Eh, false equivalency. You don’t need to understand the refueling rules to enjoy car racing, just as you don’t need to memorize the dimensions of the goalie’s net to appreciate football.

Loyalty is a bullshit concept spawned by my fellow marketers and has proven, time and again, to have very little value on a business’s bottom line.

Just read, don’t write as you’re in no position to define Lewis’ “job”.

So look, have at it, but that is not endurance racing in FIA/WEC or IMSA, which live in a BOP world that makes it possible to compete without huge budgets. The pit stop minimum refuel time was part of this expense control, the minimum refueling times are designed to make a 4 tire change and a driver change easy to…

I’m with you. But then imagine the wining from the team that is allowed to have a 22 gallon tank because their car/engine configuration is just a bit less efficient than the team that has the 20 gal tank.

Well played.

Would flow meters on the refueling rigs solve all this?

Was the CEO founder the owner of the company? If so, it’s just good tax management , if there are other investors then that gets shady, quick. I’m assuming the latter, the way you’ve framed it. Hopefully we aren’t talking about WeWork here, since that was 10 ways shady....

I agree, I don’t think a sales leaseback is going to be that feasible here and a mortgage is a better arb on rates.

.The Daytona 24 hours runs with the same cars barring LMP1 with no refueling regs just fine

Exactly. I commented elsewhere, on why this rule looks complicated but is pretty simple. It’s all driven by a simple safety rule whose intent was to set a minimum time for how quickly you could refuel the cars. Sounds super easy on principal to set a time limit, but then in this race series you have to handle the fact…

Yeah, it looks all funny with the equations and such, but it’s not really that complicated if you actually read it. While I don’t dispute your general premise, I don’t see anything in this example that is egregious - for safety’s sake no one wants a racing series that says “F*** it, just load that 20 gallons of fuel wi…

It’s basically the same idea, but extracts a bit more value.

So I’m 1/2 in agreement with Toobs here, there are other tax-related reasons to do it.

From the headline and picture, I thought you monsters were eating cheese and crackers with the cheese on the bottom. Took awhile for the rage to subside.

There are some other weirdly specific differences between the regular and sport turismo versions. Regular is a 2+2, ST is 2+3 seating (the middle seat in the back is not very usable).  

Yeah, seriously, that is just an invitation to reopen a whole discussion about stance...

Damn, you beat me to it.

Exactly - no one is complaining about the delay, that’s a red herring that was created by folks in the comments, projection I guess.

This. I’m still looking for the quote of someone complaining about the production being delayed. All I see is someone saying “the production was delayed and now they won’t honor my order and want to charge me $2500 more for the car (I thought) I had ordered.