Yeah, I only think it is saying it’s a Toyota Crown because his last name is Crown, and the AI is latching onto that.

Why are the first couple of links in this story going to articles on the Titan sub and an article on the Chevrolet Colorado W71 pickup truck? Some sort of weird autolinking?

To be accurate, he only talked about pardoning him. The pardons board is unlikely to recommend pardoning Daniel Perry, and I don’t think Abbott can do it without that, so it was all just dog whistling.

XJR-5 won 6 IMSA races, and the related XJR-7 won 3. It wasn’t the hottest package to have, but on a good day, it could get you to victory circle, especially if the 962s were having a bad day.

It’s got to be “pretty,” so, no, it doesn’t need to be on this list <wink>. Porsche made the GT1-98 look so much better, IMHO. It had its own flippy moment, though (Road Atlanta, I think)

Since they didn’t go into it in detail, I was going to let this slide, but, yeah, the 787B has so much mythology built up around it that isn’t really true . . .

The 2708 chassis was pretty bad, having a dated aerodynamic concept. Eventually the March chassis were used, and they had an innovative carbon fiber one that was excluded as “unsafe,” despite the fact that everyone was going to be using a carbon fiber chassis a few years later. That was one of the more shameful CART…

It was probably suicide. He handed his wallet and watch to a coworker before walking toward the engine. Go 1:05 in.

Juan Browne’s Blancolirio YouTube channel, usually a good source for aviation incident summaries, mentioned that he handed his watch and wallet to a coworker before the “accident.” Probably suicide. Still very tragic.

Minor nitpick - the S-3 uses two General Electric TF-34 turbofan engines. As a former P&W employee, I could only wish they used Pratts.

One reason that was stated for using carbon fiber to reduce weight was to make the sub self-buoyant without use of expensive syntactic foam, which most other submersibles (Alvin, Deepsea Challenger, the Triton subs, etc.) use.

The US Navy has now announced that their hydrophones (most likely SOSUS/IPSS) picked up what was very likely the sound of the submarine imploding last Sunday.

This had me going for a little bit . . .

Do people think that the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo’s 5:19.546 record is under threat?

So these are about two miles per dollar . . .

The good thing is that the Schuppans can still take stock bodywork. The Japanese street-legal Rothmans Porsche 962 is a Schuppan 962CR with Le Mans-style low drag bodywork and a Rothmans paint/decal scheme.

I think the lede was buried here. Any news on the 962 and 904 sales?

Unless all 39 prototypes, about half built to a reliable stock spec, the other half being built with cost-is-no-object budgets, have the worst mass-reliability failure of all time, that will not happen.

Just for comparison, I looked at the lap records for Cup cars at Road America and COTA. They were nowhere close to the IMSA/WEC GTs. So, the G56 car appears to be a purpose-built road racer constructed on the basic technological pattern of a Cup car, not a Cup car at Le Mans.

Although, one of the previous 911 GTEs did swap engine position from rear to mid-engine. So, while they may need to stick to elements of the bodyshell and basic engine, there is a good amount of leeway, although I believe it must be approved by FIA. Agreed that the G56 car is a highly purpose-built car (a regular…