Best of luck Rory.  I stopped reading a while ago.  I missed these guys, but the invasive ad experience, horrible kinja experience, and what ownership did to Deadspin was my exit point.  I am sure your content is good.  I just wish it was available somewhere else.

That’s not how the FIA works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Conference

Bravo to your sobriety. 

what in sam hill is a puma?

Kind of looks like a puma.

“Elefantenrennen” is the greatest thing I learned this week.

WOOSH

is it just that you’ll read whatever I write even if it’s about mundane Jeeps that nobody cares about

“Tied up” is exactly how you would describe it. There are various stock sale timing stipulations built into the issuance of stock as compensation for hitting Telsa milestones, just like any other CEO. Then there’s the fact that a mass sell off could trigger a fire sale of Tesla stock in a fear of “no confidence” from…

“Have you considered there’s a labor shortage because 600,000 people died,”

Hi, Takuro Spirit!

When the strike started, Warrior Met Coal immediately brought in scabs.

This has been around for a while, and it took me a long time to wrap my head around the physics of it.

They likely would’ve gone out of business. Their over promising is what got them all the investor funding they got.

Turn the lights off in the Tunnel, but allow the TV cameras to have night vision in there so we can see the action.

Nothing.
Keep it like this and accept the fact that this one race has its place in the championship for history, glory, glamour, for the black and white images from the 50s and 60s.
Because it is a weird and out of time show that embodies the essence of what F1 was and is, and what remains of its mix of poshness and…

The fact that they are only pulling it off the 3 and Y but leaving it on the more expensive S and X tells me that this is all about cost engineering. They are (probably) about to lose their billions in carbon-offset credits as Stellantis integrates FCA, and they need to make a profit from actual car sales. Since they…

A name like that is just -begging- for a paint by numbers version...

About twice a summer. Depends on how fast the grass grows.