Another crazy story from an even earlier era of racing is that the organisers of the Bol d’Or 24h motorcycle race did not allow multiple rider teams from 1922 to 1953.

You may joke about this, but I once visited the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen, and one of the managers in the upholstery production told us they once had a US-based farmer request that they make the dashboard out of his favourite cow from his herd. They said that the hide didn’t meet their usual quality standards,…

And cheap meat.

If VW and BMW really wanted to get into a price war, they would have the cash in hand to sell cars at a loss until Tesla implodes, and they wouldn’t even get into big trouble with shareholders if the owner families were in on the plan.

It’s not entirely clear if they were even losing money. Opel did a lot of engineering and some manufacturing that went to other markets, and it has been reported that Opel’s losses were mostly from those things not being assigned properly, and the speed at which Opel became profitable under Stellantis does support…

The H2's empty weight was below the 3500kg limit, so the could have been registered as cars, but then the registation papers would have said 3500kg GVWR. This would have given the H2 the same payload as an Opel Corsa.

The automaker hasn’t yet revealed where it derived its LMDh engine,

This article omits another side of the story:

In Germany, almost all mainlines are electrified, and the modern locomotives all have electric braking that feeds back into the overhead wire. Interestingly, sorting yards often use Diesel locomotives, because those locomotives also run trains on barely used, non-electrified lines.

That is the real question.

They will probably be paying extra for the ///M badge. In Europe, the M1000RR costs almost twice as much as a Hayabusa, but it also has 20hp more and weighs 70kg less. The BMW will easily outperform the Hayabusa, but it is not really the best choice of comparison, since the Hayabusa is quite old and not designed with…

Fun Fact: In Germany, you can fail inspection if your rear wiper doesn’t work, but if your car doesn’t have one. This applies also to models where the rear wiper is optional.

I want to live in the timeline where HHF’s car didn’t break down in the 1999 European GP, so that he could go on to win the championship. I feel like life must be better there.

Lewis spent the entire weekend turning into 2020 Vettel, with his car not being a contender seemingly ruining his motivation and a young teammate with recent backmarker experience getting much stronger results. This will be an interesting storyline to follow.

They used highways for the entire tip and hit a 90kph average for the entire trip, and up to 140kph in Germany.

They averaged around 90kph/56mph including traffic jams and snowy conditions in the alps, and said they drove up to 140kph in germany.

The Taigo was probably sent to the US for testing.

F1 almost had similar problems last year, but with a one week gap between races, and caused by weather causing backlog at the airport. But they seem to have long term contracts for logistics, and use Atlas Air.

A closer look at the planes at the core of this debacle is interesting.

The current iteration of Paul Ricard was built for testing rather than racing, and for a long time it was branded as “Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track”, and it does show in its racing.