Norisring was alive and well before corona, was supposed to open the revised season before the city council said no, and will be used by DTM as long as it exists. They still sell out every year.

If the cars can’t handle Oschersleben, then what are they? It’s not exactly Silverstone. And drivers have been able to hit consuption targets for decades

I get the idea behind the long event, but I don’t get why they do it in Berlin.

Are US officers taught anything at all before being sent on the street?

Any power station that is not solar uses turbines, so it is about 95% turbocharged depending where you live.

Tesla does PR differently, but they still do it. Elons shenanigans and parading the Semi prototype through the rush hour are vital for that, they need to stay in the news to move cars. When was the last time you saw someone in social or classical media excited about a Cascadia or Saf-T C2?

Four years is not any slower than the Model 3, which is pretty good for a supposedly hopeless company.

Tesla does marketing different than other companies, but they still do it. For them its all about staying in the news, and Elons shenanigans are vital for that.

The difference between Tesla and Apple is that Apple was always profitable and was never as vulnerable as Tesla is and will be for a long time. As soon as there is serious money to be made in mainstream electric cars, the established manufacturers will be on the market in no time at all, costing Tesla market share and…

I think Tesla’s technology lead is often overestimated.

Tesla will not become the biggest automaker in the world, for several reasons.

That is a bad mischaracterisation of Porsches behaviour.

I still belive that the BoP-focused rulebooks significantly contribute to rising costs. Back when it was same rules for everyone, there were only three or four manufacturers on the grid, but they(especially Porsche) sold much larger numbers of cars, so development costs were spread out much further, and unit costs…

That may be true, but which privateers are still involved in GT3? Both Reiter programs are gone, the Emil Frey Jaguar project was axed, and the Maserati is also dead. The only one still going is Callaway. And word on the street is that only three or four manufacturers are making money off GT3, everyone else is either…

Not sure why the difference is that big, but it’s plausible that the V8 is more expensive, as it is relatively rare, while the B58 is used in every BMW apart from the 1

Just imagine someone in january telling you that by june NASCAR would be on its way to become the most progressive major sports league in the US.

Not too long ago, maybe even earlier this year, he would have been at high risk of being Kaepernicked for suggesting this livery and the flag ban, especially at RPM.

True, but in snowy regions, it does come with some pitfalls

Politicians are patting themselves on their packs everywhere for planning to ban ICE cars at some time in the future, but what they don’t talk about is the socio-economic implications such a move has. Right now, small electric cars without subsidies are not economically viable, so a large number of people might be…

That would be a car fast enough to not be a hazard to traffic, so >300kph and <4min lap time, and at least 10 lap range.