That is the reason they are moving to a center lug. It will cut down on cost and personnel. You will see sportscar style pit stops soon with one carrier, one changer, fuel, and drink bottle/tear off guy. At the very least, should the choreography stay the same, the pay for these guys will go down drastically. They…

They are currently under evaluation. The problem is, they need to finalize the design soon. Each team is supposed to have a limit of 5 cars. With the rate at which they wreck stuff at Daytona, each team will need at LEAST 2 ready for Daytona 2021. This means that the MFG that builds these cars (I think its Dallara?)…

Mercedes still cannot get their Project One to work as a street car. I believe your own Jalopnik had a whole write up on it. Like you said, the Homologation will certainly run into the high 8, if not 9 figures by the time they hit the track.  If I am a MFG with a fair, but limited budget, I am looking at DPi instead…

Im sure its mostly small and midsized Jeeps (Compass, Renegade, Cherokee) as those are the volume models that pump out. I doubt you can score a Charger, Wrangler (esp a Gladiator), or Durango for any significant discount. They will probably pay you to take a quad cab v6 Ram off their hands!

I have been a big champion of this. I feel Vettel can still have some speed, but trying to balance 2 number 1 drivers has their strategy in the shitter. Even when both cars are fast, they try to put both drivers on the optimal strategy. Mercedes has no problem sending the driver who qualified first on the optimal…

You’re not wrong. My take is that it wasn’t a lack of creativity, it was the late 90's and early 2000's gravy train that did them in. NASCAR (or at least the family members) owned more than half the tracks that they raced on. When they were still packing the grandstands and companies were paying a gagillion dollars to…

I did. Ferrari needs a guy that will be hired as a #2 letting the chosen one become the superstar. Trying to balance both drivers Ego’s is, imho, one of the reasons they are struggling with strategy. I think Hulk can finish on the podium with that car.  Seb is faster, but the Scuderia cant seem to call the race…

Totally agree.  Vettel is not in the correct frame of mind at this point and they need to put someone else in that seat.  I don’t think Antonio is ready, maybe Hulk for a 2 year deal?

Their pit strategy has lost them more races than the engine reliability. If they had called their races better, they would certainly have 3 additional wins, if not 6! Mercedes seems to outfox them every week in the strategy department.

BMW Nose no bounds.  No matter how often we grill them, they just louver their kidneys.  

It all smells fake and disingenuous. Timing stinks, Barra is getting huge bonus, UAW has so much cash they can afford to use it inappropriately, and the damn workers are getting screwed. I think everyone knew this strike was coming and GM planned accordingly.

The very last all hand made racing car from the Scuderia.  This is the only correct choice.  

Agreed. I am still shocked, though I shouldn’t be, that Mercedes ordered Bottas to slow down so he wouldn’t overtake Hamilton during their pit cycle. I know Bottas gets a great paycheck, but he must be at wits end.

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It looks like that is spot on.

We have seen articles about how C7 sales have fallen off a cliff, theoretically because buyers are waiting for this now released C8. I think it will be back ordered for quite some time. However, I believe this website also shared info showing that the Corvette had the highest take rate of manual transmissions of all…

I hear ya.  For me, it is more about the Stewards deciding when forcing a car off is or isn’t a penalty with no consistency.  

Well said. VER was decided correctly, SEB was not. Like you hinted at, the Stewards have set a very bad and dangerous precedent. They end up picking and choosing when forcing a car off the racing surface is or isn’t a penalty.  

He has had a bad string of luck for sure. Drove some S*&% boxes to earn a shot thanks to DC Solar (which vanished because tax fraud). Drives his butt off to win only to get tossed. I don’t know if this was deliberate, I doubt he got out of the truck and started doing a lucky tech shed dance. However, if he saw how far…

I happened to see a picture of the truck up against the sticks where it was measured. It was really low, by inches, not even close or having any prayer of passing. It seems like they might have broken a jack bolt or something for it to be that far off. I would think even the lofty Shrub would end up getting tossed for…