Green Notebook from Hornerwald – joeblogsf1

Curiosity does not kill all cats. When interested in a topic, learning is something natural. So, the trick when you are at school is to discover how to be interested in any subject you need to know. You are there to learn to learn. I was one of those annoying children who knew things, because I was interested in questionnaire games. I guess Bag Brown was the same as won the Wheel of Fortune Game program when he was a teenager. I will have to ask you someday if you know the capital of Chad or the colonial name of Malawi … that usually separates the wheat from the straw!

I always fascinated the maps and spent many happy hours studying Atlas, imagining what it was like to take a boat for the Limpopo or wandering through the beach of eighty miles. He was an avid reader of National Geographic and his maps, which cause roads for my dreams.

I still like to know where I am and where I have been, even if I’m buzzing for heaven. Thus, my first reaction when I woke up on the plane home from China, after an indeterminate docure or an indeterminate duration, was to see where I was. With the wonders of modern communication, one can get a fairly decent connection with the Internet when flying and instead of following WhatsApp to see if an incompetent in the United States government had sent me secret plans about bombing Yemen, I took advantage of Google Earth’s tear and discovered that I was somewhere between Wolfshof and Sankt Leonhard Am Hornerwald.

Sometimes you cannot escape from F1 … The flight had been found through the southern part of the Black Sea and then followed basically followed the Danube, through Romania and the Moutines of Cárpatos to the plains of Hungary and in the low Austria. We were going to the German border near Passau.

I had a leg occupied in Shanghai. The plan, unusually, was to leave quickly. This is a habit that was developed years ago, due to China’s great firewall, which is designed to make communication with the outside world spread for those of China. It is a strange logic when you execute a Grand Prix to generate interest in your country, but it is. Around the last 21 years, I have lived some desperate moments in the Airport Lounge in Shanghai, trying to make electronic communications work, so that you can upload magazines and newsletters. An early game meant that in the worst case, one could present things from the Whicever airport, one bounced on the way home. The disadvantage of this plan is that Shanghai’s Sunday night’s planes are full of F1 people and, therefore, there is no possibility of an update, what is needed to be able to work comfortably.

This year I had learned a new trick to avoid the Great Firewall, so things looked good when I left the media center with my costume in tow, when darkness fell. I had a box or more blank pages in the magazine because photos had not arrived and at that point I had no text message, but the bus trip from the circuit, established by the organizers, toke about 90 minutes and I was also almost to avoid for the outdated ones. The report arrived and then some photos. But then the news came that Ferraris and Pierre Gasly had been disqualified, which means renewing all the children of things: results and championship points and then mixing text to include the changes.

As soon as I clarified immigration (or should I say emigration?) And the inevitable security tails, the battle continued. Everything was very hand to Boca, but the magazine was made and went up 10 minutes before he needed to board the plane. I arrived at the door on time.

Finishing the newsletter was complicated by the person in front of me pushing back (which I had the perfect right to do …), but while the world around me slept, I attacked awkwardly on the keyboard until I had things to a point where I felt I could handle it during all the strike in the doha, at which point I blocked, having gone during the 24 hours …

After that it was a simple navigation. It was just God. I had a glass of wine with breakfast, as a reward for my tribulations, I finished and archived the bulletin and headed directly to the exit door. After that, everything was a target until I arrived at Hornerwald.

The weekend talk had been largely on V10 engines and how they could bring back in 2026. This was complete poppycock. Obtaining any change in the engines before 2028 would require that everyone agrees and that was not going to happen. All who were finishing the story had different agendas. Some want to change the rules because their new engines are lousy or late. Some tried to pay power games. The rules of 2026 are obviously not great, but cannot simply change are during the night when you see what people have invested.

There is some logic in the search for changes given the way in which the automotive world in development, but what is really surprising is the idea that we must return to the last time used 20 years ago, which are rarely seen in the days of NAT and these days and these days and these days and these days and these days and these days and these days. V10 are inherently less stable than V8 and require external equilibrium axes to reduce vibrations. This adds weight, complexity and the more cylinders, the more friction there is, and more things can go wrong.

It is a silly idea, even allowing the fact that the engines used to be very strong and exciting. It is true that internal combustion engines that use sustainable fuels reach the same objective as very complex hybrids and expectations used today, but we must remember that F1 has new audiences with women and the England of women’s gyemia.

