The Pin is mightier than the sword

May need another app to remind me that The Racing Line exists given the amount of time I spend thinking "huh I should look up when the racing is" and even sometimes looking up when the racing is rather than checking the app I bought because it would save me a ton of time on looking all the stuff up.

yeah, that's a good comparison.

Making similarity scores for race car drivers is one of those things I'd love to do but would take ages. But non-quantitatively, he's like...IndyCar's Jenson Button (with worse luck)? Popular, talented, but not actually exceptional in any huge way.

is it him, or his related disk horse? Because he seems innocent enough but my god people go on about him somewhat excessively.

'Blood rain' and fiery sunsets as Saharan dust sweeps UK North African dust carried to the UK by a weather system are forecast to have some unusual effects in the coming days.

Probably just the Sahara desert having it in for anything you left outside. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

I don't actually watch enough F1 coverage to be annoyed by Danica Patrick (basically only the competitive sessions and nothing else, and she's not used on commentary), but it's good to see everyone happy about it....

now he's not got the option to slope off to race in WEC Sky probably needed to annoy him less...

I feel like "simplify, then add lightness" might be the creed _least_ receptive to what basically every car company is currently trying to do in terms of maximising income-per-car-sold...

Since Jaubert is still silver (despite regularly outpacing Dani Juncadella in the Genesis LMP2), this is a heck of a get for Kessel. He'll probably not still be Silver after this year, mind...

(For people unfamiliar with the nonsense going on in British junior motorsport, GB4 is the cheaper but unofficial F4 series, as opposed to British F4 which costs more but gets you superlicence points. They both usually have fields in the mid-20s, so it's probably just as well there's two series).

A 5x5 grid naming the current entries to the GB4 championship, who are Alex O'Grady for KMR Sport Jay Leverton for Idola Motorsport Emmilio Valentino Del Grosso for Elite Motorsport Demitri Nolan for Hillspeed Thomas Ingram Hill for Fortec Motorsports Cian Geraghty for Scorpio Motorsport Franciszek Cegielski for Fortec Motorsports Lily-May Watkins for KMR Sport John O'Donnell for Pace Performance Torrin Byrne for Pace Performance Holly Miall for KMR Sport Jason Smyth for Douglas Motorsport Dayton Coulthard for Douglas Motorsport Jasser Iskander for Fox Motorsport Caitlyn McDaniel for Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing Enzo Rujugiro for Fox Motorsport Luke Hilton for Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing Fred Green for Elite Motorsport Conor Grant for Douglas Motorsport Josh McLean for Pace Performance Matan Achituv for Elite Motorsport Archie Davies for Scorpio Motorsport Jordyn Martin for Fortec Motorsports Solenn Amrouche for Arden Motorsport Connor Willis for Hillspeed

GB4 posted this today - they did manage 25 entries for the first race last year, but we're still more than a month away from that, and even testing doesn't begin until next week! Good news for the British pyramid I guess but even more so for financial accessibility.

It appears that South Africa are in a semifinal.

It's maybe not obvious how tiny Doriane is being here, so for reference here's Juan Manuel Correa demonstrating where the driver's head is _supposed_ to be in an Oreca 07 in reference to the thing at the back (which is, yes, a headrest).

Thomas Flohr probably left a really bad review

It occurs to me that Airbnb really is the natural sponsor for any series in which multiple drivers are taking, um, short-term occupancy of the same racing car. Particularly in the case of LMP3 where you're also mostly praying the last person who had it didn't trash the place.

don’t worry everyone she’s still the smallest driver in the world ever

wouldn't a broadpin be less pointed?

A scatter plot showing points in F3 on the x-axis and points in F2 on the Y-axis. There's a fairly tight grouping in a relationship that looks roughly quadratic, except for three drivers who are failing to fit in.

This, on the other hand, except for the three obvious outliers (who were Alex Dunne, Sebastian Montoya, and Kush Maini) looks pretty tight (even more so if you add 30 or so points on to the 22/23 set to correct for F2-23 having one fewer round than 24 and 25).

A scatter plot showing F2 drivers who competed in consecutive years since 2022, with points in the first year on the x-axis and points in the second year on the y. The points are generally on a diagonal from bottom-left to top-right, but with a significant amount of spread (and the individual year doesn't matter much).

Weird things I have discovered while doing the F2 preview: the correlation between the points a driver scored in their last season in F3 and their first season in F2 is somewhat stronger than that between two consecutive F2 seasons. You can see there's a correlation here, but also a lot of scatter

Given that Prema finished 6th in F2 and 7th in F3 without a win in either, I think that's pretty much what we're worried about.

The most likely time for the rescheduled event would be just before the race in Bahrain, given the proximity of those tracks.

No surprise the 1812km of Qatar was postponed under the circumstances, those being "it turns out it's hard to stop a conflict between one side that doesn't know what it's doing and one side that doesn't know who's in charge". Should presumably be possible to get all the kit back to Imola for mid-Apr

🚨 DELAYED START: FIA WEC Qatar 1812KM Postponed, Imola To Host Season Opener

READ ➡️ www.dailysportscar.com/2026/03/03/f...

I feel like if you're an LMP2 team you let drivers keep the seat because you want the driver who just moved to your team to bring the seat with them....
But also I think Roda's like normal racing driver height whereas Verschoor's actually quite tall so he's probably biggest.

Good review! The only thing I'd add is that (at least based on the demo), it plays excellently on Steam Deck and for this reason is likely to be my game for train journeys for quite a lot of the coming year....

I imagine that should be relatively easy for Roda ("here's the insert I was using the the Asian Le Mans Series, guys") and probably more work for the other two since Verschoor has never driven a Oreca 07 and Doriane has spent about 3000 days in a gym since she did...

Americans overtaking down the immediately is not my problem.

oh, or Lord Toffington-Frippery's driveway, of course, if the circuit has "Park" in its name.

Things which are distracting brain from work today: why do Americans say "road courses" and British say "permanent circuits" when most of the American ones these days are actually purpose-built circuits whereas many European ones are converted from public or airfield roads....

Nael did indeed win Macau, and I maybe should have mentioned it, but it was mostly SC luck. Last year's Macau race was slightly less of a mess than the previous year's but still wasn't really driver skill (at least not in the results - there was enough green running to be clear Slater was fastest).