Yeah if you fly domestic then you probably won’t die, you’ll just wish you had. Thanks a lot, Delta.

“...but that massive spike in fatalities is certainly something to be concerned about.”

Nah. He’s just trying to get his chance to sue the Fortnite developers. 

This is pretty cool. I’m not sure how much you can compare lap times given they’re all just out for a test, but I’d be more interested to see the time differential between drivers in the same car. Also it seems Formula E cars are some of the most “different” cars out there to drive due to their odd torque/power…

For starters, LMP cars will now have an upper limit of power deployed much lower than the current spec.

Yeah don’t hat tip the guy that emailed you the links many hours ago.

I get that the system limits performance, but isn’t one of the goals—if not the biggest goal—to get the manufacturers interested in it again? The fact that the 5 aforementioned car makers are allegedly in agreement should, at least, mean they feel that they can do a lot within the given envelope.

Maybe if he was just a floor worker. But a supervisor?  He should’ve been fired immediately after saying that.  Nobody that thinks that way (especially to the point he feels comfortable just blurting it out) has any business supervising people.  There’s no way you can trust him to treat all the workers equally.

a lot Corvette owners are already grumpy men north of 55... 

Seems silly that the race directors didn’t see this coming. Formula E has been a thing for a while now, Teslas have been around for a while, and an electric car owns the record at PPIHC.

Most of the fan made stuff would break the moment you picked it up unless it was glued together. They tend to be first build in the computer, and then made into lego so that process isn’t so tedious. Lego makes sure their sets can be played with (for the most part), so they are setup with interlocking parts that are…

He’s a big guy in even bigger power armour.  Which is hard to translate to Lego, I guess.

They probably thought a buildable model would be more fun in his case.

Maybe you’re just not used to seeing them all on the payload at once?

Very good article.  So it sounds like we still need to wait and see what FIA will be doing with the final set of rules.  It’s almost 2019, they’d better hurry up!

I love BoP. It makes racing viable. Without BoP, it all becomes a money race, and while that’s fun for a season or two, it kills series.

IIRC the homologation requirement was something like 50 or so. But many manufacturers just said fuck it and never actually did it because it wasn’t enforced.  They were allowed to race the car BEFORE they finished the homologation cars.

Do you think Aston Martin’s Valkyrie has more in relation with a Red Bull F1, or their B09/60 (“DBR1-2") LMP1 from...9 years ago?  And Porsche already put an F1/LMP motor in a street car with the Carrera GT 15 years ago.

The point is that there is no “GT1-style” homologation specials coming from this any more than…

This sounds like rather than people getting away with making big, cheap changes to speed, they’ll have to look for performance gains in tiny, incremental (and extremely time-intensive and expensive) cheats, like what we see in F1.

There will be no “homologation”, there will be no street cars. This is effectively like IMSA DPI, prototypes with “brand identity” integrated into the design. Companies can make road cars similar, but they won’t be the race cars turned road cars.