I mean...they lived in a literal bubble. Their experience is not transferable. International politics is a relentless, anarchic, zero-sum Hobbesian world.

I watched that it it was so frazzled I felt like this

I thought I was going nuts when there wasn’t a commercial during the race. Pretty stoked to see that they are going to keep going this way.

I miss the Hobbs, Matchett, and Diffey trio, but it was damn nice to have no commercials

I don’t want to belittle ESPN actually making a good move here, but Mothers’ is the true goddamn hero of this story. I rarely, and I really mean very very rarely, make purchase decisions consciously based on sponsorship, but I’ll probably be going out of my way to use them as much as possible when I make my upcoming…

Just for this I am switching over to all Mother’s products on my car. Great move by ESPN and Mother’s. It made the experience awesome. I got to lap 30 before I realized oh shit I’ve been watching the whole thing and can’t remember a commercial.

As long as they don’t do it like NASCAR “commercial free” where 1/3 of the screen is plastered with the sponsor’s name and the announcers reflect on how great it is not to have commercials during this “break” thanks to the amazing sponsor.

I saw commercials in the side-by-side so....

Honestly, the ESPN coverage of Bahrain was the best viewing experience I’ve ever had as a US-based F1 fan. Sorry F1 experience, ESPN’s more than enough for me. Gotta save that dough to buy more Mother’s polish! (which I actually did get after seeing a number of folks on the F1 subreddit saying they liked it, then…

That means they didn’t read my feedback.

Someone pinch me I must be dreaming.

the feedback we received was both polite and constructive

This incident has me wondering... since Haas bought its suspension components from Ferrari (among other things), is the wheel hub/nut the same? and is there inherently something wrong with the design and subsequent tire change procedure?

Honestly, blaming Kimi is just dumb. Is he supposed to have eyes on the back of his head with x-ray vision to see the mechanic’s leg? There is zero way for him to know that all body parts weren’t clear and there’s no reason he should take responsibility for it. Whoever dropped the car early or whatever triggered the…

Yeah, this. I’m not sure what people wanted Kimi to do, but I really think a lot of people are completely walking around the very well known fact that he’s really reserved, and probably wasn’t too clear about what happened to begin with when the camera was rolling. Not everyone wears their emotions on their skin, and…

In fairness, I don’t think he had any idea what happened at the time. The team just told him to stop without giving details as to why.

He’s Finnish. They are just not very used to signal strong emotions externally, I met a lot of Finns back in the day when I worked closer to Nokia and it’s just kinda the way they talk. I’m sure he feels bad about it.

Why doesn’t Jalopnik have an article about the race itself? It was the most exciting race in a while, and there’s just a story about Gasly and two about the Kimi incident. Real deal edge of your seat stuff for those last 7 laps. Battles throughout, accident between Ham/Ver, Hamilton passing 3 cars in one turn. Such…

I was about to comment and say $62000 isn’t huge for Ferrari...they charge clients that much just to wear their FXX speedo’s that have to be returned to the factory when not in use and ONLY used during sanctioned swims with at least 5 Ferrari techs monitoring the clients blood pressure and oxygen flow.

The light went green because there was 4 tires on the car, the left rear never moved.