I’ll caveat this with the fact that I was up in arms about both Wolff and Horner’s whining on the radio, despite firmly being a LH Mercedes fanboy. Nor do I think Masi explicitly fixed it to help Max. He just buckled under pressure of everyone’s expectations for an exciting end that he royally F’d up. This season was…

I think we should judge what happens next based on how Domenicali handles things. When I first read the quote, my interpretation was that his statement meant “enough gesturing, let’s actually take some action now.” I can see why people have interpreted it as “eh, we’ve done it long enough, let’s move on”.

Glad someone is here to say it. Just cause she’s raced in a dozen series doesn’t mean she’s any good. Just means she could bankroll her way into many series. She’s finished way way down the pack in any prominent series she’s raced in (F2, F3, GP3) even while racing for very respectable teams (Carlin, DAMS, Arden), so…

Except that’s clearly not true - if protocols were followed, we’d either have 1 green lap with unlapped backmarkers, or we’d have a finish under SC. Deviating from protocols to give another team a sporting advantage for the sake of entertainment looks bad because it is bad. Very bad. Nicky’s crash was poor luck, but…

Dude - analysis by various drivers and journalists showed marshals were still on track cleaning up by the end of lap 56. So even with a rushed unlapping job done by the end of lap 57, the regulations still would’ve needed to be skirted to finish unlapping and resume the race by the end of lap 57. Were they followed,…

Mate that’s the point. That situation is how the race should’ve unfolded were the regulations followed. However the regulations weren’t followed and handed Red Bull a significant sporting advantage.

But that is what the situation should have been if the regulations were followed. You are making the argument for Mercedes case. That the rules were bent in such a way that gave Red Bull a sporting advantage.

By the same token, you could also argue that had this not been the last race, that safe 100% would’ve ended under safety car, as the regulations dictate.

More like the Malfoy doppelgänger’s. She was perfectly fine. Her entourage was the issue.

I understand how you feel, but as far as games the strike the right balance between daily grind and causal player satisfaction; I think the Forza series is among the best. 

Forza is among the best in in game currency management. You don’t really have to grind. Just play out the campaign, maybe a few extra races and challenges on the side and you can easily get nearly any car you want. Unless you’re legit trying to get every single car including every rare event exclusive, it’s really not…

My concern is the fact that it is very very likely that Elon Musk does not have $10bn in cash to pay the purported tax bill per this article. He would have to sell a bunch of shares in Tesla to do so. Or borrow against them using them as collateral, which again, is forcing him to take financial risk, as the stock…

Why compare apples to watermelons? You don’t need to go back to Silverstone for a counterpoint. Go to Lap 1 of the same event. Similar corners and circumstances.

Take a look at images from Lap 1 on the second chicane. A more experienced and intelligent driver showed how to not mount the other car in that circumstance.

That doesn’t make Max’s driving okay. Lewis didn’t back out today because Max did the same to him Lap 1.

I fully believe that he got the penalty more for his conduct after than the incident itself. The stewards probably threw the book at him for doing the same thing to Hamilton on Lap 1, where Lewis wisely backed off (losing a position, mind you). Then when placed on the receiving end, he crashes, declares it to be the…

Not even trying to hide the bias, huh? Not one driver on the grid, bar Mazepin, is intentionally punting out a rival at that corner. Because the probability that it’s race ending for both drivers is so freaking high. Max just got a big lesson on how to win a world championship, and that’s learning when to back off…

A red flag is a termination to a race ahead of a restart. Do you also think pitting under safety cars and VSCs should be illegal? Because you gain an advantage there too. Or over cutting with a SC/VSC? These are all incidents that happen, and sometimes you can capitalize, other times you don’t. Mercedes seem to…

But he made it just fine even with the impact with Max straightening his steering slightly and running him wider. The telemetry showed Hamilton lifted and braked earlier than Max before the collision. This honestly wasn’t the divebomb people are trying to characterize it as. Lewis would have made the corner fine,…

Max isn’t a compromising driver either. People applaud him for being the sort of “back off or crash” driver akin to Senna. Normally, the title protagonists always did back off, because they knew they had a lot more to lose by not doing so. But this time, Max is one of the protagonists, and he got a bit of the no…