After The Reigns

Max Noble

24/09/2019

Max Noble channels his inner Weather Girl, as he reflects on the last thirty years of F1's reigning men.

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Know Your Limits

Max Noble

11/07/2019

We would do well to reflect on our personal inner limits, and grow wise in identifying what adds value to our lives when we measure and control it, and what robs us one moment at a time of life's fleeting joys.

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Opinion Peace

Max Noble

02/07/2019

We do not want Opinion Peace in our time, but a little respect, good grace, and an understanding of both Miss Physics and life on earth would be welcome to avoid embittered trench warfare.

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Brother, Am I Legend

Max Noble

26/06/2019

"First and foremost a human who lived each day filled with a passion to be the best he could be," writes Max Noble of Niki Lauda. "And what mighty achievements he claimed!"

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Cry Me A Stream

Max Noble

20/05/2019

There they go... Chase and the gang, confounded that no matter which direction they swim, the tides and eddies - or in this case F1TV - are always swirling against them.

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The Tower of Fable - Part II

Max Noble

16/05/2019

Meet Fan Base Turtle, upon whose proud, exploited back F1's Tower of Turtles is built, with King Chase Turtle sitting, somewhat precariously, at the top.

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An engineer replies to Stefan Johansson's blueprint for reshaping F1 Part II

Max Noble

06/05/2019

In the conclusion to his response to Stefan Johansson's blueprint for how to make F1 "awesome" again, Max Noble, an engineer, looks at entertainment and relevance.

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An engineer replies to Stefan Johansson's blueprint for reshaping F1 Part I

Max Noble

02/05/2019

Writing exclusively for Pitpass, Max Noble, an engineer, responds to Stefan Johansson's blueprint for how to make F1 "awesome" again.

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The Tower of Fable

Max Noble

04/04/2019

Forever telling us how good it is going to be, the four hoarse men of the F1 apocalypse, Chase, Sean, Ross and Greg... and then there's the turtles.

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Liberty's remarkable global expansion finally fires up

Max Noble

01/04/2019

Chase Carey reveals plans for a vast motor sport complex in China that will include a number of the world's most iconic race tracks, together with theme parks, hotels and concert venues.

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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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