Exactly.
Having e-races probably means strict rules for the simulator, giving away information you want to keep secret and a standardised way of evaluating effects, none of which people would agree to.
It could be done on a commercial simulator, which isn’t accurate anyway, but we have e-sports on them already.
Fernando Alonso raced in his 362nd F1 GP last weekend.
That means he has raced in 1/3 of all F1 races. (There have been 1086 of them.)
I asked my old Benetton colleague and friend if he could give my grandson some advice on his career and he showed us around the factory yesterday. Edit, he is sporting director of Red Bull now - forgot that bit!)
I haven’t been involved for 13 years and it was bigger than anything I had seen before.
I got to have a really good look at the hugely complex aero and chat to people I knew.
I don’t think my grandson fully appreciated how privileged he was! No chance of seeing any of it normally.
What was clear was that the basic requirements are still exactly the same as they always were…
A treat for grandson and grandfather, I suspect.
Sounds a brilliant day.
It was. I used to see this sort of thing every day at work, if on a smaller scale, but seeing acquaintances and friends I hadn’t seen in over 10 years was a treat.
Lewis Hamilton on his 3rd place in Canada:
“Quite an honour to be up there with 2 world champions.”
Shame the race wasn’t as wet as quali, but both entertained, always enjoy Canada 
Impressively quick thinking from Fred giving the steering a wiggle when Lewis nearly ran into him at their pit-releases. That, and Lando’s even sketchier pit-release both should have attracted penalties - race control seem to have become a little lax concerning unsafe releases, which when it can threaten entire pit crews at their worst.
Always interesting at Montreal. It was the hardest on fuel consumption and brakes (Adelaide was harder on brakes when we went there later).
The first time I ran a car there, Jones in 1979, the pre race calculations showed we would run out of fuel and brakes if he went flat out for the whole race, so we had to have a cunning plan.
Of course, no telemetry or radio, just pit signals and guestimates.
MV wins again. Dominance is one thing but…
His fastest race lap was over 1.8s faster than anyone else on track. In a sport where hundredths of a second have split multiple places, how has this happened? That he won by a ‘mere’ 5s or so suggests he is seriously holding back. Are RB truly that far ahead of everyone else?
Or was that fastest lap a(nother) fluke?
One team gets it right shocker !
RB ARE dominant and deservedly so. They have designed the fastest car.
As for the fastest lap ? Max was 23 seconds ahead. The average pit stop tales 20s. He comes out still in front on the fastest tyre. NOT a fluke.
So.
Last month they raced to within a millimeter of armco barriers for 70 odd laps
This week the white lines are too hard to see from the cockpit
If it wasn’t for the fact that Max would nerf everybody on to it, I’d think electrifying the white line would instantly solve the problem
Agreed. I don’t understand the whinging about track limits. The track is defined, if you want to drive a differently designed track at the same venue, then you get penalised.
Don’t want to be penalised? Drive within the track.
Nails is what you need, or them stinger things the police use, stick them down 1m outside the track limits
Not hard to understand: if there’s a faster line, they will take liberties with it.
Penalising this just damages the spectacle; counterproductive for the sport.
That corner needs reprofiling - widen it, and put gravel on the other side of the white line. Problem goes away.
Whingey-cringey Hammy needs to stay off the radio - plays into the hands of the haters.
So, you’re basically saying that the drivers design the circuits ?
So, you’re basically saying you enjoyed today’s egregious-penalty wracked shitshow?
I enjoyed the race. I like to see drivers tested. If they (and it was a minority) can’t compete within the rules they are sanctioned.
The rules apply to all.
At one point there was a graphic on the screen which read:
"These divers have not received a time penalty "
There were 5 drivers
