I’d read an analysis claiming that this was likely just something they were using for pre-season testing, basically allowing them to sample a bunch of different configurations without having to bring the car to the garage between laps, and that they’d probably take it out before race day.

I mean, it’s quite clearly an English language adaptation of Aniara. That’s definitely where they’re going here.

For those in the UK, access to a UK VPN or... other means of watching British TV, Chris Harris drove a Renault 4 across Nepal in the most recent Top Gear Christmas Special.

Okay, but someone please tell me: was the tax on handbags ever repealed?

From a Mercedes F1 perspective, see also:

“Treachery, Faith and the Great River” is one of my favorite DS9 episodes because it shows realistically the need for trade in a “post-scarcity” universe. Because some things will ALWAYS be scarce—whether it’s an antique baseball card, access to a celebrity’s desk, or even just TIME where poor O’Brien only has two…

For me the most surprising and powerful element in the game is how, when you’re down to a gym leader’s last pokemon, the crowd starts chanting and literally singing a fight song. I guess you could interpret it as rooting for your opponent, but given that it’s the same song every time, I interpret it as them cheering…

The way hearses are driven around here seems to be intended to drum up business, so yeah seems like adding some additional stealth factor would help appeal to their customer base.

I get that this isn’t a serious competition as much as a chance for car collectors to show off the good cars, but it doesn’t seem fair to have late-model Group 4 compete against, like 30s era Bugattis. Is this really a best-time rally as opposed to, say, a regulation rally? It’s hard for me to tell from the official…

That would be such an insane retconn. But it also reminds me that in the end I really wasn’t a fan of “skinjobs” and don’t care to relitigate that straw man’s debate in a new SF series.

If you like a purple and green livery so much, go ahead and just find sponsors who sport the same colors... Good luck with that.

I once read or saw a really great explainer about why liveries are so dull (pretty sure it was focused on the Le Mans grid) that basically concluded: it’s so they can sell space to advertisers. If your car is painted purple and puke green (pls someone do this) you’re not going to be able to integrate with too many…

Zhat Vash? No, zha odda Vash.

I'm just glad they're not dead. Still wish Laris at least were coming along. She's my favorite character so far by a decent margin.

I keep wanting to call her Maggie.

Not checking in for 15 years I get—he was a depressed and broken man and probably carried around a lot of guilt and shame. Going back to her and just expecting her to instantly forgive him and do his bidding? On the heels of last week’s interaction with Admiral Clancy? TNG Picard was never that arrogant.

So it’s pretty obvious—based on the fact that they’re setting up Raffi to fill the “conspiracy theorist who’s always right” trope—that the Zhat Vash hacked the synths because the deaths of millions of their fellow Romulans was preferable to them from being saved by synthetic life forms. Which is a... disappointing…

A bad joke that probably needed more parentheses to even have a shot at landing. It was presented as a P1 but when you looked inside the doorjambs it said 12C. It’s basically a higher end version of a Fiero pretending to be an F40, except that the owner was earnestly trying to present it as the real thing.

To me the nice thing about the 12C is that, since it’s undervalued, folks feel very free to mod them.

Only ‘Ring time I’m interested in for the Corvette is the time for the C8.R. Specifically the qualifying time for a GT3-spec version.