I wish the yellow Ferrari was the main picture in this article, so we can filter it easily among all the hundreds of F1 articles on the website.

Indeed. Doesn't sit well with me either. Especially when the "news" is as controlled as it is these days and pushed by tabloids. It's all hearsay at this point.

same here for some reason; when I saw the thumbnail I was reminded of this

Maybe Plan D is being activated. Plan 'Don't know'

People can do whatever they want. But it's nice to show some class, whatever that means these days. We could at least try.

“We are checking…”

I tend to agree, it's not just to protect the accused, but even more so the others the accused holds power over.

You can't have someone that thinks it's okay to be sexually harassing people as an "aggressive" management technique (wherever the AP got that tidbit from who knows) continuing to hold power over people, "business as usual" as he puts it, especially in this industry where people are there because they love it, will do anything to be there and stay there.

All allegations should be treated seriously, and allowing an alleged perpetrator of harassment to continue their day-to-day holding power over hundreds of people isn't really doing so.

Sure it's not really fair, and leaders of other less public businesses wouldn't necessarily have to deal with this media-circus… But this is all part of F1.

If there was no substance to the allegations, the investigation would have concluded by now.

There's a list of articles on the front page, nobody is forcing anyone to engage with the topics they aren't interested in.

Everyone in this comment thread virtue-signalling about how we should just be waiting, not commenting, or even paying any attention to the story are still here, commenting, adding to the engagement, and prompting further promotion of the material.

When you're running any kind of story you're going to look at the trends and what people are interested in, it's as simple as that.

Implying this site has somehow lost its journalistic integrity and becoming "tabloid-like" is laughable, these are official statements from people close to the issue, not some random comment from far removed personality.

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I'm not going to ask…

Thanks. I was thinking of following up by suggesting Monaco as the season opener (put it out to pasture) and the Indy 500 as the mid-season pleaser. Perhaps not representative test tracks for F1, but it might mean nobody would be sandbagging as these races mean a lot on their own. Monaco does have some allure as a qualifying event before the mobile billboard parade begins, and it wouldn't fully reveal overall race pace. It was supposed to be a joke, but it might shake things up a bit, particularly since F1 drivers and cars would be hopeless at Indy. In exchange, Indycar can have Jeddah - plenty of walls to crash into and bring out the safety car. They could advertise it as: "Here comes The Big One!".

A more serious suggestion would be that the non-championship events could rotate. The first should be spectacular in some way, or have some real heritage (like if it were possible to bring F1 back to Watkin's Glen - which might be more acceptable in an exclusive, expensive, lower-crowd setting). The second one could be a carnival just before the season break. Hopefully it would allow the smaller teams to do some real testing while drumming up a bit of business.

There's been a circus around F1 for a long time. I don't know that there's anything about the newer money that's less classy than the old of somewhere like Monaco (I wouldn't consider any of it classy!). Perhaps the inauthenticity of the tracks? A good track is a good track, though, and I think earlier Spa layouts were nowhere near as good as the one from the 80s and 90s (largely the same as the current one). If someone can build a cool circuit out of nothing in the desert, then good for them. A lot of the tracks were built from nothing at some stage and have just been around for ages. The initial appeal might have been the location itself (Monza and Italy is more attractive than some desert!).

A rival series would be interesting. There might not be the money for it given the dominance of F1, but it would be good to see something that's genuinely interested in performance and less restrictive in its formula. I liked when you could have all sorts of engines competing against each other. If we could see modern hybrids or other exotic drivetrains beating V10s and V12s then it might even drum up more enthusiasm for newer technologies than if you just have to use them. Not that the newer exotics would necessarily win. I'd love to see what would happen. For now, there's racing a 1986, 2004 and 2023 F1 car against each other at Indianapolis in Assetto Corsa.

You're probably right about the difficulty in keeping the championship close over more races. I'm not sure what an acceptable level of nudging would be, but it would be no harm for certain things to be encouraged, like a top driver in any team that has both Verstappen and the best car. I'd expect that Max could still win in a slightly deficient car, but I can't see a fair way of encouraging that. Still, it could happen this year. Here's hoping!