Everyone has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in Hungary and Stuttgart.
"I went to the start in third and then I ran wide on turn one, then I got ahead of Leaping Lando and then they made me give the place back, and then my car wouldn't go very fast and then I said to Mr Race Engineer, 'No mate, don't give me this sh..', and then I ran into Mr Hamilton and then I abused my very dopey race engineer again and then I came fifth and then I told everyone to get fudged and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day," Mad Max moaned.
You know, Aussie Oscar, 23, and Leaping Lando 24 were the real kiddies in the drivers' seats. In the old codgers' department, The Hamster, 39, came in just behind the youngsters (third) while seniors' card holder Ferdy Alonso, 42, came 11th.
Both McLaren and Red Bull were appalling in strategy and even more appalling to their No.1 drivers. "It's childish on the radio, childish," the Red Bull race engineer said to the team's world champion, Mad Max, in the middle of a race.
Let's look at McLaren. Did they forget that Leaping Lando let Oscar through at turn one and that's why Maxie went for an excursion? What childish radio talk was McLaren saying to Lando: "You're going to need the team." So, they were talking to the driver who, even after Sunday, is only 76 points behind Max on the drivers' championship while Oscar is 116 behind and telling him the team wouldn't support him if he didn't hand the lead over?
It was a great win for Oscar, but I'm not sure any driver wants to win that way. Anyway, Mad Max was really Much Madder Max. Leaping Lando was only slightly less mad than Max. Danny Ricciardo was angrier than everyone. And so he should have been. His Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team made certain he would go badly with a "two stop into traffic" plan.
A few terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days over at the listed VW subsidiary, Porsche. First of all, Porsche sales stalled out worldwide in the first half of 2024. The Taycan is the biggest loser, with only 8838 deliveries (-51 per cent). Porsche sales in China plummeted 33 per cent.
Then this week Porsche shook investor confidence after it told analysts it could be forced to stop production of 10,000 vehicles because of a shortage of aluminium parts. Shares fell to a record low.
And today's car porn pic is of the 1938 Delahaye 135m Torpedo Roadster. Look at this and tell me it's not the most beautiful metal you've seen since a black Holden SS ute. Compared to a 1938 Alfa for $30m, a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC for $16m and the 1995 Ferrari 333 SP Evoluzione for $12m, the Delahaye at a lousy $3m has to be the buy of Pebble Beach.
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