McLaren’s search for a driver to replace Daniel Ricciardo on its Formula 1 team has been turbulent, to say the least. The British team sought to sign the reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou from Chip Ganassi Racing.

That’s my question as well. This guy was working in a dangerous occupation with a legitimate risk of death or disability, and was being paid to do so by a very large media conglomerate. There should be absolutely no need for any type of additional funding beyond the preventative measures he should have taken (life…

Whoa, year round? Man, I’m glad that’s not common in any other line of work.

“However, teams are able to do maintenance to prepare for the 50 more weeks of racing ahead.”

So, essentially, “I don’t like being put into the wall, but if it helps me that’s fine.”

That’s a lot quicker than the time Google gave me, but I’m not surprised they could hustle a 5.7 Chally with a stick to a 5.1 0-60.  Having driven a 5.7 Chally with a stick, it felt pretty slow.

The instinct to flee runs extremely deep in a lot of people. A friend recently bought a motorcycle as did his brother. Within 2 weeks, his brother had wrecked it running from the cops. He said he didn’t even think, as soon as the lights came on he just hit the throttle and took off. A couple miles down the road he…

The 200 is a whole second slower to 60 than the 5.7 Challenger. I would call that pretty far off.

I was responding to Margin of Error who was positing that taking a helicopter ride does not make one rich. I was simply stating that there are other facts in this particular case beyond “helicopter ride” that indicate the victim and his acquaintances were indeed “rich”.

I don’t want to pile on a family that’s (hopefully) grieving, but I don’t know that her story adds up.

You took a private helicopter from a resort island back to the mainland in order to catch a private flight home?

“You’ll be surprised to find out that nothing major was wrong with the car.”

Maybe, but I’ve never really walked through a parking lot and thought “such a relaxing, quiet environment”.  If there’s anywhere that automotive noise is both expected and a good thing, it’s a parking lot.

Or, you know, small children.

This is true, but you’re much more likely to execute a money shift at full throttle (or having recently been at full throttle) since you’re both shifting gears faster than normal, and you’re already redlining 3rd.  Shifting 3-2 when you’re normally driving is not only unlikely, but also wouldn’t cause any damage other…

Nah, in my car the 3-2 is a lot easier than the 2-1. When pushing the stick forward with a flat palm, it naturally centers itself to 3rd.  When pulling back you tend to pull it towards yourself instead of straight back which will pull it back into 2nd.  This is easily solved with an overhand grip where your palm is in…

Depends on the shifter design and how fast you’re trying to shift.  If you use the typical grip from behind the shift knob, it’s easy to pull it back and towards yourself accidentally when trying to shift as quickly as possible.  I had to train myself to do an “overhand” grip with my palm in front of the knob for the…

I downshift nearly every time I come to a stop, although not to an excessively high rpm as my engine makes plenty of torque under 3krpm to slow the car. There are a few reasons:

Brown-eyed girl?

Better turn off the Lynyrd Skynyrd when you have your convertible top down. Pretty sure if your old ears can hear it in the car, mine can hear it 25 feet away.