Fred Smith

Yeah the Mercedes is the one

Arvid Lindblad sounds extremely 15 years old on the radio

cool and informative new graphic

"Deploy" is blue while in contrast "Recharge" is blue

It would also be nice and good if he kept it out of the wall from here and just did it the normal way

I think it would be very fitting for Kimi Antonelli if he somehow wrecks twice on the same day on the way to his first career win

I fully endorse this. I also endorse making an all pro LMP2 ELMS class where you have to stock one Theo Pourchaire type per car.

When the Persians rolled up at Marathon:

Well that’s fun at least

I don’t think either winning an F2 title or getting an F1 seat have much to do with being a good overall racing driver, but I do think that anyone who does both is very likely to be an awesome one.

(Not that this version isn’t fun in its own dumb way, of course)

F2 with an Xfinity Series like class of random race winning adults that never go away would be a very fun series. Too bad it’s a garbage factory for supremely talented and/or rich children instead!

That being said, Herta’s first F2 weekend had been alarming so far in all the same ways Miyata’s F2 career has been. I think this says very little about both IndyCar and Super Formula. I also think both drivers, knowing their OEMs probably don’t care at all, probably aren’t worried about it.

Is F2 simply better than IndyCar? No of course not lmao it’s F2 you guys have seen an F2 race right

This is a moot point because I doubt this is particularly true between two F2 cars, but still important to note.

The Super Formula car is also famously very different. Lawson says it’s more like the F1 car than the F2 car. He also told me in an interview that he thought Miyata struggled in F2 in part because it’s such a step back from the Super Formula car.

The same IndyCar engine/chassis package has changed radically three times. That’s why Fernando Alonso gave up on it, he liked racing the current aero spec without the screen but hated it with it.

This is extremely not true

Although I’ve heard the same on the jump from the last F2 car to IndyCar from Fittipaldi and Pourchaire too. Could easily still be true if this one, I just don’t know of anyone else who’s been in both yet.

Different F2 cars

And as far as I can tell, Herta got that 27 Cadillac seat on a Sauber sim four or five years ago. It’s part of why I think Bearman looked so bad: why would he bother fighting every week in F2 when he knew his future was proving himself to Ferrari in the Haas, a more complicated and daunting task?

Sure, but that’s the entire list of recent promising F1 drivers who got seats by looking fantastic in F2. It’s just that one season’s champion and runner-up. Leclerc and Piastri also killed it, but they also won in everything else on the way up and proved themselves to be elite well before F2.

I still think Miyata is better than most of these guys and he’s lost in year three.

There’s also a reason they usually take rookies who finish sixth though. It’s not that F2 results matter, it’s that F1 teams have to put their entire academy in F2 every year.

The World Baseball Classic rules because I get to see some terrified guy walk in runs until he gets to the top of the order of an all star team

Mick Schumacher in IndyCar while Colton Herta is in F2 feels like a foreign exchange student program

It sure looks like Mercedes pole, Ferrari leading into 1 to me

Ow

I would like for the least and most British person on the British World Baseball Classic team to meet in front of a camera and discuss British things

The British WBC team is starting a guy named Gary Gill Hill. First name Gary, last name Gill Hill.

Every single IndyCar qualifying session should be single car with Alex Palou going last