Absolutely right. The place to look to see whether the platform is shared is not the front or the back but the interplay between the front wheel, the front edge of the front door, and the rake of the windscreen. The bulkhead and the crash structure immediately in front of the cabin is the most engineered (and…

Nope, we’re just all a bit mental.

Trainspotting is virtually an adrenaline sport compared to pylon appreciation.

You missed the best one, the Piaggio Ape. Pretty much a Vespa with a big cargo area.

It’s very difficult to drop tic-tacs into a shifter with a leather boot on it. I’m pretty sure that will have something to do with it.

I guess there was an element of the team saying “If you scream ‘what the **** *** ***** was that **** **** **** ***** ******* ****** ***** ****** playing at?!?!?’ on the radio it won’t get played on the world feed.” going on there. I bet he said some other words when we couldn’t hear him.

If they were on the track at the same time, GP2 cars would be snapping at the heels of the slowest F1 cars and that just isn’t right. The drivers are pretty much united in saying that the current cars are not demanding enough to drive, as the link I posted showed. They don’t like having to go slow to save fuel and…

Yeah...No.

I have to say “that don’t impress me much.”

I didn’t know that - we usually get them unescorted in the UK.

That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. I’d be intrigued to know how the technology scales - bigger rotors, more rotor stacks, or more rotors on the same rotor stack?

No need really - it’s not as if any of the Russian bombers are super-agile dogfighters. Any Mach 2+ jet with air to air capability is going to have no trouble knocking one down. If Russia started sending fighter escorts too, then it would probably be a different matter.

To me it shows how dull F1 has become.

Or my back garden!

Depends on the car really - most things from British Leyland had it on the right, until they were taken over by BMW.

What confused me about this was that he wasn’t driving a white Dodge Challenger.

something something something dagmars.

Minimum weight is 702kgs, so a fully fueled car at 802kgs is 13% fuel. That’s a lot of extra weight to lug around, which slows the cars and hurts fuel economy. Going for a 40kg fuel tank reduces the weight, which means smaller brakes, so less unsprung mass, so thinner suspension arms, so less mass, and so on. It’ll…

Yup. They’re going nowhere near the redline except when they’ve got DRS and a good tow - the fuel flow limit starves the engine above 10,000rpm or so. So to increase the revs you need to increase the maximum flow. I’m not quite sure how useful the flow limit is on top of the 100kg total anyway.

Yes, I am. But I only started dating stupid after dumping YO MAMA.