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F1 Extra: Is a McLaren collision inevitable?
🕑 Added 2025-08-09 13:00:12 +0000 UTCJoin Edd Straw and Glenn Freeman as they tackle another batch of your questions, starting with the thorny topic of whether a collision between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri is inevitable as the season approaches its climax.
There are also questions on whether the Hungaroring is a better circuit than Spa, what we make of back-to-back DRS zones, whether Edd feel vindicated by Borteleto's current run of form, and how F1's current era will be remembered in the future...
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Xepha
Ok final thing given the comments about nostalgia: I really think what we need mostly is to go to a more open formula that itself doesn’t change much. Then technology and engineering change what F1 cars are, and all we legislate are certain safety and raceabulity features like empirical limits on wake, length width and height restrictions, and of course crash tests. The really narrow features based rules sets are historical and associated with cost reduction, but we have a cost cap now so they’re just holding the sport back.
Xepha
Another new fan comment: the idea of time penalties in a sport where time only matters in so far as it changes finishing order is funny to me. I think all penalties should be race position penalties. The driver can give the place(es) up on track or they get assessed as a mod to the finishing order at the end. This makes something like moving under braking a nonstarter even if it’s only a one place penalty.
Miles F
Bring back pre-qualifying!
Tristan Wonfor
I just don't get the fuss about it, these engines are such masterpieces of engineering, a technology based sport going back to engines we had 50 years ago is so backwards. I would love them to just say you can use x amount of joules over a race distance, go crazy
Richard Lehoux
I definitely remember driver and people were complaining about turbo in the 80’s. So much lag and unappealing sound from does tiny engine…
