When were you up there, Stef? I was there in Sunday with one of my clients - he treated me to some free karting and I had a quick look at the full track in one of their Crown Vics. Good place, and totally hidden if you don’t know its there.

140 c peak on an f1 car is a max surface temp. That’s not a core temp and if you have watched the infrared camera, they are rarely at peak temp for long or even across the entire surface of the tyre.

Race car tyres run at or around the pressures they are designed to run. Some series even mandate that. They do not run ‘under inflated’ as the air pressure is part of the calculation for how the sidewall supports the car. They run lower pressures than road car tyres, certainly but the tyres are a lot softer in…

Yeah, but the stuff on the fabric was damn close to thermite in composition. It didn't matter *what* was in the balloon. It was going to burn like mental anyway.

”20 feet shorter than the ill-fated, hydrogen-filled Hindenburg. But the Macon and the Akron were inherently safer, borne aloft by less-flammable helium”

“Oh I will defend myself from being clearly and demonstrably wrong in my internet argument by accusing the person making me look stupid of being a woman! Ha! No bigger insult is there in my mind than to question another’s masculinity! I have therefore won! Despite not even understanding the argument I was having, nor…

But.... I haven’t actually expressed an opinion anywhere, you misogynistic (and wrong on your assumptions) muppet.

“you just keep that stance that there are rules that make contact prohibited and then don’t show any.”

“you have still yet to sho wme any major racing series specific rule stating body contact is prohibited and punishable”

I don’t *think* any contact is cheating. It is defined as such. I can’t be wrong, sunshine, because this is not my opinion, but I’m telling you that it is explicitly mentioned as being against the rules in almost every major racing series (FIA, IMSA, ACO) and in all the resulting junior/ladder series that race on the…

I’m confused. Your knowledge of trivia somehow makes the regulations of most of the racing world irrelevant and your opinion therefore holds more weight?

Yeah. Because no-one remembers Schumcher taking out Hill at Adelaide for the World title, or Senna taking out Prost at Suzuka. Everyone just said ‘That’s Racing!!!!!!!”, shrugged and went about their day. It’s not like it was considered massively controversial and is still talked about decades later as a massive blot…

The kind of racing I have been involved in and worked in for the last 28 years? Across Europe, the US and Canada and in a vast range of disciplines and levels (a lot of which I listed above). Bumping is not ‘just accepted’ or tolerated if it is considered avoidable. It doesn’t always result in sanctions, but it very…

I’m confused. Did you really just say that it doesn’t count as good racing because you can’t see it on TV nor go and watch it for free?

This guy

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.