The stewards very specifically don’t consider the consequences or the circumstances. They judge each incident in isolation, as they have noted here and at Silverstone.
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Tisnae Paul’s fault if ye cannae ken him.
That was quite a race. The adrenaline is bound to wear off soon, and it's not even 5am here.
“ leaving F1 scrambling to find adequate young talent to fill its seats.”
Well there is that. Jack it up and put the wheel arches from this on there though, and you're an off-chance of getting it there.
We get manual WRXs in Australia. But we still don’t get a bloody manual Levorg, because apparently women don’t like manual cars or some bullshit.
They just need to put a goddamn manual in the Levorg.
That’s an issue with any car with a rising belt-line unfortunately. It was true of the last Impreza too - there’s an expanse of sheetmetal above the rear wheel that looks kinda crap. The Cadillac CTS was awful in this regard:
“Now think about the extra charging benefits of a battery around 1/3rd the size.”
The time to recharge from 20% to 100% doesn’t really change, as long as you have enough input power. It’s related to the battery chemistry, not the size of the battery - you can only add energy at a certain rate before you start to cause damage to the cell.
I’m seriously considering reconnecting the meep horn as an auxiliary “excuse me” horn with a separate dash button (there's even a convenient place for it on the car). If it doesn’t work I can go to the “MOVE” horn.
That won't help Tracy.
“Meep horn” is about right. The stock one in my MR2 (since retired in favour of twin air horns) was similar - it sounded like an asthmatic roadrunner.
I’ve got twin air horns in my MR2 - they are effective at alerting oblivious drivers to my presence when they decide they want to occupy the bit of road where my car is situated.
Nobody talks shit about the Cactus!
Ignis was the first thing that came to mind. For those of you who don’t know what it looks like:
No idea about whether Lotus Engineering will be solely in-house now.
Unfortunately there’s no real option at present for flat-out spartan performance with EVs, due to the issues energy density with batteries. There are some options for batteries with very high power density that would allow performance and light weight, but range would be abysmal.
I think Lotus is luxe performance (their Porsche). Polestar their Audi, Volvo their VW. I wonder whether they’ll sell the domestic ones in Europe/US.
That’s a good point - the design experience from Volvo is pretty handy. They did also get design experience from Lotus as well as the brand - Lotus is well-known for their engineering consulting to other car manufacturers, and now Geely have that in-house.