The FIA has relieved Eduardo Freitas of his duties as one of two Formula 1 Race Directors.

Someone who hasn't let go of the nineties. 

Based on SAG-AFTRA (which represents Taylor and Hale) rates, average is somewhere around $2,000 per session. So yeah, Taylor was actually being offered a higher rate than normal. 

Because finishing lower doesn’t necessarily mean a significant decrease in prize money—even finishing last basically covers all expenditures under the cost cap. At the same time, finishing lower also means more wind tunnel and CFD time. So if you’re a team that’s not in championship contention, whatever small amount…

However, the screen time for any particular F1 car is usually measured in seconds and is inconsistent. This technology would make changing logos between the weekend’s sessions a breeze, but I can’t see any team changing the logos on their cars more than once or twice during a Grand Prix.

Luke Hull’s production design is mint, each place speaks to the intent of the characters residing in every location.

...strip clubs and liquor stores

As fun to drive as Watkins Glen is (even just in sims), the track would need a lot of work to get it up to Grade 1 standard, and I’m talking more than just the hotel and amenity stuff to accommodate the circus that follows F1. The biggest would be changes to Turn 11. Not only does it not have the runoff needed for…

Too late. It looks like someone already bought it.

FWIW, this isn’t the only LS-swapped 996 in existence.

Going to continue defending the Galant-based Challenger. For one, it could be had with the 2.6L 4G54 Astron engine, one of the first inline 4s to use balance shafts (a technology Mitsubishi pioneered). In addition, you could easily swap in a 4G63T as the JDM Galant Lambda had that. Yes, you could swap in what would…

A31s are great. It and the C33 Laurel were arguably Nissan’s answer to the Toyota JZX80 triplets (Chaser/Mark II/Cresta). Both could even be had with various versions of the RB inline-6, from the RB20 to the RB25—sure, they’re not the RB26, but they were easy enough to tune, and you could also just drop in an RB26 if…

Except unlike the S13, the A31 could be had with various flavors of RB inline 6.

Am I the only one weirded out by having to call the model “kerosene-fueled?” I mean, if it’s powered by a jet turbine of any sort then it’s of course fueled by kerosene since jet fuel (Jet-A, Jet-A1, JP-8, etc.) is kerosene.

The issue is that, due to the vagaries of the law, there is no legal way for the film to be released. At this point, people have just accepted that no amount of lobbying or fan response is going to get it out, unless some obscure legal loophole is found.

I’m amazed at how much is actually shot on location, even for stuff that you’d think is CG. For example, the spaceport in episode 4 was shot at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England. That was a lot of effort, including moving million-dollar Formula 1 cars out of the way, for a two shots that barely lasted a…

Public mass transit has been shown to be able to cover majority of it though. There are numerous cities around the world that are walkable and have train and bus networks that cover almost everywhere you need to go. America’s cities are just badly designed and make it so that the car is your only option.

One issue with AVs is that they aren’t the real answer to traffic and congestion that people make them out to be—the real solution to that would be a proper, working public transportation system. Too bad America spent the last half-century or so destroying what they had of that.

S20 is arguably the best sounding inline-6 ever made.

Missing the Alfa Busso, the Nissan/Prince S20 and the Mercedes M198.