This is a better guess than my “Rich a-hole parking hack” theory above...

I was coming on to post this very thing, if I recall, the remaining Oceans (and their parts!) were purchased by a ride-sharing leasing company in NYC, so this may be one of the first of those cars to be hitting the road.

Wasn’t the company that bought all the remaining stock at BK planning on making them taxis in NYC?

I guess for an example, why can’t the EQS just be called an S-class EV? Mercedes could have built it however to fit the specific needs for an EV, but quite simply calling it the EV version of the regular S-class, people will understand that. I think part of the problem to is that the manufacturers care too much about…

“but they’ll still maintain the “E-Tron” name for EVs and TDI for diesel.”

While it sucks, you can easily understand that an overworn skid block meant they had some aero advantage over all the other cars. Not sure what IMSA is supposed to do other than DQ them. If you let this go, then next race someone has the same failure, conveniently. Go look at the nascar dented door (and other racing…

Hamilton and Leclerc at COTA in 2023 would be better examples as they were bth disqualified for plank wear.

At the end of the day, staying within the regulations is still part of winning a race, and that includes managing plank wear. This is the same thing that happened to Leclerc and Hamilton at COTA in 2023, both Ferrari and Mercedes simply miscalculated the wear due to the change in parc ferme regulations and didn’t do…

This isn’t new, though. The Reagan ATC tower has reportedly had staffing issues for years.

This SPECIFIC incident has nothing to do with Trump. Not even things he did the first time around, except insofar as ALL recent presidents have underfunded the FAA and ATC.

Your headline is disingenuous. It implies that Trump’s decision had something to do with the crash. It’s as bad as the Douchebag in Chief® implying that DEI initiatives had something to do with it.

Preliminary analysis of ATC audio indicates that the UH-60 flight crew may have been looking at the wrong aircraft when…

This is a nonsense article. Trump fired an advisory committee which has absolutely nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the air traffic controllers. And the air traffic control system has been understaffed, due to an inability to find a sufficient number of new employees (like a great number of other…

Yep, make “technical failures” acceptable and suddenly cars will start breaking a lot more. If anyone can make something fail at just the right time, I’d bet a race engineer could.

Ride height damper failed means car was too low. Makes sense. The part the team conveniently didn’t mention is that a lower ride height usually means the aero works better, so it may have given them a slight edge that helped take the win, even if it was completely unintenional on their part.

Yeah, I don’t think they were cheating, and I understand why they appealed the decision, but there was never going to be a scenario where they win that one. Worn plank is worn plank, no matter how it happened. 

They likely mean post-qualifying inspection. There are no mid-race inspections. 

It didn’t pass, that’s why it was disqualified

Their website is painful to read & navigate, I think whoever worked on it was told “More Buzzwords! Add more stuff about AI!” I also like the reservation forms that make no mention of the MSRP.

The teen then turned onto a side street where he parked and was taken into custody.

There’s no way a 16-year-old can bus enough tables to to come up with the, what, $25,000 at a minimum that it would take to get a Corvette that fast?