That is actually a better argument for letting the car sitting at idle even longer. You warm the engine and transmission because working it (ie loading it) when cold means oil can’t get to some of the surfaces because it is still too thick. So your end game is to only work a warm system with warm oil in it, right?

It really helps the climate deniers when we use stupid stuff like this. Are humans causing climate change? No. Absolutely not, and we need to explicitly state that this is not the case. The Earths climate has been changing for millions of years and will continue to do so regardless of our activities. So saying we are c…

It was almost not even American, though. There wasn’t a single American involved in the process other than the person paying the money. There was one Australian designer, but everyone else was English. It was even more of a badge engineering exercise than the GT40 or AC Cobra programmes. American only in token name of…

The Q9 was never really going to work, sadly. The batteries for it were immensely heavy and there wasn’t that much space to put them in. For such a big car, there was very little room for that sort of thing. The lithium batteries we have now would have meant it was much more competitive.

Well, in the 50 Uber/Lyft rides I have had, I’ve already had drivers blow two red lights and one other stop right at the end of a (single lane and very short/blind) highway exit ramp because they weren’t sure which way to go when they got to the end.

Wait. Doug has a friend? When did this happen?

Exactly my thought. I was cringing when he came back down it. Wet diamond plate has nearly caught me out so many times.

Right, but the only reason you’d leave the rubber mounts in is because the rules prohibited it. If you were building a race car, it’s a no brainer. I’m surprised the OP had never seen it before unless they have never actually *seen* a race car underneath.

Well, that’s not precisely what I said, but is pretty much correct. They weren’t designed to be race cars, they were designed to be road cars. Cars that are designed for racing are race cars, but road cars modified for racing are not real, true race cars. Group N falls into the latter category. Cars *based* on road…

Er. I said race cars, not ‘converted road cars for racing’, though.

Every race car has rose joints (spherical bearings) in the damper ends. Just fyi.

That’s not so much of an advantage, though. Going flat out on the power before apex means you have to have been throwing away mid corner speed. You’re able to slam the power down because the car hasn’t got to the maximum lateral grip - no matter the car, if you are at max lateral grip and you add power, you WILL spin…

Oh, it certainly does that. But overcoming inherent flaws is what makes driving interesting. Driving a perfect car is boring.

“The rear-engine layout also lets you get back on the power a little earlier coming out of a turn.”

I think both of them together is perfect. Roborace allows fine control of tyre and road surface management at the limit, but in a relatively stable environment, Rally provides rapidly changing conditions and sudden obstacles/changes of direction stuff.

Screw the coke and Audi thing, I want one of those awesome ‘engine on wheels’ thing he is using to pull that trailer. I have no idea at all how it would be useful to me, but I REALLY want one.

What the hell has any of this to do with Britain?

Thanks for reporting accurately on this, Stef. Can you do all the F1 stuff please?

There was no Vettel penalty when this ‘article’ was written.

The penalty had nothing at all to do with blocking, did you even watch the race?