Mar 7
do you agree with f1twt saying mercedes is cheating with the engine?
No
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do you agree with f1twt saying mercedes is cheating with the engine?
No
if only they can get monaco be bigger for f1 cars i mean it isnt like the cars are f1a cars or f2 cars yk like either they make f1 cars be small for over takes to be possible OR make the track bigger
...Are you suggesting they... They move the buildings around..... To make room... For the f1 race......
10 Commandments of F1 Fandom according to you? (In the "never trust a team principle" vein)
So I've had these 3 rules
You always always have to do better than your teammate
Never trust a team principal
We don't talk about the performance before the performing happens
Ones that I've never worded as rules but could be
Remember the difference between the man, the driver, and the blorbo
In Chris Medland we trust (mind your sources)
Don't tie your sense of morality to your blorbo
Other than that if I had to come up with more I'd say, in no particular order from the top of my head
Keep the fandom in the fandom
Every hobby needs a bit of hating but being a hater is not a hobby (if you spend more time being a hater than an enjoyer you need to move on)
It's a fun job but it's still a job (it's a workplace, they are employees, those are their coworkers)
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by literally anything else
i feel as though them swapping today really sets a precedent, especially considering in the post race press conference both drivers said that if something like this happened again they'd handle it exactly the same. but will they really? because imagine it's abu dhabi, whichever driver wins the race wins the championship. one driver has lead near enough the whole race start to finish but he has a slow stop, the other driver pits on the next lap and comes out ahead. would they still swap?
First of all yes, if it's for the race win, or even the title win, then what?
Second of all, let's say it happens again and they swap and then something else happens, do they swap again, the other way around? In the hypothetical sense, how many swaps a race are they willing to call?
Third of all, what incidents exactly are worth a swap? Slow pitstop? Puncture? Front wing damage / change? Delayed in the pitlane because another driver is incoming / avoiding unsafe release? What if it's the driver's fault? Like what if Lando had gotten a slower pitstop because he didn't stop exactly in the box like it happens a lot? Does it change something?
That's what I mean when I say you can't balance out random race events with team orders. There will always be the next thing. Luck has always been part of the sport. You can't outrun luck. You can't equalize things that are out of your control.
That post you just reblogged about the recovery vehicle on track.. they weren’t asked if it should be there, they were asked if THEY felt comfortable driving with it there. I get the point the op and you are trying to make but I think in that instance it was just the specific question they were asked.
The point I am making (not gonna talk for Al) isn't "boo bad drivers saying wrong things 😠😠", it's about the systemic functioning of the sport that leads them to either feel or say they feel comfortable with highly dangerous situations that are completely avoidable, and in that sense I think the specific words used are irrelevant because what matters is the underlying issue.
There was some discourse on my blog about it a while back, I think it was maybe after that Qatar race or maybe the last time there was a truck on track in bad conditions, anyway :
What bothers me personally is that the drivers have been taught that this is okay because the sport is dangerous and they have signed up for this and they aren't scared of anything because they are Good Drivers™ with a Racer Mentality™ when this isn't a matter of yes the sport has some level of unavoidable risk but a matter of this could very VERY easily be made safer for everyone including the marshals and truck drivers because let's not forget it's not all about the drivers themselves and somehow we are saying no, that's fine, because that's just how the sport is.
It sucks. Everybody should always be advocating for more safety, rather than being comfortable with unnecessary risks.
So yeah on one hand I think the drivers should be smart enough to think it through, but also I'm not decontextualising them from what's been drilled in their heads. This isn't me bashing on them on a personal level, it's me using them as a symptom of this sport's culture and the issues that come with it.
Cheating?? What happened?
An alleged power unit trick by Mercedes is said to have caught the attention of rival power unit manufacturers ahead of 2026.
Everyone forgot Buxton works in Indycar now and immediately presumed it was something major F1 related because they wanted silly season to start 😭
Well. Even when he was working in F1 he was a bad source. That said 2 other journalists tweeted about f1 and one of them even specified he thought Buxton was talking about something else before Buxton made his announcement so this might not be over yet
do all multiwdcs become stepfathers...
I cannot emphasise enough how much I don't care