Munkisquisher

May it burn for 9 days like the last one

Moscow is the one that needs to be putting serious introspection and effort into normalising anything.

No, the teams must design most of the car themselves. They are allowed to buy the engine, gearbox and some suspension parts from other teams. But all the aero parts and chassis must be designed in house. The FIA have access to their computer systems and factories to police this and the cost cap. The teams being constructors is a key feature of F1. Red Bull's second team RB is based in Italy, while the top team is in the UK.

And no they don't put all the money into one car, they tend to be the same car for both drivers in a team unless they are testing one upgrade idea against another. There is a a cost cap and testing cap, which limits how much they can throw at brute forcing the optimal car.

The teams make everything about the car except the tyres and some of the electronics. This makes it a constructors championship as much as a drivers one. It's amazing that all 10 teams get within a few percent of each other in absolute pace when they all get there by different ideas. For cost cap reasons, Limited amount of on track, wind tunnel and computational simulation time makes it hard to totally catch up if you make the wrong decisions before the season starts.

So the teams that hire and retain the best engineering talent, and have the best management structure to let them work effectively, tend to get the fastest car. It's a human and technology optimisation equation.

The bonkers thing is that with this announcement it means either the ozzy driver Riccardo will be promoted into the fastest car next year, or be out of the sport all together.

Red bull have 2 teams, 4 drivers. Their top driver Max is the world champ, his team mate is finishing at the bottom of the top 10 in the best car. It's hard for anyone to live upto max but he's been really under performing. Lawson had a couple of solid races last year as a reserve driver. Everyone expected them to dump Max's team mate during the mid season break and bring up a driver from their second team. They've stuck by him and the assumption is that it's to keep interest in his home race in Mexico coming up.

So the drama is that they have to dump someone to bring Lawson in, and they've had so many chances to dump the under performing one. The Japanese and Ozzy driver in the lower team are both great.

If they don't give Lawson a drive next year his junior driver contract says he's free to go elsewhere. But F1 is littered with great drivers who don't get a chance for commercial reasons, and crappy drivers who hang around also for commercial reasons.

Oil depots are so hot right now

Did, they got rid of that bit of leverage by tying into Romania and the EU grid

Do you not get a user-agent like tag in the lemmy logs which tells you who's connecting with which client?

Sunrise on Monday in Welly

It's still funny