There are several legitimately great ideas in here. I had to go with the shady mod testbed, though. The thought of watching this car being subjected to all manner of shitty-ass modifications was too much to pass up. I only hope that the guy who suggested it is heavily insured.

Dude, GTFO.

That Viper is best Viper (although I prefer blue with white stripes).

This is a video of how to use the shifter prior to the recall. This is going to sound callous as fuck but honestly I don’t see why people are fucking this up. There are 2 indicators of the gear selected (one on the dash and one on the shifter) and the car ends up in reverse instead of park when you fuck up the shift…

TGAC(Top Gear After Clarkson) is horrible. It has nothing to do with the hosts although the Screaming Guy does suck pretty bad. It’s more the producing and writing. I bet you could take an old script and run the Joey and Screaming Guy through it and it would be a decent show. Obviously that won’t work as we’ve seen…

Cillit Bang? I read that differently for a second......

I assume you mean the so-called “Garage 56 entry?” Yeah that’s pretty great. To be clear though to qualify the car has to either have some new technology, or at least otherwise be a novel endeavor like this year’s, and there is some committee somewhere that chooses/approves it.

I want to know where they’re coming up with a difference of less than 7%. The fastest lap in LMP2 was 3:36.259 and the best that the Ford GT ran was 3:51.514. By my math, that means the GT’s time was 107.05% of the LMP2's time.

FWIW, Akio Toyoda also seems to have their back on a return:

Do you even jetstream blue bro?

I totally get that. But that doesn’t mean the car is worth $5500. Looking at completed auctions on ebay these things seem to top out at about $4000.

Yep, which IMO is why as long as it doesn’t overly penalize them and make them slower than the rest it’s still effectively an advantage. Most of the team drivers and the team itself should have a pretty good idea of how the car will perform with the modifications. Competing drivers will not. Honestly I think everyone…

What they need is an official track and seasoned race car driver to set non-biased laps and set BOP based on this.

Your question presumes that the goal of LM GTE is innovation. The problem with innovation can be boiled down to this:

Probably not even a lap. The extra fuel will be burned up with the extra air they are allowed. Probably won’t change the range significantly but allow them to produce more power while maintaining range.

One of my closest friends served in Afghanistan, and he was there just to pay for college (and hates getting thanked).

You know? Fuck no-fly lists. They’re pretty useless. I want to see the firearms equivalent of SIP laws. Nearly every state has laws in place to make bartenders culpable if they serve to intoxicated persons. They may not be well enforced, but they’re there and legal precedent.

2nd Gear: There are also those of us who never or almost never fly any longer, due to how onerous the flying experience has become. Even a day-long Amtrak trip or drive can be faster than flying, and far more pleasant.

The taxi looks a lot like a Hindustan Ambassador with a slightly smaller grille.

It’s impossible to make a car good enough for you, cheap enough for us. Why can’t you just love your own expensive sport car and let us passionately love the best we can get for our pitiful peasant means?