“You are the Duke of New York. You are A Number One!”

The facts of this story have gotten distorted through the lens of hatred for the yacht’s owner.

Thank you for the correction, and a bit of a laugh.

Ships emit substantially less cargo than trucks per unit of cargo moved over a given distance.

Good point, but I doubt the elevator was hydraulic. It was a 12-story building, and there was a housing at the top of the building that looks like it would be in the correct location for elevator hardware.

So, dorm story. We just got done taking a group floor picture. About 60+ guys. We all cram into the elevator to see what happens. We drop to the bottom of the shaft (thank goodness we were on ground floor and only had the basement to go). Must’ve hit some springs or something at the bottom of the shaft, but we were…

Lincoln Chafee included the conversion to metric as a policy in his 2016 presidential campaign. About the only attention his campaign got was to be ridiculed for proposing it. It’s a colossal misreading of the American zeitgeist to think that any efforts to convert to Metric would be well-received by the American…

While I think it would be better in the long run for Americans to convert to Metric, one shouldn’t underestimate the insane expense of that conversion. Engineering companies would either have to convert their entire legacy of English designs to Metric, as well as a very heavy investment in English metrology. While…

We’re not criticizing their including English units (which the English mostly don’t use anymore, stipulated) and Metric - just don’t use such clunky conversions.

A works Rothmans 962 DID race in a WEC race in Mosport in 1985 (and a works Rothmans 956 in 1984), so that is the only time one raced in North America, but not in IMSA.

To be pedantic, I don’t think it ever raced in Rothman’s colors in IMSA. Those were all in WEC and Le Mans (and maybe occasionally JPSC or German Interserie). The works 962s in the USA were the Al Holbert Racing cars, which raced in Lowenbrau, then Miller, livery. If you can find an IMSA race where it did, I’d be very…

The Porsche 991.2 911 GT2 RS MR is a street-legal car with a <$400K price. The AMG One is not street legal in the US, and costs several million dollars. You can buy a 991.2 911 GT2 RS MR and a retired DPi and pay for pros to set it up for a bunch of track days for far less than the AMG One.

“Come to Australia, where you might accidently get killed”

This reminds me of the most appropriate product packaging ever.

Since GTP is turning into a BoP class, I wonder how that affects design decisions. Are there design considerations that affects how a team might “game” the BoP process?

Sorry to be that pedantic asshole, but the S-3 had General Electric TF-34 engines. Not Pratt & Whitneys (I used to work there at one time). That does not change the fundamental validity of your post.

If they have 6 cars within 1 second on a track of this length, and 4 within .2 seconds, it looks like they might have gotten the BoP correct (unless there’s a little sandbagging going on)

It might also cut down on their tendency to roll out features like FSD before they’re fully baked.

That second one looks a little like an RX-8.