I’d like to know if the factory race drivers (Gavin, Garcia, Milner, Magnussen) were on hand to demonstrate what it could really do. I noticed Olly G was at the track saying nice things about the car, but I don’t know if his visit overlapped with the journalists’.

Exactly. Far better to get shouty on the radio or gesticulate than try to force the other car off the road.

A most excellent/excrement article, as usual Jason. Funnily enough, I went to the British equivalent of Comic-con to see one of the cars on display there. Being British, it was held in a Village Hall and they served tea.

I saw this race on the British Channel 4 coverage. The lead commentator criticised Hamilton’s actions and said he was showing a bad example to young fans. The other commentator was David Coulthard, who wisely kept his mouth shut, as it wasn’t that long ago that he was doing the same thing after being overtaken by…

The only way to stop a bad guy with a Hilux is to send a good guy with a Hilux. Or something...

How will they identify themselves to friendly UAV drivers? I wouldn’t want to be cruising around in a Hilux in any area where there are Predators on patrol, looking for bad guys in, er..., Hiluxes. However, that’s only reason #21543254 why I’m not in the military.

I love this little museum. When I visited, there was no roof on the Messerschmitt, so I climbed in. It was a bit cramped in the front seat, but I could pretty much reach all the controls from the rear. It was amazing to see such diversity within a Toyota museum.

They rusted like crazy. This was predicted by the original cutaway drawing:

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

Oh yes, it still makes all those wonderful noises. HJ Stuck was not hanging back up the hillclimb course, so we got to hear all the chirps and whooshes. A friend took video footage on his phone which I can listen to over and over again.

It’s an interesting side story to the usual European and US racing scenes. I’d never heard of it before this past weekend.

Not a tube-frame, but an IMSA drivetrain placed into an S4 body. It’s official name is Audi IMSA S4 GTO, just like it’s 90 progenitor.

Are you kidding? I just told you like a minute ago!

It’s an inline 5 cylinder with a gearbox behind it, which would be great for a RWD car. When you need to get drive from that gearbox to the front wheels too, it gets very complicated unless you just push the engine forward until you can get them to line up. Audi did this in extremis, so the front of the engine is…

Hey Stef, this is a fortuitous coincidence. I learned at Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb this week something new about the IMSA Audis. Once they were done in the US, Audi looked around for an equivalent championship to continue racing the cars in, and found one in South Africa. The only problem was that the 90 was never sold…

I think it’s also important to consider the effects of male models engaging in gas fights. That must account for a few closures a year, at least.

Weak. Real men know how to grab a close-up.

Pontius Payet?

Hey David, you forgot to mention that the skilled and experienced driver for this exercise is “Jalopnik’s own” Dale Lomas!

That was awesome! I read his blog afterwards, and he wrote that he was selecting first gear to get going again while the car was still upside down. Legendary.