Except, if he made half what he makes now, he’d still be paid more than 10x more than the other IndyCar drivers.

All the TT riders are certainly built different than most of us.

Pretty much my view as well. I won’t tell them to stop, but I certainly don’t follow the race because I’m not all that interested in watching people die in motorsport.

Oddly (for him, at least), he looks pretty shaken here.

And he was in that car because he was fast enough for an F1 ride, there were no better seats available, and he didn’t have enough money to pay to race for a better team.

The deeper pool of competitive teams in IndyCar plays a big role in this. The very best teams in F1 tend to recruit from within F1, and very rarely does a champ come from outside those top teams.

Since Pike’s Peak is literally a mountain, rather than a hill, they mandate full roll cages for the inevitable. That wouldn’t make it impossible, but it does make it incredibly unlikely.

They’re more tolerant of a very marginally “damp” track because of all the downforce, but that’s it.

Or, doing it at the pace required not to slow down the line. That can definitely be seen in an hour of “undercover bossing” it, so long as they actually push him to the pace expected.

I don’t see any spin related to Trump in the article, nor did the mention of ‘only’ imply any lack of military might. Only mentioning that deploying two carriers in the same spot is rare specifically because with a total force of 10, two carriers amount to 20% of our hardware. It’s driving home the point that this is…

I’d love to see people’s contemporary impressions of older art cars, particularly the Warhol who people typically didn’t ‘get it’.

I’m with you, I think it’s a super clever twist on the art car. Not only does bare carbon look incredible on race cars, but it’s reaching to say something with the art beyond merely look pretty in pictures.

Trailer racing is best racing.

That assumes it hasn’t been somewhat normalized for years already. This isn’t new, sadly.

I used to dislike Sato for that reason, but the fact he won is enough proof for me that he’s solved that issue. And heck yeah, I’m happy for him!

It’s partly theater to make it known that we have the capability, partly that it’s pretty much impossible to hide rocket launches.

Well, the crazy mechanical linkage was present on the front wheels already. They didn’t run the hybrid power to the rear tires initially, they just built the tub to be able to upgrade it later.

Yup. It’s produced by Torotrak, and maybe it is a bit more related to F1 KERS than I remembered.

It’d be like the legend of Decal, the guy who travels to IMSA races by hitchhiking and offering to crew for teams in exchange for stickers or a t-shirt.

When the race ends at midnight, I think “fell asleep” is the right term, even if you’re drunk out of your gourd.