Interesting (if very US biased) take on F1s popularity since Liberty's take over

https://huddleup.substack.com/p/how-for ... ds-fastest

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But I do think Formula 1’s Las Vegas approach is interesting. For those that don’t already know, F1 is an extremely asset-light business. They don’t own the cars, teams, or race tracks, and venues simply pay them a fee ($40M+) to host a race each year.

But the sport is taking a different approach in Las Vegas. Formula 1 will run that event themselves rather than just renting out their valuable audience and IP to an event organizer. And my guess is that if that goes well, Liberty Media will realize how much more money they can make and do it more often in the future.

Probably the one offer in F1 that has more than 0% chance of tempting Lewis these days.

This was an interesting take away from it

Are they going to be starting from the Honda engine Red Bull finishes the season with in 2025? Or is that essentially a Red Bull engine Honda has had some consulting exposure to, and Honda's essentially starting from scratch in 2026?

Have Red Bull announced their engine supplier yet? Can´t remember. Will they keep Honda as well, or change.

His junior record is actually pretty good, even if he was bought all the best rides. I thought that he could have benefitted from a season or two in F2, before jumping into an F1 car. Because of this, he may have needed two or three seasons to get to grips with F1, but seven years on and there hasn't been much improvement.

He can be fast on occasion, but I don't think I've ever seen a driver with such poor spacial awareness. He seems to have an accident or near miss every season where he turns across other cars as if there's no one there. Luckily nothing as big as his junior formula crashes, so far.

Well given new engine regs are coming in in 2026, I'd imagine it's fairly from scratch

FOM is going to produce Monaco for the first time

I'd love to watch the Tifosi go from demonising him at every turn to "I knew he was talentened and secretly respected him all along" if he did do that

I can't ever see him leaving Mercedes, but then I could never see him leaving Mclaren, so what do I know?

If I was him, I'd do it, Merc isn't ever getting back to where it was within the lifespan of his remaining career, and why not drag a Ferrari forward with a few heroic performances and cement his reputation once and for all (not that it needs it, but the romance of Ferrari is a power thing, even over the usual underperformance of its cars)

When you make up bullshit all the time, eventually something will actually be true and then you can claim you brought the story first.

Norris will go to Aston Martin in 2026. I made it up, but if it turns out to be true, you read it here first!