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.

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.

Yes, on the middle indeed.

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.