Buy side, I am the boss as I've been doing this for 38 years so no CYA, and I don't buy TSLA because lack of transparency and their inability to make a profit from building and selling cars. And to be clear, they are in the business of selling cars.
I understand our strategic interests there, but it really is nice to see some other country manage mission creep for a change.
I love what he is doing for automotive engineering. As soon as I learned about his pneumatic cam-less engine, I was hooked.
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I find it very difficult to identify a driver who rushes through the track at an incredibly annoying speed. The ideal would be a complete prohibition of movement, but at least a speed limit of 30-40 km/h would make it a lot easier to follow a race.
The lack of a cost cap is the reason the three expansion teams are all gone. They joined F1 under the promise of a cost cap that never materialized.
The GT1 didn't really kill BPR. What killed BPR was the inability of the sanctioning body to develop a competitive model and a business model to keep the sport humming along, even if someone went out of their way to build a dedicated BPR homologation special.
I do miss the GT-1 class though. I sure wish there was a way to bring it back. Perhaps a class breakdown such as:
I can't either, but driving while getting high will still be a dumbshit move that should be punished.
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The more technical restrictions imposed to "reduce costs", the more advantage is given to the big-budget teams which can afford the thousands of hours of development needed to eke out tiny advantages within the regulations. Meanwhile, they've prohibited any sort of true innovation, where a brilliant idea nobody else…
I wanted Ryan Newman to win so NASCAR would blow up this stupid new playoff system.
WEC's engine regs aren't that open, and in F1 I'm not sure a budget cap would work. Too many sneaky accountants.