Toyota changed the name of the MR2 in France as well. I'm sure you'll be able to figure out why.

Hell, it’s basically CPR.

What a film...

Ah, but they’re below the age of criminal responsibility.

Yep - the utility of these would be far, far greater if you could actually use them and not be a mobile chicane. As it is, such a vehicle isn’t really suitable for the US, Australia, probably a lot of Europe...

Of course not! You are English types!

Yep. From the Supercars website:

I can imagine what Räikkönen would do in a Haas - get royally shitted-off at the heap of junk he was being forced to drive, bump it into a wall on purpose and go back to his motor home for a sleep.

Giovanni “Johnny Washing/Johnny Carwash” Lavaggi was pretty good too...

I genuinely don’t know how a Supercar would go on an oval, but the road courses could certainly be interesting. We’ll get an idea of relative lap pace of the current cars when NASCAR runs at COTA (Supercars ran there in 2013 and the cars are still roughly as fast as they were back then).

Yep - you need to be committed enough to spend time with the team, which means you relocate to the UK. It's not easy, but it's necessary.

Because Michael was such a success...

A G16E-GTS could work nicely...

“In Soviet Russia, you drive car!”

It sounds like NASCAR and Supercars here in Australia are converging, and it would probably be a good move for us here in Australia. We’ll be racing Mustangs and Camaros anyway from next year:

Yep - they were necessarily militant to begin with, and were never given the chance to evolve past that like the German and Nordic unions. And it's detrimental for everyone.

Absolutely - if both sides stopped focusing on quick wins over the other for a minute they could actually work together for everyone's benefit.

Absolutely - and I was remiss in not making that point (in my defence I was writing at about 3 in the morning).

Oh, I completely agree with you - I place the blame for the failure of our automotive industry far more on government policy than on the unions here.

It would be a damn good thing if all unions were like German unions. I’m my experience they don’t fuck about, and they are very well run. They’re far less adversarial than Australian (and it seems American) unions, at least in the automotive sector, and they approach management with the view that both sides want the…