Yeah, for Ferrari and its fans, it’s a tragedy that Todt lost his battle with Di Montezemolo. For other people, it’s resulted in high comedy.

Top tip: Virgin Supercars. It’s like DTM, but good.

It’s not just a stretch, I actually think that during my time of watching MotoGP (about 20 years now) he’s been the most generally disliked rider at the top level. When Marc Marquez made the jump to MotoGP even the Spanish fans seemed to shift allegiances without thinking twice.

About 60% titanium would be my guess.

Why exactly? What would be the point of that?

Thankfully they’re taking steps in the right direction for 2020:

“F1 and Motorsport mag indicate that there is an increase in downforce.”

You take that back! I learned this

Not only that, but, while Elizabeth clearly has a basic understanding of the principle, some of her explanation is technically incorrect/incomplete and does more to confuse than inform.

Say bye bye to Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull then.

Yeah that’s not happening. The cost cap will be such that smaller teams won’t be able to spend that amount. It’s really a measure to not let the gap get out of control more than it already is. And the top teams don’t blow through money, they spend more for added performance.

For every murderous nutjob, there are at least 1000+ normal people
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True, Honda funded nearly the entire operation. Brawn paid a symbolic $1 for the team in January 2009, and part of that deal was complete handover of a rumored $200 million in assets + cash to cover the 2009 season. For most of the 2008 season, they famously had three separate teams working on what would become the…

Nearly the entire budget of Brawn’s 2009 season, not just the base design, was effectively covered by Honda. And most of the team personnel didn’t change, so Brawn was Honda, just with different branding and a lower 2009 season budget.

Thinking that because of Brawn, a small(er) budget team like Racing Point may be able to find their way to the front shows a (common) misunderstanding of the history of the Brawn BGP001.

A transformer would be cool, but since it’s Germany I’m slightly worried it’ll end up being a Decepticon.

Not sure how you misread ‘robo’ for ‘Ferrari’, but it’s an honest mistake I guess.

“It’s a rich people sport.” 

Sure. Don’t really know how to give you the short version though, so here goes.