I think the situation is different. A decade at the top, it’s hard to cede. And I think it’s clear this year that his car just isn’t there, so he has had to make the risky moves, drive aggressively, unapologetically, make the lunges, etc. I think it’s part strategy—what else can Merc do when they’re so close to being…

He is, without a doubt, one of the greats, if not the all-time great. But his car doesn’t match up this year and he’s been the one doing the risky shit, doing the overly aggressive shit, not because he’s a wicked person, but because he has to. 

I think Max drove the way he always drove and Lewis, knowing his chances at the championship are slipping away, didn’t back off. 

Well, it was not on his head at that point, and it was off. I would be trying to get out, not rock it around so that maybe it would hurt me or the other driver more. But maybe I’m not built like Lewis. 

Have you... seen the video?

What exactly was the method by which Max “launched” his car on top of the Merc? Oh, right, Lewis hitting him. And Max was very shitty to aim his car, which he did not launch, at Lewis’ head, especially because that’s impossible. 

I’ve seen some people (including in the comments here) complaining something along the lines that Max ran over Hamilton’s head... which he kind of did. But Max wasn’t in control of his car when that happened and could hardly have known Lewis’ head was under his tire.

Hamilton could outrun trouble before. Now he can’t and he’s not handling it well. 

the meaning of the comment changes dramatically depending on how menacing your tone is... that said, I think Max meant it menacingly. 

Maybe the thoery is that there are drivers who can do spectacular things over shorter stretches and if they can pull something off in a mini-race it might shake up the order a bit. Like, Yuki Tsunoda’s shit catches up with him over the course of a full race, but this gives him more of a chance to perform or make a…

I’m very confident that this could happen in London and no one would ever be charged. Putin’s thugs wander freely assassinating people.

It was my favorite part of the race. Seven or eight paunchy guys standing around with matching-ish suits wildly gesticulating at each other, their backs turned to the car on fire—it was a perfect encapsulation of Italy.

I actually assumed it would flip and at least take flight. That seemed like the best-case scenario.

You’re describing every sport but the NFL.

You trolled too hard there. You can’t mix science talk with over-the-top stuff, it gives the whole game away.

I’m still trying to figure out why you threw out your masks. You’re making some great arguments for the virus being easily transferred. If anything, you’ve convinced me we should be doing more mitigation!

You’re right Chinese people don’t frequently travel to New York... oh wait. And New York has a lot of travelers from Europe, which is where most of its cases came from. Everyone agrees it was circulating well before we realized but antibody testing has shown nowhere near the numbers to support your bizarre ideas about…

We know some basics about how contagious COVID is, and we have data on how its spread is affected by different methods of mitigation, and we know what kind of mitigation steps we took, but, right, we can never know how many people would’ve died if we did nothing to mitigate the spread... it could’ve been more than 2…

2 million dead if mitigation steps weren’t taken... That still seems very plausible.

Which models are wrong?