When I see Graham, I’m reminded of a wonderful quote from The Thick of It. Substitute Graham for Ollie, and I think it fits:

“Outside small groups" - I honestly think that humans are genetically predisposed toward cooperation (there seems to be evidence that we out-competed Neanderthals and their ilk because of our capacity for cooperation), but it only works up to a certain group size.

By the sound of it, if you want decent pillows you shouldn’t buy them from MyPillow regardless of their CEO's politics.

Guess how many beers I’d have all night if I had one fewer at the end of the night? Zero. Maybe not all of us like to get hammered like you do when we go out. Maybe some of us like to stay in command of our facilities. But hey, you do you champ.

While any amount of alcohol in the blood may impair skills important for driving, the degree of impairment is dependent on the level of blood alcohol. However, measurable levels of impairment in the skills relevant for driving typically begin to present at a BAC of around 0.02% (source: https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publi…

Per cbxsix above, it sounds like there’s more to know:

The lazy technicality is the point at which whoever writes the laws in his state has determined that a driver is unacceptably impaired. The limit is there for a reason.

Make them drift trikes and I'm in.

True, but between Ineos taking a one-third stake in the team (and presumably a one-third stake in the costs), and the budget cap (which we can assume will reduce their spend to approximately $250M - the $145M cap plus wages for drivers, 3 top team personnel, other sundries), they'll be going from a $450M spend to a…

Maybe they could put Honda engines in the road cars too - an AMI4 powered by the mighty K20A.

As King Ginger said, Mercedes runs at a profit at the moment. The reduction in operating costs that the cap will effect, and the buy-in by Ineos, will have reduced their costs significantly as well, so there’s no reason to leave, at least from a financial perspective.

Mercedes is making money from their powertrain development - they have the best engine and are selling as many as they’re allowed to, and the unit cost is reduced by amortizing development costs across more engines, so they’re definitely not going to reduce the number of teams they supply to (they’re currently…

They will almost certainly brand it as a Red Bull. The alternative is a a which-Lotus-is-that situation (remember the farce of 2011?), where Aston Martin is a team running Mercedes engines, and Red Bull is running Aston Martin engines (which it is building itself).

Very well put - that's exactly where my thinking is. It takes away even the possibility of beating the best.

Customer teams in the sense of teams that bought a whole car from a constructor (March constructed cars for Tyrrell, Williams, Hesketh and others back in the day, for example). Admittedly, Racing Point essentially did it with the RP20, but it was a commonly accepted approach in the past.

A nod to this?

The broadcast team are reasonably good at focusing on where the action is happening already, so if the concern is watching exciting racing, they can just change the cars they follow during the race.

If you want to make it more competitive then bring back customer teams. We'd probably see 10 W11s on the grid, but they would run close to one another.

What glory is there in winning when the best team isn't competing? That's what I don't like about this suggestion - it devalues those later races.