Fully agree.

Last year’s DTM finale was among the most gripping motorsports events ever and they race GT3 cars without any hybrid unit. Not even a second of that race did I think “ooooh, that sound” (especially not on TV because I didn’t attend that race). Great action speaks for itself.

If I want something, I have to pay for it myself as well. That’s how capitalism works.

why can’t someone do the same here?

Ask the owners of all the courses that don’t host F1 races in Africa.

They didn’t ask Verstappen to sponsor the Dutch GP

Zandvoort secured the funding, then pulled out after Verstappen said he’ll not be in F1 for much longer.

so why does Lewis have to be the one financing or making the case for a race in a region where he has plenty of fans?

Because he said he wants a race to be there.

Stroll’s only hope to not start the GP on P22 is gone.

asking the sport’s bosses “why are we not in Africa?”.

Money. Lewis can afford to sponsor it if he cares about it.

Have you ever driven a car?

Yes.

Or raced a go kart?

No.

Not that it matters.

I think you’ll prefer formula e then

I prefer any form of good racing. I don’t fetishize noise.

For context: Ralf Schumacher is being paid by Auto1 Group who operate used car sale platforms around Europe. He has a personal interest to promote fossil fuel cars that make up the vast majority of used car sales. He’s not impartial.

the screaming engines we all love

“we all”? I don’t. It’s bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with race action. On TV you cannot experience it at all and live it’s just damaging the ears, making hearing protection absolutely necessary. Also, the rumbling gets old quite soon. After a few laps it’s just there and nothing special at all.

That engine noise fetish is a marketing ploy by the fossil fuel lobby. In motorsport entertainment, the on-track action has to be good. That’s it and that’s 100% unrelated to noise.

Of course they leak that sort of information. They want people to buy PlayStation consoles which is a hard proposition, given the fact that after years on the market these consoles get more expensive instead of receiving price cuts (an outright ridiculous situation). Even more so with PS6 facing delays.

The benefit of controlled leaks is that Sony never made an official announcement. And when two years after a release on PlayStation they make a PC port, they never formally lied.

Nextcloud uses a token and login is one time via a web browser. Nextcloud shouldn’t need to put anythin in KWallet.

If you want your wallet to unlock automatically anyway without any interaction, just remove the password from the wallet. As long as your disk is encrypted, there is not much of a security impact.

How did they think 50/50 was going to work if they are throwing away half their breaking energy?!?

The team representatives at these meetings are surprisingly naive about technical things. Almost as if the teams send politicians instead of engineers.

Gary even offered a solution to make this a spec part.

he just wants to go as fast as possible regardless.

Every driver wants to drive a lonely race at the front, far away from the competition.

That’s not what the audience wants.

What do the Saudis have to do with it?

Last summer Ferrari rejected a proposal at the F1 Commission to delay the start lights coming on to alleviate concerns about potential risks of cars stopping on the grid.

This was because team principal Fred Vasseur had warned about the need to make such a change many months before, but his concerns had been dismissed by others.

As a result, Ferrari set about creating its engine concept around one that would be more suitable for a short start sequence, so it would not need the turbo spun up for so long.

So when those that had not made the same compromises with their engine design suddenly came back with demands to extend the start sequence, Vasseur felt he was well within his rights to not support something that could potentially benefit others who had not heeded his earlier worries.

It feels a bit more like Formula E on steroids.

Energy management leads to amazing racing in FE and negates much of the dirty air driven boring processional races.

The first few races will likely be a bit chaotic but once the teams get on top of it all, the most talented drivers will be able to get ahead of less smart drivers in better cars.

In a Dutch interview he said it’s way slower.

It’s not like that the TV audience is ever going to notice that, given how much TV direction prefers to take out the sense of speed.