God, I miss the Mile. Especially the old concrete grandstand - our tickets were second from the top row, Turn 1 side. Between my grandparents, my parents, and me, my family were in those seats for 50 years. Could probably see your dad’s house!

Which is a funny thing to mention, considering TG’s insane parental history. (You probably already know about that, but for those who don’t... look it up.)

...and I love AJ to death, but he did not help matters. The 500 may have made AJ Foyt, but AJ Foyt certainly helped TG to unmake the 500.

TG’s idea for a cheap car: no rear crumple zone, just let the gearbox dive straight into the driver’s lower back.

I never tire of watching de Ferran setting the closed course record at Fontana qualifying. Those cars were so wicked fast that the whole run looked... slow, paradoxically.

Hooray! A strong government safety net is allowing people to stay away from these underregulated scam taxis!

Related, but also not: there was a study a few years ago which showed that if all manufacturers just started designing their engines to run premium, we would save a whole lot of gas in the long run - and it would end up being just as cheap as regular. The reasoning was twofold:

I assume it’s the same folks who buy the second-cheapest wine on a wine list just out of habit. It’s a powerful human cognitive bias - the “false compromise” or “middle ground” fallacy.

On Carb Day, Herta could put his car anywhere. That seems like as good a reason as any to pick him.

We’re all too dependent on GPS now. The best way to get to know a new city is to get in your car and just ramble around until you find your way back.

Not related to your car request, but hope everything works out for the best for you, health-wise.

Same reaction here. Saw one in the parking lot of a little general aviation airport, and realized that the owner’s car could go faster than his/her airplane.

Happy to have brightened your day. Enjoy your lack of evidence-based reasoning.

Either way, it’s just a guess (albeit possibly an educated one) until you run the experiment.

Anybody could have predicted it. But it’s necessary to conduct the experiment, or else it’s just a guess.

It’s at times like these when I miss Christopher Hitchens.

This is why we need to demand V2G/V2E as part of the charging standard!

80 amps??? 80A * 240V = 19.2 kW

80 amps??? 80A * 240V = 19.2 kW

So maybe we should be trying to find ways of solving this that don’t involve austerity.

It’s like being in a car with no brakes, and everybody just keeps yelling, “have you tried the brakes?” Maybe try something other than brakes... because we don’t have any damn brakes!