This isn’t sportswashing though, as McLaren Racing wasn’t involved in the sale. The latter is likely worth just as much or even more than the automotive side of the business now that F1 is in its “franchise” era.

This, if the conspiracies are to be believed, Ferrari will happily slap the VIN of your totalled Ferrari on another chassis from the same car.

Racing is expensive, his appointed successor realized that building Ferrari as a brand would help pay for the racing.

If you believe the conspiracy theories, then it helps when the company supposedly makes more than they say they will and will just liberally swap VINs when preferred customers wreck rare cars.

It can work. In the late 60s Japanese authorities decided to do as much, which is how Tsukuba Circuit came to be, and it actually did do it’s job of getting a lot of kids off the street and doing their racing on track. Same story with Ebisu, except that one was privately funded, helping get people drifting off the…

Because racing heritage is also another Ferrari selling point, and this is coming with an engine derived from the one in the Le Mans-winning 499p Hypercar. I betcha there’s be less controversy about this had they styled it closer to that car than going with their current “mustache” trend.

Interestingly, in the early days of CVTs they seem to offer improved performance over traditional automatics and sometimes manuals, too.

In fairness, the second generation was more conventionally styled that it’s mostly invisible in a sea of similar MPVs.

No mention of the controversy of allowing both Elliot and Briscoe to finish the race despite being rescued, even though NASCAR previously reiterated the rule that if a driver cannot drive back to pit road after being involved in an incident, their race is over?

And sportswashing, can’t forget the sportswashing.

It’s been out for awhile. A certain Monaco-based YouTuber already took delivery of his.

You mean Porsche, who actually cares about this kind of thing (to the point where they’re still accusing Nissan of cheating with the R35 GT-R’s record).

Based on the fact that it’s still on the F1 Academy car in that photo, we’ll probably still see it driven by Hamda al Qubaisi this weekend.

Truly peak Jalop from another day and age.

The engine fits just fine in the GT300 Supras.

This isn’t the first time they’ve used the 2UR in the Supra. The Super GT GT300 class Supras also use the same engine.

That’s the new regulations at work. Red Bull has less wind tunnel/CFD time thanks to the ATR, and then they’re also hitting the cost cap, meaning they can’t throw more money to try to do a big fix to the car.

But was it brown, and manual?

I don’t get the hate this is getting. This is the closest the Mustang has ever been to the old “race on Sunday, sell on Monday,” what with it borrowing so much from the GT3 car, and even being built by the same people (Multimatic).

The power isn’t the issue. It’s the modifications required to make something close to what is basically a roadgoing FIA GT3 car.