It's a race engine. If it's got air filtering it's further upstream nearer the mouth of the airbox.

haha well played sir

not closed all the way, unless one side on that particular car closes better than the other?

and everything else... by a handy margin.

well, i'll tell you what, this thing would probably make the trip down to the parish of St Alphonso a bit more fun.

this is a thing?

Nice clip, should've been the official intro to the car.
As for Nordshleife laps as a benchmark? Well clearly we're getting into a region where downforce plays a role and driving with downforce is a race driver's skill, so it's relevance is much reduced in the case of a non-race car. I'm still in favour of it…

official page: ISRO: Mars Orbiter

India Express - just left Earth's sphere of influence from a day ago. Going to keep looking.

A higher res version?

man, space missions take so long compared to our collective attention span. I'd forgotten about this/didn't realize it was en route. It is definitely awesome. What was that stupid film where they supposedly land on a comet?

it's a moon rover, not a trophy truck, i think it's ok.

There must be a train route. Prefereably one you can use a double length flat car on with no bridges out to the coast.

Please apolgise to the car!

OOh! Came out better than i expected!
I don't know if anyone's noticed but it's an aluminum honeycomb chassis, not tubular steel.

NFS2?

sounds like my kind of architect

And lovin it. It's almost exactly as popular in my house as it was when i was in 8th grade back in the 90s.

You know what's extra cool about this? This is a trip next door, so we don't have to wait 19 months between launch, and something happening. This is going to be awesome, also I hope they packed appropriate photographic equipment to get us a new Earthrise shot.

Bass player i know used to jam there back in the day. Weird as shit occurrence though!