“ Incredibly, this was Kobayashi’s out-lap,”

So the ISIS thing was just complete click-bait bullshit then? Because Silverstone is much more likely trying to control Drones for (legitimate and sensible) safety reasons and TV rights (plus protecting the busiest airspace in the world on GP days) than anything at all to do with a hysterical fear of an ‘ISIS drone…

I’m not at all leaving out road conditions. It doesn’t affect the fact that more downforce on the outer wheel is always advantageous. You’re confusing terminology - I said ‘over powering’ the outside wheel and ‘unable to take the vertical load’. That is completely different to loss of traction due to surface…

You’re just saying aero roll control, which we have covered, but that is much better handled in mechanical methods (roll bar and damping). There is no advantage in *reducing* aero (total, so both sides together) unless you are incapable of controlling roll without it or have a vertical load limitation. Having aero…

F ducts stalled the rear wing, but yes. Same kind of thing in terms of reducing the drag for straight line speed. It’s the ‘vectoring’ in cornering where it gets a little oily and ‘snakey’.

I had the exact same discussion about the vectoring with one of my clients. It is purely a means of aero roll control (at best) but mostly some marketing spin. The straight line drag reduction is great and a clever way of doing it, but the vectoring is a bit of snake oil, for the most part. And it is doing every bit…

Terrible driver with too fast car, driving like a tit, crashes into a tree. What a shocker. I bet both of the cars he passed happened upon that accident and turned to each other and went “Yep, told you. Better see if the idiot is ok”.

Yep. You can see his leg is broken even from the footage. His knee is back past the bulkhead, which shouldn’t be possible based on the seating position.

Completely consistent with canon - it just needed the quick cut away just after landing and several angles to hide the fact that almost every car jump in the tv series royally fucked the car on landing too.

Only niche stuff. There are people that buy Jeeps and stuff (Cherokee) but only because they are dirt cheap by comparison. Anything not available in the UK would be hell to service, too, and that kills resale values.

Oh, I’m not mad at all. There are no real ‘national’ car manufacturers unless you count something like Marcos. Which, I mean, who does?

American cars = cars designed primarily for the US market, often by US arms of the companies producing them. Cars designed to be ‘american’.

Did you get all frothy typing that?

It’s still a heavy pile of snot, though, which was the original point. There are far better cars out there, and if it didn’t have the ‘Mustang’ name I suspect it wouldn’t have anything like the sales. People don’t always buy cars because they are good, and I suspect a lot of people are buying a Mustang because of what…

Well. Over three years, it is still a factor. It is 4 times as much over there as it is in the US right now so even at low mileage it is a big kick in the wallet.

I don’t know where he thinks he is going in the UK that involves dirt roads.... because they are extremely rare and almost all on private land. You can get almost anywhere in the UK on public access roads in a standard family car. You have to actually request access for non-paved roads, and at that stage the answer is…

Owned is irrelevant. I mean primary market design - European designed cars are much better, more efficient, but smaller. So americans won’t buy them. But they’re great.

1800 cars sold per year? In a population of 65 million? That’s hardly ‘doing that well’. It’s a niche market model (plus it’s not very good and horrific on fuel, as above).

Drop your budget by minimum $5K because you’ll be spending the difference on fuel. Likely more over three years, compared to a European car.

That looked like a Trofeo Lamborghini to me, not the full GT3 car. Especially as it had the amateur sticker on the back of it for its class (Trofeo has Pro, Pro/Am and Am).