If there is a serious chance that the maintainership of this thread may be changed, I offer to take it up.
Don't you know the ownership of the topic can not be changed, it belongs to Lauda forever.
I am sure that having a track record is helpful in terms of perhaps maintaining a thread.. but what is the idea of pinning?
A new thread might refer to the old thread (and linking it) and then perhaps summarizing aspects of the old thread (including perhaps updating some information). What would the pinning do? close the old thread and then link to the new one?
What I just think is that someone can do a research on his own and make a better version of the thread in a way the thread (this thread) will be referenced. If it is worth that the thread should be pinned, it would. So, the new thread already will reference the old one. My opinion.