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The new Schumacher documentary does a subpar job at bursting the bubble of the narrative the story of 1994 has been told. Shame, since arguments in favor of Benetton are pretty strong. #KeepFightingMichael #F1
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This looking like a random physics teacher dude is Ben Hodgkinson. He was one of the key people behind the 2014 OP Mercedes power unit. Now at Red Bull, he has designed the best combustion engine. #F1
More power to the combustion engine plays into Red Bull's hand.
🚨 THE FIA KNEW ABOUT THE PROBLEMS BEFORE 2026.
Nikolas Tombazis has acknowledged that simulations had already exposed limitations in the new power units before the season began.
Now F1 is changing direction:
🔹 Less reliance on electric power from 2027.
🔹 Potential return of V8 engines in 2030/31.
🔹 A target of cutting at least 60 kg from future cars.
🔹 Further changes to improve overtaking and energy management.
The FIA wants to put more emphasis back on the DRIVER.
(via. @AutoRacer.it) #F1
🚨 | Mercedes is struggling to make its latest upgrade work as expected, raising concerns over its development direction for 2027.
Austin will be crucial in determining whether the package delivers the expected performance and provides a reliable foundation for next season’s car.
📰 @wearetherace
Once Upon a Time in Maranello...
I hereby forgive Norris simping for these regs at the beginning of the year. He's been consistently shitting on these sorry-ass engines once he changed his mind. 👊
📰: Lando Norris wants the complicated 2026 power-unit electronics scrapped entirely after Bahrain's formation-lap chaos: "it just proves we shouldn't have any of that stuff... this is all coding stuff and stuff to do with how the battery works." He defended McLaren's wrong slick-tyre gamble as "quite convincing at the time," citing a lack of prior intermediate-tyre data at the new circuit.
#F1 #SingaporeGP
Yup. Verstappen is the benchmark of the grid since 2019.
Twenty-six years ago, in the qualifying session for the 2000 Japanese Grand Prix, #Schumacher and #Hakkinen were trading lap times like boxers trade blows. #KeepFightingMichael
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F1 Car Shutdown in Malaysia - CLOSER LOOK youtu.be/rqsDyGvzei0?si=EQrS… via @YouTube
Massa has never had a reputation as a good wet weather driver, but at least points-wise, he did pretty well vs. Raikkonen, Alonso and Bottas.
Depends on how you define a "while," because they're nowhere near as good competitively as they were in 2017, or 2018.
🗣️ Vowles interrupts another question in the press conference to show his support for the job Vasseur's doing at Ferrari:
"Normally, we beat each other up and put knives in our backs. But Ferrari is in the best place it's been in the championship for a while. They have innovation on the car this year with the rear wing and exhaust blowing. That we've all copied as a result of it. It's a team that's doing brilliantly.
So, for me personally, there is no question that Fred is the right person to do this."
#Sepang is back, baby! So let’s take a walk down memory lane to 2012, and revisit a silly spat between Vettel and Karthikeyan, started by an ill-fated incident. #F1
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"A team man and a famility man." Pino D'Agostino recalls working with Schumacher. #KeepFightingMichael
