Not to distract from the spectacle that is finland man, but I think the reason for his joyfully raised rope-filled hands become more clear at 12:50 in the video - he’s asking the drivers via that gesture if they want to be put right-side-upand/or tugged back to the track to continue racing, or if there is a bigger…

Simple: Carnival is pretty much the one part of the year where Germans are allowed to do lame-ass “satirical” jokes and get away with it. And many are oh-so-proud of the courageous “political comedy”, “anti-nazi resistance” they see in Carnival, when in fact - “Exodus of the Jews” was such a common laughing matter, I…

Just a thought, they said it was a very hot day - battery voltages usually rise in high temperatures and fall when they get cold. So they discharged the car during a hot day, maybe the low speeds they were using allowed them to discharge a bit more than usual (maybe the battery discharge protection isn’t as…

Actually, running out of juice kills pretty much any Li-Ion battery - however, when your lawnmower, your cellphone or any other Li-Ion powered device tells you it’s batteries fully discharged, they are actually not nearly at the critical level. There is actually a substantial reserve left, because you also have to…

Actually, I know a use of a similar device (part of an original seatbelt sourced from a junkyard for a fiver) that I can get behind: Acquaintance of mine is a delivery driver for organic groceries straight from the farm. He has places where he has about a dozen customers in a single road, he drives literally a couple…

It’s worded for additional drama. The way they seem to be going about that “preventing him from getting his 1000 rating” is not about spiking his muesli or calling SWAT teams on his location, it’s pretty much nothing but what they were doing all along - play the game and try to set a new record. It’s just a way to…

Agreed. Think it’s a nice attention to detail - famously the F50 was about getting away with as little “road car”as possible, which means getting rid of everything that isn’t contributing to the car being either fast or road-worthy. So it very much fits that theme if they say “this part of the mirror is not doing…

Quite honestly, I have the same sensation when sitting on an electrically adjustable driver’s seat. What would be a positive, half-second adjustment using your own leg muscles and a couple of friendly springs to pull you forwards now has become - through the magic of “it’s assistance, you pay more for it, it’s gotta…

Überfürsorglichkeit - overly caring about something or someone that you’re supposed to take care of.

Can’t be the only bike guy to think “31k miles engine rebuild, so what?”

Entitled much?

Yeah, it’s really inconceivable that anybody would care to protest something as well in touch with American values (and law) as Trump’s anti-immigration directives. People really don’t need a billionaire sponsor to find their way to events like this. For some it definitely feels as if this was Berlin 1933 - they…