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It's a difficult one. I'm more than happy for us to help defend Israel's civilians. In particular from a massive over-reaction from Iran. On the other hand ... the whole situation over there is stupid. Israel's government and military are far too heavy-handed and have a tendency to treat any...

Bortoleto is still in the frame to take Bottas' seat at Kick/Stake/Sauber/Audi/Kermit or whatever it is they're going to be known as next season. Apparently so is Colapinto. Both apparently available for 2 year loans from their current teams. Meanwhile Bottas is fighting hard to try to get a...

Some interesting comments from Horner recently: Helmut Marko wanted to get rid of Ricciardo already for the Barcelona round. Horner kept him in until Singapore. Ricciardo wasn't given Perez' seat because he wasn't consistent enough. Reading between the lines, it seems that at times (eg Miami...

Always thought birds of prey are magnificent creatures. As a youngster I went with "Raptor" and variants of that in games, but as gaming moved online I rapidly found that name was commonly taken. "Audax" is the second half of the latin name for the Australian Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)...

Checo felt the need to speak up and deny the rumours he'll be announcing his retirement soon. Although I think the way he went about it was interesting ... essentially saying when he does retire it'll be on his terms, that he wants to carry on another 2 years, but probably not much longer than...

No worries. That sounds like a lot of the problems are on your providers, then. Because as an end user, the experience does keep changing. As I say, today I'm not getting any ads at all (desktop) on NSC. Hence, no problems. But last week I had these top/bottom/sides ads loading up (and...

So, once again, the problem here isn't the *ads* themselves. Several of us have said we're more than happy to see the ads. The problem is the implementation of some of these ads technically is causing the ads to adversely affect usage of the site. I would happily scroll through a thread that was...

What's it like on the coast? Uckfield is getting dumped on currently, and it looks like it's not going anywhere fast. Edit: OK, checked the radar. The weather is sinking south from the north, so the heavy rain I'm getting now is going towards the ground. IMO no chance of play today looking at...

Yes, and I suspect re: that rumour I posted about this either confirms the rumour had no basis or, if it did have some basis, that Perez has made a decision that means RBR no longer need to keep DR available. So I think where we are with red Bull drivers is the following: 1. Verstappen's...

There's a (low quality for now) rumour emerged that Perez is seriously considering retirement. Most likely at end of season, but possibly as soon as after the Mexican GP. The rumour suggests this is why Red Bull are handling the Ricciardo / Lawson situation so poorly. Theory put forward is that...

Starting on scrubbed tyres does happen occasionally. TBH it does seem very odd to start on scrubbed softs when the goal is use the extra grip that softs give you. Scrubbing the tyres does take away a little of the max grip (trade off being better longevity). It's possible that's all they had...

Maybe. But then, I can remember multiple occasions in the past where Hamilton has been on the radio questioning strategy calls and then been proven wrong and apologising after the race.

Sometimes scrubbed is better. I think it was Aston Martin a couple years back who would deliberately scrub tyres during practice / qually because they were seeing that they got better in-race performance (mix of speed vs longevity) from scrubbed sets.

I subscribe to a much simpler explanation: the Mercedes strategists got too excited about possibly using the soft tyre advantage off the start line to jump ahead of Max Verstappen. It didn't work.

Dominant display from Norris. Shame Piastri didn't qualify better - think he had the pace to beat Verstappen as well if he'd started in front of the Mercs. Norris cuts the gap by 7 points, after Ricciardo was pitted and took the fastest lap late in the race. That could be an important moment...

I'm having this too, on laptop. The "takeover" ads that fill the empty space on the sides / top / bottom of the screen are the culprit I believe. I only just started seeing these load in recently, and it's only since they started loading that I've had the problem with "focus stealing" (which is...

I went with a a Quad Lock case on my previous mobile, having been advised they offer the best solution for mounting a mobile to a motorcycle. Won't look back - went with Quad Lock again for my current phone. Really good cases, plenty of options, and now got mounts for both motorcycle and car...

FP1 in Singapore done. Norris quick, as are both the Ferrari's. Piastri session comprised initially by a rear tyre issue, so not sur whether he's out of position or genuinely slower so far. Verstappen has pace in that Red Bull again, but even so appears to be behind McLaren and Ferrari still...

Sorry, my bad. Was just on my way here to ask the following: "At 8 down, if you're Simpson do you look to accelerate the scoring and see if you can get a 3rd batting point in a hurry or just look to bat long with what remains of the tail?"

RUMOUR ALERT There is a rumour that has emerged that Lawson's contract with Red Bull actually has some form of clause around giving him 5 race weekends this season. It is now being reported as part of this rumour that Lawson will replace Ricciardo as of this weekend. So far I've only seen a...