Because sports are an actual live event, TV shows are arbitrarily broadcast. That’s in addition to a greater proportion of people interested only in seeing racing results who aren’t waiting to DVR it, while those following a particular TV show and its plot is more worthwhile to protect because fewer people just read…

They make single serving plastic wine bottles, but adult juice boxes of wine seems like a massive marketing opportunity.

Hasn’t that always been the case in racing. Some drivers are fantastic talents but absolutely abhorent personalities. Senna, Shumacher, Vettel, and Hamilton all have reasons for people to dislike their personalities, and yet all have massive fanbases.

Yes.

Unless poor conditions significantly reduce that effectiveness. If cloudy, windy days drop the probability of an intercept to 5%, then more missiles won’t help all that much.

Unless, and this is why the mention of testing in optimal conditions, it’s not a random failure but a situational one. If 50% of missiles fails regardless of conditions, then deploying a plurality is expensive but potentially effective.

He also got a 2017 Ford GT. Chassis #2. Quite the prize for someone who’s not there anymore, particularly since they’re mostly rewarding loyalty with the buyer list...

Not to mention intake and exhaust configurations need to be appreciably different depending on the configuration, not to mention ECUs, emissions controls, and all the regulations that come along with that.

Well, they’ve still got liquid dielectrics in them, but they’re not acids. More importantly, they’re not using lead.

I believe the final conclusion was that they didn’t work as anticipated. They were too fragile in heavy impacts to do anything.

Because both IndyCar and F1 only care about appearances. They want to seem like they care about head protection, but not in actually doing anything about it.

Even worse, the intent was to give the OEMs an opportunity to brand their cars and make them visually distinctive. But without performance limitations, both realized the only way to play the game was to compete on pace, which meant ugly appendages and both cars looking roughly similar.

turn 8

It’s a parking brake that’s also a hand brake, as opposed to a parking brake actuated with a button.

Yeah, especially in the old days that corner was a car killer if you ran wide, since you hit a concrete wall head on. The slower corner makes it much safer.

It’s not like they have driver swaps to feel bad about it, just go in the suit. All they need to do is buy a case of beer for the member of the team who has to clean up afterward...

The iRacing layout is the old one, this is the new layout just recently added with the repave.

They do, but it’s a goat path. Not that it has stopped it from being used by much faster cars in the past...

So you’re watching CTSCC, right?

Pit space is probably a concern at Laguna Seca.