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@MrJamesMay Bless you

Cashews are weird. Are they actually nuts?

@theintercoolerx It is and I wish Max well in his car writing career. But if driving pleasure is derived from involvement and not speed as @Andrew_Frankel espouses, then a 107 delivers.

@jamesjimdavi It is all down to personal taste.

‘The 107 is not a car you buy because you’re passionate. It’s a car you accept, like instant coffee or Crocs in a heatwave.’ In his first story for the Ti app and website, Max Taylor, our new young writer, laments the lack of interesting cars available to new drivers. ⬇️

@ThatEricAlper Sauce.

What is your city famous for without naming it?

@rwilliams1947 She Said She Said is my favourite of Ringo’s drumming. Hardly a bar has the same pattern or time signature.

Ringo Starr never seemed to want to be Max Roach or Buddy Rich. Instead he concentrated on being the best drummer the Beatles could possibly have had (just listen to “Rain” or “Ticket to Ride”). He’s 85 today. Many happy returns.

@MrDavidAngelo @ZBrownCEO @HillF1 Oh do one. Funnily enough it’s about a great bloke overcoming many demons and obstacles to become an even better bloke.

@ZBrownCEO @HillF1 Is it about how Damon became a delusional leftist?

Watched the new Damon Hill film. What an incredible story of talent and absolute determination – @HillF1 is a legend of the sport and he earned it the hard way 💪

@TheBishF1 @InterlagosTrack That little 1.5 litre engine obviously took up a lot of room! Probably a lot of plumbing around it. Lovely proportioned car though as a result.

#HappyBirthday René Arnoux, 77. Pic: en route to his maiden GP victory, at Interlagos in ’80, in one of my favourite #F1 cars of the time, the beautiful cab-forward long-tailed Renault RE20.

@CockMich @TheBishF1 Wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing.

@TheBishF1 For me one of the best liveries in F1. Senna in the Camel Lotus Honda. I am a huge Prost fan but my phone is full of these pictures 🥰

#OnThisDay in ’87 Senna drove his Lotus 99T to victory on the streets of Detroit - the 79th & last championship #F1 GP win for Team Lotus (Lotus F1 would win twice, in 2012 & 2013). But what a car the Lotus 99T was: 540kg, 900bhp turbo V6, 6-speed manual ’box, big fat slicks...👌

@CockMich @TheBishF1 The match with Senna’s helmet is perfect

@TheBishF1 Apart from the Eiffel Tower, baguettes, cheese and a 2CV, that’s the most French picture ever.

#OnThisDay in ’77, at Anderstorp, a French driver (Jacques Laffite) drove a French car (Ligier JS7) powered by a French engine (Matra MS76 V12) to #F1 victory - the first time that that had happened. Pic: Laffite’s exultant crew congratulate him on his historic win.

@TheBishF1 He sounds like a bit of a crank.

Remembering Archie Butterworth, born #OnThisDay in 1912. After WW2 he raced a Bentley 4½ Litre, then in ’48 he built his own AJB Special, a 4wd racer powered by a war-surplus air-cooled Steyr V8. After that he made his own Butterworth race car engines. Pic taken by John Ross.

@MusilKen @TheBishF1 Appear!

@MusilKen @TheBishF1 There are clips on YouTube - like the one I shared - but not the full film unfortunately. Duke Video all ear to have it available as a download. dukevideo.com/prd7234ED/Spee…

Vic Elford was born #OnThisDay in ’35. A sports car legend - a 2-time Le Mans victor & a winner at Nürburgring, Sebring, Daytona, the #TargaFlorio (pic: Porsche 907, ’68) & other places too - he also raced in #F1 (4th on his GP debut), #CanAm & #Nascar, & he won rallies as well.

@MusilKen @TheBishF1 Re Speed Merchants - Mario is dead classy too. Hopefully not misquoting from memory. Quote - Ever since I was a little kid growing up in Italy I wanted to travel the world and race a big red Ferrari- End quote.

@jamesjimdavi @TheBishF1 Vic was great in The Speed Merchants. He won the first big race I attended, the ‘70 Watkins Glen Trans-Am (most glorious season in that series’ history), in a Camaro entered by Jim Hall’s Chaparral team. He also raced the famous Chaparral 2J sucker car.

@TheBishF1 @rwilliams1947 Loved Richard’s reference to going for a Taz. A word still very much used by me. Thinking about Tazio’s rivalry with Varzi and their sets of fans reminds me of the great Italian cycling rivalry between Bartali and Coppi, which seemed to embody trad and new Italy at the time.

Who was the greatest driver of the pre-#F1 era? There can be only one answer to that: the superbly daring & skilful Tazio Nuvolari, who’s the subject of the latest episode of @RWilliams1947’s & my podcast, #AndColossallyThatsHistory. Click below to listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/and…

@TheBishF1 @f1dutchgp As Graham said after the 49’s first shake down at Snetterton ‘It’s got some poke’

#OnThisDay in ’67 Jim Clark won the #DutchGP. So what, you may ask? After all, he’d won it 3 times before. True, he had, but this win was special, for it was the first #F1 GP win for the Cosworth DFV V8 engine. It would win 154 more. Pic: Clark, Lotus 49, DFV, Zandvoort.

@MrJamesMay To be fair and no disrespect, we’re all bores at something that others don’t either understand or give a jot about. I’d wager you’re a bore on AF and Whitworth spanners.

English collective nouns are ridiculous, and just an opportunity for bores to be pompous. Parliament of owls my arse. Everything should be a ‘load of’.

@TheBishF1 @Motor_Sport …..and he could rebuild a McLaren M8D.

#HappyBirthday Ron Dennis, 78. I worked for him at McLaren for years, & I got to know him well. Is he difficult? Yes, he can be, but he can also be absolutely brilliant. Above all, he’s extremely loyal. I wrote a @Motor_Sport column about him. Click below. motorsportmagazine.com/articles/singl…

@Andrew_Frankel Can drive upside down on the ceiling at 45mph

High downforce.