Marquez got a ride, Rossi was actually being considered for a seat at Ferrari. Big difference. 

Marquez raced for Honda though. Maybe if this were a collab with Red Bull. Additionally, Rossi already has prior Formula 1 experience, having almost signed wuth Ferrari back in the mid 2000s.

This isn’t Vale’s first rodeo. He testedfir Ferrari in the mid 2000s and word has it that Todt wanted him to drive alongside Schumacher. Additionally, he was also considered as Massa’s possible replacement after his accident. 

Correction, rotaries were allowed in some form up until the 2014 regulations came in.

I actually daily drive the Vios sedan that this is based on (well, the pre-facelift one). It’s an econobox alright, but I’d still put it a step above similar offerings from Nissan, Suzuki, or Mitsubishi.

There is a Yaris that the rest of the world gets, while the U.S. market is given a re-badged Mazda 2.

Doesn’t this set a dangerous precedent and help embolden Twitch/stream thieves?

It’s not about the basic shape of the tyre. It’s about their shape under load, for example, how the contact patch squishes and deforms under acceleration and cornering. The teams have been using that for aerodynamic effect since at least the early 2000s (IIRC Ferrari actually complained about the Michelin teams doing…

The moment amber turn signals and the US not making them mandatory was mentioned, I knew that video was coming up.

Or that have no off position at all. 

Well, everyone has gotten used to the ‘19 tyres already, so for them, it makes sense to stick to the older set.

If they run out of material, they can just crib from the games then (especially TW3).

The problem was that they would have to adjust their equipment as well. The tyres were degrading as expected, but they were deforming differently from this year’s tyres, which the aero people didn’t like.

It's because the tyres messed with the holy grail of F1 - aerodynamics. According to Ross Brawn, the tyred performed as expected in terms of degredation, but they deformed differently from this year's tyres, messing up the cars' aero. 

They actually lasted that long. It’s the FIA that mandates that tyres must only last after so-and-so laps after all. The issue is that making them do so changes the wat they deform under load, which the aerodynamicist didn’t like.

Because the new tyres will be the same. The FIA mandates how the tyres perform. 

According to Ross Brawn, the tyres are deforming differently from this years, which is messing up with the team's aero setups. 

According to Ross Brawn, the tyres are performing the way they want in terms of degredation. The issue it seems is aerodynamics. They’re not deforming the way the teams want them to, messing with their aero.

From what I’ve read, the issue isn’t even that the tyres were bad - they actually performed as expected. However, they deformed differently under load which affected the aerodynamics.

The Grand Tour had the right idea when they named that one corner at the Eboladrome "Your Name Here."