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Max Noble
17/01/2023
In the true spirit of rolling the bones, reading the tea leaves and shaking the magic eight ball, here's Max Noble with the occasionally amusing, and possibly not entirely factual, 2023 season preview...
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Max Noble
05/01/2023
Look to all that is fine, remarkable and built on honour within F1, where racing spirit still flows freely and each driver has shown focus, determination and grit. All of which is only possible because it is underpinned by the coin of Caesar.
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Max Noble
21/12/2022
ARAMCO are huge backers of F1, using the platform to get introduced to people in fields other than gas and oil. They are in a diversification race against time. They are pragmatic, cashed-up and in a hurry.
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Max Noble
15/12/2022
For those of us of a certain age, and usually with a UK back-story, Fleetwood Mac and their iconic track The Chain, from the planet moving album Rumours released in February 1977, shall for all time be the F1 theme tune.
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Max Noble
06/12/2022
What did the 2022 F1 season do for us? It gave us a V. Max supreme, the final season of Vettel, remarkable laps from the top three teams, more gibberish from Chridstian and Toto and spreadsheet analysis galore.
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Max Noble
04/11/2022
"The cost cap was never designed to improve the racing," writes Max Noble. "It is sleight of hand by the FIA and Liberty Media. The cost cap is all about making an F1 team franchise a money printing machine."
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Max Noble
24/10/2022
"F1 has survived over fifty years without giving a hoot who spent how much on what, when and why..." writes Max Noble. "Now, all of a sudden, the heaving masses are howling for blood for an accounting error of less than 5%."
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Max Noble
12/10/2022
Max Noble misses the days of the tyre wars because it forced the tyre manufacturers to better understand the part tyres played within the suspension system, how they lasted, how they generated grip and what they did in the wet.
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Max Noble
06/10/2022
In terms of the budget cap, the FIA cannot prove a definitive answer. No one is cheating, it is just no one can fully explain a single universal reality within the accounting universe...
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Max Noble
23/09/2022
F1 has followed the (immediate) money trail and is barking up the "sustainable" fuel tree, once again Liberty "Patsy" Media and the FIA are dancing to the tune of another.
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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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