I just put it in the radiator - keeps it piping hot and ready to serve.

I feel like silence would be worse than death for these two blowhards.

So before there was ever a non-American bike in the series! Fair enough then. Interestingly Honda is back again in the smaller singles class too. I wonder whether they and KTM will eventually enter the twins too as factory teams - they’ve both got engines that would suit the class, so they might well if the rules…

I’m genuinely interested - when you say that you haven’t taken notice of it for years, do you mean like 10 years, or 40 years? I suspect it’s the former - there was a non-American bike that did quite well from 1984-1987 before it was hamstrung by a rule change...

Ah, no worries - I got the terminology confused. I was thinking that 1/2-ton was synonymous with mid-size rather than light-duty full-size.

Exactly - the Ranger is the ‘big’ ute here in Australia (also the only size that’s sold in any real numbers, but there you go). There are now limited imports of American ‘mid-size’ trucks (F150-size), but they’re still very rare and they look friggin’ enormous on the roads.

A higher beltline makes it easier to meet rollover requirements, inasmuch as a lower beltline requires longer pillars, and to resist buckling those pillars have to either be thicker or stronger (using different materials such as high-strength steels) to resist the same load.

221.6 mph, set by Andrea Dovizioso during the the 2019 Italian Grand Prix.

Solid mid-table I think. 

Reading it in the wet-fart vocalisations of an enchanted sapient cloaca is better than reading it in Andrew Dice Clay's voice.

40 percent, duh.

I’ll admit that “Fookin” threw me a bit and I ended up reading the whole thing in a Belfast accent.

It would be odd if they made these decisions early last time but not this time.

Trump won because he mined an undercurrent of discontent with the current state of America, in which the social contract of the postwar years had finally collapsed for white working-class voters. He told them he would bring back their jobs and their economic security, and people believed him. It was a lie, but that’s…

Seems the most likely answer.

They were willing to do it last time with suspension changes, so it’s possible that they play with spring and damper settings.

I think you're right - most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference blindfolded.

It would be great to see it in a few more colours.

Make it pre-Matsuri'd.

It absolutely would, yep.