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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 3h

I think, all things equal, I'd rather have Sepang on the Asian Le Mans Series calendar than the F1 one, but both would be nice.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 6h

PLM missed the opportunity to be as "the 10 Hours of Le Mans in Georgia" obviously.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 23h

Headlights! It has headlights now. I mean they're gonna need them at Silverstone.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to Ferrari on winning the AsLMS/WLMS Hypercar title I guess

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's occurred to me that really Duqueine have the wrong McLaren junior because unlike Verschoor Leo Fornaroli has valuable "winning a championship without winning a race" experience.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kind of a funny thing to say while also insisting that Sepang is definitely an outpost of Bahrain

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No Doriane yet, but a ton of TBCs in LMP2 and separate Giorgio Roda and Duqueine entries, so not impossible either.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A more interesting question than hand warmers would be tyre warmers - bring them back as a one off like the ACO is doing in WLMS, or risk very high speed differences on outlaps?

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mildly surprising, inasmuch as it implies the existence of budgets at VAG that aren't currently being cut (or maybe somebody who wrote contracts cheaper to honour than to get out of on purpose....)

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Certain amount of discussion of Jean-Pierre Jabouille, the first man to win an F1 GP in a turbocharged car. I'm just glad we're not getting in to the topic of the first driver to win one in an NA car, since that depends on what you think about the 1950 Indy 500....

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This seems like weird F1 journalist wishcasting. Not the Max bit, S365 had that yesterday, but why would he need a third driver (Chris Lulham is still available) for a three hour race?

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an excellent article explaining why the series is going to have, probably, two Hypercars, and definitely worth a read. Also this possibility I'd completely not heard of foiled only by the fact that Ajith Kumar is Not Very Good at prototypes.

A much anticipated Acura privateer entry came to nothing with the intended bronze (believed to be Indian film star Ajith Kumar) coming to the correct conclusion that Hypercar was a significant step ahead of where their driving abilities were.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

F minus in clickbait here for S365 who leave their speculation that Max Verstappen might sub in for his eponymous GT3 team to the penultimate sentence of the article. (Also this is an interesting attempt by ACO/SRO to accomodate each other given the calendar clash) sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/b...

sportscar365.com

Barcelona Round Set for Unusual Saturday Schedule, Split FP3

LMGT3 runners get their own FP3 and early qualifying amid Portimao GTWC clash...

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix makes that event the 17th Formula One Grand Prix to be held at two different venues, but (I think) the first to be added to the list this century - the last event to add a second venue was the Australian Grand Prix, in 1997.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah yes. Sepang race, Petronas livery. Still must have been a relatively quick turnaround from the designers on this one...

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From the reporting it seems like the FIA got a surprisingly large amount of what they wanted (tbh some of this, like a larger role for the FIA in overseeing the ruleset, make sense, or at least would if the FIA was less corrupt). www.motorsport.com/wec/news/fia...

motorsport.com

FIA and ACO announce 10-year WEC deal after rumours about possible split

FIA and ACO quash speculation about possible split with a long-term agreement running through to end of 2037

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

En Gaard! I would imagine he'll continue to beat all the McLarens and quite likely be Palou's closest rival in 2027 (given it was only ten points difference between him and Kirkwood this year, and Ganassi are definitely better than McLaren).

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is it that all the motorsport news always comes out on the same day each week?

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oooo. The Citroen livery was already great but it turns out it works really well on the FE Gen4.

A Formula E Gen4 car in the Citroen red-chevrons-blue livery. It looks rad.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"What if Outrun was a roguelike?" is, apparently, a question somebody asked themselves. Fair enough, I guess?

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ACO be like: Two cars! That's enough for a race! (also enough to break the record for fewest hypercars in a race where Hypercar is a class).

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GB3 has had something of an odd season. (It was, frankly, about time Deagen Fairclough stopped being a disappointment).

