It seemed like quite a few drivers were not improving anyways even without the yellows

“Keep moving the goalposts”? Mate this is my first comment in this comment chain. And it does make a difference to me personally if someone said something before a very public turnaround 5 years ago, or recently after this change

Spielberg turns into Suzuka with its own burning grass.
And lol the steward slowly dragging the extinguisher over there was a great Austrian stereotype haha

There are only three tenths between Bortoleto and Hulkenberg, but in that span is more than half of the field

When did he state this? Recently?

Hm, I’m not sure about that. There was a point in time where he was - even outside his videos - engaging with Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk. Echoing their philosophies and world views. The alt-right was using him and his platform to lure teenagers in. It’s possible that Felix did not even realize what was happening there. Or he was brainwashed himself for some time.

The important thing is that from 2019 onwards he clearly distanced himself from any of that.

He emphasized that for him living in Japan and mainly needing to use maps in order to navigate, the japanese car GPS is the best fit.

Which obviously is very different for people in a different situation.

Yeah I know some big german youtubers who years ago were like “we need to be more independent from youtube” and set up their own website. Every year the costs for hosting that would take out a huge cut of their earnings, so at the start of 2025 they finally gave up and said they couldnt pour even more money into that project as it simply wasnt profitable.

The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue

Absolutely true for the time the article was written (2017). He changed his ways after the Christchurch attacks which happened in 2019.

Sainz and Wolff dropping out after multiple national automobile clubs have already thrown their support behind Ben Sulayem. Looks like they know they wouldnt have a chance how it stands right now.

I hope at least the european clubs will vote against him. Hugely disappointing to see clubs from South America and other places support Sulayem.

So these are the guidelines that the stewards use when deciding on on-track incidents. I didnt even know that there are standardized guidelines like that.

Driver Academies are useful for other purposes as well. Binding juniors to yourself to at least have the leverage/managing relationship, controlling which competitor team in F1 or which other motorsports series they end up at. Aston benefits from having drivers for their WEC program for example.