For decades I’ve read folks denigrate Consumer Reports Automotive Testing because they didn’t like their reviews. I have a different perspective.

That was the best race this season. Interlagos delivers again.

Honestly, the mere fact that there are multiple inquiries requesting what the item was is suggestive of the nature of the problem.

In answer to the question, what item would deserve a punch in the face? The correct answer is: no item that you would be able to legally and openly carry on a plane.

I will say, however,…

Can’t say that I’ve ever ridden the hound, but the charter busses I’ve ridden are about a million times more comfortable than airline seats. That alone has me wondering “How bad could it be?”

TBF it wouldn’t matter where that ludefisk was - it could be in the luggage hold and they’d STILL need to declare an inflight emergency.

There’s your problem. 7:15AM isn’t early in the morning if you’re drinking hard in college, it’s really late at night.

There was never any serious consideration given to ordering Daniel to let Lando past. They told Daniel that Lando needed him to go faster so he could keep ahead of the cars behind him and he did. Daniel’s last lap was the fastest of the race, which he absolutely deserved to win. Lando also did a great job to come home…

He’s being outpaced by Sebastian Vettel, a 4 time WDC who hasn’t been good for a few years now and looks totally checked out from F1.

The difference is that Mazepin is racing for Haas, which means he’s not even racing an F1 car, so it sucks that he’s on the grid, but he’s in the team that deserves him, and vice versa. 

He’s *fine* but I’d rather see someone else get a fair shot in that seat. That team needs a serious talent, and Vettel is past it. 

Seems to be the sort of thing that a small business loan is made for. Essential upgrades and replacement of craft have to happen, regardless of the fuel or engine, and a loan to cover the costs and defray payment is exactly what the operators covering such areas are already doing. So, just do what they would do anyway…

Pardon my lack of familiarity with this topic, but is the issue that lead is specificically required by radial engines or is it simply that they require the high-octane rating produced by lead additives? From my toilet reading this morning of this article and another in General Aviation News, it seems to be the…

The reality is most race cars are running regular 93 octane. Race fuel is exorbitantly expensive.  If people can’t get 105 anymore, they’ll just run lower compression. 

My local track sells 100 octane lead free. Race cars don’t need higher octane unless their engines are built to make use of it. Ban all leaded fuel and see what happens. What would happen in reality is people would simple detune their engines to run on 100 octane lead free.

All of them work towards a goal of allowing most of the 230,000 planes in the sky to fly, but do so running on fuel without lead. That solution has yet to be found.

This is one of those issues that on the level of an individual seem like they really create impositions and cause problems for people. But, on a societal level, why would anyone weigh the import of your family’s old plane to be greater than the issue at hand of widespread environmental pollution? To answer my own…

I mean it is as simple as banning it.  Teams will adapt, no matter what the race series.

Even better, just announce that it is to be banned from all use in five years. Then you don’t even have to actually ban it, because everyone will scramble to find an alternative to beat the deadline. Anything that runs on it suddenly becomes worth only its own scrap value, because nobody would buy it.

Just tax that leaded gas to death, and outright ban it a decade from now. That will increase the demand for an unleaded alternative very quickly and the free market will take care of it. Problem solved.