Everything Has A Price

Max Noble

12/11/2024

If Domenicali and Briatore think they know the price of what they are doing they should heed the lesson of Faust and be aware that everything has a price and they must prepare to pay.

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We're Game!

Max Noble

08/11/2024

Do we think that Audi might have put this season in the "steady as she goes" basket to ensure maximal wind tunnel time next year in preparation for 2026?

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A Spanner In The Works?

Max Noble

29/10/2024

In the first championship battle of his career, Zak is grasping at every straw the winds of change blow past his office door. Bib-gate, front-gate, waste-gate, open-gate... he is working his way through them all.

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He Knows, You Know

Max Noble

10/10/2024

The internet remains the 21st century digital Wild West as it was in the days of Doc Holiday... which brings us to the common internet perception of many of F1's leading figures.

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How Does It All End?

Max Noble

02/10/2024

"We all know there are lies, damn lies and statistics," admits Max Noble as he ponders the outcome of the 2024 title fight, a fight he believes will see Max Verstappen claim his fourth championship.

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Phark!

Max Noble

26/09/2024

If the FIA wants to clean-up driver language how is it going to go about it? Who gets to ascribe words to the naughty list, a linguistic master, a cultural expert, or both?

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Holding Out For A Hero

Max Noble

17/09/2024

"Is Adrian the hero that Lawrence should have held out for? Yes," believes Max Noble, "yes indeed!"

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Just 17

Max Noble

06/09/2024

"No matter how long our star shines bright, they all fade," writes Max Noble. "It's only a matter of time. So enjoy this amazing moment. None of us will be 17 ever again."

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Sliding Doors... an epilogue

Max Noble

20/08/2024

Sliding Doors for F1? Who might have made the train, missed the train? How would their life paths vary? What if Adrian Newey had studied accounting or medical science?

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We Could Have Been Heroes

Max Noble

06/08/2024

George dared to win... and lost. It was by fractions, fractions that could not be measured 50, 30 or 25 years ago. Yet now we measure them. Does this give us better racing?

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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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