I’m genuinely impressed that they’re advertising it as being intended to be raced, as is from the factory.

Can we just replace nascar with supercars?

I think one of the weird things about learning about the death of someone who I respected so much is how I reacted when I heard.

Goddamnit man, I’m at work right now.

Online echo chambers aren’t a matter of a lack of ‘normal’ socialization, they exist because ‘normal’ socialization i.e. face-to-face puts you in situations where you deal with people that you 1) probably don’t like or respect very much to begin with and 2) have nothing in common with aside from what put you both in…

This article reminded me that we don’t have any specific out and out genocides going on and haven’t really for a while. We’ve had civil wars and ethnic cleansing but most of that results in refugees instead of specific and intentional mass murder ala Rawanda and Yugoslavia in the 90s. Also, most of the civil wars and…

It’s like a tiny Multipla.

I mean, Pato listed Fernando as one of his heroes as a young driver in that very video.

Is that the bob in question?  Because I was a kid when this came out but that exact look was one of those visual identifiers I remember from a period of my childhood that said “this is a Karen”, and I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this.

Can you cover your portion of the rent and observe personal space expectations?

Yeah that’s gonna show up in at least one animated blockbuster at some point.

It’ll be like the NIO, or along the lines of the FXX, except they can actually possess the car instead of paying for the privilege of accessing it sometimes. Track only, only with Lotus techs there to look after it.

Part of being a team principal is using judgement and connections to hire the right people. Claire’s problems have stemmed from a consistent unwillingness to change things from how her father did them, or a lack of confidence in doing so, or the entirely valid and perhaps likely possibility that her father is using…

“I drive one when I go to the country club, and one when I go check on my rental properties.’

The sad thing is that their victims hate the rest of us so much that they are happy to be scammed. So the real question is: how do we get on on scamming them?

Yeah the main thing Haas is doing is surviving. They’ll see what the budget cap changes offer them as they approach and we get a better idea of how other teams are going to cope, mainly the big ones. Remember that Ferrari is still getting data from them in part exchange for parts, just not wind tunnel access or…

I love these but

Add in that these stops have showers and lounges and hot food restaurants on site most of the time, and you’ve got the perfect place to spend an hour or so while your EV charges back up.

I particularly appreciate that he started his team off on the design process by giving them his Alpine A110 to disassemble and examine because that’s the best car in the world in his opinion, right now.

People bring that kind of thing up with some regularity and tbh it would only really work in sim racing.  If you allotted drivers to teams based on inverse performance then it would be sort of like reverse grid racing with all of the potential issues F1 hates with that idea, except you’d also have a hell of a time…