“pinching” the front brake to compress the front suspension was pretty common prank when riding motocross among my friends.  

Yes, the context is different in a professional race. Though I disagree that attempted murder is an appropriate charge. Considering the skill & experience of both riders.

I believe the new side impact tests would require a new chassis, considering base F-150's were only about $50/month more, the investment didn’t make sense.  

Great, now she’ll run for president for the lone, spiteful purpose of destroying NASCAR.  

You answered it, make FE a retro race series with modern chassis & materials but no aero aids and retro styling to the mid sixties. Run them on saturday.

“A linebacker spearing a member of the training staff, while tending to a downed player” is what I think you were looking for.

Yes, it would be considerably cheaper. the raw material used as catalyst is made from platinum or a similar, platinum-like metal such as palladium or rhodium.  Even reducing the quantities of these materials would result in a significant material cost savings.  

You nailed it. Great first take, I would genuinely love to see Statham & Elba in those roles

Thanks, never saw this one before.

Then LS swap the chassis and use it to patrol the wasteland

Add to it the complexity of the telemetry. How much support hardware comes with it ? Imagine trying to get this running for Goodwood 20 years from now with old communication protocols, proprietary connectors.

Phil, ready for his first road trip.

Very nice article. Loved the nerdy level of detail. Keep doing what you are doing.

“as long as you had already accepted that life is no longer something that needs to contain joy or passion or even a level of interest that’s more than tepid.”

The 500 is a favorite among Ford middle managers

See: “Walmart Wolverine”

Star for the D engine reference : )

If you mow in between the cars, its a collection.

I vote we enclose James May in a protective plastic bubble.

Used to just be about military shit.

I loved my 2000 accord coupe. Easily my favorite.

Fields created a palo alto technology center, with no clear direction or objectives, that was orders of magnitudes more expensive than dearborn. (Because of relocating a team to the highest property values in the nation)

It glared of being a junket / ego feeder at the time.