Motorsport

#Formula1, where 20 of the world’s best drivers compete to drive 4 fast cars. The formula is a joke.

The only way to rescue a racing formula that doesn't actually have any racing, was to turn it into a reality TV show. V8 Supercars would know how to fix F1. They won't ever be invited to though. #F1 https://t.co/WKOdO2yjP6

@Mark_Skaife if they let you run F1, how would you change it to create the sort of actual racing we see with the V8s?

It’s a shame that F1, whose formula has been broken for years, has managed to rejuvenate itself by becoming a TV soap opera in the US. Fix the formula, so drivers get to actually race. https://t.co/cXx2ro1BwJ

F1 cars, the pinnacle of sealed-road racing, are hybrids. Ask 10 non-fans and I bet at least 8 don’t know that. At a time we want people to switch to hybrids and EVs, why isn’t this part of the marketing? They’re also significantly faster…

One of the mysteries of motoring is why hybrids have been allowed to wallow in the Greenie/Granny car category in the public mind for so long. Yes they save you a lot of fuel. But they do a lot more than that. In many ways they’re the…

Le Mans introduced hybrids over a decade ago as a pro-climate measure. The hybrids proved unbeatable, they’ve won every race since. Hybrids are the best performance engines in the world, using half the fuel. F1 cars have been hybrid for…

If you watch the start of a professional car race, you’ll see something you never see when a red light goes green on an ordinary road. All of the cars head off simultaneously. There’s something very interesting about why this happens, and…

Rod Stewart decided to try to repair the road near his own home, because “my Ferrari can’t go through here at all.” (The humanity.) Like any good tabloid story though, it’s overflowing with insight into our current culture. The universal…

The common response to the useless team sports of electoral politics to take action on anything important, is to mount campaigns of righteous indignation against the system. Often from the crossbench. These campaigns also don’t produce any…

A thing about hybrid cars. Often sold as Green or granny cars, very fuel efficient but otherwise gutless. Hybrids are beasts. The Le Mans 24-hour race introduced them in 2012. They've won every race since. All F1 cars are also hybrids.…

The distinction between tailoring and designer clothes in this thread is fundamentally important culturally, going well beyond fashion. Tailoring is expertise-based style. Designer clothes are about status. Our entire modern world is in…

I sometimes post about casuistry, case-based reasoning. The genius human invention that is misunderstood, neglected and forgotten. The outrageous injustice meted out to Oscar Piastri at the British Grand Prix is a great way to explore it…