"Although Deal Or No Deal was nerve-wracking, because it's a big thing to win that kind of money, it's a totally different thing to racing, which I've basically been preparing for since I first learnt to swim," said Hewison.
"It's expedient, just like reducing things to my race or my gender.
I have been asked why about a lot of things related to race, but never about silence.
Coulter brought things back to race, saying that some women had been quick to forgive Bill Clinton for his sexual transgressions, but were attacking Herman Cain.
The series has some important things to say about race in America, particularly in explaining how society concocted expedient notions about race that have no backing in genetics or biology -- what Mark Twain described as a "a fiction of law and custom".
So if McLaren were to go to Malaysia and find "Magic Widget X" and sign an exclusive deal on the production of "Magic Widget X" for our car only, and it gave it half-a-second lap time improvement and nobody else could get access to it, I could pretty much guarantee that even if we managed to get the thing to the race it would be banned after the first or second race.
"It might get complicated if there is a problem trying to change things to finish the race," the Finn said.
The closest thing to a race was the "chase," when the "fleet" pursued an imaginary enemy.
To mix some other metaphors, perhaps it is a good thing to drive race hatred underground, depriving it of the oxygen that it needs in order to flourish.
I think the way Formula One will benefit from it is by integrating closer television with data, information, betting, gaming, etc., using the real-timeness of the Internet and just adding a better viewing experience to the whole thing — to the race, at home in front of your computer, using an additional transmission media to populate what you see today.
