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Max Noble
20/01/2025
Today's youngest F1 drivers have never lived in a universe without ABS and electronic traction control! No wonder some young gun stuffed it under full acceleration in a 100% mechanical F40.
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Max Noble
07/01/2025
Renault no longer building engines, Toto feeling Sir Lewis has run-down the clock, and what on earth will Cadillac bring to F1 for anyone outside the US of A?, wonders Max Noble.
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Max Noble
16/12/2024
Max Noble reviews some of his previous musings, noting what reality actually slapped us all around the face with.
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Max Noble
27/11/2024
While we find ourselves with the Drivers' Champion already anointed, there remain many battles throughout the field to give these last two races a point.
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Max Noble
12/11/2024
If Domenicali and Briatore think they know the price of what they are doing they should heed the lesson of Faust and be aware that everything has a price and they must prepare to pay.
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Max Noble
08/11/2024
Do we think that Audi might have put this season in the "steady as she goes" basket to ensure maximal wind tunnel time next year in preparation for 2026?
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Max Noble
29/10/2024
In the first championship battle of his career, Zak is grasping at every straw the winds of change blow past his office door. Bib-gate, front-gate, waste-gate, open-gate... he is working his way through them all.
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Max Noble
10/10/2024
The internet remains the 21st century digital Wild West as it was in the days of Doc Holiday... which brings us to the common internet perception of many of F1's leading figures.
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Max Noble
02/10/2024
"We all know there are lies, damn lies and statistics," admits Max Noble as he ponders the outcome of the 2024 title fight, a fight he believes will see Max Verstappen claim his fourth championship.
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Max Noble
26/09/2024
If the FIA wants to clean-up driver language how is it going to go about it? Who gets to ascribe words to the naughty list, a linguistic master, a cultural expert, or both?
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BIOGRAPHY
Max is an engineer heavily influenced by the entire Apollo space programme. Man landing on the Moon still strikes him as the most remarkable human and engineering feat ever achieved. This early love of technical brilliance, balanced with calculated risk taking, led Max to study engineering at University, and to embrace Formula One with a passion.
Max has his mother to thank for the moment that sealed his love of Formula One. This sweet lady cheerfully distracting what we could loosely call security (it was the 1970s) as a young Max clambered into the seat of James Hunt's championship winning McLaren M23, grasped the steering wheel in his young hands, and was promptly stuck by the fact that anyone willing to exceed 50 kph in this thing was far braver than they looked… or nuts. Or more likely, both.
In quiet moments the quality of the welds still plays in Max's mind (for the record they were very even, but looked a little thicker than they needed to be, possibly adding a touch too much weight).
Since that fateful moment of true love, Max has been fortunate enough to indulge his love of speed on several continents. However, he now finds it far safer, and a more informed role model for his children, to leave the speed to the experts while watching from the comfort of his arm chair, where his biggest danger is being bitten by the cat when flying into a fit at the latest FIA rule change.
After a career spent delivering complex systems in defence and aerospace Max continues to work in programme management while writing in both the fiction, and business domains. His latest musings are considered articles on Pitpass which, while they might not solve any of the issues currently flying around Formula One, do aid in speedy, hearty, yet safe, debate.
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