Makes sense. CO2 comes from oxygen in the air combining with the carbon in the fuel, so if you have incomplete combustion then some of that carbon would still be tied up in hydrocarbon chains instead of completely binding with the oxygen. Mind you, the emissions from incomplete combustion are probably worse for the…

It’s probably a whole lot cheaper just to drop an existing cigarette lighter into that slot than to wire up 2 USB plugs in the same space. Just let the buyer spend $5 for an adapter if they really need the USB slots and save a couple of dollars on every car that’s built.

Nothing longer than 6" can hang off the side of the car. They probably had a GoPro mounted to the fender or the bumper to get those ‘below the beltline’ roll-by shots.

I’d like to see costs controlled by further restricting what’s allowed aerodynamically. The current crop of F1 cars produce tremendous downforce, but because they’re all designed in a wind tunnel and tuned for clean air, it gives the lead car a huge advantage during an actual race and reduces the number of passing…

Is it surprising that cars designed to provide the most downforce in clean air suffer when they’re in dirty air? I’m sure I’ll receive a lot of pushback about F1 being more about the engineering than the racing, but I firmly believe that modern F1 cars rely too much on aerodynamic downforce and need to perform worse…

As much fun as Mosport would be, I think there’s too much elevation change for an F1 race. F1 stopped coming to Mosport because the cars were starting to lift-off on some of the hill crests. Unless you want to see a recreation of the CLK GTRs at ‘97 Le Mans, it’s probably for the best to keep F1 away from Mosport.

I’ve said it before, but I have to think that Tilke is some mythical creature that has a pact with Bernie Ecclestone, where Tilke gets to design tracks in exchange for Ecclestone’s immortality. Tilkedrome’s make much sense if you think of him as some sort of mix between the South Park/Family Guy manatees and the God…

I think it was the 7/8ths car, but it’s possible it was for another body modification, he built two. One he took racing, the other he parked just outside the main gates in the visitor parking lot. When the officials saw his race car they couldn’t believe the body was stock so he took them into the parking lot, ‘found’…

I’ve only ever seen a single picture of it (which I can’t find...), but my favorite cheat was the asymmetrical oval track racer. The story goes that the regulations required 4 wheels, 2 of which steered, obviously meaning a standard car with a steerable axle. However, one intrepid builder wanted more traction on the…

If people were regularly driving over the curb and regularly getting stuck in the first place, there’s probably an issue with the corner to begin with.

I believe the logic behind targeting cobalt is DRC has cobalt, DRC uses child labor, and unsourced cobalt was sold to GM and Renault, therefore GM and Renault use child labor to build electric cars!

I’m pretty sure Ontario phased out all of its coal by 2007 as well, but it still shows as nearly 20% in that graph.

The fan service in 7 Deadly Sins turned me off of the show completely. It might have been a great show otherwise with an awesome story, but it was just creepy how much casual sexual harrassment happened in the few episodes I suffered through.

The next pressing issue for the SD Legislature: Why are soup kitchens giving away food for free? If they charged for a meal, not only could they turn a profit but they could funnel that money into the state coffers!

I hope the French Foreign Legion can mail you a plane ticket (addressed to General Delivery at the local post office if you don’t have a fixed address), otherwise you’ll have save enough for your own ticket and passport before you can actually start living as a human being again.

God damn this makes me mad, and I’m not even a SD resident or an American. If people lose access to their cars and professional licenses due to debts that can’t be discharged in a bankruptcy, the only escape from poverty would appear to be 250 grains of lead and 30 grains of powder.

To everyone who’s reading this article and thinking it can’t be that bad, please look at what happened to Portugal when they revoked net neutrality.

Hoot Boxes: A box full of owls.

I can’t find the article to back this up (any search involving China and Loot Boxes returns the new law that reveals probabilities) but there’s a Chinese game that does this. Every day, the user who opens the most loot boxes gets a rare prize. A couple of years back there was an article floating around about a woman…

It’s too bad they’re replacing the whole bottom lane along with Parth. I always felt TSMs issues were more with meta and strategy than execution so I wonder if just switching up the coaching staff would help their standings next year.