I don’t know. It was many moons ago.
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If one flies over and drives around the west and south west of the USA, it dawns on one that this land is uninhabitable save for VAST, ginormous, eyewatering spending on making it habitable by the application of technology powered by unfathomable quantities of energy.
The energy Trump, dissing Biden the other day, called “our energy” - oil.
Seen those huge green circles in the desert, watered by unmanned tractors that revolve endlessly, except to be refuelled?
Anyone familiar with cities like Phoenix, Tucson, San Antonio, Houston, L.A. etc can see that from AC and the motor car down to obligatory glasses of crushed ice in diners, these places are forerunners of cities on other planets because without energy consumption on a no-limit basis, they are not viable.
It behoves everyone to do one’s bit but a sense of perspective and joined-up thinking on what an individual can do in the face of corporate, industrial and national consumption would save a deal of hand-wringing and guilt.
China, Brazil, India and others want to join the industrialised world and they want it now.
I would love to know what Ferrari were pulled up on halfway through last season. It must have been something significant to cause the dramatic loss of form, surprised nothing has “leaked” yet. Fairly routine/ boring race for the top 3, quite close and exciting in the middle order. Can’t really see anyone getting close to Lewis, he, and his car are just too good.
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The following may shed some light on Ferrari’s poor performance this year:
Encouraging news for @Jane_Williamson 
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vettel-f1-mountain-climb-exist-10-years/4867423/amp/
It would make economic, environmental and logistical sense to just have the F1 season in Europe which is pretty much what we have this year.
It might make sense this year and next due to COVID-19.
However I believe that Bernie had the right idea in expanding F1 to take advantage of the emerging economies.
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Not quite a season.
I had wondered that after seeing her interview on Ch4 at the Belgium GP where the deal was announced…
Good for him, and great for the sport. His participation will generate an enormous amount of publicity.
Heres hoping that the reverse grid F1 qualifying race idea comes to fruition later In the season. Last Sunday’s race was a real belter and great to see a totally different/young podium .
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Don’t disagree with that but OTOH, Lewis was robbed of the race by the Stewards and the irregular positioning of the pit lane closure flag… the commentators are quite right, the visible flag should be on the right of th entry to the pit lane… not waaay over to the left out of the line of sight of a driver concentrating on the entry lane 
Lewis did well though to pull himself back up the race rankings at a circuit which is notoriously difficult to overtake on 
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Yes, totally agree, bit of a silly place to put those lights, but sometimes the unexpected happens. Didn’t think it was right that they could change Stroll’s tyres under the red flag condition either.
IIRC they changed the rules under red flag some time ago…
Ah but all of the other teams knew and didn’t bring their drivers in on that lap, they waited till the next lap. It was great to see a different winner and podium for a change.
Izzy x
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not quite right as one other driver (Giovinazz) was also penalised… Both were called into the pits by their team walls…