The #56 787B used to spend a lot of time at Laguna Seca. I was fortunate enough to get to see/hear it running around the track on at least one occasion. If you think the noise is glorious on a video, I can tell you in person it’s even better.

High-performance electric motors running at full power aren’t quiet, just look at Formula E. Granted, most Formula E cars sound like dentist drills being dragged on a chalkboard, but they’re not silent...

If I hadn’t been to Laguna Seca and watched a electric bike race during a motogp weekend, I’d likely agree with you. But watching a bike pull a huge lead gap then slowly losing it resulting in a final lap nailbiter, that was a bitchin finale let me tell you.....you could almost say the small crowd sitting with me in…

Television, surveillance footage what’s the difference

Hey, if you’re happy with it, more power to you. I agree that it makes adequate power; I have no gripe with it in that regard. I find the throttle response unacceptably poor, and the noise intolerable. The whole thing about using a timing chain driven water pump with an apparent average service life of about 80,000…

I can’t get over the noise. Whatever the 3.5 Ecoboost’s merits may be (and I’m dubious that it has any; I was unimpressed with it in both the Taurus SHO and the Expedition), that is an awful-sounding engine.

A race with virtually no rules, open to any type of car, with a gigantic purse? My god that would be amazing. Modern racing is so buried in formulae and regulation that it stifles innovation. Look at the Granatelli turbine Indycar from the ‘60s. Thats the kind of innovation we’d see in a wide open, no rules race.

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

I love window seats....more specifically I love window seats right over the wing so I can watch the wing flaps doing stuff. (Also, I always figured this would be the strongest, most reinforced part of the plane.) If I’m seeing the stories correctly, this would be the seat where the shrapnel hit. Bummer.

So this is where Dr. Youabian got his inspiration from.

Looks more like a ute to me, mate.

Is this a subtle hint that perhaps David Tracy should open a rusty Jeep museum?

Victory by Design is one of my favorite and easily one of the best motoring shows to be produced.

Well I know how that fight is going to end

Italian electronic systems failed? Surely you can’t be serious.

This begs the question, is Haas using the same system?

We have a procedure to ensure that the pit stops during the race are done in the most safe mode