Just a few shots from COTA sitting by Turn 15. I took several thousand images and haven't had a chance to even see most of them, but here are 4 - one lightly edited (cropped and a few tweaks) and the rest straight out of the camera. These are from practice, not the race itself.

The coolest thing about the Ferrari cars that I never realized is the x-ray view on the engine cover. Has that been there all season?

1. Nyck De Vries

2. Jack Doohan

3. Antonio Giovinazzi

4. Robert Kubica

5. Nicholas Latifi

6. Kevin Magnussen

7. Nikita Mazepin

8. Kimi Raïkkönen

9. Daniel Ricciardo

10. Logan Sargeant

11. Mick Schumacher

12. Yuki Tsunoda

13. Sebastian Vettel

14. Zhou Guanyu

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/s/Ehv9dVR3M8

https://www.f1-fansite.com/f1-drivers/pierre-gasly-information-statistics/

How it works: Their positions in the F1 power rankings are given f1 style points. When multiple drivers score the same in the rankings (such as China with Kimi and Ollie), both drivers score the same points. The scores are gathered from this page.

The results aren't the same as the collective averages given by f1 themselves, since those values are determined by their value (7.2, 9.8, etc.), rather than points for their positions. These scores aren't my own.

And may I say it, disheartening.

I caught Baku 2024 on spanish DAZN the other day and what struck me the most, apart from how goofy looking those cars seem now with the big front endplates, is just how little we know about any given race now compared to those times.

When there was a yellow flag, they used to signal in what sector right there on the timing tower. Now they just put "yellow flag" and not even the commentators know where it is or what has happened. They also used to signal the green flag when the danger was over, now that's gone too.

We used to have the car intervals with 4 digits and constant updates. Now it's just 2 and the timing tower looks naked.

To add excitement, they used to note the number of laps remaining when there was a close fight or an exact number. For example, on that Baku race they signaled when there was 20 laps to the end, 15, 10, and 5. We don't have that anymore, I don't think. Silly thing, but I liked it.

And now on a personal note, it just looked better. The font was better and bigger (I understand they now have to fit 2 extra cars) and being in italics it gave the impression of, I dunno, speed.

Why has the F1 broadcast gone backwards? What's the logic in removing useful information instead of adding it? Is it that not even the pinnacle of motorsports can escape enshitification?

I wanted to see when is the race and I couldn't open anything in the app (btw this started happening when I updated the app)

Found this sorting through old family paperwork, no known racing history in my family.

Before this weekend, allow me to bring you back just a few years ago to the last time Kimi Antonelli was in a championship-clinching situation. Starting from P8, all he really needed was to outscore Martinius Stenshorne, who was right behind him in P9, by just two points to seal the 2023 FRECA title, but he went beyond that and put on a clinic. This was the drive that personally convinced me he was a future F1 world champion in the making.

A masterclass under changeable, mixed conditions carving his way up the field at the start and never looked back even with the red flag restart that neutralized the gap he was slowly building once he was out front.

“I first need to do my job in Mexico, but I think I’ll continue racing with number 12.”

"But I think that once I’ve finished, I’ll still compete with my number 12!"

Antonelli, a long-time Ayrton Senna fan, chose 12 partly because Senna raced with the number during his Lotus years in 1985 and 1986, before Formula 1 introduced permanent driver numbers.

Reminder he needs a P9 if Russel wins in Mexico and a P10 if Lewis win... if neither of them wins, he will be the World Champion

https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/en/formula-1/antonelli-to-keep-number-12-as-wolff-defends-russell,212732.html

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