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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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Max Noble
01/09/2021
Colin, the great Stoic team leader of his age, won as much with his head, as with his heart, his mechanics, or his wallet. He simply turned each tool to the best possible use he could imagine, and worked within the limits of the day.
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Max Noble
11/08/2021
In his own inimitable way, and using the mighty Daimler Group merely as an example, Max Noble looks at the impossible task the sport faces in policing the budget cap.
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Max Noble
28/07/2021
Max Noble suspects that Toto, Christian and Lawrence Stroll - among others - may be taking the FIA for a ride, in much the same way as they probably did in their schooldays courtesy of a long-forgotten logic puzzle.
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Max Noble
23/07/2021
Honda's addiction to F1 will have lasting traces within the sport for years to come. Indeed those traces will still be lingering when that addiction sees the Japanese manufacturer return to get the supreme high of racing.
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Max Noble
17/05/2021
"Why does F1 feel the need to hobble the genius and cuss at the gifted by killing ideas that actually deliver on-track racing?" asks Max Noble.
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Max Noble
11/05/2021
Lewis had it from way, way back. That unquestioning state of mind where you know, inside and out, awake and asleep, that you are destined for the greatness you know is within you.
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Max Noble
22/04/2021
By means of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-influenced poem Kubla Khan, Max Noble continues the Olivier Newton John theme as he welcomes the 2021 season to the pleasure dome. No, us neither.
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Max Noble
28/01/2021
In an increasingly 'Hug the Whale', 'Save the Koala' and 'Plant the Inner City Forest' world, how can an entertainment based on liquefied dinosaur be considered anything other than a dinosaur itself?
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Max Noble
18/01/2021
For all their toil, can the public afford just enough of their handy work to support the gallant Sires Stroll to World Championship glory?
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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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