Well, some of those temporarily exempt items are of the welded closed cannot-easily-be-removed type, so there’s that too.

Fair points, I guess that in this case the status of “outclassed” depends largely on perception. Maybe I lend too much credit to the fact that someone completely new to a car is out-qualifying the driver who has been with the team for years, but to me that stands out as really significant.

The whole idea of Greatest Of All Times is useless anyway. At least for Formula 1.

Sorry, it’s not how I interpret the expression and, no, I didn’t use it with the intent to pre-empt anything.

It does suggest that Russel is considerably better at adjusting to / dealing with a difficult and unruly car, which makes sense considering the teams he was with before joining Mercedes.

Hamilton down on power? Not how I interpreted it. No DRS during the wet part of the race hurt him more than Russel, true, but I didn’t see reason to surmise a power deficit in relation to his new team mate.

The Red Bull Racing F1 record of 1.88 seconds (!!!) from the 2019 German Grand Prix in Hockenheim (equalled in 2021 in Hungary) will stand for a very very long time.

Agree on the Why Not Both? bit.

To further elaborate: back in ye olde days, cars depended much more on mechanical grip and much less on aerodynamic grip. Or rather, the aerodynamic downforce did not really require clean undisturbed air.

Not by any formal definition, no.

Yes, that bear has the complete ABC: Atomic, Biological and Chemical weapons.

I don’t think Putin is crazy. I do believe that he fell into a trap of his own making, by surrounding himself with men in power who will rather tell him what he wants to know than tell him the reality.

Please don’t call it THEFT. Theft implies more or less that the goods can be recovered/returned.

Dude, you piled it on waayyyyyy too heavily. Effective trolling requires some restraint, you know?

The only thing different from being pulled over, and the cop walking back to his car to check your licence and papers is the scale. Ok, well, and the type of transportation mode.

I like the creativity of your thinking but, unfortunately, the structural strength of a cargo vessel is achieved in a completely different way, compared to a luxury yacht.

That’d be a waste of money. Why not lease it to non-Russian rich people and use the profits of that for recovery and rebuilding in the Ukraine?

I call bullshit on that! Yes, there is plenty to criticize Musk, but he’s willing to prop up the ISS. He also had Starlink activated over the Ukraine to help with internet connectivity and supply them with a load of Starlink base stations too.

As someone who has been on this site since before that dreaded Kinja thing made its debut, I agree. As sad as that may be...

would otherwise be dismantled in an environmentally friendly manner