F1-2022 Round 5: Miami

It's the future of road transport. Hydrogen may be the future of heavy goods vehicles, the jury is still out, but electric vehicles are absolutely the future of personal transportation. Hybrid is a complete dead end in all cases and is just something being used to drag out fossil fuel dependence. Maybe synthetic low emission fuels have a future, which is something F1 and some car manufacturers are looking at, but that's a long way from being proven.

Racing however is not road transport. Electric is still problematic in terms of balancing weight against range at high speeds but it will get there eventually. The new FE cars look to be a big step up but still a long way off something like F1. In the meantime the most suitable technology for racing is what should be used for racing, and that is not the current low capacity low rpm engines that can only push in short bursts before needing to recover energy and that have to drag around heavy batteries and energy recovery systems that contribute to the need for conservative tyre management. The actual fuel used by the cars is a miniscule fraction of the fuel used to transport them around the world so if they could triple their fuel consumption without making a dent in the sport's carbon footprint.

Road relevance is all smoke and mirrors and marketing as nothing in F1 is truly road relevant, and nor should it be. It's like forcing footballers to start playing in dress shoes instead of studs to be more street relevant and to get marketing exposure for shoe manufacturers at the cost of the standard of the competition, then to spend hundreds of millions of dollars optimising those dress shoes to work on a pitch so they no longer have anything in common with actual shoes available on the high street, while still being less useful than basic studded boots.

This could get messy

Gen 3 Formula E will be interesting.

Poor baby LewLew

Have a feeling Merc might get a podium this weekend at the expense of some DNF's.

That Gainnbridge wall on exit is going to see a few drivers this weekend.

Ha. If Hamilton wears an earring, does that make it a Prince Albert?

Haha

Are you implying he's a d*ckhead??

The Miami race makes me feel like I want to play Grand Theft Auto Vice City again.

Such an odd hill to die on for Hamilton. Anyway, they’ve given him 2 races presumably because his argument is that it’s never been enforced.

Good performance so far by the Williams and nice to see Gasly find his rhythm a bit. Would expect some surprises and a few

yellow/red flags this weekend, I hope to god that Sainz has a trouble free top 5 for the sake of his sanity!

Spoke too soon!

Spoke too soon

Sainz in the wall. He's having a nightmare recently.