I think Max's future is likely to be decided by other things before GP moves on.

The Race are reporting that Lambiase will work with Stella and taking on some of his responsibilities, which makes more sense to me as it would seem like a big jump from what he's doing now to go straight into a Team Principle role. To me, this speak more to a mentorship where Stella is developing talent to eventually replace him, and I'm sure there are others internally at McLaren who would by vying for this role as well.

I presume Mercs main defence will be that McLaren has the same engine and isn’t as dominant.

Quali should be good if they're still learning where the limits are.

!next

I appreciate that Aston has a lot of new stuff to grapple with this year (engine, gearbox, new regs etc.) but I’m still slightly surprised they are seemingly so far behind the development curve given they switched to developing the new car pretty early last year.

Will be interesting to see where they are relative to Cadillac.

I was talking about the multi-coloured Christmas decorations of our childhood yesterday. In addition to these foil things, we also had multi-coloured tinsel hung around the edges of the ceiling and wrapped around anything hung on the wall (just like the clock in the image). Good times.

There’s a legal challenge coming in Feb due to that fact that it is virtually impossible for rival candidates to get enough support to run for president.

I was rooting for this until I learned that challenge is coming from Bernie Ecclestone’s wife. Seems a bit suspect on the face of it.

This whole thing has got the whiff of money and influence.

ADHD?

I'll be honest, at about the 70 minute mark I thought Wales were utterly cooked. Delighted for the win. I hope it gives the team some valuable experience, but woof! Lots to work on.

Rejection of fascism and racism is good not just for New Yorkers, but more widely Americans. The optimist in me also likes to think that this is a signal to politicians and political parties everywhere that you can challenge far right populism and win, rather than absorbing elements of it to attract voters. (Labour continue to disappoint me in this respect)

I think the challenge for Mamdani now (as I suppose it is for any progressive who gets voted in) is actually making positive change happen at the rate that people want and need it. There will be a lot of people waiting to leap on failure, including some Democrats.

#enshittification

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification