That podcast is definitely worth a listen. Lots of great stories about amateur racing with an unlimited budget. The only thing that left a bad taste is the way the Jeff Braun (designer of his amateur race cars) shrugs off Tuckers misdeeds. I believe he says something along the lines of “it wasn’t illegal at the time…

And, if you want to hear both how much of a charmer he is (probably how he got away with these schemes for so long) and how hard he tries to weasel his way out of it, listen to their direct talk with Scott and compare it to the indictment...

BTW, if you haven’t listened to this Dinner With Racers podcast about Tucker’s D Sports Racer SCCA run, it’s really worth a listen: http://www.dinnerwithracers.com/episode-8-the-level-5-special/

I suppose I will be the one post a link to Dinner with Racers featuring Tucker. You can hear his perspective straight from his own mouth. It doesn’t stray too far from the quote in the story.

Counterpoint: No.

Assorted notes:

- No way in hell Baku and Bahrain leave. There’s just too much money changing hands, and when you have tracks like Silverstone claiming how they’re bleeding money, the tracks that are willing to pay up make a BIG difference.

- Mount Panorama is *awful* for F1 cars. Think about that crazy change in…

You’ve really got to admire the church’s willingness to embrace the entirely fictional just because someone put it in a book.

For fuck’s sake, Ethan, really? This is dumb. Sorry, this is just dumb. How little self confidence must you have that a picture of a man in a baby bonnet somehow bullies you? It’s a picture in a video game. No one is watching you. It isn’t a form of peer pressure, it’s your own weird insecurities. Sack up, man.

In other words, you felt peer pressure from a game and now want all of us to peer pressure gaming companies into making game that doesn’t peer pressure you back?

I’m at work. My volume is off.

Never forget: The B16 Sentra had a cupholder adjustment knob.

Sooooooo, it’s like Red Bull’s Tag Heuer rebrand, only this is a brand that doesn’t work like clockwork. Gotcha.

“Like it or not, currencies have to have central authorities to back them up. “

I’m pretty sure the government has my best interests at heart...

You don’t know who Keifer Sutherland is??

Yes. I also frequently visit prisons to tell the inmates they are bad people who do bad things.

I demand handmade Italian goods.