Breakaway dougnuts on modern formula fords? Not that I have seen on a modern one (1992 onwards?). The suspension was flapping because the suspension broke, not the driveshaft. The driveshaft may or may not also have broken, but that looked like wishbone or pushrod failure to me.

That's what I came here to say. Really good awareness from the Marshall.

"That's almost twice as big as the dot! There's no good way for all of the tire to be on the dot."

I imagine that if he didn't do all those severe changes of direction to get those fancy slow motion turns and slide he'd have done it in about 8 hours.......

But, you're missing the big point. The Fuelshark DOES work*. It does produce real world gains. How?

Do Car manufacturers in your city arm their test drivers and only employ trigger-happy reactionaries then?

"For the Mustang to match the GTR on inferior tires with a solid axle must mean that the Mustang has a very good suspension."

Are we watching the same video? I saw a GTR catch the Mustang in pretty much every corner and hold a tighter line for the same speed. It then passed the Mustang through a higher corner exit speed. Admittedly, the Mustang blew past it on the straight, but that video (or at least the first two minutes of it) didn't show…

I wouldn't say no noticeable difference. The live axles are terrible over poor road surfaces, so to someone who isn't an enthusiast who is perhaps a bit twitchy by accident over rough road surfaces, IRS will be a much improved safety aspect as it will have improved grip.

" worse on the drag strip (where most Mustang people base their lives)."

"A properly set up solid axle can put down more power in a turn than an IRS. "

You can't enclose a wheel and call it open wheel. If you want to see what a car with closed wheels looks like then head on over to the Le Mans picture show. Open wheel means open at the wheels.

That argument works for Nascar (which is old tech for the most part and bears no resemblance to anything at all in real terms) but doesn't work for F1. F1 technology feeds ALMS/LMS technology, which feeds road car technology. Energy recovery systems and high level engine technology filters down to other forms of…

I have a far better technique - if you have no friends and your family doesn't know how to text you never even get the temptation.

F1 doesn't have an inboard jack system.

Agreed. I've had the TSN coverage (basically straight from the UK with Ben Edwards and The Chin) and I was staggered how bad the NBC coverage was. It was like three dumb idiots fighting over the microphone to see who could say the most annoying thing next. Such a massive drop in quality and the sheer number of advert…

Ok. So you get a pass. But Waltrip doesn't need one, I guess, because he didn't even qualify for the game. He's an idiot.

"a la Danica". Geez. Like she invented it. My god.

I was with a team testing at Snetterton race track in the late '80s and there was something similar to that Bugatti there - looked similar, loud, fast, looked dangerous as all hell and back. Sadly I was too young (16) to have any clue what it was.

"I do think it's a bit early to start judging how good the suspension will be on a car that isn't even out yet though ..."