Yeah, it didn't look too sturdy and had that bent top you see with often jumped fences and I guess the result highlights that possibility. Poor bastards standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The car still seems to have all its wheels and big bits on, and that first shot makes it look like it landed *next* to the spectators (one more fence between them) so the car car may have hit them but maybe not landed on them? Hopefully these are only minor injuries from being whacked by a flying wing mirror or…

More to the point, that means he was already on throttle BEFORE mid corner long enough to have to lift to correct line. The main fault of almost all track drivers who haven't had professional instruction - the brake, turn in and immediately go to throttle, so the rear of the car is right on the edge of grip and these…

I'm not saying more cars on track at once, I'm saying you could have more sessions with 34 each time - so 100 cars with people getting on track every 90 minutes for 30 minutes. Or 20 minute sessions every hour. The fact that it is (or was) limited to 34 card per day is dumb.

No, you don't understand. It's $50K a day, with a maximum of 34 cars... Not on track at any one time, PER DAY. So $1470 per car per day. There are rumours you can knock some off that down to around $40K if you don't have the full VIP package (although they prefer you to, because that is their stupid business model)…

I've heard a lot of drivers who like it, but aren't overly enamoured with it. It hasn't shaken their favourites of tracks like Mosport, Road America, Mid Ohio and Laguna etc. They all like it, but it's a bit clinical in anything that isn't super, super fast.

Look below Indycar if you want to talk Stats. Danica has won nothing AT ALL outside Indycar. Simona has won races.

What's the great quote that I shall steal and hijack henceforth?

Simona and Katherine Legge are far better and have had better results than Jorda. She's terrible, even by Susie Wolf standards....

How much power would you have to blast at something to produce the power usage of a modern car, though? I mean, the Alternator alone may need 1600bhp just to power the electrical system. Just utter hand-wavey guff, isn't it? Yet people print this shit and give these fantasists exposure.

I misread the title, and I thought this article was aimed at his daughter for a second.

This car is the fantasy of someone with passing knowledge of cars and some fancy words. Billet seems to be a favourite - he uses it as some kind of statement/assurance of quality. My engine WILL produce far more than any other engine because it is billet, despite it making no difference at all to the power produced if…

You're looking at one guy on one lap (and one car/set up). You have no idea how hard he was pushing so you can't really compare.

What about slow race cars? Are they just 'handsome' or 'cute' as they drop down the grid?

Regulations preclude it. Steel (and the spec of steel) is mandated.

Way to pull half the quote out but humour me - name me an ugly race car that beat a pretty one (or ones) reliably and repeatably.

Oh, so you just came here to sneer at people that actually care about race car aesthetics, even those who understand that it isn't the driving factor (nor should it be) in race car design?

Oh, I know why they are there. I don't need a jalopnik article to tell me that. I have more than a passing understanding of race car aerodynamics.

"especially in open wheel racing where there is absolutely not one single chance that the design is something that will make it to road use."

I'm not saying - at all - that aesthetics should trump performance (or even be considered). Just that the current Indycar base design is a stinker and these aero packages would have done the sport a service if they made it better looking. But it went the other way. Design elegance makes cars look good, though, and the…