It’s my favourite take on a first contact story. I think you’d appreciate it.

Tyre management is the biggest challenge for pretty much everyone each time they make a step up in formulas, so no real surprise there. It was also something Piastri struggled with initially.

Cutting out mistakes in qualy is also important, but at least he’s showing pace. Better that than making no mistakes but being slow. He was reasonably close to George in Jeddah (and George is a great qualifier) until the last lap in Q3 where his mistake in S1 cost him several tenths and basically his chance of a good lap.

Crisis meeting? Are you telling me they’re not intentionally tanking the season for better draft picks wind tunnel time? The literal downgrades they’ve put on have been genuine attempts at improvement?

I didn’t follow DTM last year, how did Auer do? He was great in GT World Challenge I thought.

Thanks, I might check it out if it comes on sale. The first one already had some pretty… unintuitive puzzles, but that is basically just par for the course for the time period.

I like just about everything about it really. It’s beautifully shot, has moments of great humour and moments of great horror, I love the gradually increasing tension of the journey into the jungle and increasing descent into madness and absurdity.

It’s just a great film. I think I prefer the Redux cut but both are good really. The documentary Heart of Darkness about it is also truly amazing.

I heard this is supposed to be the best Larry game, is that true? I only played the first one (well, the remake) but this is pretty cheap on GOG sometimes. Worth playing?

Cliché answer perhaps but I do love Apocalypse Now. Was a very formative movie experience for me.

Ever read Roadside Picnic?

You son of a bitch, I’m in.

It is the best written video game ever and it’s not particularly close either. It’s one of the best written pieces of media I’ve ever had the pleasure of consuming.

I think this is it for me for the audacity and creativity of making a move through turn 22 in Jeddah. Runner up for me might be Antonelli setting up a nice move on Verstappen in Bahrain.

Piastri overtaking through turn 22/23 on the dirty line was my race highlight. Absolute madman to go for it there, that is not your typical overtaking spot.

Used to use Sync and I still prefer it in a lot of ways, but I can see the writing on the wall what with ljdawson not having reared his head for well over a year. That app will stop working when Lemmy 1.0 rolls out.

Switched over to Summit and I’m slowly getting used to it. Still missing some features and options and having some bugs, but overall it’s good and I think it will grow into being the best app for me in the future.

I haven’t had time to play as much the past couple of days, but when I do I am similarly entralled by Blue Prince. It’s going to be very hard for another game to pip it for game of the year for me I think.

It’s so full of mysteries, so full of intricacies, so full of interactions and puzzles within puzzles. The narrative and lore is great too. I really do love every single element of it. Even the basic gameplay of the roguelite portion is so well done that you are always just fiending for one more run, the dopamine rewards of drafting a satisfying house really just tickles your brain just right.

Seriously, if you haven’t already then go play it.

That was a solid race all things told. In these last year of a regulation times fraught with dirty air struggles we can’t be too greedy. We got some battles, we got some controversy and we got an awesome overtake by Piastri.

Tyre selection keeps being a challenge for Pirelli but maybe there were no good options. In stark contrast to last week we see the classic here of it not only being an easy one-stop but also one of the compounds being completely unusable in the race. Would going one step softer have helped? I would have at least liked to see it. Yes, the C6 would have been even more unusable, but that would have forced the teams onto the C5 and a probable two-stop at least.

Impressive race again by Piastri who did what he had to do, controversial lap one turn one aside. Again showing the importance of clean air this year, too. I thought going for the undercut and risking getting stuck in dirty air was a gamble but he did what was necessary to pull it off and it turned out well in the end. His overtake on Lewis was the highlight of the race for me.

Norris getting shown up by Hamilton like that can’t help his self esteem issues, and I do worry a bit that he’ll keep spiralling. He is fast, but he needs a much cooler head and much better racecraft than he showed today to fight Piastri, not to even mention Max.

Mixed day for Ferrari as Leclerc (my Driver of the Day) pulled a blinder and extracted the absolute maximum for a podium while Lewis just keeps floundering. He at least got to show some great racecraft today but his pace is just not there. He couldn’t even catch an Antonelli who was struggling, at least at times. Don’t know if or when things will change for Hamilton but right now it’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Tough race for the rookies with Bortoleto and Lawson collecting penalties and Doohan managing to be the most disappointing Alpine driver in a weekend where his teammate crashed on lap 1. Can’t help but think his days are numbered.

I keep watching Antonelli onboards as I find him one of the most entertaining drivers and he did not disappoint, despite having a tough race. Tapped the wall four or so times during the race, that boy drives with no fear.

Special shout-out to Williams who had an awesome race, hunting in a pack and pulling off some fantastic teamwork with the DRS to keep their double points finish. You don’t see coordinated driving like that too often, lovely to watch. Great to see Sainz finally hitting his stride in his new team, too.

Hadjar also had a great race under the radar, truth be told. Not his fault he got stuck in the Williams self induced DRS play.

I thought he said “flight home?” I assume he meant Gabi is using Fernando’s private jet.

Classic FIA inconsistency.

Go weeyums

There is no deg here, only overheating it seems. Could have possibly gone M-S honestly seeing as he was in clear air.