Perez

Mexican fans will pay to see a Mexican driver in a possibly race winning car.

Once Perez is gone there will be a huge drop in the popularity of F1 in Mexico. It’s part of why RBR still hasn’t dropped him. The marketing advantage of him in Mexico and Latin America is such a huge sales driver that they don’t want to give that up.

Unfortunately I pay for neither of those, and TBH I’m not going to pay the astronomical prices for one race. Also Max doesn’t work on my home WiFi ever since I installed PiHole.

If I could find a decent way to watch maybe. Right now my only options are pirate streams and those are such a pain.

Like half of war propaganda can be reduced to this.

Next time the IS is at war all the tiktok girlies are going to be an invaluable asset

I did exactly this. I happened to wake up right before the start, turned it on, watched the crash, and by the time the race restarted I had fallen asleep and I never bothered watching the rest.

As someone who does a significant amount of Motorsport photography, albeit at a smaller scale, this is a risk we’re all aware of. I don’t think any of us would trade it for the world either. Sometimes to get the shot, you’ve gotta put yourself in a bit of danger. Everyone did everything right here, Motorsport is just dangerous.

On a flat screen it’s entirely different since you’re only getting a single perspective instead of two different views. It’s one of the reasons VR can be really great in racing games such as iRacing.

I also turn off the halo when I’m playing on my triples. It’s only when I’m in VR that I’ll leave it on.

Just like your nose, stereoscopic (I think that’s the right word) vision will blur out things right in the middle of your view. It’s actually not very distracting at all and you tend to not notice it at all when driving (at least in VR in racing sims).

You also find yourself looking straight down the middle so infrequently that putting the supports to the side would actually block more of the view.

I’m not sure either, but he’s at the very least earned a shot, and tbh I don’t see any better options right now. A 1+1 would be minimal risk.

I’d like to see Yuki given a 1 year with RBR just to see what would happen. Even if he’s a complete wash, he gets his chance to prove himself, he’s experienced enough it’s not just putting a rookie in the seat and it gives the 2nd RBR seat back to someone who came through their academy.

That being said, I almost expect 2 rookies at Torro Rosso next year. Lawson and whoever performs best in F2.

Money has been the issue since day 1 and anyone believing anything else has been burying their heads in the sand. A new team is not going to bring anymore meaningful revenue to the series. I think we can all agree on that. That means if a new team enters and is entitled to equal benefits, the payouts for all 10 other teams go down by 10%. That’s a non-insignificant amount of money that they’re in no way willing to give up.

Any series that has independent development and no BoP is going to be uncompetitive at the front. Someone is always going to either spend more money or find a trick that sets them apart from the rest of the field.

Adding a BoP would kill the sport as we know it, and restricting development even more would be bad as well. F1 is the last true open development series. The rest all died for similar reasons.

I’m not a fan, but I’m generally not a fan of mclaren special liveries. It may look way better on track and I could just be really wrong.

They said this about Latifi too. Antonelli isn’t ready from what I’ve seen of him in F2. This may just accidentally stunt his career if he can’t keep up

I’d honestly love to see this. He’s designed legendary cars at Williams, and he’s probably be a solid stabilizing factor for their car development.

Also let’s him have a challenge that isn’t just make the front runner faster

I expected shit, this is worse. I don’t know how they managed to screw this one up so bad.

I kinda get it. The start of this season has been brutal with every race overnight. I’m not even bothering watching this entire leg of the season because of the horrific start times for the US. When they were spread out over the calendar I’d usually stay up to watch, but with them all clumped I’m not even trying.

It isn’t cause they’re American, if it was any other team the reaction would be exactly the same. They don’t want to split the money more. I know we all want to make it into an anti-American sentiment, but I genuinely believe they don’t care what nationality the team is.

And that’s all that passion is. You asked why electric drivetrains don’t invoke the same kind of passion as ICE drivetrains, and I gave you an answer.

Electric cars can be objectively better, and I’ll still prefer to drive an ICE.

Because electric drivetrains are boring.

The soul of a car almost always comes from the engine. The experience of driving the car is massively impacted by the engine. All of that is gone in an electric drivetrain, replaced with basically a go button.

I’ll never have an interest in driving an electric car as a road car, let alone as a race car.