To be fair to Tilke the man does love elevation changes according to the interviews I have seen of him, but what can he do when Russia or UAE comes knocking and says that you need to build the track on top of the flat Winter Olympic park or part of greater marina development plan.

He is Russian and nobody is going to arrest him stating that. He just isn’t racing under Russian flag.

Development cost limit was already decided for 2021. What has been outside of that has been driver salaries and the top 3 senior team members salaries. They are now adding drivers a salary cap.

To me Viper’s back just ruins it and makes it look cheap. 

Exactly. Of course this needs to be investigated and there are always room for improvements, but if anything I’m year after year impressed how well the tethers work.

Haas crash towards the bottom started well before Ferrari’s engine downgrade though.

All of Nokia’s lawsuits go through Nokia Technologies that retains all Nokia’s patents, as well as investment arm.

Motorola had a short go with RAZR for couple of years in US most of all as the primary CDMA market, but Nokia as the father of GSM was absolutely dominant from late 90's till 2008 at their height selling over 400 million phones annually and controlling totally the market from cheap to Symbian smartphones to luxury…

Their decision couple of weeks ago seems like the opposite and they easing the pressure on Binotto. The recent reorganisation and keeping Binotto as team principal, while Elkann and Camillieri publicly giving him their support. Most importantly they are giving bigger role to Cardile, and Bryne who was part of…

I would not be surprised at all if the current car is build around Leclerc’s driving style and far as Vettel’s support goes he is a total afterthought when it comes to improving the car for him. I don’t feel like that is a tinfoil hat perspective to take.

I really don’t see him going to indy. His salary is up there, while certainly much lower next year if he continues in F1, and he has not shown any interest of moving and racing in US with his family being situated in Switzerland. He is also very well connected across the F1 paddock.

This is nothing compared to soccer where you truly have dynasties where the wealth differences can be astronomical in the national leagues and in Champions League, as well as these teams actually dominating their national leagues.

I mean that is absolutely big part of it. The whole BLM movement is alien to many in Europe and at the very early part when it was linked to police brutality there was even a larger divide to US. People had no interested to create us vs them mentality concerning local police.

Ross Brawn already commented this point back in June by saying that even if the FIA sporting code mentions the 3 continent it doesn’t matter and because of the unrepresented situation FIA will mark this season winners (team and driver) as world champion even if all races are held in Europe.

They do a lot of platform and part sharing and rebadging all around Asia, South America and Europe. Just as a one example Renault’s Flint plant in France produces mix of Nissan and Renault cars as well as loads of components globally shared by both.

Their bread and butter stuff have not been doing great in their home market, but they were early on with Nissan Leaf, and Renault Zoe that has been Europe’s best selling electric car couple of years now.

I think Harley is flawed in too many ways to start unpacking here, and I can’t see how this strategy will save them.  

To get more money by spreading even wider in the market and get even more out of their modular car platforms? By all accounts it worked seeing their rise in profitability and as the largest car manufacturer.

It’s really hard to say much with the information given in the article. It’s very common across Europe and US that EBITDA is big part of bonus system. Also achieving the highest bonuses also lower EBITDA, so you often need to do more than just achieve the goal to get the best possible bonuses.

This doesn’t really deflect what you said, but Audi had price and the looks on wagon/avant for a good decade in their main market were over 50% of the C-class A4's are wagons. The amount of white A4 avants in these parts in 2010 was comical.