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Max Noble
23/04/2025
"Nostalgia is not, and never will be again, what it was," writes Max Noble. "That's ok, no one can take those memories from each of us."
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Max Noble
02/04/2025
Some of Cadillac's senior team members have championship winning experience, and a number more have pervious F1 experience. But will it be enough?
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Max Noble
27/03/2025
Pour yourself a long one, then buckle-up for what could be an explosive season of intra-team fireworks, the occasional surprise winner, and more money grabbing by Liberty.
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Max Noble
12/03/2025
139 starts, 13 podiums, zero wins and 278.5 points. Toyota managed eight years. Will Audi make ten?
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Max Noble
07/03/2025
When the FIA and Liberty talk about F1 as "The Pinnacle of Motorsport" they are referring to the remarkable height of the vast mountains of cash to be made, not the quality of the racing or the engineering.
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Max Noble
04/03/2025
The Cadillac F1 team leadership will soon feel they are riding a chariot of fire, but one which is burning their pants off, and charring their careers, not lifting them to Heaven.
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Max Noble
06/02/2025
"They're here, they're here already," warns Max Noble, who fears the powers that be now only see F1 as a cash cow.
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Max Noble
03/02/2025
No wonder the fascination of motor racing engineering and the delicate beauty of chronometer engineering are natural friends, writes Max Noble.
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Max Noble
20/01/2025
Today's youngest F1 drivers have never lived in a universe without ABS and electronic traction control! No wonder some young gun stuffed it under full acceleration in a 100% mechanical F40.
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Max Noble
07/01/2025
Renault no longer building engines, Toto feeling Sir Lewis has run-down the clock, and what on earth will Cadillac bring to F1 for anyone outside the US of A?, wonders Max Noble.
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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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