Realistically, despite the ever increasing sophistication of vehicles both from an electrical features and safety stand point (along with virtually every other aspect continually being improved on) vehicle purchase prices have long stood as one of the few products that stay pretty closely matched to inflation rates.

I was a bit conflicted on this one. A part of me wonders if Vettel did indeed know Lewis was there and did a quick little flick to make it look like he didn’t have full control yet and also block Hamilton. The reason I say this is there was a radio transmission from Vettel mid-race where he was pleading his case and…

I was a huge Moore fan, too. And the racing in 2000 didn’t seem quite as good. It did loose is luster a bit for me as well, but still glad I went to the Michigan 500 in 2000. Sad that Moore wasn’t there as he was a monster on those tracks. He quite possibly was the ballsiest on superspeedways (and Homestead, for that…

Watched that one on TV and the 99 race. They were so good that I did whatever my broke young self could do to get to the race in 2000 and was not disappointed. Epic battle to the bitter end between Michael Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya. Couldn’t have asked for better weather, either.

That’s a rough way to start your racing fandom. Just because I’ve already been bringing up the memories, I’ll share my earlier race-attending memories.

Thanks for the correction. My posts have all been off the top of my head, guess I should take my own advice and recheck my facts before posting (then again, I’m not a journalist writing articles). I mashed two different medical issues for the same guy together.

I appreciate willingness to respond to criticism and striving to do better.

Effectively, yes. Some of the descriptions from drivers that came out were drivers might find themselves on the front straight not remembering how they got there sort of thing... Sustaining 5 Gs for several seconds at a time will do that to you, especially with a lot of the Gs in a downward motion to your body,…

Thank you for the insight and the first hand experience story. It is still similar in many ways to actual fences with their reinforcement poles. The end result often times is extremely similar, though the chassis tubs are much tougher now at least.

Could have been elaborated on more, sure. Figured I was already making a long-winded enough post and should probably keep it a little more succinct on some points. But that is a fair assessment.

I won’t be joining anytime soon either, and I’m usually a bit quicker to forgive. I give the kid a couple years for me to watch him, see if he gets into any further ‘situations’ and judge then.

The DW12 also had those goofy rear bumpers, which could become projectiles when a car crashed. But they did to a good job of preventing wheel to wheel contact that sent cars airborn. One of those odd things that seemed like a good idea until they caused other unforseen issues, as is often the case with human…

After sleeping on my rant-typing last night, I did come across another Elizabeth Werth/Blackstock article about how difficult it is being a female race fan. Started to make me feel guilty for being somewhat aggressive with my response. I don’t want to be just another guy in a long string of men who play know-it-all…

I’m going to go all “AND ANOTHER THING!” again.

Also going to add a fun fact about the Hanford device and car speeds.

Slow your roll, Blackstock.

Pretty similar here. I first started paying attention to F1 and CART (immediately post split with Indy Racing League/USAC/Indy 500) around 1996 with the help of reading the great story telling in the sport section at the back of Road & Track magazines. Didn’t have cable, so I could only catch the occasional CART race…

To be fair to Audi, they were saying the same thing prior to running TDIs in their LMPs. They ran their FSI engines starting in the year 2000 at Le Mans and ALMS competition. Turbo direct injection technology in a gas engine was very relevant to future road cars at that point in time.

Hybrids are an important stepping stone to both road cars and in racing, and of course since there’s still batteries and an electric motor, there is still at least development of those technologies happening while still maintaining the fact that F1 cars are still the fastest circuit racers that cover at least some…

I do kind of wish that someone else in the VAG empire would pick it up and run with it, go’s ahead and engineers an MGU-H for it anyway. The VAG empire has been pretty chest-thumping in the past about its own engineering might, and they’ve toyed with the idea of F1 since the hybrid rules came out since the tech does…