Lord of all the Rings

Max Noble

14/11/2023

Never one to miss a trick, Pitpass, courtesy of Max Noble, finally offers it's rebuttal to Drive to Survive!

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The Open Error

Max Noble

17/10/2023

As the FIA and Liberty Media move us further and further away from an "Open Championship" into the age of the "Prescriptive, Mandated, Standardised Championship" have we lost the value of the battle for the victory?

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It's Only A Number - Being Part the Third

Max Noble

29/09/2023

"At heart, it really always is the human that is the story," writes Max Noble. "The numbers are simply a supporting act highlighting the unfolding narrative."

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It's Only A Number (Part 2)

Max Noble

19/09/2023

"When the top teams are announcing sponsorship deals for amounts which exceed the cost cap value, how on earth do the numbers add up?" asks Max Noble.

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It's Only A Number

Max Noble

11/09/2023

Numbers are never the story, the human is the story. The human builds the soul and defines the legend. We fans are here for the stuff of legend, not the stuff of the ledger.

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Selling England by the Pound

Max Noble

22/08/2023

The Uni Faun should hold on to his true love of F1, for despite the increasing off-track noise, on track the drivers are singing the same mighty songs of glory as the drivers of old.

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Waiting For The Gift of Sound and Vision

Max Noble

17/08/2023

Max Noble's solution to both track limits and poor visibility in the wet is to combine augmented reality HUDs for the drivers with advanced multi-sensor fusion and precise geo-location data.

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Stilletos for Bolt

Max Noble

10/08/2023

Red Bull's current domination of F1 should be celebrated as excellence in motion just as we celebrated Usain Bolt, Roger Federer and Eddy Merckx. Moments of genius frozen in time.

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Cotton Wool Redux

Max Noble

03/08/2023

You can choose one door and it is the quiet, safe-for-now life, before eventual quiet slumber eternal. Or choose the other door, and George, at least you will know you lived!

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It's my (dance) party, and I'll snub who I want to!

Max Noble

11/07/2023

The curious bunch now queuing outside the F1 Night Club increasingly resembles the mob trying to enter the Mos Eisly Cantina back on Tatooine.

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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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