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Max Noble
15/05/2022
Reflecting on the Miami extravaganza, Max Noble fears that Liberty Media has moved into Fawlty Towers... and that the sport has jumped the shark after entrusting F1's owners with its coin collection for valuation
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Max Noble
02/05/2022
Years in the making, countless millions spent on the biggest rule change in generations only to deliver racing that looks just like last season. The ultimate Rain Maker gives us races, while Ross the Reign Maker merely changes the name on the trophy.
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Max Noble
27/04/2022
Myrtle enjoys her 15 minutes of fame, as Max Noble ponders Mercedes well-documented issues and asks of Toto Wolff; would even a dog man do that to a cat on porpoise?
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Max Noble
15/03/2022
Jethro Tull, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead... what else could it be dear reader other than part two of the Pitpass Season 2022 Preview?
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Max Noble
07/03/2022
"Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face," said Mike Tyson. It is a fitting summary of the difference between the cool, rational development of a plan outside the heat of competition, and the reaction of the spirit once battle commences.
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Max Noble
27/02/2022
Somehow, don't ask us how, Max Noble draws a line between Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 'sportwashing' and a 1978 hit single for 10cc.
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Max Noble
02/02/2022
In the 72 seasons the Formula One World Championship has existed, only ten drivers have won back-to-back titles, Max Noble wonders if Max Verstappen can make it eleven.
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Max Noble
17/01/2022
Sadly, after 70-odds seasons, this is the first generation of F1 champion to experience the delight of their retired racing fathers being among the first to congratulate them on another amazing performance.
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Max Noble
26/11/2021
A saint in waiting or a martyr with his hem already alight on the funeral pyre? The big question is, can Lawrence Stroll pull it off?
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Max Noble
15/09/2021
Ahead of the sport's great re-set, Max 'McFly' Noble fires up the DeLorean and takes us back to where it all began... 1950, as he ponders whether the big changes of 2022 will be cause to party or merely the 'same old'.
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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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