I live in Las Vegas and was really looking forward to the F1 Circus coming to town. Then reality set in. $500 for a little piece of concrete to stand on, $2000+ for grandstand seats? Nope, I’ll be sitting at home watching this one. I can drive probably 90% of the course today, with the exception of the pit complex and…

Are you protesting French gas prices?

Screw it. I’m just gonna go to the race, stay at my cousin’s place and show up all 3 days dressed like this:

At what point in recent history was F1 not just for rich people? 

“Are these things just full of rich people now?”

Hasn’t F1 always been primarily catered to the rich?

Are these things just full of rich people now? Or are regular folks just spending their mortgage payment on tickets to a race (or concert, or baseball/football game)?

To be honest, these race ticket prices don’t seem too out of line for what I expected. It’s not the race expense that’s shocking, it’s what it’s going to cost to stay there.

I work for an engineering company and we basically did the same thing. The office closed in 2020 for a while, then “re-opened” but only for people who wanted to come in. Nowadays we have 15 minute daily webcam meetings and the vast majority only come to the office a couple days per quarter for a large team meeting.…

Two things:

You can keep that over-the-top tasteless design for your billionaire clients. I’ll take my Continental GT in British Racing Green, please. Like Oscar Wilde, I have very simple tastes...

I want to laugh, but truth hurts

You’re never too poor to have an opinion. You’re just too poor for you opinion to matter.

Kids these days would NEVER be subjected to that.

must have been doubly bad when at least part of the workforce was under the age of 10

Ha... Funny you should say that. One of my first thoughts was, “boy that’s an overly busy looking Mustang.”

I smell a cheaply made fiberglass Mustang body kit coming to market any day now!

the world’s oldest coachbuilding firm, having started in 1559, though the coachbuilding part didn’t really take off until 1760, when they got the contract to build coaches for the Royal Mail.

It looks good. 

I’ve been looking at the pictures for 5 minutes and I still can’t tell if it looks good or bad