Magnussen’s wiggle may have had something to do with it but it’s hard to give Grosjean the benefit of the doubt after Baku (and this season in general). If he doesn’t score points soon, he may not last the season.

That only seems to work in certain markets. I don’t get FS2 and I can’t stream anything airing on FS2 on Fox Sports Go.

Even Zager & Evans didn’t go that far.

It might also lead to silliness in qualifying where the fast cars go slowly on purpose. Or, if it happens in the middle of a race, you’d see teams sandbagging for the first half like you used to see in the Busch Clash and NASCAR All-Star Race when they had field inversions.

You can do the same with the MRN broadcast. It’s great.

Well, yeah, that’s the problem. He’d have to give that up in order to call the races, and the main ones he runs are endurance races where it’s all hands on deck already. (So hard to replace him with, say, Kevin Lee, who’d probably be leading the booth alternating with Leigh Diffey’s booth).

Uh, what? After initial problems with the Russian components (which wouldn’t even be in play here), the ISS delays were caused largely by the Columbia disaster and cancelled funding, not delays with the components themselves.

Plus, a multiple-vehicle launch would involve the pieces launching closely together (crew…

It could very well be the same team (perhaps with Steve Matchett and a sports car driver in the booth in place of Bell and Tracy) calling the races. There’s only one conflict between IndyCar and IMSA this year (Iowa and Bowmanville in July).

I have a feeling that it’s going to look like the IndyCar deal, with Prototype Challenge and most Sports Car Challenge races on NBC Sports Gold (presumably in a package with Indy Lights).

Which is *still* better than having races on FS2, since many markets still don’t even have it in SD. *glares at Comcast*

Exactly. We’re coming full-circle to Von Braun’s original Mars mission plan, where he envisioned the components being launched by multiple Saturn Vs and rendezvousing in Earth orbit.

Can’t forget Ken Schrader’s classic 2003 ride:

Yeah, gotta use the Valvoline paint scheme version of the Viagra car.

I believe the Trump for President truck (at least the Korbin Forrester version) was filling in for an otherwise unsponsored race. The 55 car‘s scheme was sponsored by the campaign.

There’s a lot of old schemes that folks run on iRacing in CORT.

I thought that Ford’s police sales were mostly Taurus, Explorer, and F-series. (My local department just started buying the latter for some reason.)

But when they announced that the Mustang would replace the Fusion in the Cup Series next year, they swore it wasn’t indicative of future plans for Ford models!

Thanks, I just about did a spittake at that GIF.

Uggggggggggggh.

Yet another thing Lincoln is scooping them on.

They may be idiots, but they’re actually buying the goddamn C/SUVs. =/