I kinda wondered about that but hadn’t researched it so far - apparently the issue was that the bone itself was twisting as it was growing back, which I suppose isn’t that unexpected given it's living tissue. I remember that he had issues with pseudarthrosis (the bone failing to grow back properly) after his second…

That’s a multi-use clean and polish crate, I'll have you know!

The fact that Marquez is still the leading Honda rider, despite not having started more than half the races this season and having ridden with an absolutely mangled arm in the races he did start (his upper and lower humerus were 34 degrees out of alignment prior to this latest round of surgery) shows just how vital he…

Long live The King.

The other option is something like a Swiss army knife. Most of them have a can opener on there, along with a bunch of other stuff that makes them genuinely useful as an everyday knife. Even the more serious versions tend to keep the opener on them:

You just know that they're going to have super-effective methods of getting marks off the leather...

Awesome - I really need to get some MCM gear. The Honda logo shape on that shirt is a clever little nod to the episode too.

(Denny Hulme)

You know where this list needs to go?

Rossi and Alpine look incompetent at best - it seems like they lost Piastri because somebody couldn't get off their arse and return a contract. I think it would have been respectful of McLaren to tell Ricciardo as soon as they had done the deal with Piastri though, even if it meant they asked him to keep it secret.

Amazingly, both Alpine and McLaren come out of this looking pretty terrible. Alpine for assuming that Piastri would be happy with whatever crumbs they offered after leaving him on the sidelines for a season, and McLaren for having “open and transparent” discussions with Ricciardo about his future with the team that…

That’s more of a long dead-wagon.

The BP Legacy GT was a great looking car, and pretty nice to drive as well.

Holden’s VF Commodore-based HSV GTS-R W1 must be in with a shout. A car that often saw use as a taxi or family sedan, fitted with mechanicals from the ZR1 Corvette of the same vintage (same LS9 engine and gearbox), suspension built by the company that builds the control suspension components for the Supercars series,…

Indeed it could. It’s impossible to know, but those kinds of hypotheses are interesting to think about.

True - which may suggest that he’s not good at racing wheel-to-wheel, or it may suggest that he’s a remarkably good qualifier and if he’s driving a car that has a chance of winning, he’ll likely put it near the front of the grid. That was true of Jarno Trulli, for example - he was able to qualify his cars higher up…

Likewise Vettel during his pomp. There were constantly claims that he didn't have the racecraft to actually overtake opponents, and that he could only win from pole.

And if Mercedes had actually shown their true pace at the start of the last era, the gap would have been a hell of a lot bigger than 18 seconds at a lot of races.

I’m honestly surprised that he didn’t know that. I know it and I’ve never even driven one.