5th gear: This really sucks. Logistics has been a HUGE struggle and expense for the past couple years, and especially the last year as the economy booms. Now because of this mandate we’re going to lose a lot more workers from an already very short-handed yet critical industry. Costs are going to shoot up a LOT from…

Can we stop with this “people have it hard because Covid and rich people” BS? Have you not seen the massive labor shortage going on? The huge increases in base pay to try to get anyone to show up? Stores and restaurants having to shut down or limit hours because they literally can’t get people to work?

Proto looks much better in my opinion.  The giant rectangle on the new Z just looks like they forgot to finish the front bumper.

I’ve found that using GPS eliminates having to ask for directions 99% of the time these days.

I wasn’t talking about the Mini, I was responding to My Goat Ate My Homework about the BMW engine torque curve.  Torque curves and turbo lag are related, but not at all the same thing.

Doesn’t matter what rpm you make max torque at if it takes 5 seconds to build up to that torque.  At low rpm there’s less exhaust gas and pressure, so it will take longer to spool the turbo up.  In newer cars the time to spool the turbo is usually about the same as the time it takes to downshift, so it’s not really…

I’m genuinely curious as to what reasoning he used to come to that conclusion.  As someone who played the game when it released, I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind saying it is terrible.  I mean, I guess if you’re expecting a racing game or a first-person shooter it’s pretty bad at those, but I wouldn’t think…

Your $1300 laptop cost as much as my PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS5 combined. The difference is that your laptop is now only capable of playing games well at 1080p while my PS5 runs great at 4K. We have an old $300 family laptop for email and printing, everything else is done on phones.

Gotcha, thanks for the advice.  I may have to do just that.

Been watching reviews of these (specifically the Pro), and as someone who’d been using a G27/G29 for the past 12 years I plan to step up my game when the Pro releases this spring.  Of course, that’s assuming it’s not backlogged until the fall by that point, but either way I’m looking forward to it for GT7.

Exactly.

My point was we already have the lead cars from RB/Mercedes pulling away and leaving the field, and whichever one of them is in front is probably going to stay there barring a screw up.  I’d much rather see them be able to fight back and forth instead of the leader slowly pulling away because the guy behind has used…

That’s spectacular, I’ve never heard a windshield described as such but I’m going to remember it.

Yeah, there’s a disconnect between the article title and the text/quote.  All Hulkenberg is saying is the cars are still super fast, he says nothing about aero wash.

But that’s what we have already. Sure, if a faster car somehow magically ended up behind a slower car in the race for whatever reason, they might be able to hold them there. I would say that’s not really defending, just the faster car getting screwed by dirty air. But in most cases currently the faster car qualifies…

While you are right about the real reason behind the recent spending rules changes (make everyone closer and cut into Merc and Red Bull’s advantage), I disagree that the chassis changes are necessarily to help midtier teams. We both know that track position has been the number 1 deciding factor in F1 races lately, as…

The article headline confuses me. Hulkenberg said nothing about whether they were harder or easier to follow other than “they’re still really fast in the corners, so we’ll see”. F1's purpose was not to slow the cars down, that was just a suspected side effect of the rules changes. The cars can still be stupid fast AND…

Great defense, as long as the accused is incapable of picking up a torso and severed head and moving them a few feet in the span of 3 minute’s time.

Throwout bearing is only engaged when depressing the clutch. Pilot bearing is just what the input shaft runs on inside the crank, so it would make noise all the time.

All 100% correct answers.