Def the danger of laying it out like this is teleological thinking whereas the actual ruleset is one of more evolutionary style response to different pressures (usually financial). I just thought it would be helpful to know when certain things came in.
and that when fernando started he could basically do whatever. He could have hopped in his spare car right at the formation lap on his 17th set of custom tires and demanded team orders before a botched refueling put him back in P24. while being sponsored by a tobacco company whose logo was emblazoned on the grid girls.
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2003 Parc Ferme
Before parc ferme, teams could use a different car for qualifying than for the race, so they could set them up entirely differently
2004 Single engine per weekend
New requirement to use the same engine all weekend, instead of a fresh one for the race after qualifying. This also limited the use of a spare car since it would have a different engine.
2006 Limits on number of tires allowed
14 sets of tires per weekend
2010 No refueling
The time of pit stops dropped dramatically as cars no longer needed to refuel. Additionally, this meant cars started heavier at the beginning of the race and got lighter, meaning that drivers needed to manage the handling of the car as low fuel cars move more nimbly. Failing to adjust might mean that a fine move in lap 7 sends the car into the barrier on lap 50. . Heavier weight also put more strain on the tires in the first laps.
2011 Pirelli tires for all
Without refueling, strategy became more static. The goal of Pirelli was to create tires that degraded fast to force pit stops and so overtaking opportunities. Tires have the biggest impact on car performance, even above engine, so having everyone on the same ones also forces the drivers to adapt to those tires
2011 Ban on Team Orders Rescinded
Between 2002-2010 it was forbidden to instruct a driver to move over for a teammate.
2014 Hybrid V6 engine introduced
All drivers must now manage battery in addition to tires, including recharging and clipping
limiting this to ONLY teammate crashes when they were actually teammates, mostly because i'd be too tempted to include the fuji 2007 crash but am afraid of forgetting some other excellent pre- or post-teammates crash if i open that can of worms lol
turkey 2010 Obviously... the thing about seb and mark is that even that early in their time as teammates, seb was an incredibly sore loser and he watched mark win two races in a row, stared down the possibility of a hat trick, and he got SO desperate. at least lewis in 2016 endured 4 nico wins in a row (or 7! if you wanna count the final races of 2015) before pushing too far. i'm obsessed with the fact that things between them were already pulled so tight this early in their relationship, and also that red bull so sloppily tried to mend it.
spain 2016. as with sebmark and brocedes in my teammate rivalries ranking, i feel like this is probably the objective #1 but just slots in lower on my ranking because of the way that i am about seb and mark. but it's undeniably so good... the final implosion of brocedes. the fact that toto still isn't over it!
brazil 2019. i think this one is so tasty because of how catastrophic it was despite the minimal tap that seb actually gave charles. like sometimes the most nothingburger bump really is the final nail in the coffin of your time in a top f1 team
cota sprint 2025. saying this on my blog where my beloved followers know that i earnestly love both lando and oscar... the fact that, the same weekend that oscar gloated about lando having to face consequences for the tap in singapore, he proceeded to do a ridiculous switchback on lap 1 of a sprint to try to overtake and instead ended both of their races... it's funny. it's simply very funny. it also seemed like a necessary moment for them to reconsider the nuances of their rules of engagement, so i'm genuinely glad it happened.
baku 2018. sort of feels like daniel's version of brazil 2019 haha. there's something so delicious about the build-up to this one, you really feel for so long that daniel and max are on the brink of crashing until finally it happens.
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Thirty years, almost, of them crawling in and out of each other’s lives, the threads of them tangled beyond all recognition and they found each other again in a way that seemed to work. <- your line about brocedes oh why is this making me emotional
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no but real. like. that's the brocedes juice that's why there's nothing like them it's not JUST that they had this toxic teammates competition it's that Lewis went to Nico's house when he was a teenager and said that's my dream life and went out and got it. He said my dream view is the one from Nico's window. There is no today Lewis without their shared childhood. There's no Nico without the way he burnt himself up to beat him their persons cannot be detangled from their history. romantic edition where they get married.
Whenever the result of the race was not good(in my point) reading your fics was like a form of psychological therapy for me. I would use all the words related to accolades that I knew to describe you.
we require more therapy for monaco, do we not? who needs it the most??? max??
so few people left on the grid who can comfort him from this race….. charles in the wall, lando with battery problems too…
at least george finished the race. i have some unpublished things written about canada i’d like to post. what comfort would soothe our monaco wounds 😭
btw i love you. you are TOO kind, seriously. covering your face with kisses today.
Okay. I'm gonna make an argument here. And I know it's me, so it has to basically be disregarded, but imma do it anyway.
It's still George. Here's my reasoning:
1. He finishes the race, sure. Which means he has to make it through the psychotic 1.5 hours that is Monaco. Lewis (and others) have talked about how Monaco is not an enjoyable race. It's a race of focus and survival. George survives, yes. But... he gets nothing for it.
2. Max, on the other hand, has to be disappointed by getting a good place on the grid and not getting to see if he can inch out kimi, but he gets to go home and chill.
3. Max is betrayed by his car, not his team.
4. If Max's team HAD betrayed him, they would take the blame for it, and apologize. This is clearly not the case with George. (And yes, I fully recognize there were extenuating circumstances, but Marcus should have communicated better the second the safety car came into the pits, and regardless of ANYTHING else, his mechanics should have been told that if he came in, he needed to serve the penalty, period, end of sentence.)
5. Sure, if given the car, Max can probably make up whatever he's down if George can take points off Kimi, but in real terms, atm, Max isn't fighting for a championship, he's fighting to finish a race. (Presumably in his eyes, hopefully on the podium.) The circumstances matter.
6. Even if he WAS fighting, he already has four.
7. Nobody is chittering about Max's seat being in trouble (see point 6). Everyone is doing it with George.
Basically: this was not an equally shitty experience at the end of the day.
