My kid starts kindergarten this fall, so I’ll get just enough time to hit up the inaugural Nashville Indycar race, the Indy GP, and Gateway as I can drive there. That’ll get my ~4-5 Indycar races a year in. Otherwise I don’t have any other immediate plans to go to any other races during the summer due to my schedule,…

Honestly if there was a circuit you could run in reverse it’d likely be Monaco. Most all road courses and circuits are designed to run in one direction with their barrier layouts. At Monaco the barriers have to be assembled to the track, so just make sure there’s no points on the circuit where a car would contact full…

The battery replacement is killing me. What car battery costs $1,350? Even higher quality retail AGM batteries aren’t $375. I bought my last AGM battery for $175. And this car likely won’t be driven that much anyways and would benefit from a $35 on-board trickle charger.

Hell I’ve put mulch in my Corvette. 8 huge bags of it. I’ve also loaded pavers and flooring in it. That’s why they make tarps, soap & water, and vacuums for. I don’t need a truck for it. Last time I needed a massive amount of mulch I just had it delivered.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is still classified as FIA Grade 1, so it could host a Formula One race. 2005 was near literally a generation ago, and Roger Penske now owns the speedway.

If you want to know a real fun one, individuals that get their new Corvette delivered at the National Corvette Museum (right across from the factory in Bowling Green) not only pay their dealer’s destination fees (remember, you can’t buy Corvettes direct from GM; you have to go through dealer allocation.) but you also…

I don’t care what designer it comes from. That’s a black t-shirt with some small logos on it. And I have embroidered hoodies that look way better than that and cost nowhere into near three digits.

I’m going to throw a real hot take out there. I’m actually kind of surprised the talk and work of GT7 is going as fast as it has been going. Polyphony Digital as of late seems to be really invested in Gran Turismo Sport as an e-sport platform. Sure it’s arguably not as high level engaging as some others, but for…

Like was said get a G29 if you can. I’ve owned two now. They’re supposedly compatible with the PS5 (I have yet to get a PS5), and they’re backwards compatible with the PS3. I periodically bring out GT5 and GT6 to play with the G29. Only thing I disliked was the optional shifter which I bought. It’s a completely wasted…

The CrossCab blows my mind, but what blows it even further is the Range Rover Evoque Cabriolet, as I passed one late last week on the road. That combines everything possibly wrong into a single package; an Evoque, starting out +$40K normally but much more in this package, wrapped up as a CUV convertible... but is a…

The power is fine. It’s the mid-dip in the torque that’s always been the issue (and yes, I’ve driven both the FR-S and BRZ when they came out, and even walked away from the FR-S after driving it for ~30 minutes). Cars like the Miata may have less power but they have the proper torque curve to back it up, even an NA…

I bought a C5 that was roughly around the same age as the C4 when you bought it. It was a six speed with at-the-time 36K miles on it. It was the sort of thing I wanted since I was a kid - Nassau Blue, six speed, low miles, relatively untouched through ownership. Only thing I didn’t get hold of was it’s a removable top…

I’ll expand some. I worked in a school bus shop for a while, and when I first started I wondered this exact thing and even asked a tech that.

Any discussion on the merits of accessing ROM images of games aside, an even larger issue that isn’t being discussed enough is how he chose to defend himself. The ruling in this case has now set a precedence for any cases of infringement caused by distributed ROMs going forward, and the punishment was made all the…

This is very good advice, and I’d even say that this is one of those points where people really wanting something may do well to both work on their credit and “git gud” with their bank.

I’ve also been to a ton of events at COTA, and at TMS, and this ‘discrepancy of expectancy’ is one of the things I don’t like about going to COTA.

So I enjoyed CART (Indycar) tremendously back in the day more so than I did the eventual Indy Racing League. CART had all the top teams, drivers, and tracks. Sure the USAC ran 500 had the prestige but many of the CART sanctioned races were very close to becoming legendary in their own right or already had (ex: Long…

My thing about this; someone sees this on the road and they’re just going to be like “Oh hey, a Rolls Royce.” Congratulations. You spent $28 million to have the same thing visually to 99.9% of the population as the person that spent $500,000.

A standout I remember was early on in the episodes a kid brought in an Escort that was two cars welded together directly in the middle between the seats. Instead of doing anything with it a completely new car was brought in (a Scion if memory serves me correct). I always wondered what happened to that car, and doubly…

I’m still playing backlog titles on my PS2 and PS3. I just looked over at my shelf and have ~20 JRPGs on the PS3 alone I haven’t even touched yet. A few are still sealed.