The spoon single-handedly saved Britain from the Spanish armada and colonised America. Also, it has a squirrel on the end.

(Did I mention how very jealous I am of your job, Orlove?)

May as well have been on vacation: had a 7,000 word copy deadline for the magazine I write for last Friday. Goodbye, life.

As a die-hard F1 fan who reads all the forums, this is genuinely news to me. Excellent work, Jalopnik. Treat yourselves to a beer on me.

I played that one as well. The idea is that you are still physically in the world but obscured, so you can only see shadows.

Let's be honest, it probably all happened in Tommy Westphall's head anyway.

By Joe Saward, an excellent journalist. Grumpy bugger, but knows the sport inside-out.

I think we all know that what F1 really needs is more jumps.

"Try to make a pass while remaining on the ground"? This dude begs to differ.

"Try to make a pass while remaining on the ground"? This dude begs to differ.

Yep, because the 918 and Godzilla have one killer feature in common: AWD torque vectoring.

The 918's ring time has just been confirmed as 6'57" by Porsche. Not as fast as the rumours, but seriously quick nevertheless.

File this one under "take with a pinch of salt", but someone on the McLaren Life forums is claiming the 918 just set a 6:48 'ring time.

I like it. And this is coming from someone who thinks the F in F-type stands for fugly.

And Honda spent half a billion designing the car, more than on any other F1 car in history – so much that in the initial stages they were developing three separate designs simultaneously until they worked out which one had the most potential.

Alex Wurz mentioned it a few weeks ago. Can't find the exact interview, but F1-techy Craig Scarborough mentions it here: https://twitter.com/ScarbsF1/statu…

Almost relevant fact: I found out the other day that LMP1 cars produce a lot more downforce than an F1 car, but have slower overall laptimes because of the higher minimum weight.

Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust, is that you?

Shame that McLaren have never let out the TAG 911 for a road test, but nothing says 'gigantic crash' like a 1000bhp widowmaker.

Best AOTD in months. Bravo, gentlemen.