More like thank Toyota F1 for leaving the poor guy on slicks on a very greasy track with rain still falling.

The Ford and VW deal could be interesting indeed. VW has nice interiors, both have been making good FWD chassis (probably helps that VW hired the very engineer from Ford who designed the “control blade” independent rear suspension in the mid aughts).

VW has been doing turbo engines forever and they tend to hold their…

Heck yeah. I haven’t hopped up my 03 wagon ALH quite so much. Just 11 mm pump, 5 speed nozzles and a tune. Good enough for what I need it to do with minimal investment.

Part luck, the rest of it is purely the safe design of the car and the effectiveness and training of the first responders there at the track.

Anyone else notice who was in the background watching this? Robert’s team owner, Sam Schmidt, who himself is a quadriplegic following an IndyCar testing crash in early 2000.

As much as I love VWs and how their TSI engines drive, they are not the most reliable units... Though the timing chain shouldn’t be an issue anymore like it was on earlier models, they seem to have a better chain and tensioner, I still expect there to be leaky water pump issues, which have plagued this engine family…

Let me preface my comment with: I’m not exactly what you’d call a big Tesla fan boy. In fact I have many convincing reasons for why liquid fuels are superior, and realistically a plug-in hybrid will be the smart-man’s choice in the future—at least the smart man that wants both range, ease of refilling/recharging and…

Yeah, have to admit, that 3rd Gen TL always looked sharp from the first one I ever saw on the road. Still looks sharp today and better than any Acura sedan that has come since. What were they thinking with that chrome beak, anyway??

Well, they HAVE solved those issues, that’s what most don’t understand.

We already have something similar to the WLTP in the U.S. specifically for diesels. All thanks to dieselgate, every diesel vehicle approved for sale since has had to undergo a real world on the road emissions test using the same basic equipment that blew the scandal open in the first place.

Hah.

Low profile tires are definitely more difficult to ‘feel’ they are going flat than taller, floppier tires.

Dang, that’s a bummer.

Oh absolutely. Some of the most epic stuff there.

When I lived in Michigan, my Matco tool dealer was a former dirt track rider. He tried road racing before, but it just wasn’t for him. He rather likes the more constant side by side action of racing on a dirt oval.

Jesus, there’s a blast from the past memory. Somewhere I remember seeing a photo of him in Car and Driver mag performing touch and goes at Willow Run I think it was (East of Ypsilanti a little) and uh, forgot to deploy the landing gear on one of those runs...

#RustBeltProblems

I’d be lying if I said I weren’t at least a little jealous. Many of us could have only dreamed of being given the opportunity to race for a career if only we had the money to get started and support the learning curve to become half-decent at it.

Bags are for groceries, mang.

You forgot the eh?

Force Canada, Eh?