F1 Commission Meeting headlines:

– Sprint race activities to be further split from a grand prix
– Tyre blanket ban for 2025 scrapped
– No work on 2026 cars before 2025
– Scoop for driver cooling to be permitted in the regs
– Wet weather wheel cover test set for spring 2024#F1

— Chris Medland (@ChrisMedlandF1) November 24, 2023

No work on 2026 cars before 2025

Wonder how they will enforce that….

Wonder how they will enforce that….

My thoughts too.

The powertrains are already being worked on and these are integral to the chassis. The basics of the 2026 chassis at least will need to be worked on.

Sprint race activities to be further split from a grand prix

As far as I am concerned they can split them so far that sprints are on different weekends with different drivers driving different cars on different circuits.

McLaren signed up with Mercedes power trains until 2030.

McLaren signed up with Mercedes power trains until 2030.

Andretti must be relieved, one less team trying to poach his GM engines.

Fred Vasseur being interviewed on Sky just now,

‘Can you give us an insight into what next years car will be like?’

‘It will be red…’

Is this the first last race of a season when it’s no-ones last race?

All the drives seem settled for next season with only small doubts over Logan and Sergio.

Charles was too kind there – get yer elbows out!

omg what are Ferrari strategists doing with Sainz?

They obviously want the extra aero time for finishing third in championship!

Perez really is a tosser isn’t he. Well suited to Red Bull.

The reliability issue needs sorting for me – we are last race of the season – there should be gearboxes and engines blowing up everywhere!! 🤣🤣

10mill or extra wind tunnel time for Ferrari.

Ferrari don’t need the money! 🤣

Pleased to see Williams hang on to 7th – they really do need the money!

Haas and Alfa don’t deserves more and it wouldn’t have been fair to be beaten by Alpha Tauri with their new main team upgrades.

Well that’s the end of that then, the most dominated season in my memory

Mansells 1992 title was rather one-sided. Championship all wrapped in Hungary with five races (of 16 race season) to go.

Mercedes finish ahead of Ferrari, despite having a worse car?.

Double post

Mercedes finish ahead of Ferrari, despite having a worse car?.

But better strategy & operational procedures

Interesting post from @F1DataAnalysis on the site formally known as Twitter:

This season had 50 overtakes per race on average: the 4th highest value since 1984!
Would have been 44 without Zandvoort (186 overtakes, the all-time record!)

Ground effect helped

2011 (when DRS was introduced) has the record: 66 overtakes/race
Made via @JMP_software #YesJMPcan pic.twitter.com/QopXKYnVdH

— Formula Data Analysis (@FDataAnalysis) November 29, 2023

Overtakes is the wrong word

Change in position via more than likely as there hasnt been an average of 50 wheel-to-wheel overtakes this season.

DRS is a piss poor replacement for real racing 👎

Without DRS there won’t be any ‘real racing’ what you get is a procession. It’s effect is too large on some circuits for sure, but without some sort of aid, its woefully dull.

It’s become pretty dull anyway , I only watch the 8min highlights on YouTube now 🤷‍♂️

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It’s become pretty dull anyway , I only watch the 8min highlights on YouTube now

I can’t get on with those highlights myself, you don’t get any of the strategy or watching people closing down the gap to the car in front etc so it’s just like a series of random events happening.
Sky sometimes upload a 30 min highlights to their YouTube channel which is decent