The “running condition” is called “running Pirelli tyres”.

No Noel, it is you who will “never work again.”

Not to mention that reportedly the power unit needs replacing, and the rules limit how many of those they are allowed to use in a season. In fact I’d suggest that will probably cause them more issues than the damage cost in this case...

“Attack Mode” is a bit gimmicky but at least it is the same for everyone and it does add a strategy element.

I’d completely forgotten about the power steering issues that cropped up too. Motorsport.com now have an article up titled “Loeb calls on XE supplier to fix issues that cost Saudi win” which mentions it and other technical issues that the teams had (although the article text doesn’t really support the wording of the…

Then a couple of laps on the rulebook men come to their pits and say no you cant drive like that.The rear window also needs to come out!
To this day i never learned why that is, but anyways they made short work of it!
Ive always wondered if this gave him an unfair advantage- less wind resistance

To quote the official website:

The main take-home about desertification, for me, was how much it makes an area unsuitable for head-to-head racing!

It’s a fair question, but then I’d ask: How much might that figure (whatever it actually is) be influenced by perceptions that motorsport is a male sport? How many women are put off and never become interested, who might have if that were not the case?

Sandbagging was cancelled after all the sand leaked out onto the track between sessions ;)

I live thousands of miles away from Texas, with an ocean between here and there, and I had heard about the extreme weather, power cuts, bursting pipes and so on - as it was happening, not after the fact.

Headshot Skippy with the non-lethal mod = Super easy takedown of (most of) the cyberpsychos, at least with a fairly high level V, I found.

But more importantly, do we think the “maclunkey” in Bib Fortuna’s dialogue was deliberate or a coincidence? ;)

How very boring and probably accurate. I may have been overthinking it ;)

Given how they are angled pointing towards the rear of the car rather than the front I would imagine they are not intakes, but perhaps exits of ducts from lower down the front.

Codemasters own Slightly Mad Studios, and EA are buying Codemasters (as mentioned in the article)... so nope.

There’s a similar thing with guns. I’ve found them randomly lying around all over the place (and not just after a firefight or something where it’d make sense). Also rolls of cash :D

As opposed to the Moderna vaccine that requires two doses, and the Oxford vaccine that requires two doses...

And then a marshall crossing the track carrying a fire extinguisher, an event that has never ended badly in the past /s

To back up your first point 700 horsepower is higher than is claimed for the GT3 and GTE variants (“around 600" and “in excess of 600", respectively).