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Max Noble
23/03/2026
Miss Physics and the electrons know exactly how they'd make the 2026 cars the fastest, most fun to drive in many a year. It's just the FIA and Liberty hear only the siren call of dollars, and never the wisdom of ages.
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Max Noble
10/03/2026
"The gentlemen racers have started their hubris engines and cannot stop their immense spinning speed," declares Max Noble.
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Max Noble
10/02/2026
The last thing the FIA or Liberty Media want is constrained, skills-based, cat 'n' mouse racing! No, we need 151 overtakes a lap to keep the click-bait generation watching for one more crypto-currency ad.
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Max Noble
18/01/2026
"You can fight without ever winning, but you can never win without a fight," writes Max Noble. "Sir Lewis is going down fighting. But that is no guarantee that he will ever win a championship again."
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Max Noble
08/01/2026
Trying his very, very best to ignore the sport's increasing obsession with putting style before substance, Max Noble sticks his neck out and makes his early predictions for the coming season.
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Max Noble
01/01/2026
"It is not a question of how fast you are travelling which can be dangerous...," writes Max Noble, "it is a question of how rapidly you intend to stop. Just ask Miss Physics."
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Max Noble
12/09/2025
Loaded fries have appeared in cheery eating houses in recent times. Max Nobles cites the increasingly popular snack as he looks ahead to 2026.
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Max Noble
14/08/2025
Spa this year posed the riddle of "How can the FIA manage to make the most exciting race track on the calendar more boring than Monaco?", claims Max Noble.
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Max Noble
30/07/2025
"It's not about EVs," insists Max Noble. "It's about hero drivers willing to take a risk, and for those trackside it is about the emotional connection to the motion. And that comes, for the most part, from the roar of the engines.
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Max Noble
14/07/2025
...or... the real reason V8, V10 or V12 engines are back on the work bench for F1.
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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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