Very much this; it’s a bit trollish to make deductions about a person’s character and fitness for their job on the basis of not instinctively recognising the “connotations” that an American native English speaker sees in an English word, when that person is not American, and is not a native English speaker. Pretty…

They’re often called “boys” as well, as is common for men in sports in general. Even quite old men can be boys in a sporting context (although eventually they morph into “old boys”).

Short version: because he has 12 million social media followers. That’s only behind Hamilton and Verstappen.

Clearly he knows that Hamilton, frustrated by back pain, is about to retire, Mercedes will sign Ricciardo, and Ricciardo will win five WDCs back-to-back...

Have you seen Verstappen’s supervillain jet? It’s supervillainous.

The thing is, while I’m 90% sure that’s a joke, America is so insane (by international standards) that I can’t.... quite... be sure...

If you’re going that far, you could change your name to Dick Pound and start up an anti-doping organisation.

As a non-American, it’s kind of weird to me why this sort of thing is allowed in the first place. If this is happening in an urban area, then unless all the cars are stolen the police will know exactly who is doing it by just checking the number plates via cameras. Presumably if you knew you’d be imprisoned it would…

I’d say Sainz still seems pretty capable of that...

Why would you have to ‘plan ahead’ or ‘spend time waiting’? I mean sure, you might want to make a point of turning up ten minutes earlier or later depending on train times, if you’re in a really rural area, but come on, that’s hardly a hardship, when it saves you so much time overall!

It’s not really that expensive, and in the long run it’s profitable. [these projects are usually directly profitable even just from the fares alone, let alone the immense economic gains that result]

To replace Palou at Ganassi? Interesting idea, but I don’t think he likes ovals...

We have to bear in mind that a team principal is not really like a team manager in other sports, although media often present them as that. They’re more like the CEO of the club. They have a lot more independent power in the long term... but they also have much less ability to affect change in the short term. It’s not…

It’s Italy - if you fire the chief strategist, Binotto will resign, and then the factory will refuse to come to work anymore.

We’re not talking random people plucked out of eight billion. We’re talking about drivers who were competing for the same seats in the same championships, and in most cases we’re talking about people who competed in those very same championships against F1 drivers, and didn’t make the grade.

I’m not a lawyer, and don’t know the details of California law, but AIUI in the US, exceptional cases of negligence and recklessness where the reckless behaviour is SO reckless as to evidence a depraved or malignant indifference to human life can generally be considered murder. [for instance, if a terrorist sets a…

*sigh*

Another paid advertorial for debunked (and potentially unsafe) snake oil? Gods, I didn’t realise this site was in THAT much financial trouble!

To be fair, it’s post-Todt (‘93-’08), post-Brawn (‘97-’06), post-Schumacher (‘96-’06), post-di Montezemolo (‘91-’10/’14) and mostly post-Byrne (‘96-’06, though they brought him back for the ‘12 and ‘22 cars (i.e. the good ones)). And probably post- a lot of lesser-known names too. They really did suffer an exodus of…

Better question: What Would Ross Brawn Do?