It’s the Czech Republic, or basically what it wants to officially be known as since 2016.

Rally nerd can’t hoon it because it’s not an entire car, just bits and pieces from it.

You mean “Parts of an Audi Dakar Rally Car Tossed in Illegal Czech Dump.”

This. Would have been better if it was white to match the exterior.

the program was tasked with detuning the hypercar for competition.

Imagine wasting all that space. Toyota did it better by filling the storage compartments with fuel. /s

Hamilton and Leclerc at COTA in 2023 would be better examples as they were bth disqualified for plank wear.

It passed the earlier checks, but didn’t the final one after the race.

At the end of the day, staying within the regulations is still part of winning a race, and that includes managing plank wear. This is the same thing that happened to Leclerc and Hamilton at COTA in 2023, both Ferrari and Mercedes simply miscalculated the wear due to the change in parc ferme regulations and didn’t do…

It’s a Ferrari, they’ll just slap the VINs on a new tub and call it a day.

Come on, this was 100% Jerry using Mecum to get a valuation on 917-022 and not an actual attempt to sell it. The high reserve should have been an immediate hint at that.

It’s been pointed out that Michael Schumacher wore a similar suit on his first day at the Scuderia as well, so it looks like Lewis and Ferrari playing into that, while also stating their intent to help the former break the Michael’s record.

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…

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

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…