Changes need to be made, or F1 risks being seen as a circus rather than the pinnacle of motor racing.

In order to clean up the signal you’d need it to analyze the digital output compared to the microphone input and use that to map the acoustic environment. Then you run the digital audio through the map to come up with a prediction of what to remove. Doing this would probably take far more than 3x the resources of…

As a resident of a city where many, many car-jackings result in death to the victim

Agreed 100%. This is so goddamn basic. Just subtract what you’re playing from what the mic is picking up.

*Whoops, $20k. IMO that’s low for such a storied icon - even the Pro-Link models.

BTW - they only sound like an F1 car if you ditch the stock exhaust and replace with some kind of single. And doing so opens a giant can of worms with the carbs, unless you’re content to just live with a shitty midrange flat-spot.

Who says $20 isn’t cheap? It’s cheaper than a new Panigale, and park a CBX beside one of those and see which one draws the attention.

I grant that I was wrong to say that it “takes over” the screen, thanks for the correction.

I don’t think passengers of cars using electronic devices is any kind of new thing. Just in this case the electronic device is more centrally located.

For years, they’ve had issues with inconsistent fit & finish. Why are you acting like one car selected from 2021 and another from 2022 are somehow representative of an overall year-to-year trend?

they haven’t figured this out yet

That’s kind of my point - that you can enjoy A LOT about something without knowing everything about it, and we all have limits to our knowledge.

I consider Baldwin the actor to be a victim in this whole thing. But...

Do you know how many manual transmission die-hard bros have no idea what a dog or a synchro are, or what it means to undercut a transmission? Or how many spec sheet bench racers couldn’t tell you what dwell or windage are?

I’m here to say that I love this series. Car Culture is often sick and entitled, and involves a ton of gatekeeping. Sharing your experiences with getting into basics like this is a great pushback against that. Thanks for sharing it all!

My shop teacher ~35 years ago said “It’s like sweeping a dirt floor. Can you make it better than it was? Yes. But it’s never going to be perfect.” To me, that applies very well to rust-proofing a car that already has the lower door skins rusted clean through. :)

If it has Trump’s name on it, it’s not meant to make money. It’s meant to move money.

It’s not just your morals - when little people run scams, they get caught and punished.

Given that we have lots of evidence of cops pressuring and prompting people into false confessions, it’s not hard to imagine them working hard to get false accusations. IMO she’s as much of a victim of all of this as Broadwater is.

IMO don’t include reversing in your earliest practice. Reverse is the only gear without a synchronizer, and a shift into reverse has to be timed differently and done more deliberately - this is why you’ll hear a clunk or even some grinding when someone shifts into reverse quickly like when doing a 3-point turn.