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[polite--cat]

hi! i'm sof :)

this is my motorsports-focused sideblog, my main is @powersofdarkness

for my current f1 favs, please consult this official tierlist (updated as of Monaco!):

in terms of other series:

indycar - pato o'ward, colton herta, christian lundgaard (never said i wasn't a basic bitch)

IMSA - porsche penske n7

f1a - doriane pin, of course

[emociatanta]

He's like Sansa Stark who dreamed about King's Landing and who was so loved by her family that she genuinely had no idea how bad it could get once she persuaded her dream

[marigoldrouge]

the ai-ification of f1 has to be one of its worst ideas

drivers can make one small mistake and then have no idea how the ai will take that into account and change the energy deployment for their next lap. how are they supposed to fix mistakes if the algorithm is changing things unpredictably?

motorsport.com article

[marigoldrouge]

and how are we as viewers supposed to understand and compare driver performance if it’s sometimes coming down to ai decision making that not even the teams can identify?

[feketeribizli]

[team43]

franco thats so sexy

[oceanscaped]

apparently the issues oscar is experiencing are very similar to what george has which. cool. we in the damn trenches now

source: bbc.com

[lesbiannieism]

[jusst-you-race]

gunna be honest the sky team showing Toto a video of George being swamped on the straight and saying “well clearly he doesn’t have straight line speed as you can see here” multiple times

only for Toto to waffle some bullshit like “we all make mistakes sometimes” or “George knows the team backs him 100%” or “all of the Mercedes engines are struggling” or “these regulations just don’t suit every driver’s style” or “we are always trying to do better” or “last race we failed Kimi” …..

it’s just this complete and utter refusal to acknowledge that George’s car has an issue that is directly causing him to be slower than Kimi, and the refusal to take accountability for that, COUPLED WITH his immediate rolling over and apologising as soon as something goes wrong for Kimi that’s just really pissing me off

[umgeorge]

george russell is interviewed after retiring from the race, belgium - july 19, 2026

[ellearts]

No one can make me hate George Russell because back in 2022 he sacrificed continuing his own race to check on Guanyu immideatly after he crashed

[oscarpiastrihq]

Instagram of Oscar: “No thongs in sight 🩴 Vanity Fair France”

[feketeribizli]

happy spa race week

[fcbswiatek]

[fcbswiatek]

he froze

[merc-stats]

Track Limits until Silverstone

There's been a lot of debate about track limits, especially in regard to Kimi Antonelli so I thought I would look into it with the help of formula-timer, which helpfully provides data on track limits.

In Summary: Kimi Antonelli (24) has the second most track limits of all the drivers after Silverstone, behind Lance Stroll (36).

Up until Silverstone Antonelli had the most track limits, then Stroll managed to get a whooping 21 track limits in one race, putting him firmly in the lead.

Now this begs the question - how did their teammates fare so far?

George Russell 4 vs 24 Kimi Antonelli Fernando Alonso 7 vs 36 Lance Stroll

All other team pairs are within 5 track limits of each other. (Table and chart follow below)

Considering how one race skewed the data so strongly, the next question I asked myself was: Who got the most track limits per race?

Australia: No one got more than 1 track limit

China: Lindblad (2)

Japan: No one got more than 1 track limit

Miami: Leclerc (4)

Canada: Antonelli & Piastri (4 each)

Monaco: Stroll (7)

Barcelona: Antonelli (6)

Austria: Antonelli (3)

Britain: Stroll (21)

Once more Stroll (2x) and Antonelli (3x) are the outliers. Here Antonelli overall even did worse than Stroll.

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race

Colors are not helpful here but it does visualize how both Stroll and Antonelli are outliers.

All of this data is to be taken with a grain of salt, there haven't been all that many races and I have only considered the races - if FP sessions and Quali would be included the picture would be a bit different. Still considering only one other driver even has above 10 track limits (Norris 11) both of them should probably work on that.

posting on this new blog, because while I don't want this to leave tumblr, if it does I would rather it not be tied to my usual url

[merc-stats]

Sprint addition

No it didn't @lockedinabookstore , so below a look at that, but it just affirms the picture from before. Stroll gets up to 43 track limits and Antonelli up to 32.

When only looking at the Sprints Antonelli (8) is slightly worse than Stroll (7).

It only underlines the difference in comparison to the teammates too, less extreme because there are fewer sprints and fewer laps but it's a repetition of the previous pattern

George Russell 2 vs 8 Kimi Antonelli Fernando Alonso 3 vs 7 Lance Stroll

Most track limits per sprint:

China: No one got more than 1 track limit (only VER got 1)

Miami: Antonelli (5)

Canada: Antonelli (3)

Silverstone: Stroll (3)

Here Antonelli is once more the one who got the most track limits in several races and once more Stroll really had a horrible time in Silverstone.

Data for only the sprints:

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race

Aggregated Races and Sprints

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race - it really also underlines how much worse these two drivers are compared to all others. Only three other drivers have more than ten track limits over the season so far and Antonelli has 21+ while Stroll has 32+ more.

Here their outlier status becomes even clearer, it also shows that for notable part of the season so far Antonelli had more track limits than Stroll. After the sprint in Silverstone Antonelli had 25 vs Stroll's 22. The 21 from Silverstone almost doubled his track limits over the season.

[papaya-gremlins]

it’s the year 2030 and the landostand has taken over silverstone. at least 15 drivers dnf after being absolutely blinded by the fluro

[ella-lloyd]

CHIARA BÄTTIG RED BULL RACING JUNIOR. F1A SILVERSTONE WILDCARD.