lol and if their victim didn’t hand over his keys he’d very likely also have been a casualty of “comply or die”.

So many stories of young drivers, fast cars, and bodies of water.

Let’s not forget that Senna did it twice! He lost the championship by getting DQ’d in ‘89, but won it in ‘90.

It feels like someone looked at the awful one-lap qualifying format of the early 2000s and said, Let’s design a track for that!

Don’t forget to thank the dude who designed the circuit for coming up with a race track that virtually guarantees red flags and safety cars.

To be fair to the FIA, both Senna and Schumacher lost one championship each from deploying the yield or crash tactic.

It absolutely was “sudden braking”. The full text of the steward’s decision is available on: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/full-fia-stewards-verdict-verstappen-saudi-gp-f1-penalty/6854890/

Bummer. On a scale of 1 to Jeremy Clarkson, how bad are you when it comes to choosing when to buy/sell cars?

Keiichi Tsuchiya hated the way the new NSX drives on track. On the road it’s ok, but on track and at the limit the fancy electronics make it unpredictable and generally not fun.

AFAIK it’s based on the PDK gearbox, just modified to become a manual. There’s an article somewhere explaining how the shift rods tie up to the gear sets, but it’s just as confusing as Torch’s decals.

Porsche 7MT needs some love confusion too

Not surprising at all if you think about it.

It took me until yesterday to realize that the Alpine team is the same Renault team that Alonso won his two WDCs with. I wonder if some of the guys who were there with him in ‘05-06 are still around.

That is insane. I found a report with video showing the new river channel running through the town:

So basically Ford is saying their shiny new electric van has less range than the average a commercial van would need daily!

That’s because we essentially run them like steam engines, mostly to keep the radioactive stuff from contacting the outside. If we’re not as concerned about safety then there should be a couple of ways to get more thermal efficiency out of them. =)

Two points:

1) The 2003 and 2004 cars qualified slow because they qualified with their starting race fuel load. If they were allowed to run light they’d be just as fast as the modern cars IMO.

I think that still depends somewhat on the course though. There are some where the 2004 records still stand.

The V10 era was one of F1's best IMO, so there’s no shame in being beaten by those. Even the current F1 cars are barely faster than the 2003-2004 V10s.