‘Silicon Valley' Duo Team for Hulu F1 Comedy Alec Berg and Adam Countee are moving from Silicon Valley to the world of F1. Hulu is teaming with the duo for Downforce, a comedy that has been picked up to pilot at the Disney-run streamer. Described as Entourage set in the world of Formula 1 racing, Downforce follows what happens when the heiress to a dynastic racing team is thrust back into the family business and the hard choices she must make about the future of the team and her family's legacy. Spoiler Berg and Countee will write and serve as showrunners on the potential series, which is produced by ABC Signature and Lionsgate Television (the latter is considered a non-writing exec producer on the project). Temple Hill's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will exec produce alongside Berg, Countee, Aussie F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo and Amy Solomon. The latter serves as head of development for Berg's ABC Signature-based production company after working with the writer-producer on Barry and Silicon Valley. Ricciardo's involvement as an exec producer will also lend added credibility to the show and likely assist with marketing to the F1 base. Downforce marks the first sale to stem from Berg's overall deal with ABC Signature. The prolific writer and creator whose credits include Seinfeld, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Curb Your Enthusiasm moved his overall deal to Disney's ABC Signature in September 2022 after spending more than 15 years housed at HBO. For his part, Countee is also set at ABC Signature with an overall deal. The order for Downforce comes as sports-adjacent programming - both scripted and unscripted - continues to play well on both linear and streaming. Netflix previously had a Kevin James family comedy that was set in the world of auto racing, The Crew, but it lasted only one season at the streamer. With the price of sports rights soaring, appealing to the broad fan bases of such sports as F1 with scripted and even unscripted programming is a more cost effective way to tap into those audiences.
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Idk why by the penn st logo + Andretti just triggered a memory of seeing a Mario Andretti imax film as a kid and that’s when I learned that they were not from the same town as Jesus, but Pennsylvania.
Sainz Sr is now officially the director of rally with Red Bull or something along those lines. Interesting.
I think there is significant enough concern from Red Bull that Max will leave after the 2025 season that they may be willing to give Sainz a long term deal. The rumor is the Verstappen camp isn’t convinced that Red Bull Power Trains can get the engine right for the 2026 season on their first try.
Yeah RBPT is going from managing Honda designed and supported engines to building from scratch with ford in an ‘advisory’ role as I understand it. Seems like ford are mainly there for the battery.
Exactly, they hired like 200 people from Mercedes engine department but it’s still their first engine and the rumblings have been they aren’t happy with how the 26 engine is coming.
Are these rumblings gonna end up as reliable as Horner is done or one of the million other, things are a changing, proclamations over the years?
With takes like this you need to start a youtube channel! I've just watched the 2022 ITALY E DELL'EMILIA-ROMAGNA race. Seems like the track is bouncy making cars look like they are porpoising. Has the track been resurfaced since?
That was more to do with the new re-design of the cars that season. Almost all of them suffered from very aggressive porpoising until they got the aero figured out for the new chassis.
26 engine regs are a mess. If F1 reduces the combustion engine to 600ish hp I’m out. E racing does nothing for me.
the battery is also providing that much power. It won’t resemble formula e at all. Also the cars will have a bunch of aero changes to increase straight line speed even with the power drop from the combustion motor.
Strange that comes out after the discussion yesterday but yeah that’s part of what I was hinting at. They are SLIGHTLY behind where they wanted to be and asked Ford for some more help.
My worry is that it’s going to be tough to package all of the modern components into anything much smaller, though that would be fascinating to give them a space that small and say pick your poison.
Yeah just give them the dimensions don’t skimp on safety and let the billionaires pay people to get things figured out.
I can’t find any links but they’re saying the engine will have to keep high rpm’s through turns in order to keep the battery charged. That’s whack to me. Imagine hearing an engine screaming while going through the fairmont hairpin.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/n...y-f1-2026-will-be-a-strange-formula/10597235/ That was a principal he talked about in his book that they tried and scrapped at some point at either McLaren or early Red Bull. If I’m remembering correctly it physically outweighed its usefulness at the time. I can’t remember it it was early energy recovery or if it was exhaust gas manipulation on the diffuser. They developed a high rev cornering setup that relied more on friction braking to either manipulate one of the above, or gain exit time.