Who said that this is some “professional service” anyway? Literally all I can tell by this tweet is that if volunteers are available they can explain the features of the car to new owners so that the sales staff can work on paperwork for the dozens of people expecting their vehicles soon. This isn’t a problem that…

That makes too much sense for these self-righteous asshats to understand. Can’t understand why its allegedly unethical for enthusiasts to help the company.

I’d argue he’s neither, but him and Tesla get a needlessly negative rap all the time. They are on for another record quarter, but you won't hear that around these parts. Nope, only negativity.

If people are willing to do it, why the hell not? If you offer money, you’ll get people who want to do it for the money. If you ask people to do it for free, then you only get people who really care enough to do it. Whether they are or aren’t benefitting a for-profit company or a billionaire is irrelevant. If people…

The problem people have is because its a direct benefit to the company. Apparently you have to go do it in some dark cave so there is no marketing benefit for the company whose product you are praising. 

I don’t think the disdain for the Tesla is because of its followers. It’s because of the insane negativity and wanting the company to not succeed for one reason or another. 6 months ago it was because they couldn’t hit their weekly production targets. Now they hit it very consistently and are on for a record quarter.…

This is ridiculous. Tesla fans shouting the praises of their car are basically doing the job that a marketing team should be doing since Tesla doesn’t have one. Is that also not fine since the company “can’t be bothered to pay for” a marketing team themselves? Word of mouth and car reviews is practically the only way…

F1 cars aren’t designed for ovals though. Not just mechanical and aero setup but the engine itself. They aren’t meant to be on full throttle for an entire race distance. Primarily, with 3 ICEs for 21 races, running full throttle for a whole race would drastically reduce their service life. They’d probably have to…

Actually it’s because he’s racing for Toyota in WEC... Sure, they’d be salty, but they’ve said they would supply an engine in the right conditions. I’m sure they’d love to be  apart of Alonso’s success story (assuming it happens) of attaining the Triple Crown.

Sebastian Vettel made a solid pass on Verstappen on the first lap that could have stuck, had there not been a safety car

A flat oval? Are you for real? The straights would need to be like 2 miles long for them to get any meaningful slipstream to go for a pass. This is literally the worst idea for F1. Most teams can’t afford it, and who the hell wants to build or even watch cars on a flat fking oval? “Oval racing” with the insane…

I disagree. Verstappen has made more errors and dumb moves this season than Kvyat did in 2015 and 2016 before he got dropped. Red Bull needed a reason to drop Kvyat, and he handed it to them there. Even without that, I somehow doubt they’d have kept Kvyat for the remainder of the season, even if he was performing as…

To be fair, Kvyat was made and destroyed by Red Bull. People forget his brilliant drive the weekend before his Russian GP madness.

I think Horner ruled it out, saying he’d take a massive pay cut to do it. I’m guessing Red Bull pay him the bare minimum for his F1 involvement and the majority of his money comes from FE and WEC.

I have no problem with diverse boards, as long is it isn’t diversity for diversity’s sake. If someone is more qualified, it shouldn’t matter what race they are. Unfortunately, you can’t really quantify how qualified a person is, so it’s always going to be shooting blind.

I agree its not unreasonable, but I don’t think it should be forced and done for the sake of some social “rule”. Ideally, you have a pile of people who want the job and you pick the best one, irrespective of race (I realize who naively optimistic this is). But I think what’s worst is if you say, “oh, our quota means…

Yeah, at two races before McLaren gave him a whole new chassis... Then they were back on level terms. The car “setup” usually can be done individually. But the overall development direction will obviously bias towards Alonso regardless because he is a 2x champ. That’s still no excuse for being 14-0 this year in quali…

Yeah, since Stef, none of the F1 writers are too good on here, but this was a whole new level of bad. Seemed like Jalopnik or Elizabeth, whoever took the decision to write this article, just looked and said “everyone else is writing a sob story for Stoffel, we ought to do one too!” and just wrote from memory without…

Yeahh not sure why that was called out. In a country that’s like 90% white, you wouldn’t expect anything else. Unless the expectation now is the percentages of races and genders on the boards of companies have to match local demographics.. Which would be very strange.

I’m sorry, but do you actually watch/know anything about F1? This is completely clueless journalism. Initially laughable is your inclusion of Hamilton in the “old guard” category, while Vettel is “the next generation” and amongst Verstappen? You know Vettel’s only 2 years younger than Hamilton and 10+ older than Max…