People are already pointing out that the FIA took away Ide’s superlicense halfway through his season. I’m not fully familiar with all of the rest, how many actually got booted by the FIA?

I get increasingly worried that people think that vaccines prevent you from getting a disease, when what they actually do is make it marginally less likely that you’ll die from the disease.  You can still catch it, and you can still spread it.

Exactly my immediate thought.  Stupid pointless decals, otherwise amazing build.

They’ll sue everyone in sight, that’s how these things work. The owners of the ship, the company that contracted them, the Egyptian government, the companies that helped move the ship...

The Sainz stuff wasn’t heat at all, it’s just a joke.  The F1 criticism is very valid, although I’ve seen it pointed out elsewhere that F1 really doesn’t have much to go with in terms of highlights due to the fact that the cars have had so much trouble competing wheel to wheel for so long.  They’re either stuck with…

I don’t think Red Bull has been capable of running two competitive drivers due to their driver development model, because I’m not sure they’ve figured out how to train drivers to help develop the car. This season will show whether the team itself is interested in working with both of their drivers or not, because as…

I think the only driver who has really gotten away with “outstaying his welcome” is Kimi, because his mindset is clearly ‘why would I turn down a paycheck to do a job I like’ and I don’t think it’s possible to outstay your welcome at that point.

If he wins his 8th I’d be genuinely astonished if he comes back next year. I don’t think he cares for the politics anymore and he’s proven his point as a driver by beating Schumi’s records. Besides, the XE team and his various other business ventures will keep him busy, he may want to try to get involved as a team…

They look like off the rack halloween costumes?

I really don’t know what to think at this point, because I don’t know how long Fiat will stay here and Alfa’s two non-sportscar models have had serious reliability teething problems to put it lightly. Given how many brands PSA/FCA now have in the stable, the question is more ‘which brands will live’ rather than ‘which…

“Have you noticed there are always at least 20 cars in the drive thru?”

Even Steve wouldn’t eat that.

They were involved in the rules discussion as an interested party (and prior to Stroll the potential to join with a Valkyrie hypercar was a lot higher as you noted), so they had input just like Porsche, Audi, Ferrari, etc. Now that they’re definitely no longer partnered with Red Bull and Stroll brought the brand into…

Prior to being bought by Stroll, they were one of the companies that was seriously considering entering the LMH class. Stroll buying them out while he already owns an F1 team reoriented their priorities pretty much permanently, Aston will not be going back to Le Mans any time soon.

Nice to see that the XE quallies were only shown on youtube in the US and, also, geoblocked because FS1 picked up the license with what I assume was the grand total of whatever change they had in the couch cushions.

Interesting that SCG are saying the power and weight requirements for LMH were defined in response to demands from Aston, who will never run an LMH car now.

The dealers handle a lot of brands, their dealer system works differently than the US where the companies expect you to focus only on their associated brands. I assume the dealers who work on Royal Enfields also work on Indians, Harleys, etc.

Give him the car for a win? That’s crazy, way too valuable.

Thank you, that was my first thought as well.

You know you can import kit cars so long as they don’t have an engine, right?