The tail looks huge and the stabilizers are high due to the base for the plane, which is an old MD-90

This is the answer (or at least, a significant part of it). Newey studied ground effect in university, during the height of its use in motorsports in the 80s, so he’s likely much more familiar with it than most others on the grid.

There’s also the fact that the Z-Tune was only available in markets where the R34 was sold, whereas the M3 GTR was sold in the US since it’s an ALMS homologation special, so that’s bound to drive the price up over there.

Interesting, from what I’ve been told and some research on my own, bidding for who gets to sell tickets is based on who can provide the highest returns to the venue. Ticketmaster’s model is based on turning ticketing, which used to be a cost center, into a profit center via service fees. As such, for any other company…

In fairness, the DualSense’s triggers come with adaptive trigger tension that change how much pressure is needed to hold them down, something that the Xbox’s Impulse Triggers can’t do.

That said, it is quite a shame that all these technologies around triggers are never fully utilized outside of first-party games and…

Ticketmaster only does it because the model is what the venues prefer since it makes them money while isolating them from any backlash.

It’s a Z-Tune, which bumps up the price, being one of only 18 ever built. The only way it would be rarer would be if it were to one Z-Tune in Midnight Purple, since the rest were painted in that silver we see here.

Length in endurance races is usually measured by distance covered, not just time. So which is the longest usually depends on which 24 hour race covers the most distance that year.

It’s not just for Garage 56. There really are plans for an entire hydrogen-powered hypercar class at Le Mans.

But a good part of the stuff that makes that possible has been removed in the Garage 56 car to save weight.

Except this is in no way faster than the prototypes. And with NASCAR and IMSA under the same corporate umbrella, no way the latter would be happy if this was faster than an LMDH.

Why would they though? They’re a Garage 56 entry, so they’re not competing for anything. Definitely not any sort of overall victory since the ACO will never let any entry be faster than the prototypes, let alone a Garage 56 one.

Garage 56 teams leave France victorious or not will seemingly come down to reliability.

But isn’t that the point of these Bugattis? At the time fo the Veyron’s inception, Ferdinand Piech wanted a car that could reach those speeds while taking all those considerations so that it would be a car where anyone, from your grandmother to an ageing British man with a serious case of OCD known for driving slowly,…

It’s exactly what they did with the XW50 Prius PHV GR Sport in Japan. With the only performance-related tuning being some suspension changes.

Honestly, if you want automotive content with two guys occasionally riffing on each other, set to really good cinematography, Camissa and Pobst on Hagerty is where it’s at.

Honestly, the stuff they do on the Drivetribe YouTube channel is much more interesting now.

“HYPER COMBO FINISH” would be more appropriate.

That Snopes article on the hand sanitizer fire also came with this.

Surprised Seb went with SailGP and didn’t just follow Jenson, Lewis and Nico by putting up an Extreme E team.