Potential viewers is pointless. Peak viewership is on the order of hundreds of thousands in the U.K. out of over 80m potential viewers, probably the most enthusiastic motorsport market in the world. That ratio gives you 5m peak global viewers.

It’s called marketing, right? A $600 billion industry for a reason.

If full autonomy is demonstrably safer than nothing (which, by all appearances, it is), then it is obviously a desirable goal. But I don’t think partial autonomy is safer.

Full autonomy or nothing. The middle ground is the most dangerous possible situation, where constant vigilance is required but interaction is minimal and distractions abound.

This should be a Torch article. There should be illustrations.

What the fuck is a recidivist race manipulator?

I keep seeing this and I’ve made reference to it before as well, but after reviewing some of the sources making this claim, there is no first-party proof (the FIA released no such statement). I think it’s best to say that it is probably conjecture based on the penalty handed down to Vettel or the notorious “unnamed…

Never happened. He offered to back the pack up when Bottas was unlapping himself near the beginning of the race, and was reminded that he must maintain a set distance to the safety car. When the safety car lights go out, it will be in on that lap and the rule regarding following distance no longer prevails.

The video telemetry is notoriously out of sync.

We don’t need to innovate care, we need to provide it

No. While the safety car lights are on, the leader must stay within 10 car lengths. This is what Lewis was being reminded of, after he suggested that he might back up the entire pack to allow Valtteri to catch up to the tail end while he was un-lapping himself. After the lights go out, when the Race Control message…

He qualified his statement: “Guys, if Valtteri’s not fighting anyone ahead…” 

You wish Vettel had taken Hamilton out of the race because Vettel carelessly drove into the back of him? This take makes no sense.

Lewis did nothing out of the ordinary, as review of the telemetry showed he rolled slow through that corner in the same manner on all 3 safety car restarts.

As soon as the Safety Car In This Lap message appears, the race leader dictates the race pace and the ten car length rule no longer prevails. To back up the pack prior to reaching the first safety car line during a safety car restart is not only routine but universal.

“Guys, if Valtteri’s not fighting anyone ahead, you could have him slow down just enough that he’d give us a bad wake.”

Fortunately, the brake check was also mythical.

Delightfully wrong.

Like it or not, this is the business model. I don’t think your local food cart can afford the kind of ad buy that would land them on this site.

Unions are, on the main, not about the Davids Beckham of the world.