Shady sponsors will always be a part of F1. They were there before Moneytron and they will be there after Crypto.com. Money is all F1 really cares about after all, the only difference nowadays is that Liberty understands that everyone needs to make money, unlike in Bernie’s day where he was the only one supposed to…

Yeah, but this is Gundam. What goes on here is arguably more toned down than what you’d see in the animé shows. Nothing here can just flash step behind another unit for one. Nor can they suddenly control the flow of time and/or summon the spirits of the dead.

No. 6, really wish more places were like Japanese car culture where anything and everything (from drift cars, stance to even lowriders and donks) is accepted, just as long as it’s done well.

Except is was Max’s signing that caused the current system to be put in place in the first place.

The system is working as intended as the intention is to make it so that drivers have to go through F2 to be eligible for F1.

If anything, the fact that Tsunoda has already been resigned and Gasly has not means that things are still fluid, especially with Alpine supposedly chasing the latter for an all French lineup.

As the Piastri incident shows, “ties” mean nothing without a contract. De Vries has already admitted to being in talks with Marko and Red Bull. Meanwhile, after announcing Latifi’s departure, Williams looks to be in a holding pattern to see if Sargeant will have enough super license points.

Not if Red Bull has its way and puts him into Alpha Tauri.

At this point, might as well accept that Logan Sargeant is the only hope to get an American on the grid in the short term since all he needs is to finish 5th in F2 this year to get enough superlicense points for an F1 drive with Williams.

It’s less about “respect” and more about money. Having drivers got through F2 puts money in the FIA’s (and F2 managing director Bruno Michel’s) pockets. They basically don’t want anyone getting into F1 without going through the feeder series (like Max did, except not for the “official” reasons stated—his age).

Looks like it has the right amount of rust to just about get David Tracy interested were he still in Jalopnik.

The problem with bringing this on the Dakar is how to keep it topped up and ready to race over the entire length of the thing. At least Audi’s take on this has a DTM4-cylinder range extender keeping the batteries charged up back.

That whole Max this hasn’t really mattered for awhile now. The real reason for the super license point system is to continue to keep drivers going through the FIA’s feeder system, eventually going through F2 before going into F1.

In what universe are the majority of anime-based games are 2D fighters.?Right now, only this and DBFZ exist. The rest are usually 3D arena fighters or Musou games.

The initial builds of the hulls are usually still done on either slipways or drydocks, it’s just the final finishing and adding all of the amenities that are done in these facilities.

Isn’t this what those devices rental companies plug into the OBD2 are for?

More importantly, so did Lewis.

They’re basically doing the same things every other French team has done, prioritize being French over anything else. Hence the open secret that Gasly is going there next year while Red Bull works magic to give Herta a seat at AT.

The RacingNews365 article on it shows just how much of a shitshow things are at Alpine. All this was handled by just one person, causing the contract process to be delayed. Eventually, they just decided to write “legally binding” on a non-legally binding head of terms and try to pass that off as a contract.

While I understand the impetus to want a driver to recognize your contract...