The boner I have for this car would never fit in a fire suit... I could never take it in a track :-(

When you drive this car you will hear a voice at the back of your head at every single moment.

This is so incredibly British.

I'm not on board with the assumed down tick in NASCAR ratings. There have been races this year that were down but several which saw higher ratings than 2012.

I feel like the Jalopnik writing staff licks their lips every time someone in the media says people don't care about cars anymore. The articles write themselves.

Great story! That Elephant dropping, really adds to the how small this car is. This story was just as interesting as what I thought it was going to be about.

But all it will do (apart from whoring page views) is damage their reputation the more times they report on them. We get that EVs can also set fire in a crash, but why follow up the first one with a post about how it's no big deal and then keep pointing out that they can set fire?

This article is a microcosm of the wealth disparity in the US, that Doug Demuro so clearly misunderstands as illustrated by his comments to his article a few days back. http://plays-with-cars.kinja.com/the-biggest-ga… We simply need to recognize that the very wealthy, or the Dillon brothers in this case, have…

Also interesting that 2/3 of RCR's drivers were multi-millionaires from the moment they drew their first breaths. I don't know what it means, other than the rich get richer.

I have been watching the Nationwide and Camping World serious this year because NASCAR is dog a good job with things like D4D brining in guys like Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace, but also with the excitement factor of multiple road courses and the Eldorado dirt race.

Things to ponder when looking at RCR's 2014 driver line-up...(data per Wikipedia)

#3 Austin Dillon - Nationwide (2 wins, 51 T10's, 74 starts) / Trucks (1 Championship, 5 wins, 34 T10's, 54 starts)
#27 Paul Menard - Cup (1 win, 34 T10's, 251 starts) / Nationwide (1 win, 76 T10's, 183 starts)
#31 Ryan Newman - Cup (17…

I support Harvick here based on the grounds that...he's right.

In defense of Tilke:

Arabic people. Kaliq/Khaliq means "Creator."