Propylene glycol (“antifreeze”) is in a massive variety of products, and is completely safe in lower amounts.

Very true. I think of 24 hours races as essentially music festivals, except with gearheads and beer instead of hippies and pot.

Baron von Koenigsegg actually does have alopecia totalis, but I’d rather think of it as a weight savings and aero package.

That’s...not entirely accurate. If you read the full quote from Charlie Whiting, rather than the single line used for that article, it looks like weight reduction was ostensibly one of the primary goals of the switch to titanium. Not for performance reasons, but to avoid damage to drivers and cars when the blocks…

You’re mostly right. From what I’ve read, the switch to titanium this year was meant to cut down on skid block weight to avoid punctures or driver injury if they detach. Titanium also wears faster than the tungsten they used before, forcing them to increase ride height to avoid excessive wear on the reference plank.

Worth pointing out that the skid plank isn’t entirely titanium, but actually wood with bits of titanium embedded near the measurement points. The wood is meant to wear down over a race length allowing the cars to be checked for minimum ride height violations. The sparking is a side effect of switching from heavy and…

How cool is that? Just the fact that you happened to own a thing inflates its value to such an extreme.

Eh, it’s still a good list. I’d guess the order has more to do with it being a Nat Geo travel top 10 list than event popularity or “importance.” Le Mans is run every year, is near a massive travel hub, is in the most popular international travel destination country, is relatively inexpensive to attend, etc.

Ah, I missed that. Well case closed then.

It sounds like it from what Haas has said. If you glance over the auction guide for the -2013 items, they sold everything you could need to build multiple unsuccessful F1 cars (minus the engine/gearbox)...or a bunch of static display cars.

It’s hard to say. Marussia ran multiple setups over the course of 2013. The auction in December included 2013’s MR2-02 and MR2-03, the 2012 car, 2010, a dozen different monocoques, sidepods, noses, engine covers, etc. Hell, some of the lots were just pallets of assorted carbon fiber body components.

My thoughts as well. Looks an awful lot like a 2013 Marussia with a few tweaks. Pretty standard for teams to use old cars or franken-cars as promo cars.

I don’t know about Gran Turismo, but it’s coming to Assetto Corsa!

I think the idea of promoting GP2 teams is a neat one. But with GP2 being a spec series I’m not sure if that’s a feasible idea.

I only just finished the first few sentences. I’ll finish the rest in a second.

Dunsfold Park was recently sold as well, so a new test track and set would have (eventually) needed to be found. End of an era.

Bills have been introduced in both Minnesota and New York to fight these sort of restrictions. Fair Repair Legislation.

My HS graduating class was almost 1200 people. Nobody’s gonna see who’s driving what.

Yes, they made the announcement last fall. Haas is also sponsoring Ferrari, their logo is on the sidepods below the UPS logo.