who I think is way better to MV, for losing out on team strategy. LH and Vettel were also unlucky not to have driven on new tyres during Q3. All in all, damn boring race for me.

19 Mar 2022 07:45:48
Mercedes needs to get their acts together. What's up with this bouncing stuff? Debut season for Russell with them and he is greeted with this glitch? As it stands, it appears its going to be all Red Bull and Ferrari

25 Feb 2022 17:00:43
Verstappen thinks Masi "was capable"!? The worst view I have read all week but what do I expect when clearly he (Masi) handed him his first world championship? Plus only he (Verstappen) feels Masi's removal WS "incredible" and that looks like only he has that opinion. Does anyone know how the other drivers perceives Verstappen? I don't get the lad atimes. Looking forward to a hopefully, good and fair season

07 Feb 2022 09:34:17
Ed01 if you're about, a mate of mine and I were having a chat about Abu Dhabi. He reckons Max's Championship win was tinted due to the mess around the finish. I did argue that the lad won it fair and square on track regardless of Masi' incidence because it was done on the track despite Hamilton being the better driver on the night.

But I want to ask, do you think Max should be considered to have dethroned a dorminant champion in Hamilton considering it was actual handed to him by Masi? Secondly, what do you make of the FIA new racing structure? Lastly, do you think the ban on direct communication to stewards is in the right direction as it did play a part in the mess at Abu Dhabi? Thanks alot

{Ed001's Note - the championship was tainted throughout by the way the FIA handled it, there is no way Verstappen can be said to have won it fair and square. It is not just the finish, it is the way Red Bull were allowed to break the rules consistently throughout the season, with things such as flexi-wings (which they had the cheek to complain that Mercedes might be using it later on!) and being allowed to apply a performance upgrade to their engine because they claimed the performance boost was not the reason for it. I have to be honest, I am done with F1. I am fine with a championship that is being actively levelled out, such as BTCC, so long as it is all open and everyone knows where they stand. But clearly the FIA are trying to do it on the sly, which makes the whole thing dishonest and as fixed as wrestling. That is not my thing.}

16 Dec 2021 11:35:11
So merc drop the protest and appeal.

Honestly I'm not that surprised, not that I particularly like max but whoever ended up with the title is always going to have it tainted by this mess now and that's not fair on either driver.

Let's hope the review promised by the FIA brings the needed clarity, I would imagine masi will be replaced, ultimately it was his terrible decision, and not his first either

13 Dec 2021 01:50:38
This might be the day I have fallen out of love with this sport.

A ridiculous decision from the race director to manufacture a world championship change.

If he follows the regulations as, apart from certain heavy wet races, they always have before, then the race finished behind the safety car. Instead he, let's be kind and say bent the existing rules, to deliberately go racing when one car is a sitting duck.

Then you dismiss clear evidence of an overtake under the safety car because he wasn't ahead at the safety car line. Not sure that is in the regulations but there you go.

It makes a mockery of the sport frankly.

{Ed001's Note - I am with you on this. What is the point in watching it when the result is going to be decided by the race director? If I wanted to watch fake sports, I would be watching wrestling, not motor racing.}

13 Dec 2021 02:13:57
I’d go even further Ed and say what’s the point in having regulations in the first place if you allow one man to unilaterally bend them to suit his mood.

Teams rely on the rules being the rules.

This isn’t even about who won. It’s about the integrity of a sport I’ve loved since I was a boy.

Charlie Whiting must be spinning in his grave.

{Ed001's Note - exactly mate. What is to stop a team now fitting a bigger engine? Or anything they feel like doing as the rules are not there to be adhered to any more.}

13 Dec 2021 10:03:36
I thinking about this earlier Ed and I would be interested on your take.

During the Mercedes protest Red Bull where allowed to attend as an interested party. Why?

Surely it isn't Red Bull's job to justify a decision made by the race director on a technical matter.

Even if you argue they have a right to be there - why didn't they then invite the other teams in? The decision to let those five cars go impacted on the cars behind them and so those teams would also have had something to say.

{Ed001's Note - you are right, it should be either all there or no one, as a technical ruling like this impacts them all in the future as well. No one now knows what the rules actually are as the race director will just make them up as he goes along to make sure that they get the right result.}

12 Dec 2021 15:29:40
Lets home merc and redbull fall of a cliff next year. let's have Ferrari vs Mclaren 2022.

12 Dec 2021 18:53:11
Let's try having clear and enforced rules first.

12 Dec 2021 21:10:49
F1 over the past decade or so has become harder and harder to watch in terms of interest and excitement. For me however that will be it, it has taken what was once the most exciting and glamorous sport on Earth and turned it into WWE. I certainly have no interest in paying to watch that nonsense.