Dan Wright

"...light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever my trans am chooses..."

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@TraffordArchive Number two is Altrincham!

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@CricketopiaCom @bbctms @YorkshireCCC @FredBoycott Wish I could've heard him on TMS back in the day...!

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Q1 2026 G7:

🇬🇧 0.6%
🇺🇸 0.5%
🇨🇦 0.4%
🇩🇪 0.3%
🇮🇹 0.2%
🇫🇷 0%

🇯🇵 (not yet reported but estimates are 0.4%)

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Books & bed

[Booktasters @BookTasters]

Now THAT is the perfect Christmas tree

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@TheBishF1 @Motor_Sport Okay, I had to look it up... 🙈 The first grand prix after my birth was the 1987 San Marino grand prix. Nige won - in a Williams. Yay! 😀

[Valtteri Bottas @ValtteriBottas]

Cricket was bloody good 🏏

[Motorsport @Motorsport]

Sir Jackie Stewart called for another British champion back at the 2013 Autosport Awards.

Lando Norris delivered. Full-circle moment. 🏆🇬🇧

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

She's very good!

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

🇧🇷 Interlagos never just hosts a race; it runs an experiment on who’s paying attention.

🛞 Dry Strategy Core
The last one-stop at São Paulo was back in 2018, when degradation sat below the crossover
→ 0.04 s/lap (Super Soft) | 0.02 s/lap (Soft).
Since then, deg has lived above 0.05 s/lap, locking the field into two-stop territory.
The Soft-Medium-Soft rhythm still rules because track position fades fast; you win by pushing, not by protecting.
If this year’s lower-deg trend holds, we could see teams test that boundary again — especially with the harder C2/C3/C4 range.

🌧 When It Rains
The Intermediate clears around 3 mm of water before aquaplaning margins vanish.
The Extreme Wet can be 4–5 s/lap quicker, but São Paulo’s drainage (especially at T3) and constant interruptions rarely let it run for long.
In 2024, Red Bull and Alpine timed it perfectly — staying out through the VSC, catching the red-flag window, and flipping the race.

🏆 Where Championships Pivot
Interlagos is only 4.309 km long with 44 m of elevation, yet it’s where championships bend.
It crowned Hamilton 2008, saved Vettel 2012, and sealed Verstappen 2024.
Strategy, timing and weather decide more here than raw pace ever can.

🎥Full São Paulo GP Strategy Briefing now live on YT — exploring how tyre degradation, harder compounds and unpredictable weather keep rewriting F1’s story in Brazil.

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[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@GPLapsJake What an amazing photo. Thanks for sharing!

Old Monaco, with old cars, was amazing. Modern Monaco, with modern cars, is pointless.

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

That made me laugh 😂

[Zack Morrison @ZackMorrison18]

White smoke over the New Jersey turnpike means Jeremy Allen White has officially been elected the new Bruce Springsteen.

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

What an explanation this is 👀

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

Mexico GP Strategy Briefing 🇲🇽🌮

2,285 metres above sea level.
830 metres to Turn 1.
20 % less air. 10 % less power.
And this weekend, cooling isn’t just a setup line: it’s survival.
Teams have arrived in Mexico with new louvres, chimney exits, and Red Bull’s cooling and even a floor upgrade to fight altitude heat soak.

The FP2 data tells the story:
📊 Average long-run pace ≈ 1:22.6 – 1:23.3.
🔴 McLaren tested the C5 Soft on high fuel — Norris & Piastri within 0.07 s per lap.
🟡 Ferrari & Red Bull on C4 Mediums, steadier but sliding — Max radioed about “too much rear slip.”

That’s your tyre landscape:
➡️ Soft–Medium: launch advantage, manage early.
➡️ Medium–Soft: control first, attack late.
➡️ Medium–Hard: consistency and safety net.
Pit loss ≈ 22 s, but ≈ 12 s under VSC, and those are common here.
Overcut works in free air; undercut still bites if you’re in traffic.
It’s not just about tyre life: it’s about threshold management, and how robust your start compound is against the unknowns.

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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Bruce Springsteen: “Outside, all hell is breaking loose in the United States. For 250 years around the world, despite all the faults that we’ve had, the United States is a beacon of liberty and democracy and hope and freedom. Despite how terribly damaged America has been recently, that country and those ideals remain worth fighting for. No kings.”

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@Joe_Roberts @springsteen Appropriate!

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@rachel_berc I hope you're doing okay, Rach.

I have my ticket for this afternoon!

[julia @victorrvaIe]

Sometimes I wish I was Bruce Springsteen. That man's never seen an excel spreadsheet in his entire life

[Dan Wright @Trans_Am_Dan]

@victorrvaIe That made me laugh

[Carl 📷 @carl_thompson70]

Violet Carson, a Mancunian actress who became a national treasure playing Ena Sharples in Coronation Street, taking in the views of Manchester from a block of flats.
Moss Side forms the backdrop to this iconic image.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

The Boss > The “King”