I am actually one of those people who think that NHRA and NASCAR are inferior to circuit and rally racing. That doesn’t mean that everyone good in circuit racing would be good at NASCAR (see Kimi), but man, it’s going around in circles/speeding in a straight line! People good at those two cannot represent the majority…

Double/incomplete post. Disregard it.

Perceptions may vary; mine comes from my personal experiences. I’m pretty sure that in Finland, everyone and their grandma car race cars.

Women over here are car/motorsport fans and are reasonable in their discussions; women at Jezebel are nutjobs. A couple of times, when a Black Flag/Foxtrot Alpha article I commented on was linked over at Jezebel, I had several dozen notifications from angry feminists from Jezebel when I’ve opened Jalopnik in the…

Exactly, and it applies to both men and women involved. People involved in something would say that they want other people involved in that activity, but the perception of other people towards that activity may be entirely different.

PS, if this article gets linked over to Jezebel, we are FUBAR.

I only hear men who want women to be racing drivers. I haven’t yet heard a woman from outside of the world of motorsport (drivers, mechanics, engineers or reporters) say that she wants more female racing drivers.

I’d rather say it’s a matter of numbers. Let’s say that the percentage of talented future potentials is the same among boys and girls; the number of talented girls, however, is going to be much smaller, simply because not many girls are interested in car racing or cars in general. And because of that, very few of them…

That’s the point I wanted to make while being PC (don’t want to go back into the greys for pissing off the overlords). NHRA is flooring the car-thingy in a straight line, while racing is the real deal. Not saying that the drag racing is a piece of cake, but the human element is much smaller, and yeah, it looks like a…

I’d say that the perception of motorsport (and cars in general) as a male thing is the main culprit. Most of the good racing drivers usually start racing in their teens, and very few teenage girls are petrolheads. And among those who are, not all of them are capable or talented enough to actually do car racing.

People these days want male-female equality in absolutely everything, without considering how is it going to be achieved. And it can only be achieved if there is a sizeable number of young girls interested in motorsport, with some of them actually being talented and then being able to turn that talent into results.…

To be fair, driving a drag car, competitively, is a world apart from driving a racing car, competitively, on the track, with other cars around you; or a rally car with all the scenery around you (here’s looking at you, Michele Mouton!).

If the Dark Lord Ecclestone ever dies, and if he is buried in the UK, I am going to find his grave and take a very good leak on top of it, because that’s what he deserves.

Winch cable is pulled across the runway by a car (the longer the runway, higher it can climb) to the other side, where the gliders are. Winch pulls the glider, and the glider turns the horizontal acceleration into a vertical (we usually do it by keeping the constant airspeed, some 55-60kt). Acceleration and climb rate…

It started off with a funny photo, but the rest of it was a very civilised discussion from my side; I have presented really credible facts and arguments, but Patrick George disagreed and greyed me out for 6 months. It was last August, I think.

Sometimes, that is the only way to get people’s attention. Last time I made a civilised complaint about Jalopnik’s obsession with Lewis Hamilton’s private life, I got greyed out, even though quite a lot of people supported me (but not Patrick George). I was under the impression that the good news writers are supposed…

Winches are often V8s, truck or marine sourced ones, but sometimes, they can be diesels, so not much of pleasant roar from that one, only smokescreen (especially if it is running on fuel oil).

I don’t know what to say, therefore:

There is nothing like being hauled up to the sky by a powerful winch; 0-60 in 3sec and 0-2000ft in around 20sec. Also, check this out:

This discussion is pointless as we are both trying to change each others polar-opposite opinions, without any success.