Indeed and Formula E is already showing the way here: This year’s Monaco race featured “116 overtakes, with cars going three-wide at various points on the circuit.”

Suppose you were designing a high speed rail network for California from scratch, with the goal of maximizing value for its future ridership relative to its project cost. What would you do? Probably something like this:

Lacking any real frame of reference I can only say that it sounds like one hell of a kenetic experience. What I can say for sure is that it resulted in one hell of good piece of writing—wonderfully culminating in the paragraphs that kick off with “It’s truly challenging to put this experience into words.” Challenge…

https://www.pebblebeach.com/insidepebblebeach/a-wild-ride-the-7-year-history-of-the-pebble-beach-road-races/

Sorry to be late to the party, but someone has to mention the old road course in Del Monte forest, a stone’s throw from the Lodge & the famous 18th green, where, each year from 1950-1956, the Pebble Beach Road Races were held.

These break down into two very different categories:

The dopeness of Z600 is attested by the fact that you can upshift through all four gears, hitting the 6K redline on each, whilst spinning a doughnut of a diameter shorter than the length of the average early 70s American sedan. This has been empirically tested.

The Alfa: The automatic would have been forgivable had the frunk been functional. Looks that good go a long way, but in a car that small you need every bit of storage space you can get.

The 240z was, in its day, probably the most gorgeous car one could own for anywhere near the price.

Still sometimes miss the planes & angles of my gold ‘77 (as well as its light weight, taut mechanical controls, awesome forward visibility, and general willingness to happily scoot wherever you pointed it).

Never pass one of these beauties on the road (an increasingly rare occurrence sadly) without a pang of regret at not having owned one. Mixed with relief, after a moment’s reflection, but that’s neither here nor there.

This response is almost epic in it’s grounding in physical reality and elementary professional responsibility. Also, quite funny (hope no one was hurt in the under-wedged Datsun!).

As someone who unthinkingly absorbed all of those anti-CR jokes in Car & Driver and the other pubs back in the day, thanks for setting the record straight—and for a wonderful reminiscence from a car nut childhood that (judging from what’s in your garage) seems to have prepared you well for car nut adulthood. Your old…

A lot of sensible commentary here, but this one stands out particularly:

Wouldn’t we look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn’t matter how stumpy.

“Do these people know how long Porsche went before updating the structure of the 911? —ED”

Not one but two new, rear drive, manual-equipped, good-to-great looking, good-to-great handling, adequately-to-generously powered, small-to-smallish, two-seat-to-two-seatish ICE sports cars, offered to the Jalop masses at accessible-to-accessibleish (sp?) prices?

Come on folks—let’s celebrate this! How often is…

This sounds like an idea for a classic Top Gear episode that wasn’t quite able to secure the local approvals...

I believe you’re right that this was Verstappen’s corner, and also that the drivers’ relative positions before the apex are irrelevant.

Riding 3 in a 2 seater is indeed bad judgment, but pretty low on the scale. Back in ancient times I once rode 3 in a CRX and 7 in a 280Z 2+2 (2 guys + 5 gals). The latter was, I must admit, one of the best short car trips of my adolescence.