So much this. If you think Haas is an American team... LOL. They’re a team running on Ferrari’s parts bin with German and Russian drivers and a Russian livery. Cmon. 

Let’s not forget SATO! Sake bomb! Though he was just dropped this year.

That’s some serious Black Mirror shit there. And it’s probably true.

I really hope they make some changes and keep running. Status quo isn’t gonna cut it with this much attention on them though. 

The rumours definitely point to insufficient marshal staffing to pick up on the yellow in time. Who knows, but if so that’s a huge problem. Drivers should not need to police the track.

I can’t find the link but someone is building a steering wheel puck that you hit to trigger a notification to the marshals of an incident, via your phone (which is safely in your pocket/strapped away obviously). Very clever idea. Misha Charoudin did a video with the inventor about a year ago. 

Um. That is the most tone-deaf statement I’ve ever heard from the ‘Ring - have they never been on their own road/track? No wonder the Apex guys are so pissed off.

Wow - I stand corrected. 85 octane is indeed for sale in the US at elevation! WTF people. That’s nuts. 

I hope nobody reads this as using E85 is the same as 85 octane. E85 is 85% ethanol, but has about 100 octane level or more.

RE: point 2: Coasting. I assume you mean basically neutral throttle, not fully off? If the latter, interesting!

This is a fun article. People are in serious dick mode today it seems. Gonna miss your motorsport weekend content, Elizabeth!

Needs to go to the Derek Zoolander School For Cars That Don’t Turn Good.

This was relevant back when we had DIN standards for audio. Now you need to buy trim plates and a bunch of other crap to “upgrade” a stereo (which very few people do these days due to complexity).

Lewis’ gap behind made it an easy call - he could have come in, tried out inters, and probably gone back to slicks if he didn’t think he could drive the inters into the ground for a few laps.

Augh I’ve posted a lot below, but tl;dr grading this on a bell based on area and spreading it over a reasonable time period MIGHT work - applying a one size fits all approach can DIAF.

I love track day MPG - it’s awesome. I tag it specially in Fuelly and wish I could take it out of my tracking. I do L/100km and when I’m running 50+ I’m ecstatic :) 

Tesla has an advantage with video vs insurance companies. They can programmatically evaluate a stale green (flashing pedestrian signs, other vehicles in their fleet at same intersetction/time) and determine if you’re paying attention to an upcoming red. 

PS I briefly worked on a driver behavior app, and gave up (literally quit the company) because the test data showed that there was so many situations that counted against you if you did the right thing, eg hard braking for a kid on a bike. We had OBD data, and video. The OBD would scream and then you’d watch the video…

TIME OF DAY is a factor? I feel like insurance companies have forgotten their benefit and value-add to the world is a risk POOL.

I was going to quote the Alfa SZ but then remembered Zagato didn’t design it, just built it.