Now this is proper supervillain thinking right here!

That’s what Trumpism means, right?

But it’s a pernicious aspect of some denominations nonetheless - the idea that the good are blessed by God and the bad are not, and that it therefore follows that those who suffer hardships deserve them.

I am shocked. Shocked!

Senna was a dick when he got into wheel-to-wheel racing though. He was phenomenally talented, his charity work was laudable, and because he died in a race he’s basically sainted by F1 fans, but he was a completely uncompromising driver who was happy to crash other drivers out of races if they got in his way.

But Verstappen can brake later because he's running a wider line that opens the corner more and allows a higher minimum apex speed.

What do Räikkönen and Giovinazzi have to do with it?

It’s a real fucker, ain’t it?

A huge cheer went up when Verstappen was flying off the road. It stopped pretty quickly when he hit the tyres, but it happened.

There’s more than a car’s width of track on the inside there when they touch, so that’s not really an issue. Hamilton understeered a bit, tagged Verstappen, and the result was catastrophic for the latter’s race.

I have, and they help - definitely stick with them!

Lack of time, injury and apathy all conspired to make what initially seemed like a reasonably innocuous failure into an issue which has slightly wounded my soul on a regular basis for a fair while now.

These look incredible in the metal.

They mean you don't have to care about it though.

Which is a pity, because it’s one of the very few high-level series that had some degree of aerodynamic freedom until the new formula. Seeing how different teams solve the problem of how to get around the track as quickly as possible is fascinating.

The aero restrictions look like they'll basically turn F1 into an engine formula, unfortunately. The teams are suggesting that the cars themselves will be minimally different from another aerodynamically, which does make things less interesting from a technical perspective. I guess it will make it much more a driver…

Car designers also add idiotically gigantic wheels with rubber-band tyres, so clearly they know more about vehicle design than those pesky engineers...

You'd think that if the whole bloody thing is full of fertiliser runoff, you could in theory reclaim the fertiliser products.

“Four stars.”

It’s not exactly much trouble though is it? They literally type one less zero at the end of the threshold number. The rest of the regulation would have been written anyway. You could argue that it's actually less trouble because of all the time they save not typing all those zeros.