Were you required to ask the exxonmobil questions, or is this more a general “thank you for letting me ask questions” thing? Because I can’t think that you would have asked about Exxonmobil otherwise. Are they actually involved in developing lubricants for Red bull or is it just sponsorship deal?

Drive a Tesla, it’s good for the environment your ego!

It’s like the ultimate in ironic hypermiling. You drive as smoothly as possible with no consideration for the drivers around you, but you don’t actually do it to go anywhere therefore making it an even bigger waste of resources.

This is like the electrified version of rolling coal.

It should be the default, pay $500 extra to get boring white/grey/black

That teal / copper combo works really nice, however the tank just doesn’t fit in with the rest of the bike.

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So grading in schools here (Netherlands) goes from 1 to 10, but in Germany it goes from 6 to 1. I hope German Tesla drivers are not going for the perfect 1...

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Lewis was spinning his tires trying to get his car going again. Max could clearly see that and take that to mean Lewis was fine. 

I’m not sure if I agree with the driver of the day, I think the driving of Norris and Bottas was more impressive. Norris kept more people at his back and Bottas fought his way back where other people there was not a lot of other overtaking. After his pit Ricciardo had it more easy than Bottas or Norris

I can life with the penalty, but calling it a racing incident would also be justified I think.

Hamilton dropped down to 6th actually, Gasly was (before he went of) in front of him.

This is the right stance. Mercedes and Bottas both knew he was never going to be given preference and win the hierarchy of team orders over Lewis. Bottas did an exceptional job following team orders, remaining competitive and getting along well with Lewis.

Exactly. It would also be beneficial for Merc as it would raise (or restore) the profile of a client team.

And what happens if next years Williams is actually fast? No one knows what those cars are yet.  I agree Russell couldn’t be ignored anymore but damn I sure would loved to have seen what he could do with an apparently resurgent Williams team in 2022.  

Agreed. I honestly thought they’d push off the deal for another year because 2022 brings in a new car era, so keeping Russell at Williams would give him race hours in that car while Bottas could serve as a benchmark. But the latter wanted a multi-year contract and the former could not be ignored any longer.

Did Bottas not win enough in a pretty unbeatable Merc? Yes. Did he have an opportunity to win? Not really.

Yep. It’s called the Streisand effect, and it’s very real. It will actually draw people to your address to see what the big deal is.

but it’s likely that the team was attempting to avoid a late-race blowout

Yeah, the team without any pit problems is the cause of the problems, sure