As someone whose picture was on the F1 website front page for a week after picking up, semi-ironically, some of Checo’s pieces-parts off a hot track (COTA 2015 F1 Regatta, T1), and, more in keeping with this type of circuit, is prominently on video of the aftermath of Franchitti’s 2013 Houston IndyCar crash clearing a…

Glad you’re still among the living. My adventure wasn’t my brain exploding, but very nearly my colon exploding (colon cancer blocked me up. Yes, I was literally full of shit because almost none of it could get through the 3% of my sigmoid colon that wasn’t closed off). The surgeon who installed the ostomy I may well…

I know PN has been airing these as “new” episodes (season 6) for some reason, but if you look at the tags for the videos above, it’s from Season 2, and I recall seeing them then.

As Yogi Berra said, it’s deja vu all over again.

That a Carnival Cruise Line towel was among the debris is Not In The Slightest Bit Surprising. The Floating Frat Party will likely have a lot of crossover with NASCAR infield camping. (Seriously, had a coworker in a previous life who annually booked a Carnival cruise with his wife and 2 other couples. They sprung for…

Wow. That was not what I expected today on the Jalopwebpagethingy. It’s strong, powerful stuff. Thank you for your courage in opening up to the world about your past -- and maybe it’ll help someone in a similar situation now with a glimmer of a good way forward.

Okay, so here’s a guy that shouldn’t be allowed on a race track again until he’s proven he’s evolved into a more sensible species than “laser-focused self-indulgent wiener”.

On a full-course yellow, you damn well better be a lot more than 3 seconds slower than your fastest time. You know, like *everyone else on the track was*. This isn’t backing off for a local yellow here. This is a safety car situation.

For all that is good and just in this world, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP TO MARSHAL F1 (or Moto GP, or IndyCar, or, really, any pro series) AS YOUR FIRST RACE AS A MARSHAL.

Houston’s “Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction”, aka “Houston annexed the retail corridor along TX-6 and collects sales tax, but the nearby residents don’t get to vote in Houston city elections”.

Oh, it’s got residents on the board, but it’s still a company, basically. The way the place is built, there are numerous through-roads that don’t generally have houses facing them and the HOA covers the landscaping and fencing along them, along with the parks and community pools.

In general, I don’t hate the idea of an…

Irony is the former director of the HCFCD, who long buried any concern about either the development in and upstream of the reservoirs or about the capacity of Buffalo Bayou downstream of the dikes*, getting flooded when the CoE had to let 13k+ CFS out into a channel intended for 4400 CFS to avoid topping the dikes.

*He…

They’ll give a hard pass to all manner of stupid garden geegaws, but rake you over the coals for enjoying automobiles.

Friendswood Development Company, apparently (I had to look it up). It’s a subsidiary of Lennar, but was founded by Humble Oil (now part of ExxonMobil) until sold to Lennar in 1995.

Ah, but this is the proverbial Wild West of Unincorporated Harris County, Texas. No zoning here at all. And landowners (in this case, the developer who bought up something like 6-8 sections of land) can pretty much do whatever they want if they have enough money (read: developers). Which is how you end up with housing…

He really is. Hit the jackpot there.

My landlord also lives in the same area as my house and refers to the HOA as the Hitler Youth. They semi-regularly try to ding me for the driveway stain my 20-year-old, 376k-mile truck leaves (it seeps a bit here and there). Landlord takes this in stride and basically tells them unless they want to pony up for…

I’ll take a shot at a fresh er, mission statement for them:

I’ll bet he’s got more battery pack back there and is trying to keep the sun and prying eyes off it.

Yeah, he was a regular on The Diesel Stop (may still be. I haven’t been active there in years). He also swapped out the factory 3.73 gears for 3.08s and put taller rear tires on it to raise the effective gearing even more (he wanted 2.73s or even 2.29s for it, but no one makes those for the Sterling 11.25" axle).…

An almost daily occurrence on part of my commute. Don’t even need a collision to create the backup. My favorites are the ones who see one of the prominent “DO NOT DRIVE ON SHOULDER” signs and pick that spot to pull out onto the shoulder. My second favorites are the sport-bike pilots who decide whipping up the shoulder…