grumpy barmaid, InsideEVs podcaster, F1 columnist at Metro, car journalist, science-y stuff 🏎 bylines: ESPN, Road&Track, RaceFans, etc; 🏳️🌈 she/them gay 🌸
Apr 7, 2021 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
Remind me to do a thread of why you should like all the FE drivers tomorrow (you should like them all, they are dead good)
Right then. In current championship order, which means short ones to the front.
Nyck de Vries: a man so polite he got himself a penalty in Berlin for putting his broken car away. 2019 F2 champion, factory Mercedes driver, race winner in Diriyah with a clean sweep & title leader
Apr 1, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Tbh, find it really upsetting, in a fight-or-flight, jaw clenched way, to see energy that could be used to ask for changes, for the FIA and FOM to take clear lines about predation, exploitation in paddocks or by people in them, going on Mazespin memes.
The guy isn't going to be fired or go away. Neither is the widespread problem, unless actual things happen to address it. This could be done, most of them aren't even difficult - especially at currently closed events.
Was going to do that '1 like = 1 F1 opinion' but that seemed a bit off brand, so:
For every like this tweet gets I will tweet about a weird electric vehicle
Ok, so, you've heard of that one South African guy who makes electric cars but you probably haven't heard of the Optimal Energy Joule, a Cape Town project that never went to commercial production. Designed by the guy who did the F-Type, it collapsed as a project in 2012:
