I was reading an article in Forbes. It said 50% of mergers and aquisitions fail. That blew my mind. I had no idea it happened so often. But does anyone know how often merged companies split apart again?

Quick question: why do the unbeatable race car and the everyday sports coupe have nearly identical performance specs?

Racing a relatively heavy GT car. High heat compound pads. A set of rotors lasts one season and pad longevity depends on the track, typically 4-5 sets per season. Calipers rebuilt at the end of the season. I could always go easier on them, but the lap times suffer.

Last time I turned a rotor was in college. I just did that because I was too broke for new. These days I service the street car brakes just like the race car.

Turning rotors on a race car? By the time I change out the rotors on my car, they usually aren’t in any condition to use again.

In my experience, the Brembo products are great, but they’re also very expensive compared other racing brake systems. Indycar is constantly trying to cut costs, so I would imagine that has something to do with. That’s why I got rid of mine.

RHR said in his interview that he didn’t feel like this failure was related to the overheating problems, more like a brake line failed. I’m sure there will be another report once the cause is determined.

Exactly this. If you look at the American cars of 2000 to 2010 versus 2011 to present, which would you rather own? Sure there were a few gems in there, but American products now are vastly better.

From what I hear about the lack of Alfa reliability, my story must be a minor miracle. I love my little Alfa. It’s 32 years old this month. I’ve owned it 12 of those years and only had to tow it once in the 70k miles I’ve personally driven it (crank position sensor the year after I bought it).  That said, I do commit…

I rented a Jeep Grand Cherokee a week ago. I enjoyed the car for the most part, but the shifter was stupid. I’ve used rotary dial automatics, push buttons, column-shift manuals, and so forth. The Jeep shifter is dumb. Worse than the Mercedes in my opinion. It looks nice, but it still has to function well. Modern…

The red flags and segment breaks led to a 3 1/2 hour 300 mile race. It’s not going to alleviate boredom if the race takes twice as long as it should.

Why did they throw the second red flag just to finish the segment under yellow anyway? I felt like those red flags were thrown just to give teams time to gather parts to beat the 5 minute repair clock.

In-house video versus media company. From the looks of things, it’s money well-spent.

I have a Torsen T2R race diff, and it does the same thing if I pull up into my drive way too slowly, so it’s not just electronics. I feel like there could be a programming solution to this in the case of e-diffs. Maybe an electronic locker setting.

I rented an Alfa Romeo 4C through Turo. Great car for a decent price. The owner told me a previous renter drove to the beach with it. And I mean literally drove to the beach: over the rocks, through the sand, and down to the water. Tore the nose off the car in the process. He said Turo iimmediately covered the damages…

Though if it was 757hp at the wheels, that would be close too 900hp at the crank.

Well, with his comments about Arnold, you know he isn’t playing Mobile Strike.

They sound like the Borg but a lot less evil.

Twice!

And there goes the 88 again with 5:42 remaining!