That whine when the boost is engaged...its like it's powering up for light speed. Looks like it too.

I didn't think there was any formal convention? Sometimes the numbers are reversed, sometimes they don't use numbers at all. It's from a while back, but listen to these calls for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19F2YPVey0

Perhaps now the whole 1 to 6 convention is more formalised, idk.

*co-driver quietly crosses out "crest" and "flat-out"*

God rally is nuts. Fucking love it.

I think it's an ugly necessity.

Equality isn't about treating everybody the same. I mean, I wish we could do that, but then I wish people wouldn't decide if they are going to hire somebody from their very first glance. But that's what we do. We do nothing and we simply allow our unconscious bias to rule our decision making which, in most cases, would be great for somebody like me.

I mean, I don't like it. I can understand entirely why people feel they have been cheated when somebody gets a job or promotion ahead of them just for the sake of ticking a diversity checkbox. Maybe you're right, maybe it is just adding energy to that pendulum, but then a pendulum without resistance swings forever. I hope conscious decisions to readdress imbalanced caused by unconscious bias works more as a dampening effect, as resistance.

Back to semantics. Like the woman in the video, I probably had quite a knee-jerk response to men's rights. Sometimes probably warranted, but then some feminists have some pretty dumb things to say as well. Anyway, the person that helped changed by mind about it was a woman and a feminist. Don't define a group by it's most extreme edges because I think it just leads you to make uncharitable judgements about people that identify as part of that group before you've even really listened to them.

God that race is nuts.

Lucky man is the wrong place at the wrong time! (but survives)

What is the limiting factor for acceleration in electric cars? Is it just traction? Long live electric, but I do sort of miss the gear changing (especially downshifts )

Perhaps I am being obtuse but I feel that one of us, or perhaps both of us, are not understanding the other.

A parallel: After Brexit there was some rather ugly anti-immigrant stuff flying around. "Polish vermin" etc. I did, in my bitterness, fantasise about a UK without immigrants because it would be such deliciously ironic justice. I mean, in reality I'd have my Polish friends and a country that actually functions rather than "I told you sos" and packing bags... but still, sometimes I do wish lessons would be learned the only way some will ever learn them.

@HugeJerk

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/02/formula-1-in-2017-means-fat-tires-and-wide-wings/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SngYwMsxJ4U

Braking. Best done sideways.

(on gravel)

"...100, over crest, caution cow, keep right into right 4..."

Interesting to see how the tires deform.

I very much recommend watching TT3D. Short review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUKFoBt4Cw

I find it fascinating, but watching these things makes me so uncomfortable because it really feels like the glorification of an absurdly dangerous addiction.

I understand it down force is one of the contributing factors to rather bland and uninteresting racing because you lose a lot of the extra grip it affords you when you are chasing close to somebody else. So basically Lotus ruined F1 yeye.