Possibly, but Verstappen had been slow all the way down the straight. Hamilton refused to pass him when he was slowing, which is the only reason he was still behind him when Max braked.  Both drivers were playing games, Hamilton lost part of his wing and Max got a meaningless 10s penalty.  In the end Hamilton came out…

“brake checking”. When you’ve been slowing for the entire straight to let someone by, and they still stay behind you, what exactly are you supposed to do to get them to go by? If he swerved one way or the other Hamilton may have decided to go that way at the same time and then he gets rear-ended and penalized for…

Does not have: RWD or AWD

Only problem there is that they’re all out of his specified price range.  GXP manuals cost the same or more than they did brand new.

I think what they need to admit to themselves is that unless they can figure out the sound issue, motorsports will die with the ICE.  Sure, the drivers are having fun, and the teams are into it, but I’m not going to pay to watch a bunch of overgrown slot cars silently drive around a track.

Honestly the solution is simple, just make the electric motors really really loud.  Gearboxes would help too, but you get no sensation of what speed the car is going with no change in noise.  Sound is a huge part of sports, not just motorsports.  Imagine having a football game with no crowd noise.  Nobody wants to…

Correct, it’s a system that relies on a human to do something we’re even worse at than driving.  Which is why it’s a stupid idea to begin with.

Great review, Elizabeth.  Hearing the names “Bruce McLaren” and “Jackie Stewart” just instills images of titans of motorsport.  They were famous from long before I was born, so it’s a bit of an epiphany when you realize there was a time when nobody knew who they were.

That’s not what she said.  She said “intentionally used as a weapon against large gatherings of people”.  That means the person intentionally sought out a large gathering of people with the specific intent to hurt them with their vehicle.  The OP’s comment indicates this was not the case, so I’d say it’s extremely…

Ah, so it’s all the kids who grew up with them thinking they were way better than they really were, like boomers with muscle cars. Got it.

Wait, who says cars peaked in the ‘90s?  I was a teen in the ‘90s, and most of the cars sucked until 1998 or so when they finally figured out how to make 300hp again.

Agreed. The only difference is that Hamilton avoided Verstappen so neither crashed. In this case, the outcome absolutely determined the penalty. Which is not how it was assessed in Silverstone, so I’m not sure where that leaves us.

I fully believe a new ICE every week is their intention.  Maybe they’ll squeeze 2 weeks out of them if they have to, but I doubt it.  Hamilton will be starting in 5th every race and blowing past everyone.

Yes.

No, we realize it.  I also think they’ve given up on reliability because they’ve realized if they run the engine at a reliable power level they’re slower than Red Bull.  So new engines and full power every week it is.

So far this year most of his crashes have been someone else running into him.

I don’t think you know how any of this works. She didn’t pay to go walk on the grid, she was a guest of Red Bull for advertising purposes. She wasn’t there to look at the cars, she was there for the paycheck.

This was my take as well.  It’s F1's show, and the grid walk portion has been given to Martin Brundle, like it or not.  If you’re given the privilege of being one of the select few allowed to stroll along the grid while teams are trying to prep their cars, don’t be surprised if someone asks for a few moments of your…

Here’s the part you’re missing: it literally is his business. His job is to interview interesting people on the grid. If they don’t want to talk to him, that’s fine, but it is literally his job to try.

Haha, you think she paid to get in? She was paid to show up, if anything. And she wasn’t even the problem (although I doubt anyone would have been worse off without her there), it was her bodyguards who caused the whole stupid situation.