Name me one NASCAR driver that has been successful out of it. There are none. NASCAR doesn’t take massive skill but I will concede that (like Oval racing in general) it takes a high level of a very specific kind of skill. But there is a very good reason why when NASCAR goes to road courses the leader board looks very,…

For pro level stuff: You’ve missed a ton of racing out of that list. In the US - F1600, F2000, Prototype Lites, FMazda, Tudor. In Europe WEC, GP2, GP3, F3, World Series by Renault, Blancpain (+the feeder stuff like Maserati and Lambo Trofeo which are global). Basically the vast majority of support races are excellent…

That’s kind of the point, though. There weren’t karts and F1 cars of even passing similarity or relevance at any one time.

I never said it was easy, but it sure as hell isn’t real motor sport. Outdated and outmoded technology and stage managed racing to the extreme is not what motor racing is or should be. Motor racing should be about the cars and the skill of the drivers. NASCAR is just about the show.

Within NASCAR? It’s perfectly acceptable. Just like hitting your opponent with a handily placed folding chair is in its equivalent physical sport.

She’s still giving skiing lessons? I thought it was advanced fondue class.

When precisely was this? Because suspension versus no-suspension is a far greater difference in dynamics and required driving style than ‘electronic gizmos’. Shifter karts have never required the same driving style as a race car since the dawn of race cars. Chassis flex (karts) cannot be worked the same way as moving…

Something that most track people don’t like to admit/think about/acknowledge is that most of the time they are not doing what they think they are doing and you can’t hide from data. I’ve had many drivers swear blind that they are turning in at ‘x’ point and throttling at ‘y’ point and being hopelessly and completely…

Ill be at the Glen this weekend Stef - working. I don’t know how to do pm’s or I’d offer you an invite to come and say hi.

I don’t know which video you guys are watching, but I sure as hell didn’t see two drivers and an instructor. I absolutely did NOT see any hint of a Pro driver in the Porsche, nor any instruction occurring.

“The company cuts corners everywhere it can; gluing pieces together instead of using screws, and reducing the amount of tooling wherever possible. “

You mean similar to how he said “DOHC Billet engine” when he really means “whizzbang special magic engine of much power and imagination-wizard juice”?

Either way he’s dreaming. He won’t build a car of that complexity in 9 years.

Those are not knock offs. They are just centre wheel nuts - all proper race cars have them, but they are not knock offs. Knock offs are called that because you knock them off with a hide hammer back in the 1950s. They are the winged centre nuts, usually with wire wheels. Look at some old Le Mans footage of pit stops.…

While this is hysterically funny from a perspective of ‘anyone that knows anything about vehicle design, production, procedures and ... well anything really’ the guy clearly believes his shit and is stressing so many pointless and irrelevant (and stupid) stuff like ‘billet’, ‘knock off centre lock wheels’ and ‘single…

KNOCK OFF centre-lock hubs, too. Not seen since the 1950s. Impressive*. I can’t imagine how bug a hammer you’d need to smash on teh wheel but that’d be safe at 290 ... sorry, 279 mph.

Nothing says “We have the budget and the facilities to manufacture a ground breaking, revolutionary hypercar with stupendous performance claims far in excess of the entire existing hypercar market” like a shitty looking mock up body thrown onto the back of an open flatbed from the local towing company at the last…

“OMG SOMEONE OPENED THE DOOR OF THE MAGICAL TECHNICAL BUILD CENTRE AND ALL THE VAPOUR GOT OUT!!!11111

"You don't drive with your dong."

It does look like it is a morph between the Bentley and the latest A4 shape, to me. Everything that isn’t Bentley (which is A LOT) is A4.