Our collegiate SAE team hauler was a crew cab v10 F350 with a 30' gooseneck. I think the worst that a team managed was 4.5 mpg.

This looks like hell to clean with kids.

If you’re reading this and haven’t listened to his album Southeastern, I just want to say I’m incredibly jealous that you have the opportunity to listen to it for the first time.

Similar thoughts every time I use one of the MyPillows that I was gifted a year or two before he went completely mad.

Yes, because when I think of American Dirt Track Racers I think of a Kiwi Supercars driver and an LMP2 Daytona 24 winner.

Seems more like a science experiment to see how well decently rich people can get along with each other as a test for space colonies.

Man, for years my normal first two sites I opened rotation was Autoblog and Jalopnik. As you mentioned, there was a strong difference in the two blog styles that complimented each other very well and left us, the readership, with a wealth of information on all the goings on in the auto world.

The ultimate ground speed check: Tales from the SR71 Blackbird.

I was in contact with one of the battery companies a few years ago for racecar applications, and at that point they were being used in UAV/Drone applications, but due to the cost were not yet in the commercial market. So yes, they’re already being used there, just in the bits that we as the general public don’t get to…

Nissan Leaf. First gen for sure, in 10 years second gens will probably also be gone. They’re not terrible cars, their batteries are just literally not designed to last.

Ok, now actually run the OVAL.

As someone who has run a track day in a vehicle that just barely breaks 3 minutes around VIR, the amount of WOT you can do when you have just enough grip, lots of drag, and no where near enough power is incredibly fun. Taking the esses up the hill at WOT is just so much fun, and you get to realize how uphill the back…

The marketing is wrong for companies. You don’t talk about reducing the emissions, you talk about decreasing the fuel cost to the ship owner.

Rory Byrne is 80, and he’s still working on car design at Scuderia Ferrari.

IMO it is less issues with other people in the team and more that he’s 65 years old, has been doing this since 1981 and just wants to retire to his yacht and maybe design some non-rules-bound road/track cars.

Had an 87 BMW 535i. For some reason the heater would work good and then randomly would stop blowing hot air. If you downshifted, it would usually start working again for a good while. Never bothered to actually figure out why.

I mean, the most eco friendly way to race would be to put an impossibly hard tire on that doesn’t wear off at all, but then you remove a strategy element of the race.

Here, have the SFI spec: https://www.sfifoundation.com/wp-content/pdfs/specs/Spec_3.3.pdf

I mean when you’re only allowed 4 power units per season, can’t spend unlimited money in the season to catch up as quickly as possible, and have races every 3 weeks, that is what will happen.

Well Ford already has the Platinum level. I’m guessing it is supposed to be in reference to tungsten carbide machining tools, since those are sort of the best all-purpose machining tools. The other materials you specified are all associated too much with bourgeoise luxury and not the “working man” luxury of a truck.