Right, I think I heard once (so take this with a grain of salt) that Floyd Mayweather had a car dealer that would answer the phone at any hour of the night to sell him cars on a whim. I guess it’s worth it when you’re selling 6 figure vehicles.

Yeah, Raph thinking that 1,200 hp is an unreasonable number for a drift car kind of shows some ignorance on the subject of current drift cars.

Bob mentioned MotoGP bikes and a bit of googling gave me the 18k number so that’s what I ran with. 

Note to self: Buy more popcorn before the end of the month.

The important thing to remember is that HP is a function of both torque and RPM. In fact the formula is (RPM x Torque)/5252. Race bikes are able to get well over 200 HP per L because they rev up to something like 18,000 RPM, which is simply not realistic in a road car. Additionally, if we assume the 260HP number…

Small nitpick: ZF8 is not the name for the gearbox. It’s either a “ZF 8 speed” or the proper model name “8HP”. ZF does not make anything labeled a “ZF8".

So I’m probably going to get a lot of flack for this but I’ve never liked Zagato designs. I’ve never seen a single car they touched that I liked more than the original. They either mess up the proportions, make a design overly complicated, or both. 

There’s already 3 races in North America. COTA in Texas, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, and Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.

I can only find video of one of them and the crew had about 2 seconds to catch their breath before the second car came in so you’re right, the timing wasn’t as tight. It’s the fact that Red Bull not only made a very risky pit call, but they did it twice that makes their race more impressive even if neither individual…

This stop was great, don’t get me wrong, but the thing nobody seems to remember is that Red Bull did this twice in a row on their way to victory at the Chinese GP last year. (Admittedly, they didn’t get a 1-2 like Mercedes but that wasn’t due to the pit strategy.)

Don’t shout there, fucker.

I don’t think the point of the article was to say whether the product does or does not exist. They even mention that it’s available online and that some retailers they were pointed to did have it in stock. I think what the author is trying to say is the business model doesn’t seem right. They’re certainly making the…

Right. There were multiple questions about several different financial reports and every single one was answered with “that information is incorrect/ inaccurate” and the inevitable followup was answered by “we can’t share commercially sensitive information at this time.”

This thing seemed like great value for money (even if it doesn’t interest me personally) and I was fully ready to hit Nice Price until I got to the rebuilt title for undisclosed reasons. Nope, instant CP at that point.

Smitten means falling in love with something/ someone.

I assume the propane tank is the white cylinder at the front of the trailer in this video as that’s a common place for them. If so, I think you’re right that it’s something else downstream and the tank was somehow left open accidentally. If you go frame by frame in the video (< and > keys), it’s difficult to tell for…

Better point, they put RBR 10th and Alfa 1st. Did the author even see the Sauber car last year?

You put RBR at 10 because they ran the same livery as last year and then put Renault at 2 and Alfa Romeo at 1? Did you see the Renault or Sauber cars last year? They’re in the exact same livery as well.

Better than Owen Wilson interviewing Hamilton after winning at Silverstone last year. “So now are you going to try to win the championship?”

I don’t know that it’s about getting the plate right away so much as how plates are assigned. Here in SC (and many other states), plates stay with the owner, not the car. When we buy a new car, the dealer can handle the paperwork and your plate is instantly registered, taken off your old car, and bolted on to your new…