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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Don’t expect much overtaking in Canada…

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Everyone enjoyed that race except the stewards and journalists #f1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

F1 fans: “this is all artificial and the overtakes mean nothing we need to FIX F1”. Also F1 fans: “the Sprint in Miami was shit”. Be careful what you wish for.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My one word review on Japan: Meh. That said I think people need to look ahead at where these regs could take us. We’ve had worse starts to a new era than this. Give it some time.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

If you think F1 will be disrupted by the ongoing war, I’d like to introduce you to a company called Travel Places. Pretty sure they’ll have it all in hand.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Literally the funniest thing about the Winter Olympics is everyone assuming this is the first time alpine sports have been covered in 4 years. Those drone shots of skiing have been in use for several years. There’s an actual World Cup series etc.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

F1 accidentally making timing data available at the start of a secret test and only shutting it down at lunchtime is peak F1.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I bet FIFA feel pretty stupid right now.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

There are odd days I miss my years working on Sky Darts. Then I thought “I could have just spent 4 hours making a Ryan Searle promo” and I calmed down.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Had a disgusting reply to this which led to me blocking someone here for the first time. Once again your perceived dislike for a team, or love of another driver should not be a factor in how you feel about this. I’m sick of the online discourse around a bloody sport.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Whilst F1 news is full of rumours and angry comments about a certain race engineer going to Aston Martin, the same man (one of the nicest and most private people I’ve ever met) has been through every dad and husband’s worst nightmare. I have spoken before about the toll the F1 life takes on

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Love it when the realities of broadcast workflows gets in the way of censorship. Willing to bet that’s now the most viewed segment in 60 minutes history.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

MBS is the person most likely to give Trump a peace award next isn’t he?

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

So farewell then Helmut. No one will miss him on a personal level, and many will be relieved he’s gone to put it mildly. The question is will Austria now replace him with a racer? Or corporate the team into the ground?

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

One more F1 post for the year: I had the pleasure of working with the Sky F1 team again this year, and thought today’s show was great. I cannot emphasise enough how a relatively small team is put so much effort into so much TV. Easy to sit on your sofa and criticise but it’s hard and they CARE.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Spent the last couple of hours putting the tree up and playing Christmas songs. Love F1 and my job, but by god I’m glad it’s over. Spare a thought for teams now having to pivot to launches and testing before the short Christmas break. It does not stop…

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A different type of championship won by a different type of driver. Well done Lando.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Why is there no Ted’s notebook from Quali? It’s not on now, and I don’t have one either recorded or available to watch. Seems odd.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We’ve reached peak English protest. Did they think the monarchy would (cough) crumble as well?

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m not sure people have grasped how much F1 will change next year. Having had the opportunity to speak to someone who’s driven a 2026 car in the sim, it’s going to be seriously different. My main takeaways - more variety from track to track, and many different strategies for deployment on laps

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Starting a sweep on how many times broadcasters spell “Arvid Lindblad” wrong in graphics. #F1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Absolutely world class trolling putting Hannah up on the podium. Not the slightest doubt in that. Absolutely the best thing about close ends of seasons #F1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It’s an unfortunate side effect of working hard at street tracks to bring the cameras closer, that when we move to an open track like Qatar the cars look like they’re moving at half speed… #F1threads

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Just Pirelli causally lobbing a hand grenade into the title fight

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I know it’s vaguely exciting and all that but dear god I am not ready for another F1 race this weekend. Like it’s a bit depressing that at this point in the season you just want it to be over, and there’s another media day tomorrow. Make it stop.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Chuckles inwardly at all the Horner rumours surfacing just before Newey is announced as Team Principal at AM F1. Top level shithousery all round.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

In the post-Vegas F1 update no one asked for, it’s a glorious sunny day on the Strip, much brighter and warmer than it’s been all week. Also the hotel we’re in is much busier than it was over the weekend with check-in’s. Fair to say the shine has come off this race.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

75% chance Lando breaks this.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is my second year in Vegas for the F1. Anecdotally for a race day it seems a lot quieter. The expense of Vegas snd the inconvenience of getting a round a town split in two by a race track has meant the novelty of the event has worn off I think.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Literally all these stats are nonsense.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And what could be more fan engaging than that? Also I’d rather teams just said “we’ve decided to take all the paint off the car so it goes quicker”

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I was out yesterday so had to watch the F1 sprint/quali highlights on YouTube. I understand their need to get them out fast, but I would have taken an edit that made a bit of sense even if that took a bit longer. Sad to see what these have become. Sorry to have to say it.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Interlagos to Las Vegas? Say what you like about F1 these days but that sounds pretty good to me. Excited to be out there again this year.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Thoughts and prayers with the highlights editors #F1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I’ve seen some speculation online that a prospective sale of ITV broadcast/ITVX to Sky means that F1 highlights could move from C4 to ITV free to air. Firstly - that deal runs to the end of 2026 so next year won’t change.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ron’s first day at Facebook is going great @apiln.bsky.social

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It feels like we’ve not moved on from the first year of the Cost Cap. The teams now have entire departments in place to manage it and are in constant contact with the FIA. The days of the RBR overspend are behind us, but everyone wants to believe it can happen again. It can’t.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It would be most interesting to see where these “rumours” actually came from. Maybe next year they will be ignored? Nah.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Took my little brother to Glastonbury. He didn't tell me/my parents it was mock GCSE exams week. School tried to suspend him. My mum argued it was a more cultural experience than the carting event they'd let his classmate attend the same week. Suspension cancelled. The classmate was Lewis Hamilton

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Strong 2007 vibes about this championship. McLaren should throw their weight behind Piastri* *they won’t because of stupid rules

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Just got to say that drone shot on the formation lap and start was very very good #F1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Oh dear god McLaren are doing their best to ruin this sport. Make it stop. #F1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Gentle reminder that the reaction to any sport or media moving to a different platform leads to 10,000 tweets saying “well I’m not paying for that”. Spoiler alert: they do. Why do you think sports rights are worth billions?

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Pour one out for the RB team this weekend…

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Regards F1 US rights it might be relevant that Eddie Cue from Apple is speaking at Autosport Business Exchange tonight on F1 related things. I think my instinct about an F1TV deal were spot on but I guess we’ll know soon enough.

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I dunno. If this was a proper multi-year contract (as opposed to its one year with an optional 2 year extension say) wouldn’t they have been shouting about it? I get the feeling this is being spun. #f1

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Ben Holmes @benholmes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Just a reminder you could have read this on Reddit 6 days ago

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