They don’t need to be first. The can sit at couple of generations back where the processes are well proven and the costs of the equipment is about 20% of the latest ones. But they chose to not participate at all. And you just know that the deciders all got fat bonuses for firing a large number of people and putting…

https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2016/11/gm-closing-indiana-semi-conductor-plant/

If I remember correctly, one of the places around Ft. Wayne where these thousands of trucks are parked waiting for chips is an old GM supplier plant that made chips and was closed by Barra. A plant that was closed in order to get cheaper chips from foreign manufacturers. How did that work out again? So now we are…

This is one of the most entertaining comments I’ve ever read on Jalopnik. Thanks.

I was the 37th owner of a VW bus aboard the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (before it became famous). The front face of the Type 2 had rusted away into shapes that were quite clearly teeth, it was missing about four feet of floor, and badly spray painted on the left side were the words “No Fat Chicks.” All…

No offense, but the money grubbing bastards of the FIA rely upon those 20 drivers for their income. The money grubbing bastards who sent you to Iraq could hardly care less about your proximity to a rocket.

If the human rights abuses, despotism or literal murdering and quartering of people didn’t put the pilots off those dictator-enabling races, I sincerely hope that being forced to race will finally do the trick. Now they got a taste of what it is like.

“Look, we’re ok with you using Sub-Saharan African slave labor, the treatment of women, the border war/genocides and torturing a Journalist to death in an embassy and the whole funding 9/11 without consequences deal....we get it. But a missile landing near where we’re going to get paid millions of dollars to play…

That is just convenient.

Why isn’t everyone boycotting racing in Saudi Arabia?

Considering that the Houthi’s drones are advanced enough to not only hit the race course, but can target exactly which pit stall to hit among the 10 teams, this is a very serious issue. The drivers have a right to be extremely concerned. I expect that the Royal Saudi Air Force will have multiple E-3 AWACS planes and…

Aim is 30 GP after the existing Concord Accord, yeah, what about 24 as it is now without those dictatorship countries, like South Africa, and keep it 24. I doubt this will happen with the actual FIA president.

Yeah, using the drivers and teams as collateral is very bad optics at best.

Per APNews and looking at Google Maps, from the corner of the North Jiddah Bulk Plan, which AP says was the target, to the Jeddah Corniche F1 Street Circuit, which I presume is the track, it is about 7.25 miles straight line. This meets what the APNews says - 11.5 kilometers which is 7.1 miles.

Do or do not. There is no try.

Always be careful with dealing with foreign governments and foreign cultures. Things can go sideways because there is a lack of full understanding.

It is mentioned explicitly that “part of this information involved the possible consequences of not racing, such as how easily teams and drivers would be able to leave the country if the race did not happen.”

Always a good business decision to sign a contract with a country that may hold you hostage if they don’t get what they want.

Loud pipes do not, in fact, save lives.

Gotham City is fictional. You know that, right?