Formula Curious

Hello!

This is a reading from an older article from 2024; https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/austria-is-not-australia?r=2kp71p

There's been some chat around the F1 world lately, so I want to gather some of it up, and then dissect it for your listening pleasure. There's driver chat, team principal politics, FIA presidency chat, and Lego cars. Oh, and the McLaren tyre water!

Suggested viewing: https://youtu.be/pdxiNBwxYxU (it's the Lego car race from their GoPros)

This was originally published as a paywalled article in September 2024. I’m unpaywalling it now because a lot of what I’m talking about here is still valid.

At the time the team was going through a performance slump. The team kind of still is going through a performance slump, except now they’ve figured out the PR spin.

You can view the article, i.e transcript, here

Background image from Jiawei Zhao via Unsplash.

Hi, I discovered a poem and wanted to share it. It isn’t a Formula 1 poem, but there’s an overlap.

Disclaimer: in the recording I imply the FIA were being racist; I don’t know whether they were or not. A better way of phrasing this is to say they were “potentially being racist.”

With that being said, there’s no prizes for guessing Lewis Hamilton is discussed in this episode.

Hello! Here's a podcast because I'm cool.

I recorded this on the Monday after the Singapore Grand Prix, before we knew that Danny Ric had lost his seat.

I asked Chat GPT a question about Daniel Ricciardo and discussed the answers with myself, like a totally normal person.

Articles I talk about:

The Checo situation: https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/checo-oh-checo

Daniel Ricciardo and the promotion that wasn’t: https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/daniel-ricciardo-and-the-promotion

The Red Bull merry-go-round: https://medium.com/@formulacurious/the-red-bull-racing-merry-go-round-494851497583

Semi related: Do you need help unburdening yourself from someone else's baggage? Here's somewhere you can start looking for a therapist.

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/ (UK site)

https://www.psychologytoday.com (US link, but has local sites for different countries)

Thanks for listening!

If you like this kind of content, please tell me so I can feel smug for a moment, and tell a friend. I would like to dance for more eyeballs, please.

Take care of yourselves!