The top two drivers in GB3 this year's results; Nikita Bedrin won six of the first 12 races and got three second places, following which Deagen Fairclough has won six of the next nine races (all the non-reverse grid events); there are three races left.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favourite oddity of this year - Haarni Sadiq's negative points total in British F4 - was under threat as he'd progressed to -2 and was running in 8th, but then his rear wing fell off so he's not going to be scoring any points...

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silverstone National, which is what British F4 is racing on this weekend, is a very odd circuit. Kind of feels like they were going to do a tri-oval but then remembered they were British.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Implicating the championship: Ahead of the last 2 rounds, #8 leads by 10 points from #7 and a further 4 from #20; Toyota lead by 25 points from BMW. My thinking is that Catalunya will be a Toyota circuit (somewhat similar to Bahrain) whereas Monza will very much not be (poor straightline speed).

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not....really convinced that Toyota deserved that, but if that's what it takes to get teams to stop overfuelling their cars on the final stints, it's a good thing.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Toyota need to invite Dries Vanthoor to the post-race party.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Impressed with nobody sliding off at the restart on cold tyres with a damp track.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Toyota's clearer-headed understanding of the situation with how long the safety car would last has given Hirakawa another advantage - not only does he have track position, he's also lighter.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If we either red flag and run out of daylight or safety car for too long because of barrier damage this will be one of the absolutely luckiest wins in the history of lucky wins for Toyota.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Genesis need a squirrel. I...think they might have said Pipo (Derani, who is driving), but tbh it's hard to blame the AI for this one it did sound like squirrel.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a wide range of fuel loads that have been added here ranging from Toyota who think they need about 70% to Aston Martin at 94%

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WEC seems to be developing a habit of straight-line crashes late in the race this year.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dan Harper losing the lead at turn 1 to a switchback from the McLaren. He braked too greedily....and too deep.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The aftermath of a 1-2 win would be an excellent time to announce you were taking over the team, Geely.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interesting. So WEC have quoted an attendance of 72,000 at Fuji, so not giving an attendance for Silverstone isn't a sign of a global policy at least.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ferdi Habsburg looks...a _bit_ tired, but much less knackered than I'd expect after a triple stint. I guess it being cold really does help. In which case Alpine's plan for two drivers should work well enough at the closing European rounds too.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The autocaption system has actually been pretty good this race so far but it has just suggested that Molina needs to get out and push.

A team radio box for the #50 Ferrari, driven by Miguel Molina. "OK, Let's Go. Foot push to the end. Race is over, basically. We've got stop. Race is over. Foot push. Watch the white line."

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ferrari were already having a bad day but an air valve failure on the jack is definitely just tragedy turning into farce.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Anthony Davidson just said "Matthias Jaubert" and Graham Goodwin is talking about some guy called Joe Bear.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah I'm not surprised that Shea Adam is reporting that Martins is managing a problem. I've never rated him as highly as most people do, but he's certainly not bad enough to have lost six seconds to Habsburg in the last 15 minutes with a functional car.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know this is sort of beating a dead horse but it would be very interesting to see the BoP table and find out if the ACO have the Toyota at low power because it seems to be part of a fairly balanced BoP or if the car is just quite draggy (it does clearly have a lot of downforce).

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Aston/Toyota battle is fun because the Toyota is much slower in a straight line but (as always) has exceptional braking performance.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Martins doing something I very regularly do in Le Mans Ultimate when I haven't played it for a while and forget that tyre warm-up is a thing.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Toyota short-fuelled by about two laps to get the #8 out in front of the Caddy/Genesis there. They do seem to have better overall pace than everyone except Alpine so that might work.

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The Pin is mightier than the sword @putdorianedown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Conventional wisdom is that double stinting tyres at Fuji is pretty difficult but practically de Vries and Tincknell have both done it and while both lost one place neither lost all that much time so I think the new Michelins are a bit more durable than the old ones.

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