He’s a legend for the handful of people who actually know who he is. Not taking a single thing away from drifters, their abilities are amazing, but despite its growth Formula D is still a niche sport. Which is a shame because all of the things people hate about mainstream pro motorsports don’t exist in FD. But it’s…

Sprint cars have similar horsepower. Give them a good enough dirt tire and they can handle it. They would also smooth the delivery of boost to not overpower the rear tires. But it really wouldn’t take a ton of effort to convert the cars over...

Where does it say the windows were left open? On the FB posting, the owner says the fireworks were thrown in through the flap window (rear quarter window) which can be pried open pretty easily.

You are not alone sir. With any luck Honda will add a hatchback option in another year, just like the did with the Civic.

The Challenger is nostalgia porn in car form. It’s the Buzzfeed of the car world.

At one point Danica fell into the latter category. Her first few years in IndyCar she made no excuses. Now it’s always someone else’s fault. And since everyone who is replying to this is saying she’s ultra competitive...that isn’t enough. All top athletes have a desire to win, but only the best are able to…

Collusion and cartels are actually par for the course in Japan and European business. Since those companies have gone global, they have had to curtail those habits, but old habits die hard. If you want some fun, read Bob Lutz’s experiences with BMW in the 70s. BMW, VW, and Mercedes all agreed to stick with certain…

They definitely got better as the season progressed. I expect much like newest Top Gear, they will have a much better idea of what works and what doesn’t. Yeah the GT team is mostly pulled from TG, but there’s always going to be growing pains.

Bond: I like the idea that “James Bond” is a codeword for an agent, not a singular man. If the movies want to lean in that direction (and for example, have cameos of previous “Bonds” or other previous character iterations), that would be lovely.

All you need is four people, a faculty advisor, an office, and a machine shop. Teams run the gamut from six-figure budget internationally partnered teams, to $10,000 budget show string teams that are finishing their cars before tech inspection. If you have a tiny team you have to plan multi-year cars, but it can be…

GIMME FUEL

These are the inevitable convergence of a number of trends we’ve seen in the last decade. People want SUVs because they think bigger is better. Then they wanted CUVs because SUVs were too uncomfortable and rolled over too easily (and it turned out that truck safety standards were lower than car safety standards so…

For Christmas two years ago, I made up a photo mosaic of our trip to the 2015 Indy 500. The main picture was the two of us standing in front of the pagoda at Indy. The mosaic was made of the hundreds of photos we took during the race weekend. He loved it.

Because “we designed a racecar, met all our deadlines, and won competition easily while having no problems” is boring. Nah, it’s the character building stories people want to hear!

I’d go with my senior year of Formula SAE. It was a 10 month project from starts of design to competition. I was the head of the team and so took on a lot of the work, probably a lot more than I should have if I’m honest. Literally spent every free minute in the shop working on something. There was also a bunch of…

The EVO came from a time when OEMs were forced to actually base their road car based racecars on their actual roadcars. Those sorts of rules gave us some wonderful creations like any WRC special, or all of the ex-NASCAR/Trans-Am muscle car specials we got in the 60s. These days the similarity between roadcar and…

Doesn’t Claire Williams run Williams F1 now?

Oh I sure got it. Having a cursory understanding of British politics is necessary for this joke though.

Leave it to CNN to leave out some pretty major details of how that USGP went down. It wasn’t just “a puncture” it was multiple instances of Michellin’s tires failing in Indy’s oval Turn 1. And the FIA vetoed the plan because it would take a unanimous vote of the teams to install that chicane. Ferrari voted it down.…

I was a Sega/Sonic guy as a kid, for me it was Up Down Left Right Hold A Press Start. Konami code I never played around with. But y’all caught my drift