DRS, or Drag Reduction System, is a flap on an F1 car’s rear wing that can open to reduce drag and increase its top speed. On the straits, it gives cars an extra 7mph with which to chase down their rival.

Besides being wrong about ovals, you should also know that NASCAR runs on more non-ovals than ever these days, and NASCAR sure as shit didnt invent the oval or is the only series to run ovals.

Nobody needs a $44-68k (lol) Mercedes SUV because you have a child. Come on.

Besides the answers of “All of the Tilkedromes”, all of the historic tracks F1 has butchered over the years, or the comical Formula E tracks that arent really racetracks so I don’t think you can consider them...

Counterpoint: Long Beach is fantastic for both competitors and fans. I go to Long Beach and Laguna Seca every year for both IMSA and IndyCar, and this may sound like blasphemy, but Long Beach is a better experience across the board honestly.

That sort of facilities extortion would be part of the deal to make any track to F1's comical “standards”. So yeah, in this theoretical of F1 coming to town, I think knocking down the entire paddock and redoing all of it is just assumed. Also its not like Watkins Glen really... has... many facilities to worry about…

F1 would absolutely ruin Road America to make it conform to it’s “standards” (read: extortion). As pointed out in the article, if you love a track, keep F1 as far as you can away from it.

Agreed, even if Penske has to pay for a track rental. It and Milwaukee are the only two tracks that I feel like IndyCar really is “missing”. Both for the same money making reasons, but still.

Worse driving dynamics by design, worse center of gravity, worse sight lines (especially in front of the grill), less interior space for the exterior dimensions, less of basically everything for the weight.

Minivans NOW (the few that are left) are huge, all models werent always huge. That was the entire point behind them. They were replaced by these objectively worse luxury minivans on stilts, like this terrible Mercedes offering.

Another less-practical minivan on stilts for mommys who want to impress the neighbors with the badge in the grill.

Every few years this idea comes back in vogue, which means every few years transportation planners have to remind people that the point of transportation is moving people.

That’s not a tax, that’s profit.

American exceptionalism is religion to a huge percentage of this country, and the predators take advantage of that irrational view to pump these suckers for all they are worth. It is the basis of the entire American political system. Nobody with power/wealth is interested in changing that.

relax

Remember how much chest pounding right winger freaks did when BLM protesters blocked some freeways, mostly at night? Remember all the losers saying they would just run over protestors, or “i support their right to protest but they CANT block the roads”?

The Integra has slightly more power than the NA 2.5 in the Mazda. It has rear cross traffic monitoring and a multilink rear (vs torsion bar on the Mazda). The top package has adaptive dampers, which you cant get on the 3.

Seems to be targeted directly at the Mazda 3 Turbo, but the interior doesn’t seem quite as nice and it doesn’t have equal power. The stick does make up for a lot of that though.

As with many of the changes you’ll see on the 2022 machines, the switch to 18-inch rims is all about reducing the car’s wake and creating closer racing.

I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that the modern ships in the West have transitioned fully off of bunker/HFO, and a lot of terminals in the West don’t even have it anymore. But I might be wrong.