Believe the main item for Honda preventing McLaren-Alonso from running their engine was the fact he’s still on Toyota’s payroll. There were other factors, sure, but that was the non-starter with no resolution until the WEC season is over.

It has been for the last 20+ years.

Verstappen should have been given a drive thru for the unsafe release. He compromised Bottas’ race and 5 seconds doesn’t even that.

Gotta disagree. Niki Lauda sure as hell wasn’t like that. Or Senna, or Hamilton, or Schumacher. The real greats got to be that way because their skill really set them apart.

The Honda relationship, like all relationships, is due to mistakes on both sides. It’s taken both of them massive (and multiple) changes to seemingly get things on the right track again.

They need to adjust the schedule. Of the five tracks with fewer than 20 overtakes last year, three are in the first six races of the season. Overtaking won’t open back up until France, though at least Canada can be exciting even with fewer overtakes.

Mechanic humor.

Nobody said it was “okay.” Just saying a one-off text message is going to be a hard case for harassment.

This just makes me think of all the cab drivers Uber & Lyft screwed over and ran out of business

might constitute some sort of harassment to law enforcement, but they’re not likely to act on it as active threat.

They should have about 25% of the tracks each year be “classics” that remain on the calendar every year. 50% should be a rotation of “approved” tracks that mixes it up from year to year. Finally, another 25% should be new tracks that remain on the calendar for 3-5 years to bring the F1 show to a new setting before…

It’s a clue for how the show ends. Get ready for a revolt when it comes out this has all been part of Westorld’s medieval zone.

So basically Sim Earth.

Bahrain was excellent. But the other 3 have been lacking.

Make millions hitting a ball with a stick. Have sex with loads of women that aren’t your wife. Have a domestic dispute that gets publicized by every media outlet in the world. Get divorced. Abuse drugs. Keep hoping the American media ignores the likely abuse of PEDs throughout much of your career. Fade from public…

Gee, seems like he’s gotten you interested in thing. I mean you’re obviously no fan of the sport if one man winning one tournament supposedly ruins the sport for a whole year for you.

No, it was a snooze fest. You can't win them all. But Bahrain was epic and Baku should be just as crazy as ever.

there’s no way in hell I’ll be paying to watch the sort of races we’ve seen so far this year.

The question is, how did they come up with $125 million dollars to sponsor an F1 team?

I can’t speak for Toronto but I haven’t run across many lower-end craft beers that are worse than Corona here in the DC Metro area.