Somebody please turn this shithole into a shopping mall already. Housing development. Golf course. I don’t care.

As the proud owner of a +180K-mile ‘98 Chevrolet S10 and lover of all things light pickup, this post makes me happy.

Kalamazoo Speedway’s annual “Call of the Wild”, arguably the most famous Open Competition Time Trial event in short track racing right now. Cars built with no regard whatsoever for rules, longevity, fairness, and to a point, personal safety. Anything and everything just to turn the world’s fastest lap on a mildly…

I can’t look at the top picture and not hear Cookie Monster going “OM NOM NOM NOM” in my head...

Better

Nah see, the trick is to add as little prestige as possible. Anything to suggest the event carries any sort of widespread honor or that the competitors are any kind of experienced or noteworthy. Needs to sound both absurdly specific and completely forgettable

Fair claim. That and the female pit reporter (apologies for not catching her name) who appears to have the rotten luck of being given the worst microphone the audio crew had in the truck, managing to capture everything on pit lane but the person she’s trying to interview despite nearly force-feeding them the mic.

Another fun stress reliever response is to try and concoct the most long winded and obscure sounding amateur sports event you can imagine:

I won’t speak for those who’ve cut the cable, but as I sit here watching the race on Velocity I think the coverage has been perfectly fine. Not Earth-shatteringly brilliant, but FAR AND AWAY better than any other international motorsports coverage on American television.

My first car EVER was a Fiero, my parents have a picture of me in their hallway when I was a baby playing with it on the livingroom carpet. Still have it, it’s proudly sitting next to a couple of diecasts on my apartment’s bookshelf.

SE Wisconsin resident and this looks far better than about 70% of the non-new cars on the road

But where else will I get to see the Southern Tooskapie County High School Division 7E Badminton Quarter Finals?

F1 is about the only form of motorsport where I have zero consideration for the competitive aspect of it. I don’t care if it’s expensive, prohibitive, non-competitive, or unfair. It’s supposed to be the pinnacle of racecar engineering and contested by the most talented drivers in all of auto racing.

I actually got up off my couch and onto my PC when my phone failed to load the image, chanting “Pic of an alternator, pic of an alternator” to myself the entire time.

I like “bro”. Short, easy to remember, and rolls off the tongue easily.

Obligatory link to XKCD #562: “Parking”

holy shit

Bravo, sir. That one took me a second.

I think Crowd Hunter’s aware of that, he’s merely pointing out that a little additional verification that this is in fact the SARD MC8 might be in order.

I was on my way home from work yesterday and was passed by someone with Illinois plates. Not only did they not change lanes back in front of me, but once past me, they continued on without slamming on their brakes.