F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Had that happened in F1 the Internet would have imploded. August 2nd was a rainy day at Austria’s Red Bull Ring and DTM was having a race. Championship leader and Mercedes energizer bunny F1 test driver Pascal Wehrlein was having a bad day with several off-track excursions having relegated him to 8th on the track … Read more
Fat Hippo takes a look at the strategies of Mercedes and Ferrari and he’s not a Happy Hippo.
Brought to you by TJ13 Provocateur-In-Chief Fat Hippo Most drivers, at some point come to the conclusion that they have to change something in their career. And as with all decisions in life, things may work out or they go horribly wrong. In this little article and its follow-up, I want to present a few … Read more
Several times in recent weeks I’ve been dismayed with one of our team members regularly badmouthing DTM. This is, because DTM is everything that F1 isn’t. It faced the same problems, but instead of the gerontocracy that is F1, they actually solved them. All except the, what appears to be a border-line imbecile, octogenarian can … Read more
Ever since the Grand Prix of Japan, we’ve been inundated with the infernal #ForzaJules wave. I realize that many people will hate me for saying that, but then that’s not different from every other day anyway. I could say the ‘sky is blue’ and there’d be at least three regular commenters coming in slamming me … Read more
Over the last few seasons Mercedes started to poach personnel from other teams. Nobody was safe and using conservative estimates the team now employs more designers than other teams have employed in their whole history. This is in part because apparently most things are done by committee in Brackley and partly following the old tried … Read more
The gavel wielding one and myself often find ourselves in disagreement over the team that has won the last four world championships. In his view they are the devil incarnate with the only goal of wrecking the career of his bromantic love interest from down under. As a result news about them authored by the … Read more
Speculating about the Red Bull Miracle It’s your decision – either Red Bull staged the biggest comeback since Lazarus or they are blatant cheats. The answer to that will be a good indicator of peoples level of pain in the rear end. Well it will certainly be more accurate than the FIA’s shambolic fuel flow … Read more
A couple days ago, Jennie entertained us all with her fantastic description of how she went from shaking her head about the gaming habit of the male part of the family to becoming a keen racer. The lively debate that followed revealed that we seem to have quite a selection of armchair racers among the … Read more
I’ve been working in the IT business since the mid-nineties and a recurring problem in recent years has been that even magna cum laude university graduates don’t know how to program properly anymore. The reason for that is – they aren’t being taught and the days, when hardcore Nerds like the Hippopotamus Corporosus were foreswearing … Read more
