Maldonado also won a race, pretty much on merit. Didn’t make him a great driver. Max has a lot of skill no doubt but he’s far from being the complete package. If he’s able to learn from his mistakes, he might have a shot at being great. If he doesn’t he’ll go down as talent wasted on a lack of control.

The Europeans and Japanese have strong domestic market reasons to not kill off cars. I don’t see that happening at all.

I’m keeping my cars forever. I loathe crossovers in particular. SUVs are at least honest in having some semblance of offroad capability. Crossovers are effectively taller, heavier, uglier, slower, less efficient, duller cars. People are stupid and all car manufacturers had to do was to associate aspirational…

Call me crazy but I think this makes the focus RS a future classic. They’re going to hold their value really well.

You already have me covered on no eating and drinking - they should look to ban cup holders in cars. I’m going to go with merging onto a highway too slowly. Down here in Houston, it seems like people will do 40 all the way onto the right lane and don’t even really get to highway speeds till they get to their lane.…

Thank you for the great work. The PS4 is easily the best tire I’ve ever fitted to any of my cars. I swapped the half worn p0s on my 911 for new ps4s all around and I have never experienced that sort of improvement in ride, noise and grip on a tire change ever.

I’m not implying Red Bull’s immediately the favorites for the 2019 title but works backing will add a lot of money on top of what’s already one of the largest budgets in F1 and money is still what separates a front running team like Red Bull from a midfield team like McLaren. If Red Bull have equivalent engine…

I don’t disagree with that assessment. The McLaren Honda relationship was fundamentally broken last year but its increasingly looking like McLaren needs to share just as much of the blame for it. Their demands on packaging were unreasonable from a reliability standpoint and their focus on maximizing average downforce…

I can see why McLaren did what they did but they’re going to regret moving on from Honda over the long run. Yes they’re doing ok with the Renault engine but the truth is that Renault’s focus will be on its works team first and McLaren will find it hard to mount a legitimate title challenge over the 3 years left on…

That’s an old wives’ tale. The first few years of BMW inline 6 turbos were really unreliable but after 10 years of constant refinement, they’re pretty much bulletproof. I owned a 2015 M4 for nearly 4 years with what’s likely really close to the drivetrain that will find its way into this car. I never had a single…

Lane discipline is somewhere between 3rd world levels of non existent to godawful in most parts of the United States. I applaud the Oklahomans involved here but I fear that its completely inadequate as a deterrent. Texas passed a law last year banning non hands free cellphone use while driving. I still see >50% of…

I’ll give you two very similar cars - E60 M5 and 2010-11 E63 AMG (the one with the 6.3).

I like Cadillac and want them to succeed. Their current commitment to producing better RWD chassis than BMW and large displacement small block V8 engines makes them extremely cool in my view. Their problem is getting the final 30 or so percent of the package sorted. Expensive luxury cars are more than just the…

I am so done with the “autonomous car” bubble. It is very clear that its nowhere close to being ready outside of niche applications like city streets. A fully autonomous car for all conditions without a human in the loop is decades away and would require a very quick forcible conversion of the vast majority of…

Really? I thought it was a big improvement. I’m used to shitty commercials from the Spike TV days so those didn’t phase me one bit. I’d rather have the really good Sky commentary team than whatever sh*te they used in years past anyway. Anybody with a brain knows that Univision doesn’t show commercials and is the…

I’d expect the gap to be a lot smaller on race pace. Long run pace on Friday showed the Red Bull cars to be slightly ahead of both the Ferraris and the Mercedes. If the Mercedes still lunches it’s tires like it’s been known to, it doesn’t seem to have enough of a pace advantage to offset that. I could be wrong and…

Thing is though, the 4.0 TTV8 in the AMG cars sounds more like and old school American muscle car V8 than the LT4 does. If Cadillac can do what everybody who’s not BMW can do with their hot vee V8s, I’m sure it will sound better.

Electric motors are a massive downgrade. They lack the feel and excitement of a good ice, can’t maintain performance levels for more than a little window and add massive amounts of weight . They’re fine for commuter appliances but keep them the hell away from sports cars and super cars .

BBC America Sundays at 7pm central. Yes its BBC America so there are 30 minutes of ads for 1 hour of TV but its easily still the best car show around. There was some confusion because they aired Ep 1 6 days late on a Saturday but since then all episodes air same day as they do in the UK. If you’re trying to get caught…

The best part by far is when he gets to the Mansory stand. The videos are worth watching for that reaction alone.