To be fair, Ferrari were colossally shit at strategy under Arrivabene too!

I’m continually baffled by why their default strategy is almost always “have LeClerc and Sainz do exactly the same thing, following one another around the track”.

I kind of hope we see Alonso go another four years, to be honest.

It’s kind of hilarious that they persuaded Ricciardo that they were a really promising team making big investments with a bright future... and he took one look at them from the inside and immediately ran off to scuttle his career at McLaren. So then they persuaded Alonso that they were a really promising team making…

To bring some stats into it, here’s the percentage of each generation in the US who actually voted for Biden (i.e. who, asked whether they wanted four more years of an inept demi-fascist in charge, actually said ‘no’):

“Everytime I read comments on facebook etc on EV’s I’m amazed how people lap up misinformation. I don’t get why.”

Presumably she doesn’t want to be blackballed (/sued, depending how bad the allegations are).

Although in some ways that boosts the case for WEC. It’s hard to see Ricciardo just taking a year in the Xfinity series... but if he’s doing 10 races a year in WEC, I could see him taking a few races in lower series (Supercars?) for a combination of experience and fun. He might see WEC less as ‘WEC’ and more ‘WEC +…

It’s nothing like Daniel-Max. That was primarily about team dynamics and the fear of Max’s potential - Daniel beat Max two years out of three, and might have beaten him all three years if it hadn’t been for one of the worst seasons for reliability that I can remember in recent years*. But Max was clearly improving,…

One fascinating thing I’ve read on the subject is that - aside from the nature of the drink being a factor (gin encourages melancholy, etc), a huge factor is that alcohol encourages people to act the way they believe drunk people act. Drunkenness is as much about display as about intoxication - it’s a kind of attempt…

It’s undoubtedly much worse with RB fans, yes. And getting worse with Max - although it’s always been a feature, I think. RB just promotes a sort of high-testosterone, hyper-macho, aggressive, anti-PC culture - they really seemed to encourage Vettel’s worst instincts, for instance. I suppose it’s sort of appropriate…

Alcohol is a huge part of it, but it’s alcohol culture that’s key, rather than alcohol itself.

We should remember that the pre-halo cars were much safer than they looked: the head was exposed, but it was within a void protected on most sides, so that impact with large flat surfaces was almost impossible. Alonso was never in any real risk in that crash. Likewise, Zhou’s slide was dramatic, but wouldn’t have been…

I have no knowledge of cruises, but you could also look into organised rail journeys - various companies offer them, in various price ranges, and I know I’ve seen some advertised for Norway, although I don’t know how much they cover. Rail journeys work a lot like coastal cruises, in that they let you sample different…

It’s a much bigger reaction than I’d expected (particularly given that Red Bull have never so much as wagged a finger at Verstappen’s repeated use of unacceptable language). And realistically it may well end Vips’ career - he’s clearly super-talented, but it’s very difficult to reach F1 and stay there without…

They always have been. They just used to be quotes from the Bible, or in Latin... but tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis!

Certainly concerning for them - but again, worrying that you might lose subscribers in future isn’t really the same as having already lost them!

My takeaway: all American houses are made out of... wood? Held together by... screws? And... tape!? [I already knew about the year-round ‘climate control’, weird as that is...] How is your country still upright!?

Just for the sake of accuracy, Netflix didn’t actually ‘lose’ subscribers - they got rid of them intentionally. They actually had a substantial increase in people who wanted to subscribe - albeit not as large an increase as in previous years, when the increase was meteoric - but they themselves actively withdrew their…

Sometimes we really seem to be going back to the 19th century on sexuality - back when they though any deviation from established gender norms was proof of “sexual inversion” (i.e. being psychologically the opposite sex from their body). We spent the whole 20th century gradually breaking up that concept - splitting…