Hasegawa and Honda are making Abouteboul and Renault look totally competent in comparison. Honda are consistently having a nightmare with this engine formula. I know people say they rushed in a year early but I don’t think they ever would have been ready. I think there are major engine philosophy issues,…

Man Stoffel and Sainz would be such an excellent young pairing! Though STR are miles ahead of the Mclaren omnishambles right now

The ending to this comment. So much this.

Excellent work. And @amaakaams, thanks for your reply as well. I know what you mean, it starts becoming tricky once we start thinking that way. I’m just glad I remember Mclaren previously being owned by some American before the Dennis years.

Alright, I was unsure of the Williams-BMW years counted. Sauber though definitely had a change of ownership in the middle. I wonder if being pedantic Mclaren has a case of a change of ownership, from when Ojjeh and Big Ron took over from it’s previous ownership (was it American at the time? I’m hazy about that point)

Sauber was in the mid-2000s BMW Sauber till BMW left the sport and Peter Sauber bought his team back. Williams in the early 2000s as Williams-BMW (I’m pretty sure they counted as a BMW factory team then, the BMW-Sauber at least was definitely a BMW factory team that was built on the acquired infrastructure of the then…

Had a London Delhi Air India flight a few years ago, where the plane was then going to make a final hop to Amritsar. This was around Easter. The plane was exclusively full it seemed of OAPs, some I might add could barely walk, let alone take the rigours of take off and landing imo. Well sure enough the toilets were…

what a genuinely handsome car this. always liked the insignia, new one looks spiffing.

When Martin Whitmarsh was booted, didn’t they get rid of the traditional team principal role, at the very least in name, when they appointed Eric Bouillier? Maybe a similar restructuring is being done now, with the obvious CEO position being shuttered for Zak’s role. All of this can be forgiven if it ultimately leads…

that certainly sounds grim. The car business and their applied technology businesses are sure doing well but it becomes difficult if your raison d’etre, the race team is such a shambles. I definitely feel Ron maybe should’ve swallowed his pride and taken a smaller offer back when Mclaren still had reasonable cache of…

haha, I’m just trying to visualise the Furai design language on a minivan. that’s such a comically bad idea i can’t believe they went through with it.

So glad someone brought this up. I don’t think I’ll ever see a more alluring prototype racer ever. It was exotic yet not OTT, fantastical yet so real. Ugh, such a pity it was taken from this world.

Oh for sure, butting heads just shows he’s a bit of a headstrong guy to put it mildly. You want that in your leaders. As for the state of play in the industry as a petrolhead I feel a bit uncomfortable at some T-shirt wearing tech jockey calling the shots when you have such characters like stephan winkelmann or…

Take a bow son

so glad someone translated this.

surely he’d butt heads at Apple? The petrolhead in me shudders at the thought of a tech company owning a vaunted racing marque and now supercar maker like Mclaren but who am I to stand like a luddite in the way of progress if it’s inevitable that tech and auto merge.

unproductive is literally one of the best ways I’ve heard the Hulk described. underwhelmed is what I was going to go with, given how much I rated him initially, only to my conviction fade away with time.

what are the odds his character reveals your military plans and maps in an ill advised manner of some sort?

by jove. what a splendid idea old chap

What a handsome car. I have to say Josef Kaban is sculpting some really neat, sharp cars for Skoda. Very impressed, especially with how quick they got the production version out.