It's better than it looks, though. She was going to win the 2009 Atlantic title but got wiped out at the last race by a backmarker at Laguna Seca, which screwed her results. She has more race wins than any other woman in recent history (especially Danica) and Simona is (in my opinion) probably the most talented female…

Or the glasses that belong to the wardrobe department...

She looks very uncomfortable. You'd think that photo shoots would have enough flexibility that she could have waited out the stomach cramps.

Oh, she's certainly not over-rated by people in the industry, that's for sure. Team owners do not put her in their cars because she'll win races, but because she brings dollars. It says so in my first comment - "She repeatedly gets drives well above her talent level for marketing reasons only.".

The fans and media are the problem, though. They're the ones that call for the SEXIST BASTARDS to shut up whenever anyone dares to suggest that Danica isn't awesome. The exact thing that means this is a 'story' on Jalopnik rather than a non-interest Team owner opinion, which is precisely what it would be if it were…

Have you actually looked at her finishing record in Indy? She was not 'successful', she had a few lucky results and a LOT of mediocre ones, despite often being in the best cars/teams. Go through the Indy statistics and see if you know any names that have more podiums than her. I bet you'd find ten names at least with…

That wasn't a facepalm-worth quote, he was dead on. I've seen Danica race since she was 17/18. None of you would have a clue who she was if she wasn't attractive and so marketable. If she was male with her results nobody at all would know her name and she wouldn't have got in the teams she did in the last 8 years. It…

He didn't put the wheel back on. Fine him.

Unless I am misreading it, Google suggests that's only a $250 flight to Boston from JFK and then maybe a $50 cab ride. Some people are dumb...

That is by far the most conversational rally driver/co-driver video I have ever seen that didn't have an Irish accent involved (and usually, as a result, swearing).

Um. If it has the V8, it was a TR8. The TR7 just had the 4 cylinder.

Because only a paedophile uses condoms, right?

I'm impressed by the FIA spec safety plastic tape keeping the cars from hitting the spectators. That stuff must be STRONG.

I thought you could only smell that flavour when it was a bit hotter and perhaps more humid?

I think there was an almost identical one posted last year. The section through the pits and when and how he talks to the team members seems identical to me, but I did check teh traffic to see if the ALMS cars were there as I thought they'd posted last year's video!

Probably because the Rigs were long gone because they need at least a day or so to set the garage up and get all the kit there. The driving restrictions (and ferries) mean you don't have much flexibility in getting trucks down to the lower point of Spain. It's a bloody long way at 56mph.... So the rigs left when they…

The language used clearly shows someone making an effort but using vocabulary indicating familiarity with a different language.

Not writing any detail that isn't out of a tech manual isn't a sign of language difficulty, it is the sign of someone who has no idea how to sell a car.

Everything about how that ad is written suggests the person who wrote it knows cock all about cars, or about that one in general. It sounds like they listed a bunch of stuff out the Haynes manual and any number they could see on a component when they lifted the bonnet.

The Metro 6R4 engine was actually from the Jaguar (TWR) Le Mans XJR11/12 Era V6 Turbo. Unrelated to the F1 lump.