Asking “what’s your name?” usually works pretty well.

First place: Corvette

Superhero performance, comic book appearance.

Here’s a reminder of why it’s always in your benefit to be nice to nurses:

Through nostalgic yellow/black spectacles I think Sands nailed the it.

Every car manufacturer, I’d wager, ‘dopes’. VW was just the first to get caught.

Two of my favorites:

Definitely second having someone as your backup: If I don’t call you by 2pm on Monday, call the park rangers, because I’m in trouble.

All true. When bullying and persecution are the two conditions of your youth, revenge develops into an art form.

When I competed in MMA (this will work to my advantage later), I lived next to an intensely paranoid, highly unreasonable, psychotic neighbor. When the battery died in her ratty Ford, she accused me of breaking into her car and turning her headlights on while she slept (somehow this explanation was more likely than…

Bitter rivalries always make for better racing and next season will be fucking awesome.

Think of when an ice skater is spinning. As she moves her arms closer, she moves weight closer to her center (decreasing rotational inertia). As a result, the speed of rotation increases dramatically. Now imagine if one hand held a transmission and the other an engine. Move them closer and the same thing happens.…

End result: Rossi fucked himself. Rossi’s actions, not Marquez’s, cost him the championship.

Lessons I learned when I was poor:

Seems to be a lot of crying going on.

In Los Angeles: http://www.urdreamgarage.com/

Cannot wait for Chris Harris to test this against the GT3RS.

Great to hear of the peg fix (both the foot angle and the increased surface friction). From this—and everything else I’ve read/heard—the R is incredible.

I want to see the video of the techs trying to figure out (one week later), why the windows roll down on their own, why the hazards flash intermittently, why the car won’t start and . . . hey—where is that smell coming from?

My race prepped S2000. Faster lap times than any production car I ever encountered kind of ruined the allure of spending 100K+ on something that would only be slower, less reliable and less engaging.