I wish I could be half the interviewer that Roddick is - this is great.
29.07.2025 15:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jakeybl.bsky.social
F1 Writer at Autosport. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
I wish I could be half the interviewer that Roddick is - this is great.
29.07.2025 15:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We've been discussing our favourite F1 seasons on our Retro podcast.
Here's mine; you can listen to it during a variety of different situations:
- In the car
- While doing the washing up
- Walking the dog
- Audio testing at Glastonbury
- Funerals
- and more!
audioboom.com/posts/873749...
Thank you! I'd certainly love to in the future, time-permitting - it would take months to do
20.06.2025 11:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I believe in a fair and transparent system for teams to lodge protests against genuine wrongdoing, illegalities, and everything that fails to uphold F1's integrity.
I do not believe in teams cynically attempting to change results based purely on conjecture.
Done a bit on Red Bull's Montreal appeal. As you can probably tell, it wound me up a bit: www.autosport.com/f1/news/red-...
17.06.2025 18:24 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0PSG cinq, Inter sank #UCLFinal
31.05.2025 20:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It would be amusing if the hotel brand became increasingly budget each time it changed hands...
"Out of Mirabeau, and down into Ibis Styles we go..."
I feel like my default is Loews - you can definitely identify fans of a certain vintage by what they call the hairpin...
25.05.2025 10:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I might be overthinking this but I genuinely don't know how to refer to Monaco's hairpin in copy. I think we need an arbitration board to decide if it's Station, Loews, Fairmont, Grand Hotel, Leclerc Corner, or Tighty Lefty Roundy-Round.
#MonacoGP
Crunched the numbers from #ImolaGP practice. Feel free to read it right now. Or whenever's convenient for you...maybe next year?
www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...
I swear I can spell my employer's name, autocorrect adding the extra "s" I've forgotten in the rare scenario I've written about United Autosports
09.05.2025 14:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm hoping there's some in a local WHSmith (or whatever it's going by now) - if you find a few copies, please do feel free to shuffle them to the front!
09.05.2025 14:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Penned this week's Autosports cover feature on the situation at Red Bull - the SchrΓΆdinger's title contender this season.
Pop down to your local papyrus merchant and trade a few mere gold coins for the latest edition β¬οΈ
#F1
Verstappen was over a tenth down on his previous best in the opening seven corners of his #MiamiGP pole lap.
Wanna know how he recovered to do the job, and where Lando Norris just missed out? This might help:
www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-...
"See the boy, five dollars - or call him 24 hours a day on KimiChat"
29.04.2025 13:11 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Honestly believe Red Bull has a much better car than it says it does - but it's making Verstappen work harder to reach the extremities of its performance level.
Here's a bit on that:
www.autosport.com/f1/news/prob...
And further analysis - there was plenty of lower-drag updates for Jeddah as teams chased aero efficiency. Here's what's up: www.autosport.com/f1/news/anal...
18.04.2025 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No real long runs to go on after the #SaudiArabianGP red flag in FP2, but there's a few things we can read into it:
www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...
Nightmarish - and the amount of faffing! 15 minutes later out of Haneda purely because a woman couldn't find space for the FOUR bags she brought on board...
08.04.2025 07:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Grumpy opinion: I genuinely believe people should only get to take one piece of hand luggage on board a plane - and it should only be backpack sized.
The amount of time lost to people trying to stuff their little wheely suitcase into an already full overhead bin is wild...
That won't buff out
04.04.2025 06:19 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Can't believe they've not renamed it "Tsunoda Station" yet
03.04.2025 23:31 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Could you tell I've been binge-watching House over the past few days?
A bit on why Haas' VF-25 isn't going to plan:
www.autosport.com/f1/news/insi...
Post-grand prix fun complete: hard not to have enjoyed that race. Start as you mean to go on; if that maxim is true, 2025 should be quite a lot of fun
16.03.2025 10:51 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I will continually die on the hill that Australia '99 has that honour
16.03.2025 10:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Some musings on Drive to Survive, Death in Paradise, and tales of the F2 paddock in 2018.
(Don't ask why my name is in the headline, I didn't do it)
www.autosport.com/f1/news/jake...
Drop intro? Go on then.
Why V10s can't be, for want of a better phrase, brought back...
www.autosport.com/f1/news/why-...
For Autosport, I interviewed Calum Nicholas about the intense demands of being an F1 mechanic, why soft skills are crucial in such a high-pressure environment, and how having the option to take races off is essential to preventing burnout. #F1
www.autosport.com/f1/news/what...
Codders has excelled himself here - he's reviewed all 10 of the teams' presentations at last night's F1 75 event. A must read:
www.autosport.com/f1/news/ever...