If we are going to make a trip through the memory lane, the sport should at least use V8, which have more relevance to the world, perhaps with a little hybrid as a fig tree for modern technology. That would allow smaller, lighter and more compatible cars, with a level of decent but not dumb.

Whatever the case, nothing will happen before 2028.

The disastrous weekend for Ferrari (after Lewis Hamilton’s victory at the Sprint event) was obviously a theme on Sunday night, but this seemed to be surpassed by Liam Lawson’s bad performances in the second Red Bull.

It is interesting to contrast the fortune of the new drivers in Red Bull and Mercedes. Red Bull seems to execute a transporter on a crushing device, while Mercedes Pampers and protects, Althegh makes his drivers understand that lack of delivery is not an option. Is the problem of Red Bull a matter of mentality, or is it that simply no one else can lead to the son of the car that Max likes? The point is that Max is not really an RB21 fan until now, but it still makes it fast. The team says that it develops their cars to go as quickly as possible and hopes that drivers can face and argues that it does not help the driver more than another. Or is it a matter of the team that chooses the wrong drivers? The Red Bull Young Driver program has cost a fortune over time, but has had much more failure than has succeeded. Only two of Red Bull’s youth have won F1 races for Red Bull Racing: Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo. Max Verstappen. He was not really a young Red Bull and joined only when the company was sacrificed by an impulse of F1 …, while Pierre Gasly won a race for Scuderia Alphatauri and Carlos Sainz won races for Ferrari. The other winners of the Red Bull race: Mark Webber and Sergio Pérez came from outside the Red Bull family.

We are currently waiting for the confirmation that Lawson will return to the races and Yuki Tsunoda will move to Red Bull Racing.

However, in Shanghai there were rumors that Red Bull has been sniffing Alpine’s reserve drivers. There are four of them and they are not making much exception to press Jack Doohan. It is involved that if Doohan hesitates, his place will be Franco Colapinto tasks, because he did a decent job in Williams last year, and because he is followed by some great sponsors. Red Bull showed some interest in signing Franco last year, but possible decided to go with Lawson.

The next young Red Bull is Arvid Lindblad, who has just begun in Formula 2. So Red Bull could soon take the inclination in Colapinto, although Williams likely has a voice in the future of the Argentine driver. Alpine also has Paul Aron in his books. He is a former Mercedes Young pilot who went well in Formula 2 last year, ending third in the championship behind Gabriel Bortoleto and Hadjar. He is clearly a good driver, but he has no money behind him and, therefore, would jump to any opportunity in F1.

He points out that the word in Shanghai was that Alpine will deliver about Hirakawa’s Toyota Protected to Harea after he made his FP1 season with Alpine in Suzuka.

F1 needs more Asian interest now than Guanyu Zhou (or vice versa) is in the reserve bank in Ferrari. Hopefully Tsunoda shines more and we have Alex Albon, of course, to run through Williams with a Thai license.

After Australia Stefano Domenicali addressed Thailand to meet with the prime minister to discuss a race in Bangkok in 2028, when there will be a space in the calendar. The discussion plan is for a semi -permanent installation, near the city center, which would be similar in style to Singapore and Albert Park. The project will be in the Chatuchak district, where the MO Chit 2 terminal bus terminal will be closed and bus traffic was relocated to Alse. This will leave a large space available. This is next to the highway if Rat, which passes on the top of the site in a high section of the road. On the other side of this is the Wachirabenchathat Park (one good for commentators), which is a large open space, including a lake. The combination of the renewed bus station and the park would be good, and the area is treated by trains and the subway, which is just what F1 is looking for, since F1 tries to minimize emissions. The word is that the event will be a night race, but we want to see how things are going.

In other places there were some promising numbers with respect to F1 in the United States with the Australian Grand Prix obtaining an impressive 1.1 million fans tune in, a 22 percent incentive in the figures last year. According to another report by Nielsen F1 media agency, it now has 52 million fans in the United States, 10 percent more compared to 2023, while the global sport monitoring is now 826.5 million, which has increased 90 million in 12 months. Everything is very promising.

Now there is a week at home and that a triple fast header, so we will have had five races in six weeks … busy, busy …