It was every child gets a prize day last weekend at the Miami International Autodrome, a circuit around Hard Rock Stadium where 20 Rich Male Drivers of Miami drove 57 laps in 90 minutes.
It was 110th time lucky for McLaren's Lando Norris who came first, it was 191st time unlucky for Mad Max Verstappen who came first of the losers and 129th time even more unlucky for the blue-suited Chuck Leclerc who was two seconds behind Max.
Prize for the only driver to not finish the Hard Rock went to septic Logan Sargeant who collided with Kevvie Magnussen triggering the safety car which gave Lando the lead from Maxie. Maxie was already in a spot of bother after he hit a bollard, damaging the bottom of the Red Bull.
Not to take anything away from young Lando (even though he is a soap dodger) but his Mercedes-AMG-powered MCL38 had more upgrades for Miami than EVs have had price cuts this week.
Now I know all 20 of you understand that when you take delivery of your new car, the tyres can actually be up to two years old. Do you think anyone wants to do anything about that and the fact that the mark-up of most "genuine" spare parts is around 400 per cent?
The old bloke and I spotted Taylor Swift, Shakira, Serena Williams, OnlyFans model Veronika Rajek, Eddie Sheeran, A$AP Rocky, Ludacris, Flavor Flav, Mick Schumacher, Blackpink's Lisa and Kendall Jenner at or around the Hard Rock.
Lou Hamilton backed up on Monday for the Met Ball wearing a custom Burberry suit with an excerpt from Alex Wharton's The Gardener poem embroidered into the inside of his suit jacket.
Talking of the FIA, Natalie Robyn, its first female CEO, walked out of global HQ in the Hotel de Crillon, 8 Place de la Concorde, in Paris after 18 months. Robyn is the fourth senior employee and the second woman to leave the FIA in the past four months.
This week's EV watch: Nissan has slashed the price of its Nissan Leaf by $10k, Peugeot has slashed the price of its EV by over $25k, Elon Musk has slashed the market cap of his company by 43 per cent. In other good news for range anxiety sufferers, EV charging companies Freewire and Tritium have gone belly up.
This week's consumer watch: It appears Hyundai is looking after reader five, Travis Morgan, whose Santa Fe was the Guinness vibration record holder. And over at Isuzu and Mazda, law firm Chamberlains is thinking over mounting a class action over alleged suspension defects which cause the tyres to go bald prematurely.
In this week's new-car report we can tell you that Ferrari launched the V12 Cilindri at the Miami F1 circus. No EV, no hybrid just 12 cilindri putting out 6510KW which is good for 340km/h. Maybe $800k here with not much warranty.
jc@jcp.com.au