The two other podium positions were decided in a three-way fight between Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez and both Mercedes drivers.

Ok, that’s one way to not get banned.

Elizabeth, this may have started with Bernie, but IMO the changes since Liberty acquired the sport’s commercial rights are their own story.

Exactly. Everyone working in BEV development knows that batteries just aren’t there yet. This is particularly true in non-passenger vehicle applications.

I imagine that more mining is good for the environment.

You want to embarrass owners of fine, exotic automobiles.

How is this a penalty to automakers? All theyre going to do is transfer this to the customer, probably 3X, blame the gov’t, and rake in MORE profit. 

As much as I often complain about the tactics of the rich in avoiding and at times outright evading taxes with impunity I am completely with the boat owner here.

It makes sense they gave it no access to open water.

So its Ok to rob random rich Russians?

You can, but it'll cost you an extra $500. 

Oh stop with the ridiculous pearl clutching. Max won, Lewis lost. It's over. It's been over.

“If the 2022 rules package had been in effect during the 2021 season, Max Verstappen would have ended the season on 376 points to Lewis Hamilton’s 387.”

Anything short of DQ’ing the Merc in every race will piss Horner off.

...0.5 percent of the cars in Russia are EVs — that’s just 13,000 cars in a national fleet of 45 million...

Good thing many of the infrastructure components in use in the US come from China, and the Chinese would never do something like this, right?

It’s so obvious you would think the author would have mentioned it.....

probably because they found that Masi acted both within the rules and independently.

both Merc and RB were yammering in his ear. earlier in the race Merc demanded no safety car when it should have been one and then tried to prevent the safety car from being recalled at the end of the race. RB wanted a safety car in the…

Speed up on the video so not that mad skills really

yeah, no. they took the most recent FIA model (where Red Bull used a very old one) and slapped a few half assed panels on it to make it look a bit different. for sure they put more effort in than Red Bull, but this is unlikely to have very much resemblance to the car that shows up in spain next weekend.

the cooling…