I look at this thing and am considering a pre-order. Why? Because I don’t see PC OEMs and video card OEMs making product that is competitive with it. Sure you can buy extremely high performance PC gear but not at this budget level. It’s simply unobtainable performance for those bucks. Plus, there isn’t any good news…

Let’s mention Pedros brother, Ricardo, who is the youngest driver ever for Ferrari F1 and first Mexican F1 driver ever and in his own right quite a good driver. Alas, he too was a statistic in the 1960s high-risk racing accidents. Here’s the 2 of them in Ferraris.

AHHHH, no. Manor F1, I remember them quite well. Haryanto was part of the fallout of all that Indonesian money scandals. And poor Pascal Wehrlein actually scored points for them to no avail. And, of course, they had that weird deal with Marussia...

Someone just loves the cashier a lot :

Actually if we can find the guys that broke up the HMS Prince of Wales, Repulse, Dorsetshire and Cornwall, Long Beach should give them a free pass to obliterate the QM. I bet they’d do it for free.

Fresh water helps a little. The USS Kidd is on the Mississippi River and part of the year when the river drops, its hull is out of water and it’s aged much much better than other vessels (like the USS Laffey which had to have a full hull replating). Really, the best solution would be some kind of drydocking that…

Having been involved in a few self-created on-track incidents, I can say that having a slow speed accident is entirely more preferable to a high speed accident. OTOH, I suffered more from the slow speed one simply from having an actual lateral wall impact whereas the high speed ones, I managed to just keep going and…

I’d argue the idea that ruining fellow racers cars and races at low or medium speed is not necessarily separated from the idea that your health might be compromised at the same time, never is too strong attribution to apply to his driving. Percentages certainly might be in ones’ favor but it’s a dubious argument at…

What is amusing is that Max’s many little adventures in passing attempts in the past that have resulted in a variety of broken machines of various brands and his sad little apologies for being aggressive are now considered ‘blips’ in many minds now. Because he’s suddenly having a breakout season, all is forgiven for…

You know, I took a quick look back and realized that if we’re going to look at quality of driving through ones career, this is actually a bad look more for Max than for Ham. People have been moaning about Ham having more incidents in the last couple of years but ...:

I understand. Ham can be annoying. I don’t think I’ve liked a World Champ much since maybe Nigel and even he was a bit of a dork. Maybe Alan Jones or Mario. But most every succeeding champ since has been annoying at one point or another. Except Mika Hakkinen and Kimi. Don’t have anything bad to say about the Finns;…

Every incident needs to be looked at uniquely. We can aggregate incidents and claim some linkage but that can be problematic as well. I do happen to think the main problem does lie with the FIA ,track management, and teams since there have been bigger problems with consistency of calls and that plays a bigger part in…

Well, Mercedes has had the upper hand in equipment for a long time. Now, it’s not that they were just so much better than everyone else that they were impossible to beat but more like they were also just so damn reliable at high speeds whereas everyone else had issues staying at those speeds and intact. That’s a hard…

Well, plenty of people have complained about Senna even before he died and they used plenty of legitimate reasons. Senna was a great driver but he made all sorts of personal mistakes in achieving so. It’s not really an indictment on him but a recognition that great drivers are just humans who sometimes make mistakes.…

He only regretted it much, much later which is telling because on the track, he was perfectly fine with it, he didn’t give a damn, he got the win. It wasn’t the first time he had done another driver dirty either. I’d vouchsafe that most racing drivers get the red mist and will be extremely aggressive to keep their…

It’s exactly appropriate because the exact mentality that Senna had is the exact same mentality that Max and Lewis have (and probably George Russell too). You can try to negate it by bringing in some kind of moral/ethical argument but the reality is modern racing drivers in competition think/behave exactly like this.

TBH, I just don’t really care that much about it either way. Drivers do dumb shite all the time, World Champions or not. Max has gotten away with doing dumb shite as well, he’s just lucky in that collecting someone wasn’t in the cards. Jamming your car into a .9 car slot when approaching a corner is always going to be…

It is pretty damn hilarious no matter where one stands.

This is the appropriate response :

Racing incident.