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    I’m surprised they’re still ditching buttons after more than a few other automakers have started bringing them back after they realized consumers eventually hated it. That said, I actually like the concept. It reminds me of the instrument cluster on the old 4th gen Prelude (or for you serious JDM freaks, the JC series

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    Should have just used a converted tank and flattened the cars.

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    I mean on one hand don’t abandon your car in the middle of the fucking road

    This just sounds like sloppy, hodgepodge engineering. If done right, the FSD systems should be separate from the main system so that, if the former fails, the latter can just default to normal driving mode. 

    Packaging is debatable. Inline-6s are better if you have the length but not the width to fit them, but V8s are better for shorter but wider engine bays.

    Stuff like this makes me wonder if the new owners at Liberty will try to copy what they did with F1 to allow the teams some form of profitabilty to prevent cases like this of teams having to leave due to financial issues. Dorna was already finding ways to pay teams despite the series not really having a traditional

    Fun fact, despite filming there (and at other tracks) McQueen did not actually race at Le Mans, and especially not with this. He was supposed to actually race, but with the #26 car, driving alongside Sir Jackie Stewart. However, at the last minute, his insurance company would not clear him for the drive. The #20 was

    Interestingly enough, the Lexus GT3 car is supposedly built on the platform meant for that Mazda Vision GT concept.

    Too bad it’s a 60%. I would have accepted a tenkeyless (though a full size with numpad would have been best), but having it that small is a no go for me.

    What I hate the most are the headlights. The top of the lights trying to creep up along the hood line makes it look like it’s trying, and failing, to emulate the E60.

    Senna didn’t turn in on anyone in ‘89 though, that was a simple racing incident with Prost. The reason he was DQed was for the “questionable” way in which he rejoined (and even that is in quotes because Balestre later admitted to DQing Senna simply because he wanted Prost to win).

    Don’t worry, this won’t happen to the 90% of McLaren’s that are stored in garages and only occasionally driven to the shops.

    The joke is that his new contract stipulates that Red Bull shouldn’t get second in the WCC, so he got them to third instead.

    I’d take a point from Silk Cut just because Jag didn’t adopt the purple as their livery when they went to F1 (or Formula E), instead going with boring old British Racing Green (as that pseudo black Mercedes in Formula E).

    When you mentioned RS-25, what came to my mind was this.

    The thing is, both the Gulf and Martini liveries aren’t associated with a single brand to the point where they’re the brands colors now in racing. Gulf has been seen on Fords, Porsches, McLarens, and more, and Martini has been on Lancias, Ferraris, Porsches, and even Williams (in F1).

    The only livery that can be said

    What isn’t mentioned here is that Caddy is paying $450 million to the other teams as an anti-dilution fee – effectively a franchise fee – to get into the sport. that’s $250 million more than the $200 million originally agreed upon during the previous Concorde Agreement, but $150 million less than the estimated $600

    Ford, it seems, has enough money to support a hybrid Formula One engine effort with Red Bull, but can’t find justification for continuing to support a top team running hybrids in the series most closely tied to its production road-going products. Make it make sense.

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    There are other ways to stop a fleeing vehicle. If I recall the UK’s TPAC doctrine recommends the use a box and stop method where three cars surround a vehicle and slowly force it to the median.