It makes sense because nobody wants Chinese brands outside (or even arguably inside) China. Chinese domestic brands have a (not entirely undeserved) reputation for being cheap and crappy internationally, and foreign brands are aspirational in China. With Volvo and Lotus they’re short-cutting the process and buying…

Yes, it would have been entirely possible. I’m which case I’m happy that this has seen a partial turnaround of the shit luck he’s had so far in the championship.

Would that not be an even greater injustice than the injustice Kelli001 perceives in this result?

That would be a genuinely psychopathic move in those conditions. And wouldn't take away from the fact that he would have likely won on merit.

Had they raced, Verstappen would have been likely to win and therefore to close up more than he did with this result. Like him or not, he's very, very good in the rain (Hockenheim 2019, Interlagos 2016 spring to mind), and he would have had the huge advantage of actually being able to see where he was going.

Though he may have got a number of sex partners on the basis of explaining how he was the baby on the shirt they were rocking too...

The front marker light does strobe, albeit more quickly than standard, suggesting that at least one other indicator bulb is non-functional - it’s actually a lot easier to see at normal speed in the video.

Incorrect. He was indicating.

I think Henry Golding could have done a nice interpretation of Spike.

I’m not knocking Haas for their listed parts approach - it’s a sensible way of minimising entry costs as a new team.

They haven't been helped by a small budget, average drivers at best, a terrible Ferrari engine last season and zero investment in their car for the current season.

Haas didn’t buy a team wholesale, I agree. But I wouldn’t say that Haas didn’t buy team personnel - the team is made up of people that have all been in F1 for a long time (Steiner, Taylor and Agathangelou all worked at Jaguar together, for example). Which isn’t surprising - F1 is pretty much a closed shop in that way.

Isn’t that what Haas tried to do? Get everything they can from Ferrari, and everything else from Dallara? It doesn't seem to have worked terribly well...

Again with the word need. People have a way of confusing "need" and "want".

The word "need" is the important one there. Could it handle more power? Sure. Does it *need* more power? No.

Something at a good eatery along the way. There’s enough information about places available now that you can find somewhere nice to stop, and you should be able to find time to stop a couple of times a day to eat.

Well that's sorted then!

Yep. I don’t see one with the advertised specs (i.e. the 400hp engine) starting lower than a base Q60 Red Sport (~$42.5K). Maybe there’s going to be a cheaper one coming with the 300hp 3.0TT, or possibly even the 2.0T in the base Q60 (they should be able to share all their engines).

In all seriousness - thank you for this. A few things are better here than in the US by the sound of it, particularly when it comes to doctoral candidates being used as free labour, but I’ll start tackling the other recommendations.

An LS in a first-gen Twin would be pretty cool too.