MrPogo

I dunno, a strategy fuck up robbed him of a shot at the podium, although that’s presumably what they were trying to do to Perez but got it all backwards.

To be fair no one thought that would happen.

Fair enough. The months with snow was the first thing I checked (December to April I think they said), but I guess that’s probably from a “guaranteed covering” perspective or something, rather than “chance of it happening”.

The Montreal weather looks like it should be alright if they put it before the US GP (based on reports of seasonal weather trends, rather than personal experience); average highs of 13 in the daytime and same chance of rain as in June. I guess the teams wouldn’t be too keen on four races in a row without going home though.

I always got the impression their stock of new releases relied heavily on the “You’ll give me £20 for these five copies of a game released today that I definitely didn’t just nick from HMV? Yeah, alright” crowd, so I’m not sure how they’ll fare in lockdown.

I’m not sure if I was more surprised by that or the news that’s the same number of wins Verstappen has. Bottas does make me respect Rosberg a lot more than I did at the time though, when I thought “any idiot can follow Hamilton home every week in that car and pick up the odd win by luck”. The 32 to 22 victories Ham and Ros respectively picked up as team mates now seems a lot more impressive.

I’d love an evening race, as midday Sunday means I don’t watch quite a few live, but the international issue is going to be far worse in the week; a fan in the US who’d get up at 6am on Sunday isn’t going to take an afternoon off work to watch a race at noon on Wednesday, and only a super hardcore Japanese fan is going to tune in at 3 am on a school night.

“Ocon still hasn’t pitted” “Unbelievable” The only acceptable response there was “Ocon believe it!”

I just can’t resist something at 99p which sounds like it might be good! And because I keep buying them it’s pretty much the case that unless they get read in the first few months it’s never going to happen; my Kindle displays the most recently purchased books first and I only ever go back two or three pages through the archive before I find one that makes me think “I’ll read that next”, so the one I bought longer ago don’t stand a chance!

I hear you there. I think if I stopped buying Kindle books entirely it would take me about ten years to read my backlog. But I won’t. I basically read a book a fortnight but buy one a week

I’ve only read Cloud Atlas and one other, but definitely worth a go at 99p!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YBXJ2QB/ref=mh_s9_acsd_hps_c2_x_4_i?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-3&pf_rd_r=CE48MM3TK22Y2A3HY342&pf_rd_t=1201&pf_rd_p=7fd5af5d-187b-4287-89b2-b9d5e96ebf9b&pf_rd_i=5400977031 David Mitchell(author)’s new one is in the daily deal today.

At least they applied ridiculous looking penalties nice and early, so I knew to abandon watching the replay of the race ten minutes in, rather than staying up till midnight.