Chris Bloom
@flickris.bsky.social
Photography, Formula One, non-fiction, good music & cheap red wine 🍷
Always remember this picture from the year end Autocar review of the 1981 season (which 11 year old me read cover to cover 18,000 times before the start of the 82 season). You never see pictures like this any longer. Everyone's too guarded.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Always remember this picture from the year end Autocar review of the 1981 season (which 11 year old me read cover to cover 18,000 times before the start of the 82 season). You never see pictures like this any longer. Everyone's too guarded.
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I think it's a substitute while dirty air and similar performance reduces overtakes. You are right so. There have been so many cases where a battle was starting on track only for one car to pit.
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think it's a substitute while dirty air and similar performance reduces overtakes. You are right so. There have been so many cases where a battle was starting on track only for one car to pit.
I see the #LasVegasGP starts two hours earlier this year at 8 pm local time. A more sensible time, but it removes the chance of running into Sunday (with a red flag or delay) as could have happened last year at 10 pm. That would have been the first two-day GP since the 1913 French GP.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I see the #LasVegasGP starts two hours earlier this year at 8 pm local time. A more sensible time, but it removes the chance of running into Sunday (with a red flag or delay) as could have happened last year at 10 pm. That would have been the first two-day GP since the 1913 French GP.
Someone on the internet said something
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Someone on the internet said something
Though I maybe only ever watched one or two episodes, I remember the series Thirtysomething from the 1980's. Now they'd be Seventysomething.
I hereby declare an immediate moratorium on posts about how that album you like came out when you were 13 and I was in my mid-thirties. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Though I maybe only ever watched one or two episodes, I remember the series Thirtysomething from the 1980's. Now they'd be Seventysomething.
This is really annoying me
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is really annoying me
#Formula1 isn't just about overtaking anyway. Some of the most memorable races are where the winner was chased down but managed to stay ahead and win anyway; Austria 82, Adelaide 90, Estoril 86, Paul Ricard 85, Monaco 92. Lets stop pandering to the Netflix fans and their 12 second attention span
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#Formula1 isn't just about overtaking anyway. Some of the most memorable races are where the winner was chased down but managed to stay ahead and win anyway; Austria 82, Adelaide 90, Estoril 86, Paul Ricard 85, Monaco 92. Lets stop pandering to the Netflix fans and their 12 second attention span
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We don't want mandatory two-stop races. I want no-stop races because racing should be decided on track, not by strategy alone. More pit stops won’t increase overtaking; drivers will just wait for undercuts instead of racing properly on the road. #FFS #F1
www.the-race.com/formula-1/ga...
www.the-race.com/formula-1/ga...
Gary Anderson: Two-stops won't fix F1 overtaking woes - but this might
Forcing teams into two-stop strategies is the latest idea being discussed to make F1 races more exciting and increase overtaking. But there are far better ways to achieve this, Gary Anderson argues
www.the-race.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We don't want mandatory two-stop races. I want no-stop races because racing should be decided on track, not by strategy alone. More pit stops won’t increase overtaking; drivers will just wait for undercuts instead of racing properly on the road. #FFS #F1
www.the-race.com/formula-1/ga...
www.the-race.com/formula-1/ga...
Really impressed so far though my system is huffing and puffing to run it.
Just a month after it was announced with a surprise reveal, Assetto Corsa Rally is now available via Steam Early Access with 4 laser-scanned stages, 10 iconic rally cars, dynamic conditions and a 20% discount on the launch price...
www.onlineracedriver.com/2025/11/13/a...
#AssettoCorsaRally #ORD
www.onlineracedriver.com/2025/11/13/a...
#AssettoCorsaRally #ORD
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Really impressed so far though my system is huffing and puffing to run it.
The boss of Ferrari shouldn't be named John Elkann. It's just not right.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The boss of Ferrari shouldn't be named John Elkann. It's just not right.
Like what was he supposed to do? There was nowhere for him to go. What nonsense.
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Like what was he supposed to do? There was nowhere for him to go. What nonsense.
If Piastri hadn't got the penalty, for I don't know what, Verstappen would have been 4th whoopdedo.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If Piastri hadn't got the penalty, for I don't know what, Verstappen would have been 4th whoopdedo.
Verstappen gained due to that cheap pit stop under the safety car. That gave him an advantage as everyone else was still on their original tyres. That's why he made up so many places after the safety car. I didn't see anything special.
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Verstappen gained due to that cheap pit stop under the safety car. That gave him an advantage as everyone else was still on their original tyres. That's why he made up so many places after the safety car. I didn't see anything special.
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They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.
Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.
I still don't understand why teams can't have a spare car ready in case a driver has a big accident. Most stupid rule ever.
#f1 #braziliangp
#f1 #braziliangp
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I still don't understand why teams can't have a spare car ready in case a driver has a big accident. Most stupid rule ever.
#f1 #braziliangp
#f1 #braziliangp
I think it was interlagos turn 4 in 2003 where a handful of cars crashed in the same place. Schumacher being one of them
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I think it was interlagos turn 4 in 2003 where a handful of cars crashed in the same place. Schumacher being one of them
I actually enjoy red flags. It's the only time during a race you get to see the expressions and emotions on a drivers face
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I actually enjoy red flags. It's the only time during a race you get to see the expressions and emotions on a drivers face
Alice Powell is much better than Ruth Buscombe
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Alice Powell is much better than Ruth Buscombe
Though I'm against sprint races, if we are going to have them then make them a bit longer or have 2 short races to make it worthwhile tuning in for.
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Though I'm against sprint races, if we are going to have them then make them a bit longer or have 2 short races to make it worthwhile tuning in for.
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#OnThisDay in ’94 Damon Hill mastered a soaking-wet Suzuka to record his finest #F1 GP win. Great pic taken by Paul-Henri Cahier.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#OnThisDay in ’94 Damon Hill mastered a soaking-wet Suzuka to record his finest #F1 GP win. Great pic taken by Paul-Henri Cahier.
So infuriating losing one's phone in one's bed. Who do we blame though? The bed manufacturers, the phone manufacturers or the bed linen manufacturers. Somebody needs to be accountable.
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So infuriating losing one's phone in one's bed. Who do we blame though? The bed manufacturers, the phone manufacturers or the bed linen manufacturers. Somebody needs to be accountable.
Same one who chopped off her Husband's John Thomas?
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Same one who chopped off her Husband's John Thomas?
Since watching Deliver Me From Nowhere I now have an invigorated appreciation for the Nebraska album. I've always liked most of the songs on the record but maybe didn't listen to it as often as other #Springsteen disks for the almost four decades I've had it. Now I can't stop listening to it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Since watching Deliver Me From Nowhere I now have an invigorated appreciation for the Nebraska album. I've always liked most of the songs on the record but maybe didn't listen to it as often as other #Springsteen disks for the almost four decades I've had it. Now I can't stop listening to it.
I wanted to go and see Deliver Me From Nowhere again last night but sadly it's already been pulled from the movie house. It would have become only the second movie I've seen twice at the cinema after The Empire Strikes Back which I saw twice in 1980.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I wanted to go and see Deliver Me From Nowhere again last night but sadly it's already been pulled from the movie house. It would have become only the second movie I've seen twice at the cinema after The Empire Strikes Back which I saw twice in 1980.