Why Compountary Exists
The last thing Formula 1 needs is another American who discovered the sport through Drive to Survive, has watched every Formula 1 season since, and now thinks he’s an expert.
And yet—here I am, writing the first entry on Compountary.
So what is Compountary?
I don’t fully know yet—but I do know what it isn’t.
This won’t be breaking news, and it won’t be published on a rigid schedule. It will be links, commentary, and original pieces about Formula 1—focused less on what happened and more on why it matters.
This won’t be rumor-chasing or outrage farming. I’m less interested in declaring heroes and villains and more interested in understanding incentives, trade-offs, and second-order effects.1
You won’t agree with everything I write, and that’s fine. My hope is simply that you’ll find more insight than noise here.
I love Formula 1 not just on race weekends, but in the spaces between: how teams think, how strategies are formed, how regulations shape behavior, and how the sport’s history informs its present. The technical details, the marginal decisions, the long-term consequences—those are the things that keep me engaged.
Compountary is meant to be read slowly. Some posts will respond to current events; others may surface weeks or months later and still matter. Think of it less as a feed to keep up with and more as a place to return to when you want context—like DVD commentary for a movie you’ve already watched.
Formula 1 is a sport of marginal gains.
Compountary is built on the same idea.
1 This does not mean I won’t occasionally comment on a driver’s performance. I’m human. ↩
