That’s more than a little bit of bullshit. There are solid, rational reasons to prefer a mix of physical buttons and virtual buttons.

I’m betting this was a botched communication between the folks responsible for pit lane exit signals and the clean-up team. There should have been a red light at the pit exit if there were crew members on the circuit. Any car that is not a part of the field will attempt to catch up. That’s a known fact.

Hate on Rahal all you like, but Bourdais turned down into him, and his interview reflected exactly who walked away from that feeling the blame.

Yeah, but F1 doesn’t matter here, because this is IndyCar. F1 doesn’t race on ovals, and uses an entirely different rule book.

Pedantry is when it doesn’t matter. If I criticized your post for lack of capitalization or punctuation, that would be pedantic. That critique wouldn’t be relevant to your point; it is simply a matter of formality.

Felt terrible for the both of them. Graham was (rightfully) uber-pissed, but Bourdais seemed positively gutted in the driver interview. Drivers never admit fault, but Sebastian came about as close as they come to an admission. He knows he ruined both of their days. It’s hard making the right call in those split…

That finish was incredible, but I’ve gotta take issue with this:

Right here:

Now I have an extra $2,000 per month to spare save.

TBH, it was as much about my own curiosity as it was correcting the 1:1 ratio thing. I knew it wasn’t 1:1, but I wasn’t sure exactly how the two were related. I just kind of love digging in deep and understanding how shit works.

Yeah, sorry. I didn’t mean to imply you were factoring in sidewall. More of a general comment. I started to reply and got a little carried away :)

Agreed. I’d rather be ignorant, entertained, and oppressed than persecuted, incarcerated/tortured, and oppressed.

BMW makes all kinds of weird non-car products. I think they come out of the BMW design studio, which is kind of a think tank for design innovation. Most car makers have them. At one point, I managed to find a page listing all the funky stuff to come out of there, but I can’t seem to dig it up.

Fun fact: Not only did Alessandro Volta invent the electric battery, but Napoleon Bonaparte named the Volta Prize after him. The Volta Price predates the Nobel Prize by about 50 years, and notable recipients included Alexander Graham Bell (for the telephone) and Zenobe Gramme (for his dynamo / electric motor).

Is this similar to the way the top works on the Cayman Speedster? Because there’s a guy around here who drives one rain or shine. I’ve seen him blasting around in the rain at least three times, sporting a poker face like nothing at all is going on. Guy is clearly a fucking legend. Why fuck with a complicated top when…

You’re on the right track, but you took a wrong turn at conflating a directly proportional relationship between tire pressure and ground pressure.

I don’t know about curbs at the mall, but if you want to go over medians, it’s about 1.5 psi*

2. The PRC retains control of itself by suppressing free thought, USA by distracting the masses with entertainment.

Look, Mike, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but with that budget and a baby on the way, fun is going to have to take a back seat (see what I did there?) for a while. Car seats are simultaneously life-savers and death-bringers. They’ll save your child, but they’ll crush your soul.

I think your analysis was pretty spot on, but I sense a little disdain for anyone who took the show seriously, and I think that’s a little unfair. In so much as anyone can treat television as a “serious” literary medium (heh, more disdain), GoT was a pretty solid piece of work in many places. So I can’t really blame…