Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom

@flickris.bsky.social

Photography, Formula One, non-fiction, good music & cheap red wine 🍷

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What was Russell's penalty for? What happened to a degree of leniency on the first lap. Regardless of that, he didn't deserve a penalty. Also who was it who pushed Sainz into the pit wall without sanction? #F1 #USGP

"We practice selective annihilation. Of mayors and government officials. For example, to create a vacuum. Then we fill that vacuum. As popular war advances. Peace is closer."

I'm not going to bother watching the #USGP. Not worth being tired and irritable at work on Monday morning. I will try and impose myself to a media blackout and watch it Monday evening. #F1

It really pains me to agree with Max Verstappen but he's 100% correct #F1 #USGP

Ro de Jong 🧒@rodejong.bsky.social

Max Verstappen says modern Formula 1 has lost its true racing DNA: “All these things are not the spirit of racing.” “You should be able to go out on track, have a brake pedal and an accelerator pedal, and that alone should determine the lap time.” via raceplus.com

#F1 qualifying is so predictable nowadays. Same 8 cars plus 2 every race in the final session. Go back to when everyone had the full hour of qualifying. No one can spring a surprise if they're not there to do so. #usgp 🥱😴

I think the Singapore GP or wherever the last race was killed my enthusiasm for #F1. 45 years and honestly I couldn't care less any longer.

Last time I was so unenthusiastic about a coming #F1 race was when I skipped watching the 1988 #ItalianGP. The first race I didn't watch since Dijon in '81 #texasgp

I think only Las Vegas is a worse circuit than Austin in the current #F1 calendar. Looks and feels disjointed, no flow to it. Modern Silverstone is similar.

The #USGP Texas Edition should rather be on a Saturday so #F1 fans in Europe and Africa don't have to stay up till 12 Sunday night and then feel shit all day Monday.

Strange how since Red Bull's 2026 car (some might say miraculously) improved, Max Verstappen has stopped moaning at every opportunity how he's about to quit #F1

If #F1 & FIA werent so obsessed about filling their pack pockets they could have ensured a 24 race calendar and we wouldn't be in the last few weeks of the season wondering WTF is going on.They could have fitted in a race in France or Germany in the summer break and ended the season at Imola & Jerez

Pretty impressive considering he looked 75 back in Back To The Future in 1985 or whenever it was

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

Happy Birthday CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (88 Candles 🎂) and JEFF GOLDBLUM (74 Candles 🎂)

Keep seeing news articles mentioning Christian Horner. I haven't clicked on any of them. I really have no interest in the man or the nonsense he's presumably spouting #F1

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We've had flying cars since the 90s. Here is the 1967 Ferrari 312 taking on the Flugplatz in Grand Prix Legends (1998) #simracing #retrogaming #nurburgring #nordschleife Video sponsored by simcraft.com #ad

I applied a band-aid when my daughter cut her finger. I guess I'm a surgeon.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zacharia: "A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication is around the fact that I labeled myself a lawyer. I consulted for a long time many people in the field -- 'Is it ok if I label myself a lawyer?' -- and they said, 'Absolutely. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD'"

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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have released the third part of their Philadelphia Freedom Cut project today, sharing official video of the next eight songs from their Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour finale.

2026 will (likely) be the first #F1 season in a year ending with 6 since 1966 where the championship isn't going to be decided in the final race of the season. All the ones in-between have been thrillers too.

ROM is burning

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.

She looks like a Drag Queen if you ask me.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

Leica has her own unique way of negotiating for second helpings. Firstly she will engage in some intense meowing and if that's unsuccessful she will turn to violence and start biting my ankles.