What I'd like to hear about is how one goes from soldier to CTSC racer? Amazing feat!

I feel like if he just had a quicker ratio steering he could've saved that.

from a fellow cone killer; this is glorious.

it definitely is not an SCCA event. It is a goodguys event.

it's because those vids are from Goodguys events. They basically throw safety out the window by lining their lots with jersey barriers and then sending people out in 1,000hp cars without helmets. The othe side of the coin, SCCA sanctioned events, have to have so much runoff room that a helmet shouldn't be needed, but…

it's a jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.

Andrew, I got a little more in depth in my definition above, might be worth a second look. *incentive*: gratuitous use of pictures of my tugboat.

This is the boat I spend half of my life *steering*. It's 105' x 37', 14' draft and 38' air draft. Two 16cyl locomotive engines with 645ci per cylinder totaling 4,000hp, at a max rpm of 800, swing two 12' propellers at a 5:1 reduction.

He's a little bit wrong is the problem. See my reply. Source; my USCG license.

You steer a boat and/or ship. To sail it in this context would be the act of leaving the dock.

a fair guesstimate. This ship most likely runs on HFO once she's up to full load, probably holds well north of 300,000gal. Not to mention that she almost certainly has to have fuel brought alongside by tug and barge, which costs money.

Say what you will about him, but Vaughn's Mustang is easily the best sounding drift car I've heard.

I want a KERS Mustang with the "go-baby-go" button on the shifter.

Yeah exactly, I made the same observation. Looks like he could be power shifting, just taking his foot of the throttle briefly to unload the trans for the shift. But that still doesn't explain the downshifts. And if the downshifts are straight up heel-toe, then he's certainly capable of doing those upshifts with the…

This may be a dumb question, but is this a traditional 3 pedal manual with the driver just having an alien ability for heel-toe rev matched downshifts? The speed at which they occur make it seem like the clutch isn't being used on shifts.

What do you think about the design about the 2015 Mustang? Can you talk about what design elements specifically intrigue you?

The ones on the Mustang are there so you can easily swap to the Ford Racing brake duct kit. Nice to have a company make things easier for those of us that track our performance cars, so they don't deserve any crap for that.

This is possibly the greatest thing I've ever seen on this site.

The snow camo is way better than what they already offer on the Raptor.

Not apples to apples but my wife's '13 Explorer with the N/A V6 and aggressive snow tires, which is virtually just as capable as the Tahoe save for towing capacity, gets 21mpg. The EB Explorer sport is worse. I would expect the Expedition to get about the same as a loaded F150 EB, about 18-19mpg average.