Damn right - his crash at Mandalika was heart-stopping.

And that’s not the crash that really messed his arm up. That was the one I’ve linked below (MotoGP’s rights owners don’t seem to like it being viewed anywhere but YouTube though):

Vehicles have certainly become both heavier and safer (roughly a 75 percent decrease in rate of traffic deaths per million vehicle miles from 1975 to 2015).

Even the word “expert” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

It reminds me a bit of the Elfin Streamliner...

It sounds just about as commie as Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I assumed that he was going to run the Hoonitron there, given it’s a tribute to a car that almost made its name at Pikes Peak.

Miami has already provided more than enough racing around a dead-flat carpark next to a stadium for this year. No need to play out the same scenario again in Russia.

I guess because she didn’t refer to any particular person/people that may be tricky?

Ah, but if you kiss it you get the gift of the herpes.

I don’t even have a working radio in one of my cars and it doesn’t bother me (one CD plays on infinite repeat), but I can see the value in a system that allows you to select music, take calls and access navigation software within the same user environment, and that stays broadly up-to-date (unlike the proprietary user…

That makes a lot of sense - Redding did have a tendency to get fairly sideways into corners (and through corners, and out of corners...). I miss Cal’s bluntness (and his amusing Nigel Mansell-esque bunker mentality of him against the world). He’s a character.

All very good points - a further one to highlight from the interview with Taramasso is that the magnitude of the “breaches” is not detailed here (it could be 0.01 bar, using a sensor that is only accurate to 0.02 bar as he notes).

The answer is usually “no, you've understood it correctly. It's really that dumb."

This truly is their Final Fantasy...

Looking at resources as distinct from reserves, there’s a fair bit in the US (7.9 Mt vs 9.6 Mt in Chile), and Argentina outstrips the lot (19.6 Mt), so they might be a big factor (the biggest investors there are American, Australian and Japanese companies).

That’s a reasonable point, though that doesn’t preclude other investors from exploiting the resources that aren’t under partial Chinese control.

China still sits pretty low on the lists of producers. They refine a lot of ores, but the resources are mined in other places.

China produces a lot of the refined chemicals that are used in battery production, but they don’t have the biggest reserves.

Who do you think comes up with all those weird sex machines?