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Oh wait, it’s only one now.

Keen observers will note Mike Hawthorn’s dapper bow tie

No, that’s not fair at all. Given the sheer number of motorists committing the same offences in vehicles weighing a factor of 20 or more makes this hypocritical statement a complete false equivalency.

\looks at GTA Online garages full of Ocelots (cat joke, Jaguars), DewBauchees (DB, Aston Martn) and Benefactors (Ben...Benz) and goes into Denial....

The big surprise was they managed to hang on - Red Bull came at them something fierce as Brawn’s lack of development caught up. Button won 6 of the first 7 races and then didn’t win again, indeed he only had two more podiums over the remaining 10 races. I’ve wondered if Massa’s injury at Hungary did Button a massive

Wow, that’s gonna take a lot lubricant

Did they seriously use of the most iconic highway tunnel entrances <Clarkson> in the world </Clarkson>  and try to pass it off as being in South America?

Had an A35 Maxima as a hire car in Maui a few years ago. It was a perfectly serviceable car - plenty of room, quiet an comfortable. Problem was, it reminded me of a mid-2000's Australian Falcon - sounded similar, similar lazy performance, similar degree of remoteness. It was a form of transport, nothing more.

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Oh wow, I’d forgotten about that. There was a joke at the time that the Nissan version of the XF ute had a 1 km/h higher top speed because the Nissan badge had better aerodynamics.

How can you make the colour out from behind THAT GRILLE?!?

I was a bit of a purist on this front, but having had a think about it I’m okay with 1 through 10 getting points.  Main consideration for me was the huge improvement in reliability since the early 2000's. If you look at the last five seasons where we’ve seen domination by the top three teams you would regularly see

Unless it goes like this:

Still deeply traumatised by that RUF RGT time trial.  I got the gold, but I think it took 5 years off my life.

European numbers are around 55k units annually vs 16k or so in the US, which interestingly is about the same number sold in Australia!

Slowing the cars was not the intent of the rules revision, it was purely to make overtaking easier.

I’ve noticed (and this purely anecdotal) that there is a trend in people who had their formative years in the post 9/11 environment have very different attitudes on government oversight of personal activities. I had a career change in the late ‘00s which saw me working with many in their late teens and early 20's and

The CEO’s name is Lawrence, so they’re well on their way

I don’t recall Pastor Maldonado being called anything but erratic and crashprone during his time in F1, on top of the accurate “pay driver” portrayals, even with his win, which was pretty early in his career and his only podium.