There's another demographic in the region? Huh, who knew!

“While $5.5 million doesn’t seem like much...” And herein lies the problem; yes, it does seem like much! To normal people, $5.5M is a hell of a lot of money. This is very much the problem with modern professional sports. While the powers that be throw around increasingly ludicrous sums of money on their games, Joe…

You’re probably one of those brightsparks that advocate that police shoot an attacker in the leg or shoot the weapon out of a gunman’s hand. Pretty easy deciding what you should do when you DON’T have a 5,000Ib SUV headed straight at you at 60mph.

Gee, thanks! That kinda made my day.

Bridgehampton was a proper circuit. Fast, flowing, lots of elevation change, a really great track. Taking the first corner flat in top was more unnerving than Eau Rouge at Spa. You’d blast along the straight for a day and a half watching that little dot of light under the bridge - which is still there as I understand…

But money had absolutely nothing to do with Jolyon’s career thus far. Why, he had to rummage through trash bins to find cans to recycle just to get a couple of coppers together to afford to get out on the weekends, a cardboard box for a helmet. Oh, wait, no, that’s not right is it? No this Jolyon’s father owns four…

I'm gonna go with...melted.

So glad we didn’t build more of them... [/sarcasm]

Yep, and I bet I gas prices are lower than yours!

Newark? You weren't blackmailed, you were sentenced.

We hated having you.

So’s a Ferrari...

Not even close to a Sierra Cosworth! That’s like “6cyl Mustang, AKA Shelby GT500”.

Originally this was done on the Harrier because of the possibility of an ejection while hovering. There would be no airflow to blow the canopy clear, and so the very real, and deadly, possibility of the pilot being shot into an intact canopy existed. The explosive charge ensures that that doesn't happen.

How about because their reckless disregard puts everyone in that neighborhood at risk and could end up killing someone?

Do you have any clue how many airshows take place around the world on any given weekend? 99% of them without incident. I’ll wager far more people are injured in traffic accidents on their way to/from airshows than in any incidents at the airshows. Perhaps automobiles should be done away with.

Exactly correct on the Tarmac! If they can cut a corner they will, and if you flatten the curbs to the point of non-existence and pave everything behind them, drivers will ignore the track “limits”. Spa, along with many others, has been turned into a glorified car park.

Grow the fuck up.

Politically correct bandwagon jumping.

On another point, why is it people are unable to open a car door without slamming it into someone else’s expensive property? They are the ones I’d like to take a baseball bat to!