camelspyyder

Agree. Low tech diesels are amazingly cheap. I've run mechanically injected Citroen's and Mitsubishi's in the past for the price of just fuel, oil and filters, and could have run them on chip oil too. But anything remotely modern has MAF,EGR, DPF, etc to go wrong, not to mention the outrageous cost of CR fuel pumps. My recent diesels just have seemed difficult to keep running reliably, but my last 3 petrols have all been capable of around 50mpg without the pain.

Diesel has 100kg extra over the front wheels. Handling/ Ride/ Tyre wear are going to be inferior IMHO. Not to mention that I find modern diesels take back all the fuel cost savings in increased maintenance and repair.

F1 back at Imola👍👍. Track looks good but needs gravel instead of stupid pretend track limits. Well over 100 laptimes deleted today 🙄.

Verstappen gets away with punting Perez off, but Stroll repeats his error hitting Norris. Poor driving and inconsistent stewarding as usual. Track should be on the F1 schedule every year though, just dial down the DRS a bit.

George Russell's seat looking increasingly dodgy for next year. Perez and his huge bucket of Pesos $$$$$ are talking to new owners Dorilton Capital.

Haas might well be thinking of selling up then. Mazepin was the other bidder when Force India was sold to Stroll.

Lowes wins again. Mini-Marquez podiums again on the Honda. His first win must happen soon I think.

Yeah, mine died at 40000km🙄

Just watched some recent races. So pleased to see Petrucci and Lowes back on the top step. Almost a Brit 1-2 in moto2. Such a shame for Jake Dixon.

Current speculation has a new RB Japanese protege alongside Gasly next year. Markos comments this week seem to mean Albon needs to prove himself a better option than Hulk or Perez from a points scoring in the constructors PoV. Indeed RB already asked Hulk to sub this weekend when Albons Covid test was inconclusive. Albon might not get a "next berth". I'd say he's skirting with the RedBull scrap heap at the moment. Kvyat looks to be already there.

Tyre sizes in Russia were maybe different as the car came with a 15mm(?) higher standard ride height than in Western Europe.

Posted pictures of all of them in March:

Yes the existing Rapid got a Scala style facelift for Russia and other developing markets. The Chinese market 4 door sedan and sportback have had a similar facelift too.

Great effort from the Hulk after no practice.

Well that was entertaining. Cold weather effected the tyres and reliability greatly, but the cynical deployment of the safety car really hurt those who at the time had a tyre advantage. Perez was odds on for a podium until the SC gave Riccardo a free stop for fresh rubber. I initially thought the stewards also boobed penalising Albo; all he did was pass a car that had just run off the track. However, he has form for hitting cars that he has just passed (Hamilton's for one) and getting away with it, so maybe it was about time his card was marked.

Did you ever try the old A74. Officially Britain's most dangerous trunk road. Horrendous narrow dual carriageway, with awful standing water and old style T junctions to join it. The long needed replacement motorway North from the M6 must have saved countless lives.

I checked. Bernd won the '36 Eifellrennen ( Gemany's second GP) in fog, some 40 seconds a lap faster than anyone else, and the same year won the German GP by 4 minutes. Stewart also won by 4 minutes in foul weather in '68

So no F1 today because of Rain/Cloud/Fog at Nurburgring. I'll have to check but I believe Rosemeyer and Stewart absolutely demolished their contemporaries in those conditions on the old 14 mile track. Modern health and safety wont let them out on the sanitised new 'RIng though.

Isn't alcohol fuel cleaner and greener though? Not that I think that an excuse for Honda.

Exactly. The day after making their grand departure from F1 over green concerns😂😅 I don't know if there is a Japanese word for irony...but Honda seem inscrutably unaware of it.

Bottas, and others, involvement was secret but it got out.

An article about Hondas repeated quitting F1: https://www.grandprix247.com/2020/10/04/inside-line-fck-off-honda-and-good-riddance/ Renault's story is similar, but with a lot more sustained success through 92/93 95/97 05/6 10/13. Honda haven't won F1 titles since 91.

Cyril said straight away that they would supply RB/AT if requested too. Might have a contract that insists on Renault getting some credit for future success though. Maybe the lol-lol naming convention, Renault-RedBull, in all press releases. Back to Honda: They claimed to be quitting F1 as part of their plan to be carbon neutral by 2050. That doesn't explain them, the very next day, extending their stay in Indycar does it? ( where they are fully competitive ) To me the second announcement just reinforces them as losers and quitters who can't hack F1...

2022? There's currently a Mercedes vacant for 2021. "Hi Wolffy, Jos here, you can have Max free for 2021, then pay for subsequent years, what do you say?" Even Senna offered to drive for free to get into the team he wanted.

FIA rules will force Renault to supply both teams if they can't make alternative arrangements by next spring.