Quite rare to get on a performance flight for obvious reasons, but you can sometimes weasel your way onto a photography flight for an airline.

BMW will always run in the USA under the RLL banner, as it should be.

They’ve only killed the Euro half. The free half lives on in the land of big SUVs!

This is still the case today, a Ford GT has more power than the GTE car. That being said the racecar will have an edge in weight, handling dynamics, and tires most importantly but everyone who has driven both remarks at how close the two chassis are in road feel.

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I still prefer 96, but that’s just me (and partially because one was run very well in Canada)

They were so much fun in their day. Cineplex had them in their arcades growing up but then they got retired. Moved houses and there was a local arcade that stocked up on these cabinets cause they were dirt cheap and I spent so much money there before I got my own simrig. They started with 4 and ended with 10 before…

You haven’t wangan’d until you’ve got at least three car cards.

Unrelated but if you want to see what a proper lap of M1 looks like:

Not just the cars, the track has to allow for good racing too. Just look at the Chris Harris video on the 600LT. Technically it’s a great track (Circuit du Charade) but its so tight and twisty that you would most likely get a parade-looking race. The same with Ascari, which appears to not be doing much beyond track…

Every track has its own special flavour, not necessarily only requiring change in track altitude obviously. Anything fast and flowing over the natural topography is bound to be a fan favourite. The beauty of sportscars is that they really can race anywhere, and at least in North America a lot of the premiere venues…

I was going more for historic tracks with significant elevation change that had seen F1 races prior; venues like Suzuka and Monaco still being on the calendar because of their prestige. You could as easily move to Fuji but where’s the fun in that?

It helps when you have 7km of circuit to play with.

Pretty much the reasons why all the historic sportscar tracks are still thriving. Unfortunately to bring a series like F1 or even Indycar to these venues would require massive infrastructure improvements, which is guaranteed to ruin the nature of the track.

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The Viper is capable of doing that all day long. The avionics cap out at 9G automatically, so its a fairly regular maneuver at airshows. I got to meet him last year and he’s super cool. A telltale sign of a 9G pull is the way it vapes.

They say you cut the course!

Credit to the pilot, Maj. Waters of the Viper Demo Team.

Never forget

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