Pretty sure all that land has been farmed for centuries. So no wilderness. And while it's nice to look at sometimes I don't think agriculture counts as "natural beauty" being the work of mankind and all.

An IndyCar driver and an F2 driver walk into a bar. Who gets more respect? The IndyCar driver, because the races are longer, faster, more dangerous and closer in competition. Ask yourself, why do so many former F1 drivers refuse to drive ovals? Just saying...

Yea, you don’t win as much as he has by being an idiot.

Lol.  Finally said something sensible?  Have you heard of Mattia Binotto?  Horner is one of the sharper team bosses.

Do you know what typical rules of engagement I dealt with while deployed to Iraq in 2003?

Wait until you find out how they get the limo overseas in the first place. 

A shuttle crammed with world leaders--with or without the U.S. President--seems like a pretty bad idea in terms of security in general.  Sure, maybe nobody has real beef with the PM of Belgium, but a terrorist attack on (what I presume) a vehicle with a whole gaggle of world leaders would be a big ugly deal.

No, no. It’s way more obvious than that. Presidents ARE the vampires! That’s just the limo’s snack bar.

Well that’s a no brainer. No US president is going to be allowed to ride in an unarmored bus crammed with group of other world leaders. Don’t have to be Secret Service to figure that one out.

it was basically Ferrari and Merc throwing a hissy fit when they failed to sign him.

“While the FIA and Liberty Media were entirely behind the idea, the teams could find a consensus on a single proposal.”

wait, are you suggesting that there are fans of drivers _other than Verstappen_ who are assholes? doesn’t this go against the church of max-haters orthodoxy?  I thought only Max fans were bad?  I’m so confused!

what’s next? an article that calls out the brits for being the assholes they are to anybody not british?

It’s got a lot of bat-mobile vibes going on

I agree it sucks. they are not commedians. But I disagree with “Never being a thing” since it WAS a thing.  For at least 20 years with the exact airline in the story.   I can give tons of examples.

Yeah, see that’s just us getting old(er). Do NOT go to the doctor. Those kids think they know EVERYTHING.

Why on earth is restricted not the default on this? This should be an opt in not an opt out, or at the very least, set the default to contacts only. I have never once been like “this entire room of strangers needs something from me”.

Ultimately the development penalty (less wind tunnel and CFD time) coupled with the budget cap will take some time to really be effective. They might find the need to tweak the percentages a bit over the years, but I really think the groundwork has been laid for the other teams to catch up. But it’s more honest than…

Eh....it’s not like Perez was obliterating people. If you really dig into it, even Alpine aren’t far away from having a competitive car.

I honestly thought that someone, anyone at Ferrari with a high enough pay grade would have taken note of how bad their “race strategy” has been over the last 14 years and made a change. 

This seems overblown. If you factor out absolute boneheaded-ness from Ferrari management (you can leave in the mechanical issues and a couple eff-ups from LeClerc, RB/Max has had both of those too), this is 1000% still a competitive championship race. LeClerc has had Verstappen on pace multiple times this year as it’s…