Devastating. I can’t imagine being an Aussie and watching this tragedy unfold.
Devastating. I can’t imagine being an Aussie and watching this tragedy unfold.
The Penske driver just didn’t get it. The Ferrari was setting up to drift turn 10a. If he wanted the Ferrari to be chase on this lap he needed to get in a little sooner and e-brake or initiate at the appropriate point.
So in Alfred Sloan’s classic business book ‘My Years with General Motors’, he explains why GM (and the other handful of auto manufactures) survived consolidations, market changes, and down turns where hundreds of other auto manufactures died off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_manufacturers…
In the dark and foreboding future somewhere on earth the Internal Combustion Engine will live on. And that’s where you’ll find me.
Perhaps you weren’t aware. A little bit further south back in WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood
The frightening part is that the sport pilot didn’t understand that his airplane operates on air speed even when he’s on the ground on his takeoff roll. You’d think to fly you’d have to understand the physics of flight. But I guess not.
Green Person, Concerned for the Health of the Earth: “Why do you drive an awful, huge SUV like that. You’re unnecessarily polluting the planet!”
Caution:Don’t read this if your skittish about flying. Skittish or not you’ll take a look at this on your next turbulent flight.
Fighters start off with a pretty short design life. 6+ g’s works an airplane pretty hard. After many in the fleet reach the original service life and get inspected, sometimes upgrades are made to the remaining fleet and further analysis enables an extended service life.
(She writes for an auto blog and her fiance drives a Honda Civic?)
That Escalade driver is an oblivious moron. I would have been giving the road raging idiots a very wide birth and been ready to brake if need be!
“... than it did to purposely go out and hoon”.
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It’s a way for drivers who are not good enough to race to make a living at driving.
... I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations. ...
I wondered throughout my youth where on earth the Bat Cave was. Sorry to say Adam West had to die for me to Google it. RIP Adam West.