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The protocol is narrower than most viewers assume, and nearly every controversy comes from the gap between what VAR is permitted to do and what people expect it to do.
Hitting the wall is a metabolic event with a well-understood mechanism. Almost everything that prevents it happens before race day.
Grip in Formula 1 comes less from the tyres than from the air pressing the car into the road. Here is how that works, and why following another car is so hard.
The headline number in a transfer announcement is rarely the amount that changes hands on the day. Here is how modern football deals are really assembled.