No offense, but why claim a specific value in the first place if you don’t know? It makes it harder to take you seriously.

I don’t think there should be any blame, but I feel like there’s more common ground between the average conservative and liberal on this topic than people think. It’s more than just the gun safety side, it’s the recognition that guns are dangerous things that are not to be treated lightly. It’s the first lesson of…

I don’t blame Audi for wanting to race the R8 so they can sell more (they’ve sold over 100 of the GT3s), I blame SRO for allowing them (and McLaren and Mercedes) to enter supercars in what’s supposed to be a mid-range GT class.

GT4 is as expensive than GT3 was supposed to be: a class based around the Porsche Cup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, and Ferrari Challenge. 

There are some tracks that have great races. There are some tracks that have great events (like Monaco and Long Beach).

Well, the cars are designed to be able to get out when upside down like that. It’s not an easy problem either, but it sure seems solvable to me.

Yup, though the last thing anyone wants is to solve the head protection issue and suddenly have 3 cars flip and burn the next season.

The ‘but what about getting out of the car’ immediately follows the ‘but it’s tradition/looks ugly’ in my experience.

The picture is not the Shield, the picture is Red Bull’s Aeroscreen. The shield is much lower, just barely higher than the driver’s helmet, slopes much further forward on the nose, and does not provide any side protection.

Everyone’s discussing it. That’s immediately where the discussion goes every time cockpit protection is mentioned.

It’s not necessarily that simple, namely if the car is upside down, doubly so if on fire. See Alonso’s crash at Mexico last year, upside down against the wall, a canopy with explosive bolts wouldn’t be able to be removed until the car was tipped upright.

If the car doesn’t warn and disengage when entering a construction zone, someone will forget to pay attention and crash like the Tesla on autopilot recently did.

I was more thinking about, you know, any construction zone. This is just as susceptible to failure as Tesla is, and we’ve already seen the results.

No, you’re right, it was more of a divebomb than I remembered.

You were saying?

5 cautions. However, the past three years of IMSA races there had just one caution in 300 minutes. The race can work, but the drivers need to behave.

They weren’t, though. Both the Nissan and JDC Oreca were faster. The WTR car was just more stable over a long run. In other words, the BoP looks fine, it’s all about the team setting up and executing.

That’s why you listen to IMSA Radio instead of the Fox commentators.

Nah, this one was way worse. The incident earlier in the race where a Porsche spun a Ford in the hairpin was the same as last year, just hitting the rear bumper and spinning them around. This incident was Alon trying to divebomb two (!) cars into the hairpin, which is a whole new level of absurdity to the driving.

That would be our disagreement. I’m loathe to criticize specific rhetoric as harmful if I believe those on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum would use the same rhetoric. There’s plenty of other stuff to critique here. It might appeal to the Islamaphobes, but it’s not necessarily the only usage of the…