It goes beyond sponsoring the series. Cooper MacNeil is the son of the owner of Weathertech. Next year he is taking over Christina Nielsen’s seat in the 2016 & 2017 championship winning Scudaria Corsa Ferrari 488 (GTD class).

That Cadillac program is now dead though. And pictured is the Taylor brother that didn’t get a Penske seat.

There is some talk of Ford entering the LMP1/DPI ranks in the future if the rules line up: http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/nair-ford-common-prototype-regs-the-obvious-opportunity/

Bill Ayers also.

Some of us can handle doing more than one thing at a time.

No one complains about Honda or Toyota and they’ve been building cars that way for decades.

Yep. From what I understand, Raj is the reason the GT exists.

Local guys rented the cheapest car possible and proceeded to hot lap it at our autocross. We run 3 groups and they had 3 different drivers using it so the car never got a break. ~30 runs in total.

The poll that shows Kid Rock at 40% is very suspect: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fake-polls-are-a-real-problem/

I don’t think there is a single road in the Detroit area that is smooth enough for F1 cars. Funny enough, the roughness of the track was a complaint during the USGP’s held in Detroit in the 80s.

Better executed than the Civic pickup

Regarding your second point:

Similar option that was seen at the Chumpcar race this weekend:

I was surprised by the lack of SUVs in this article. Even a mid-2000s Explorer tows 7000 pounds if properly equipped and can be had dirt cheap due to how many they sold in the era. I bought a loaded 04 Explorer V8 AWD with 107k miles for $4500 last year.

Your biggest problems will be removing coolant deadspots (getting even coolant flow), accounting for thermal expansion/contraction, and how things distort under clamp loads. It’s not hard to make an engine like they did in the 1920's that makes a few horsepower but a reliable 100hp/L and above requires some pretty…

With such a small production run, I’d assume the majority of the parts were made off of soft tools or machining anyways so the “replica” parts are probably going to be made in a similar manner to the originals.

I tried to sit in the back seat of one of these once. That was the end of my interest in them.

Cody is a good guy but I cringed hard when I saw that gofundme pop up.

Couple of favorites from the last couple years. First “Help rebuild my GT3 cup car!”

You realize that most drag strips don’t have safety personnel on staff unless it’s some major event right? I know our local drag strip’s safety precautions was a first aid kit during bracket racing on weekends. (IHRA sanctioned track)