They say if your goal is win a Cat1 race, step 1 is to pick your parents wisely, so he gave you that too!  As a 4-barely-3 when I raced, I didn’t choose as well ;-).

I put deaths by non-seatbelted folks into the same category I put smoking and unvaccinated Covid deaths - zero fucks to give. I’m just tired of being made to feel like I should care about those making terrible choices.

From the stats, half the fatalities are not wearing a seatbelt, and from only 10% of the population (which jives with my general observations). So that is by far the biggest bang for the buck here if we really wanted to save lives. It is also far and away the easiest (and probably least controversial) to implement.…

Pilot must have had the fish. As a GA pilot myself, I’d relish the opportunity to step up and land an airliner! I’m sure staring at the panel of a Caravan was pretty intimidating, so (turbo)props to this passenger for stepping up and remaining calm. There are actually courses offered for non-pilots who fly right seat…

Awesome!  Our Saturday tickets were in the hairpin grandstands to the right.  Your seat was better.

Do you mean the crappiness of the roads? We drove up from PA, and I recall the roads there being terrible. But I do not recall any bad traffic. Race venue is great, only way to get there is the subway which is very efficient (and like 1/10 the cost of the DC Metro), and again, everyone is friendly.

Can confirm Montreal. Me and Mrs. BirdLaw attended in 2015. People, price, venue, weather, are all top notch and welcoming as can be. The rumors are true, Canadians rock.  Plus, do you think at Miami one could get this close to a post-race Hami?

GTFO with your nuanced take full of metrics and reason and stats. People just want to complain about how shitty their life is. It’s not perfect here, and we seemingly have a large, vocal, and powerful minority hell-bent on keeping it from getting there, but when viewed through the lens of history, there’s few better…

We attended the 2015 Montreal GP, with the 3 day package for tickets in 3 different locations, including the Start/Finish line on race day. I think they were about $480 US at the time, which I felt was very reasonable for a special event. Also reasonable? The cost of everything everywhere we went in Montreal. Even at…

It was their condition, not mine!

It’s one of 2 issues:

Right, in PA, only the State Police are allowed to use radar. And a huge chunk of the PA’s 2,500 municipalities have no police force. What that means is that the big, juicy middle of PA outside of Philly and Pittsburgh is a near lawless wonderland of craggy Appalachian mountains and winding roads following streams. Of…

This does actually happen already.  There are hundreds of closed tiny-ass bridges in the state.  Many have been closed for years and years, because there is no money to fix them.  They are everywhere.

I am engineer in the private sector who interfaces quite regularly with the DOT in...Pennsylvania...and there is a LOT of truth to what you are saying here. There are a lot of good people in the DOT, and then I get a glimpse of the bureaucracy and rules they have to live with, and I remember how lucky/smart I was to…

I work with airports and noise issues. I can tell you there is absolutely zero chance of 97 db at 3 miles from these cars. I’ve only seen them in person at the 2016 Montreal GP, and I understand they are slightly louder now than then, but compared to a Beechjet at full chat, F1 cars are like a quiet symphony. The…

The Tesla fuel savings discount is the ultimate in shady.

Not insignificant I’d say. My all-season setup on the GTI stock wheels weighs 48.5 lbs and my summer setup is 42.0, and there is a noticeable difference in carrying them...and in how they feel on the road.  I was reading something the other day on the 22's on some giant SUV and they noted the wheel/tire was 96…

I think the new wheels look like a steel wheel on an old Toyota Echo or a bottom-rung Versa. Or even the donut in my old Celica. If I’m being honest, they look like shit. Props for the cost-cutting by making this item standard, boo for what it looks like.

At least 100 grand under that hood.  I mean, if it had a hood.

Paul Walker would like to know this too.