I was a day-one, 'founding admin of the official Facebook fan page for the US' Formula E fan. These pseudo-factual press releases are a SIGNIFICANT reason why I stopped watching. Words and numbers have meaning!! You can't just make this up via extrapolation!!!!!

The news that Marcus Ericsson will race in the 12H Malaysia on 6 December is a surprise, especially since I didn't know there was a 12H Malaysia on 6 December.

Wow, he looks just like him!

You misspelled Adelaide 😉

I am a traditionalist, by which I mean the F1 season should end at Interlagos, a week later the racing season ends at Macau, then we get a break until the Dakar on New Years Day.

FIA Formula E calendar updated for 2026. The season starts 6th December. Which apparently is only three weeks away? Not sure I believe it myself. toomuchracing.com/calendar/

Celebrating Respect In Racing As 2025 draws to a close, something which has struck me this year is the way competitors appear to respect each other more these days. This is typified by the F1 title battle this year between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. It all seems very gentlemanly, may the best…

I was hoping to do that when I was ill, but I was ill.

Anyway I'm looking to carve out some time to stop mindlessly scrolling things and a) update the google calendars earlier than usual and b) actually write something.

Wordpress/Jetpack stats are so bad. "Your stats are booming!" Yes, I see I got double the views last weekend, PERHAPS TELL ME WHY.

I will have a break from BTCC-and-support posting for a bit. But I need to catch on '25 and I need to go back to a race in '26, preferably at Brands Hatch.

#TMRwatch25 | 130; BTCC | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R3; The emotions in this one! Frantic race 3 title decider in the rain. Hill ahead. Ingram ahead. Hill finding a great line at Surtees to race to 2nd & the title, Ingram couldn't keep up, 6th. Everyone else a sideshow as they often are in this one.

#TMRwatch25 | 129; Porsche Carrera Cup GB | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R2; George Gamble raced his way past title rivals Rainford & Ellis - then everyone else - to win race and title. Car looked great in the wet. Just add water..

Well, it's an Audi. I was hoping for something a bit cleverer, like the LMP1 days.

And how it looks in the flesh 👇🏼 #F1

Audi F1 Team has launched their concept livery for the 2026 season What do you think of this livery paint?

#TMRwatch25 | 128; MINI Challenge JCW | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R3; Great side-by-side racing in the rain. Edwards just clear of a 5-car chasing pack. Outside, inside, bit of bumping. Hotchin won S class title by running around in last place with steamed up windows, not safe but he got away with it.

#TMRwatch25 | 127; British F4| 2024 Brands Hatch GP R4; They started this with cars on slicks and rain falling, predictably several went off and it got stopped. I've no idea what they were thinking. A full restart with all on wets went much better, especially Fairclough who got another win.

#TMRwatch25 | 126; BTCC | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R2; Ingram 3rd-1st in a lap and a bit, great move into Paddock, to lead by 1pt from Hill. Sutton 19th to 5th in 3 laps, only stopped by teammate Cammish defending! Loved seeing these two race hard. Cook 7th from the back too.

#TMRwatch25 | 125; Porsche Sprint Challenge GB | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R3; Sensible well-behaved race for a decider. Hopkins wins title. Coates 2nd by 1 point, after being so close in Minis before, I'm sure he'll get a championship one day! Am class got fun with lead change and getting among Pro.

I'm off work sick for the 3rd day in a row. Stupid seasonal cold/virus/thing. I tried to WFH earlier but was too tired. So I'm going to pick my BTCC recording from where I left it.

Can't believe they named a racetrack in Alabama after this sumbitch.

#TMRwatch25 | 124; Porsche Carrera Cup GB | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R1; Race leader Martin goes off! Lost championship? Ellis chased Rainford for laps and got through - Foster immediately mugs both of them next corner. Felt like lots of pressure (i.e. no change) and suddenly it burst.

#TMRwatch25 | 123; MINI Challenge JCW | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R2; Amazing. Walmsley vs Edwards vs Hall vs Osborne was such great racing throughout. Throw in Wheatley getting the lead then going off. And a guy moved up from a lower class of MINI got a run but spun out.

#TMRwatch25 | 122; BTCC | 2024 Brands Hatch GP R1; Hill & Ingram tied on points going in. 3 cars taken out at Druids, some failure on Cook's car. Ingram delayed - then went 9th to 3rd! Turkington good team player.

I've been off sick today and it has taken until now to put on the next BTCC recording

Y'know, having seen the Sky Pad, I'm leaning more to Chadwick's viewpoint the turn 1 contact was Antonelli moving over and less Piastri who only lost control when he realised. Although per the guidelines, Antonelli was ahead at the apex and that's that.

#F1 points #BrazilGP: 390 Norris (7 wins) 366 Piastri (7) 341 Verstappen (5) 276 Russell (2) GP wins only. Norris winning today makes me pleased if only because it means the driver with most points has equal most wins. Russell is out of the running.

Lando Norris now has 11 Grand Prix wins, tied with Jacques Villeneuve, Felipe Massa, Rubens Barrichello. #f1

Classy to dedicate the win to Gil de Ferran. #BrazilGP

#BrazilGP Norris wins. Antonelli defends. Verstappen attacked to 3rd. Russell, Piastri, Bearman. Look at that train for 7th! Lawson, Hadjar, Hulkenberg, Gasly.

It's important to remember that Verstappen has made 3 stops in this race. One of them was behind the SC, so only an 11 lap delta. This is a phenomenal drive still, he's 9.6s off the lead.

Verstappen didn't even wait. As soon as he got to Russell he passed him.

On a day Ferrari non-scores Mercedes are getting a hat-full of points even if Verstappen gets amongst them

Ahh, I was almost hoping Verstappen would try to make it to the end without stopping again

Verstappen last to first challenge completed

Piastri only 8th after his penalty. Hamilton DNF

Gasly and Hadjar are passing and repassing all race it seems

TSU failed to serve his penalty properly. Or Red Bull.

Someone in another chat said Hamilton might only be hanging on in case he gets a penalty for the Colapinto thing, so as not to carry it to the next race.

There it is. 10 second penalty Piastri.

Tsunoda 10sec pen for punting Stroll into a spin

Getting this one in now because I'm not sure if I'll be back home for the Grand Prix or not.

Verstappen pits for puncture, he's last again

Thought Norris had a bad tactic there, backing up the pack was always going to be tricky

Really untidy restart! Piastri sent it on the inside. Punted Antonelli into Leclerc. Leclerc puncture. Horrible day for Ferrari. #BrazilGP

Ted says Tsunoda also pitted for mediums under this SC

I've never seen them use the old track under SC before

Bortoleto tried going around Stroll but the gap wasn't wide enough