Bradley I know you like Indian, but a better bike will let you crack 111 on the ice with ease. This dude was probably going faster than that on the back wheel.

Canadian GP has already been postponed.

A 10-race F1 season in Europe is better than no season. But I get the PR concerns about 1) looking tone deaf; and 2) diverting some medical staff from the front lines to stand around a race track for 2 days.

Up until recently, a Mini was my everyday car. So yes, the counterpoint between the tiny Mini and the hulking Charger in the garage was hilarious.

Yeah. THAT should be the message.

To begin with the race is completely illegal and unsanctioned so why should there be an ‘official’ body representing them? 

Like the asterisk for “use of spotter airplanes”? and “use of radar jammers”?

Even the “official standing” of the official body is funny— since it’s all illegal, there is NO official body. None.

Full disclosure: I watched Cannonball Run a LOT as a kid, so there’s a soft spot in my enthusiast heart for these things. But, also full disclosure: The average speeds have now gotten to where this is a Really Bad Idea. These guys are putting way more into this than Brock ever expected.

I’m gonna say it’s all irrelevant and stupid.

Sorry, not buying it. This was likely the safest time this could have been done. As you said, hardly anyone is on the road. I’m not buying the Alex Roy argument either, “They could have hit a truck carrying precious medical supplies”. Well, yeah but I’ll bet that’s statistically pretty low. I think most of the…

And running 100s of car spotters, airplane spotters, ten of thousands of dollars of radar and radar jamming equipment doesn’t qualify for an asterisk?

You're threatening the very existence of eBay. 

A few thousand RPM per second is the derivata of RPM and thus appropriate if you speak of how fast revs rise and fall.

Well before the lockdown, there was enough traffic during the day that you couldn’t speed in any big way even if you wanted to in the GTA.

Some dingus got caught doing 205km/h (125+mph) in a 40 (25) near me:

“If one of these things breaks down on its way to or from a delivery, I hope it plays an audio track of a young Mark Hamill shouting “Uncle Owen! This R2 unit has a bad motivator!” That would be excellent.”

This is a fantastic breakdown of the Y, David. Damned thorough. Bravo.

I’ve noticed the same. Many people are emotionally compromised/driving particularly poorly. One more reason to heed “essential travel only,” and certainly one of the reasons we’re not out doing car reviews at the moment.

I have stopped riding my MC for the duration, but on my last ride, I noticed people driving very aggressively.  It was troubling.