I knew a girl once that said, "I've never been in the Army but the Army has been in me".

But I don't think that is the same thing. :)

Partly the same thing as I was bent over by one of them and felt a bit dirty afterwards ;)

Good to know, but did you have on see thru white pants with an ass tattoo that could be seen thru the pants? IIRC, the tattoo said "Property of US Army"

BTW, this was in court. No joke.

You could do 'property of RBR' or which ever

So, what exactly did you do for Honda?

Congrats on a winning year, Captain!

On my trip to COTA for the US F1 race, I met a gentlemen who worked for Honda. In my good fortune he ended up sitting in the same row. I did not want to be a geek so I did not pester him with many questions. I did not find out what he did. I also saw him at the Austin airport for the trip back. I congratulated him for a successful race. He watched the race from Grandstand 12, the same one we were in.

Ross Brawn, Formula 1’s managing director of motorsports, has revealed they will stop team principals from being able to speak to the race director during Grands Prix next season.

https://www.nytimespost.com/f1-team-principals-will-not-be-able-to-speak-to-the-race-director-next-season/

good rule change

Reg, she sounds like a classy lady :(

Javadog, I'm only a senior design engineer/technical expert/consultant working within Honda F1. Or a small squeaky cog in a big machine ;)

Paul, thanks, been a long time in the making, COTA is one race I'd love to do, Honda has 10's of 1000's of 'associates' so he could be from any part of the business, did he mention it was Honda F1 or just Honda?

Don’t you generally do composite parts? That seems to be more of a chassis thing, than an engine thing. What bits did you design for Honda?

A story from a friend is that my buddy is an engineer, and attended some conference. At dinner one evening he sat down and at the table and everyone introduced themselves. Two of the men said the were in engine design at Honda. They did not know each other. Everyone assumed Honda cars. Come to find out, one was working on the Honda Jet, and the other in the Honda motorcycle division.

Two things on Social Media this morning. I found an article that sums up both:

Toto and Hamilton will not attend the end of year trophy shindig.

Reports that Hamilton may retire and hinted such on Sunday.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/hamilton-retirement-wolff-f1-mercedes-25715211

I gotta ask; what is up with the sweat rag? OCD??

Captain, are you referring to what I had said?

As predicted by almost everyone, Mercedes withdrew their appeal... shocking, I know... Almost every appeal in F1 is withdrawn.

I think they had a good case but I also think that the public wouldn’t take kindly to them if they won.

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

I don’t like Lewis or Max, and I am damned tired of Mercedes domination, but I think Lewis got screwed.

I wonder how much if any input the F1 race engine shops have with their namesake company? I assume Ferrari is pretty tight with their street car factory simply because their street cars are so close to race cars, but does Honda really work with the F1 engine department or is it run like a completely different company?

Or does Mercedes have much to do with Ilmor building their F1 engines or do they just right the checks?

Most F1 engine shops are separate to the road car engine shops but the F1 shops will use more of the road car engines shops facilities ie manufacturing, inspection, etc than visa versa

Honda F1 engine designers and engineers are often seconded form the road car side of the business and after they have experienced F1's accelerated learning (school of hard knocks :D) they go back to using this knowledge improving the road car engines or chassis

For many years my Ferrari day started with a walk through the engine shop, great way to start a day, loved the oily smell but clinically clean workshop. This was a separate engine shop inside the F1 factory to the road cars but F1 would use some of the road car engine production facilitates

Mercedes don't write Ilmor checks they have a a big F1 engine shop that does everything, located a few miles from the F1 chassis factory

Redbull are building a huge F1 engine factory right next door to the F1 chassis factory, this won't come on line fully until way into next year

A F1 engine shop is not really a 'shop' as such but an engine factory that does everything ie design, stress analysis, simulation, manufacturing, machining, assembly, dimensional inspection, non-destructive testing, metallurgy inspection, dyno testing, durability testing, failure analysis etc, etc Some more specialised manufacturing processes such casting, metal treatments etc maybe done outside with suppliers

Big F1 teams like Ferrari and Mercedes have around 2000 people working on their F1 teams, that's not enough people as they also use numerous outside manufacturing suppliers

These are a bit brutal.

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I though Knights were supposed to be noble and exhibit qualities that are above others?

give back to Max for the first lap schmozal

Excerpts from an hour with Wolff:

https://formularapida.net/wolff-talks-of-dropping-appeal-court-case-disbelief-of-race-masi-more/