Here’s the fundamental difference between Mercedes and Ferrari, one Binotto needs to address in the off-season if he wants Ferrari to improve. It’s not going to be an easy change because this is inherently ingrained in Ferrari’s culture and part of it is due to being an Italian team that the Italians adore:

You did not mention the Trials of Hercules level of difficulty getting to the Denver airport car rental prairie.

Australian Supercars runs on a bunch of street circuits and I’ve seen some pretty hard crashes and no problem with the walls. Current Aussie Supercars are only about 150lbs lighter than a NASCAR Cup Car.

I feel like this is willfully missing the point. I don’t think I’ve ever read an article where the coffee example wasn’t meant to be exactly that, an example. It’s “hey, look at the sort of silly expenditures we forget about every day, you have this constant passive stream flowing out of your bank account,” not “You…

One other item: Always consider the value of your time and aggravation.

Easy for me to avoid the Ferrari douche on key swapping party night. Thanks!

Two of my favorites in San Francisco:

sooooo much this!

Yeah,heading to San Fran in two weeks,and when I looked at flights there,Oakland,or San Jose,Mineta Airport was the clear winner,even including the drive up there (I’ll have a rental the duration of the time,so I didn’t really count the cost of that in there).

Yep. Even when I lived in Reston, 15 minutes from Dulles, I’d look at BWI flights first, because it can easily take an hour longer to get through the airport at Dulles.

For a while at an old job, we flew out of BWI as it was cheaper than National and Dulles.  I don’t travel much for work at all but since I live in the western ‘burbs, my choice is Dulles, then National, then BWI.  Problem with National is if you are going somewhere, like east coast to west coast, there is always a…

Oh it was really cool, met cool people, went to cool places.

A lot of stuff was fixed on that R engine! But new issues kept on coming. These power units are *really* complex, and there is always some stuff that you cannot see on the dyno. 

The real threat is the Renault-Nissan debacle. Motorsport is always the first operation to get the axe when shit gets ugly. I hear from my ex colleagues that the official word is “Business as usual”, but they’re kinda worried.

Ferrari screwed themselves out of more championships in recent years through their own inept strategy than any other team in memory.

1. 2020 engine and cars are mostly fixed by now. The damn cars need to run in 3 months.

Flights to Las Vegas and Orlando are more or less subsidized by the tourist industries in those relative cities. They want you to come there and spend your money, so the mobsters (and the casinos too) gladly throw their money at the airports. Meaning, the airports have to charge the airlines less, and the airlines in…

My dad used to do that, but with some made-up Asian-sounding jibberish. I think it worked out pretty well for him too!

I disagree.

Once upon a time, I silenced unwanted calls—usually political ones—by answering in Japanese, because I knew there was an extremely good chance of its being a language they didn't know and could tell wasn't Spanish. (Spanish probably wouldn't have worked to my advantage.) It worked brilliantly. But for the last five or…