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Jenson all but confirmed to be racing at Monaco. Honestly, as great as that kind-of-jokey sendoff with him getting wasted in Abu Dhabi was, I can't think of a better place for his career to finish than Monaco. It just seems very JB. EDIT: Also, Italian media are suggesting that Ricciardo to Ferrari is a real chance in 2018. Would be interesting to see him vs. Vettel again to say the least. Would solve Red Bull's "what do we do with Sainz" conundrum too.

Alonso is racing in the Indy 500 and is skipping Monaco. JB back?

So handily, Chase Carey has now agreed "in principle" with Erdogan to Istanbul returning!

Vaguely started back up on this last night. Only at Wrestlemania level though, so if there is space for me on anyone's team and I won't drag y'all down too much with the rating then I'd happily be up to help.

Sucks to see Malaysia go, definitely one of the best Tilke circuits (up there with COTA & Turkey).

Audi are reportedly attending the next engine meeting...

Yeah, apparently there were a hell of a lot less overtakes but it also didn't feel like there were. I think perhaps because the front was so back-and-forth with the gaps it made it interesting.

I mean, they showed a lot of the stuff with like, Hulk/Alonso/Ocon amongst other things. There were a few things they missed but I didn't notice it was any worse/better than usual?

Pretty good race. Merc doesn't look like it's any quicker in the race than Vettel at least and clearly struggles a lot more following cars, which means Ferrari just have to always stop later I guess and they can (in theory) jump any Merc ahead of them. Good to see Bottas able to hang with Lewis too. It never looked like Lewis was just hanging back at any time so Bottas definitely had raw pace. Shame for Ricciardo. Red Bull being so far off was really shocking.

That is all.

Verstappen will be "VER" on the timing screen now and not "VES", with Vergne having moved on from Ferrari. Maybe he'll actually be "JEV" if he ever comes back...

Jesus. Three crashes in two days doesn't look good at all on Stroll.

Apparently the McLaren is going to be orange and white. Which just makes me think of that god awful Renault from 08/09.

They did the joke with the other Superbowl episode where Moe and Homer cover their mouths with glasses so they could edit in the right teams

I think my problem with Pearl Islands is that they're all mainly unlikeable people and they're also lesser versions of previous characters. Christa was Neleh, Sandra was Vecepia, Lill was like an even worse Jan, Dara was (female with no personality), Burton was a shittier Colby and Fairplay was just a terrible Rob C.

Finished Pearl Islands. Second worst season so far for me.

Shea will probably win, although I love Sasha's look the most. I dislike Charlie immensely and it annoys me that she's the first "British" queen on the show when we've got a drag scene that's ten times better than anything she can put out.

Sweet lord, Amazon was amazing. That blows everything else out of the water. I loved so many characters in it, the amount of twists and turns throughout it...just so good. I can see why Thailand looks especially bad when sandwiched between those two seasons.

I just finished Thailand tonight. Yeah, it definitely is the worst of the seasons so far, but it's not *terrible*. Like, it's around Africa level, although Africa has generally more likeable people. I have to say though that I think Brian is an amazing player. I mean he really did make no mistakes, bar the "writing in the sand" thing. Definitely harkens back to the Ted/Ghandia misunderstanding through he said/she said stuff. The little editing callbacks throughout the season really worked well too. Brian's blindside of Ted is so obvious when you look back at all the little hints he gives throughout the show. Maybe it was a little cold but he did everything he had to do to win. It says a lot that Helen - who he fucked over the most, really - still voted for him. Also, I guess knowing he won beforehand (which I didn't with Vecepia) perhaps made it SO obvious he was winning, but the signs were there from the start. Guy got the power game right from early on. Overall though...yeah, a bad bunch. The purple team were awful bar Shii Ann and Robb may be my least favourite Survivor so far. Ghandia and Ted both came out of their fight badly. Clay was just pretty awful. I liked Helen eventually, and the fact Jan got to F3 is hilarious. I do wonder what would have happened if they had merged and Shii flipped at 10. If she had allied with the right people, they could have got Clay out. But Brian just seemed to have everyone in his back pocket.

Comaster, the Japan-only game that's on mobile, went live worldwide yesterday as Pokemon Duel. Pretty good little strategy game.

Jerri's not a very good villain, because she's so incompetent at the game. From the "THESE PEOPLE ARE MY VERY CLOSE FRIENDS" speech onwards, she really doesn't do well at it. She gets completely blinded by Colby and if anything, my favourite Jerri storyline from the season is her being so clueless about Colby. I've no idea if she then came out later and said she knew he was leading her on etc., but it really looked like she thought she had a chance with him. Or at the very least, thought that he was really on her side. Also, doesn't Australia have the most people who end up returning to the show or something crazy like that? They really were a great cast. In retrospect, having now seen Marquesas, nobody in Africa (bar a couple people) stand out as being that memorable, but the Australians do.

Just finishes Marquesas. Jesus, that season blows the other three so far out of the water it's insane. So many great characters, I legit had no idea who would win until the end. So much more game playing, two proper villains, I guess...and probably the right person, from a strategy standpoint, won.

Bottas confirmed, Massa back at Williams. Meanwhile, Manor have an offer on the table but they have to accept it by Friday to be ready for the season.

Wehrlein is confirmed for Sauber.

I bred a shiny Sandile last month which was pretty sweet, since he had good stats and stuff and would be somewhat usable. Shiny Krookodile isn't one of the awesome ones but he looks cool enough.