There are two races at Le Mans next season, because the season straddles two calendar years. Important distinction to make.

Debtor’s prison (where someone’s thrown in prison until they pay off a debt) is probably the better analogy. If the goal is to get these people to pay back their loans, then making it harder for them to earn money is counterproductive to that goal. The end result is that the punishment ends up being perpetual, because…

I wouldn’t write off the Ginetta teams, or the BR/Dallara.

Not by default, they still need to ‘beat’ the track itself and keep the cars out of the garage.

Not quite, it’s a winter calendar, so it spans the 2018-2019 calendars. However, it’s not a combined season, just one transitioning to that schedule requiring two Le Mans. (Le Manses?)

When self-driving cars become relatively attainable, such that it’s no longer political suicide to side with taking away people’s mobility to live their lives

I was thinking of starting the car sober, then opening a flask of liquor and imbibing while driving.

They would have lost this year if Porsche hadn’t been around. Their best finishing car was behind the top LMP2 cars. How much was due to pushing hard to fight Porsche and how much they can improve reliability while staying ahead of the privateers is the question, but Le Mans can always do something unexpected.…

Even Le Mans at its narrowest is wider than Macau at its widest.

Flaccid.

I think the bad luck is more one of never being able to capitalize when the circumstances actually were in their favor. Here in particular, the car was leading the race on pace when their radio failed so he missed the spotter call of the stopped car. T1 at Daytona is one of the fastest, most on-edge braking zones on…

For a used chassis, about a quarter million: https://blackflag.jalopnik.com/need-an-orange-race-car-8-star-motorsports-has-some-fo-1684414614

Partly it’s age of the chassis not being feasible going forward (they’ve undergone many updates trying to keep them up to date, and were based off an even older LMP1 chassis), partly it’s that it’s no longer needed (the class came about when car counts were way down. Now most of the PC teams from the last few years…

I was at the track for it, looked pretty bad.

They were always neck and neck in the later years with the GTLMs which made that class even more intense.

Yup, a perfect storm of IMSA memes. PC car stuck on track, IMSA for once not calling a caution when they should have, DeltaWing getting screwed with the worst luck at the worst time.

Half the cautions at most, honestly. But the ones they did cause were absolutely meme-worthy.

You’re welcome, internet.

F1 has two problems. One is that they already run the engines for a relatively long period of time (not much less than LMP cars) and it’s very expensive to make them even more reliable, the other is that the grid penalties aren’t severe enough to prevent strategic engine replacements (if you’re at the back of the grid…