Following the accident involving Oliver Bearman at the Japanese Grand Prix and the contribution of high closing speeds in the accident, the FIA would like to provide the following clarifications.
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🚨 | JUST IN: Ferrari is working on engine upgrades to close the gap to Mercedes’ power unit advantage.
Engineers in Maranello are reportedly focused on stabilising their compression ratio at a level above 16:0.1.
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🚨 | Lewis Hamilton: “I’ve been with Mercedes for a long time so I know how it works there.”
“In qualifying they have another mode that they can go to, a bit like Party Mode back in the day. Once they go to Q2 they switch that on.”
🚨Jeremy Clarkson has criticized Starmer’s position on the conflict in Iran:
In his latest column, titled "Keir is Bit Two Stupid", Mr Clarkson mused: "If you are fortunate enough to be a two-car family, then you will know that you should never book your car, and your wife's car, in for a service on the same day. Because then you'd have no car.
"Sadly, it seems Sir Starmer doesn't understand this simple concept," he mocked.
Mr Clarkson then criticised Mr Starmer's position on the conflict. "He's making all sorts of anti-war noises at the moment, saying that Britain wants no part of the campaign in Iran," he penned.
"But the truth of the matter is that he can’t get involved. Because both of our aircraft carriers are currently being serviced.
"The Queen Elizabeth is in a dock in Rosyth being refitted, and the Prince of Wales is in Portsmouth, having maintenance work done.
"So well done, Starmer," Mr Clarkson sarcastically put in The Sun. "We paid a fortune to have those carriers built, and when we actually need them, they’re both at the menders."
"And all we've been able to supply is a boat which should be on station in a week or two, providing none of the oars break," he dryly signed off.
🚨| EXCLUSIVE: FERRARI IS GETTING AGGRESSIVE
3 specs of the "Macarena Wing" are already en route to China 🇨🇳
FIA-validated and race-ready.
This is what winning mentality looks like. Ferrari aren't here for podiums. They are here to win.
The race played out exactly as expected. And we really need a fast reaction from the FIA and FOM.
The drivers can’t race in these cars, it’s nothing more than position swaps through battery dumps that then get reversed back to how it was unless a driver does an aggressive barge into the other guy. They’re too energy starved for the drivers to do anything but listen to their battery management engineer on where to lift or brake earlier to try and scour a tad more energy to use the overtake button.
George struggled to get past a 7-8 tenths per lap slower Ferrari, and needed a pit stop sequence. In the best car with the best PU by a mile. That’s where we are at.
I don’t recall a single non-lap-1 true racing move overtake - swapping spots temporarily via battery until the battery also swaps you back is not an “overtake”, and it’s certainly not racing. I’ll have to scour some highlights.
Needless to say, it’s what we thought it would be.