When I read racing coverage from a source that I don’t find productive on a particular topic, I stop reading it ;)

The definition of a Formula 1 car, according to the technical regulations themselves, is:

You’ll love Roborace, then. It’s coming.

This sounds like it’s the Grand Marshal role that usually goes to actors and other minor celebrities, and all they do is give the engine start command and maybe wave the green to start the race. This isn’t race control.

Asimo has been around for almost two decades. Long enough to rise from the ashes of their previous aborted F1 program, see them return, leave, then return again.

LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS!

Yeah, not that interesting.

Curious to see what this ends up being. Growing up in a chemical manufacturing town, alarms for HCl spills never really bothered me. Will be interesting to hear just how serious this was incident was (or could have been).

That’s the problem with not using a real Grand Tourer designed with driver comfort in mind. As a homologation-special supercar, how many weight savings must have worked their way into the design of benign items?

Unfortunately, John Hindhaugh is no longer on the TV comms.

Are the men really “fans” if their attention isn’t on the cars and drivers? Sounds like the women are the real fans, and the series should stop pandering to the guys who aren’t there for the racing.

I’m thinking it’s some kind of doomsday/chemical weapon attack. Bust up and weaponize the planet, salt the Earth, kill anyone on the ground type stuff.

That was the plan, build a car so fast that even Scott Tucker could win with it. You’ve heard the legend of the DSR, right?

Pretty sure Microsoft didn’t pay a dime to get it on the car in the first place, it was just there to make the car look less suspicious.

The problem there isn’t feminism, the problem is that it’s counter-productive to growing the series. Do they really attract more new fans than they potentially turn away?

Generally, the issue is that this can reinforce stereotypes. Basically, the subset of people who would point to this as the example of why they’re skeptical of even competent women.

He’s definitely hot-headed at the track, but away from it he’ll bend over backwards for anyone who’s hurt. Look what he did for the Clauson and Wilson families.

“More suited to Monaco than to the faster circuits” is a very nice, polite, PR-approved way of saying “it’s painfully slow.”

I still think the worst part of this is that Tony’s generally an upstanding guy. Had the Ward family not jumped immediately to accusing him of being a murderer, I get the feeling Tony would have gone out of his way to do the best he could to do right by them.

More or less, there is no lasting diplomacy with a caliphate. It’s expressly required for them to wage jihad.