Cool. But did you get the jet out?

Wait ‘til the LAPD has to call in the FBI for missing persons and SEAL teams for spec ops and Katic and Boreanaz show up in town. Sparks and hilarity ensue....

1) Yeah, no TBH, I think banning ICE is the wrong move. Banning is always the “political” alternative to actually doing something. They need instead to be pushing hard on hybridization, SSB/higher energy density tech, much more charging station density (especially in box store/malls/restaurants) and power resources.…

smh.

Personally, it’s exactly what I would’ve done in that particular situation. Why? Lap 60, the track is much much drier compared to lap 32. In fact, I’d almost say that BOT almost has no choice as his lefty line is very damp. Does he want to go into 2 with those crappy tires, brakes, and rear end in the wet? Probably…

Sure, they were down past the pit straight kink going into turn 2-3. At ~80 meters per second. As they run abreast, the speed differential is not as great and we see that RUSs car starting spinning and hits BOT, front wing into sidepod. Immediately after the crash you see in Bottas crash video where his car runs right…

Yup. In defense of BOT though, I must say the Mercedes was quite disastrously messed up this weekend. Between the aero changes, tire management, and rain, they barely managed to get it together. Even HAM screwed up. So while BOT qualified decent speeds earlier, race day was a whole ‘nother can of worms. That team…

What? No way. If you’re racing a guy, no way do you want to telegraph squat to the other guy about your plans. 

Yes. Difficult to say what would happen next year with Ham, VB, and Russell. But considering that Mercedes is working with all three, it’s a bit disconcerting for them to see what happened, I’m sure. The good thing is no one got hurt. We’ll see how this kind of driving works when the budget cuts occur for the next few…

Well, ok. But if we say that Bottas would’ve been better off staying left and deep braking to “defend” the position then, thus Russell by going right would’ve been ok, also implies that Russell still has to take the greater burden in attacking on a wet track in the DRS “on-zone” and going partially off track even…

The series I really liked during that era was the IMSA GT series. For most unknown drivers, the GTU championship would’ve been the best entry point. About 50% of the field were total unknowns. For me, that’s exactly where I would’ve been : no talent, no money, but lots of desire. Grassroots racing at its best. If you…

I agree. This will be one of those incidents where it’ll be discussed forever and ever. Although I will say that it didn’t at all appear erratic to me since it was the approach to a kink that motivated the move. In fact, I’d say Bottas was an idiot for not doing it earlier. My suspicion is that none of them were…

It’s a left kink into a right kink. Coming with Bottas on the left, Russell wanted to be on the right so he can, going into the left kink, be ahead of Bottas, and defend his position going into the the right kink. Bottas, for whatever reason, is relatively left and jinks right as one should in order to setup for the…

Nice!

It’s early in the season and both drivers are trying to prove themselves. Both have legitimate shots at Mercedes seats which are the premier seats in F1. I’d argue that any driver worth his salt would never let anyone by on a friendly whim in the same situation. Now Russell has to deal with Mercedes and Wolff being…

So would I. It’s fair to say he did twitch. OTOH, it is a left hander into a right hander. If one wants to be on the best line considering the situation, one will want to be on the right. Defending track position will normally be up the middle and then to the right. Russell should have anticipated that and understood…

Yes. But one is trying to pass on the outside of a left-hand kink, trying to get position for the upcoming right-hand kink. In the wet. Partially on the grass. It’s a high-risk move even in the dry. One is a try-hard doing that in the 2nd race of the season. Where’s the racing line on a left hand to right hand ess?…

That was fun to watch simply because rain is such a great equalizer. Nice to see Ham make a couple of mistakes and come back and despite me disliking Max, good on him to giving it his all. Lots of interesting stuff going on in the back too. Vettel, Raikonnen, Alonso. Wow, 3 F1 champs as backmarkers.... on to Indy!
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Anyone remember Jerome D’Ambrosio? I only vaguely recall the name as a recent participant of F1. TBH, I’m going to have to do some research. I was looking at Thierry Boutsen and D’Ambrosio came up. So...down the rabbit hole we go. 

You know Deletraz as an old fart really didn’t belong in any car near a track. Money talks as always. He’s definitely in the worst of list; I had to think about this because he did have a fair bit of change. The thing that ended up swaying me was the fact that he wasn’t able to even keep from being lapped by more than…