About

I started Flag & Clock because the parts of motorsport I care about most, who is paying for what, which rule changed and why, who gets the seat, were the hardest parts to find written down properly. The results are everywhere. The paperwork behind them is not.

So this is a journal about the business and the rulebook of racing, read from the documents themselves: FIA decisions, the regulations, company filings, contracts where they surface, official results. When a number matters you get the number and where it came from. When something is an estimate, it says so.

What you will find

Dated notes when a document changes something, the results ledger for every round we track, and guides and data tables as they are built. Formula 1 gets the most words because that is what most readers come for. MotoGP comes next. WEC, WRC, Formula E, IMSA and F2 all sit in the ledger and the tables, and get written up when a document earns it.

Who makes it

I edit and publish it. Flag & Clock is a Leetone Enterprises title, from the same house as GoodCarBadCar.net, which has published car sales data for years, and Per Million, which keeps the record of what AI model access costs. I use AI tools for research and first drafts and set the editorial policy they work under. The editorial standards say what will and will not appear on the page, and the corrections page is where I own up to mistakes. More about me on the editor page.

Getting it

The site went live in late May 2026, ahead of Monaco. The Briefing goes out every Monday: what changed in the data, the weekend's results, and what was filed. Free, easy to leave. Subscribe here, or take the RSS feed.

Eli Lemberg, Editor