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You could have gone with Spa – then you'd have had space for a thousand exclamation marks!

'A race track.' A race track? This is Spa fucking Francorchamps! That corner is Eau Rouge!

Actually, if you're breathing within 100 miles of a circuit that has ever hosted a Formula 1 grand prix, then Mr Ecclestone's lawyers would like to know why you're breathing his oxygen.

Since Bernie wrote it into the circuits' contracts that FOM owns the copyright to all footage taken at a track during an F1 event.

That's peeling skin from sunburn, dude.

That's what I get for drunk-posting on Kotaku at two in the morning. But today I am sober, and your impenetrably written sub-Adorno culture industry waffle is still impenetrable.

Shadow of Mordor has all of its fundamentals in place, and so does Jonathan's interview. Your review of his review, on the other hand… to quote Lisa Simpson, 'I know all those words but that sentence makes no sense'.

Zanardi wasn't a great Formula 1 driver, but he's one of the greatest men to have driven a Formula 1 car. A real inspiration. And, for what it's worth, a huge Lewis Hamilton fan, which makes me feel a lot better about supporting a driver that everyone thinks is a massive douchebag.

Doesn't this undermine a significant number of Lifehacker posts? "Be more organised by doing this"; "Follow this person's work schedule to be more successful"; "Take such-and-such piece of advice to be better at life". Whereas, of course, the real secret to being better at things is to know yourself well enough to do

Have we all forgiven 'racing driver' Nelson Piquet Jr for being a total arsehole? Because as great as it is to shred the tyres on an electric superwagen, this is the guy who crashed on purpose to fix an F1 race.

Sure, let's compare two completely different situations. That'll end well!

I love the way he essentially puts the car into a controlled spin to get it lined up on the apex. You could do that with the bulletproof Bridgestones, but today's Pirellis wouldn't allow it.

People complain about the sound in today's Formula 1, but to me the biggest issue is still that drivers spent the races driving

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The wheel-to-wheel action isn't even the most impressive part of the move – look how far back he comes from to make the overtake! Reminds me of another young racer passing Kimi into the same corner in 2007…

A bit more background on the Leonardo/da Vinci issue: as a bastard, Leonardo's birth name was 'Leonardo', no more, no less. It was only when he moved to Florence, where there was another artist named Leonardo, that he started referring to himself as "Leonardo da Vinci". Even then, 'da Vinci' wasn't a surname, but a

[artnerdrage]His name isn't Da Vinci, it's Leonardo. The turtles got it right, Dan Brown got it wrong.[/artnerdrage]

No worries! I wrote an article a few months ago with one badly phrased sentence in it and I ended up on the receiving end of a campaign by a group of angry nationalists. Sigh.

"It's the part I was born to play!"

I was lucky enough to be there that day. One of his last great drives.

Formula 1 requires drivers to be athletically fit. Nascar doesn't. No bullshit there, just facts.