As the father of two teenagers, I found this book invaluable. I'm sure other parents here can empathize when I say I shudder at the thought of the increasing presence of huge ships in the lives my children. I certainly remember the strain I caused so long ago for my own parents when I began experimenting with huge…

Until the pitch limits integrated into the tow rope this is pretty much what I envisioned...

It was good fun racing with them. They were not fast by any stretch, but they were very, very red. That's not a bad thing.

Feels. Massive feels. I was at Vegas in 2011 standing on the pit wall and shed tears when the the field came by three by three. We were at Le Mans in 2013 and walked by the guard rail and the tree at the beginning of the Mulssane Straight on our way back to the train. Even then, my wife and I spent last weekend…

while they probably did give it a bit more throttle, you also had the prevailing winds working in your favor heading east.

nope. About even. They operate out of T and that is very close to initial check in and all that. Should actually be an advantage.

I was wondering if they may be using expired materials as well?

kind of bears the crap out of dropping a Honda motor in there doesn't it? Power to weight FTW!

I think one of ALMS' big failures was getting rid of Radio Le Mans for their comms. They had the passion and the connections to bring those stories to the audiance. The current team doesn't seem to be able to pull that off.

It's a matter of understanding your airport. Some airports in smaller towns an hour is plenty, drop into Atlanta with an hour to departure and you would be in trouble unless you knew exactly what you were doing and had good luck with security. I don't see the point in being that person who is running up to the gate 5…

1) Get to the airport with plenty of time. If you are cutting it close then something WILL happen at the airport to make things closer.

When we took the Evo on the Power Tour this summer I gave it a good wax to help with post drive bug removal seemed to work. A bunch of other maintenance happened as well, that was just something you didn't mention.

Are the aviation sub-blogs performing to expectations? I saw a link the other day that seemed to indicate they were doing pretty well as far as page views.

People should go back and read his brother Damien's tweets from the race. Funny stuff. Keep in mind he is a professional comedian.

Condolences to his family and friends. It takes a lot of passion to race historics, and while the racing is more on the gentle side, there is still risk. A quick look at the gentleman's car would suggest that a rollover would be trouble.

My thoughts as well.

Everyone complains about flying, but when someone offers free tickets it is a mob scene.

weight overcomes dollars/rubles in this case.

NP. I've done nearly 100 MPH in one of those (speedo straight down) in Montana back in my youth...and lived. They were not total crap.

Ah, you were there for the storm last Friday? It shut down the airport for 75 minutes and that hasn't happened in a long while. There was local flooding in streets and storm drains were backing up. It was a good one. Luckily, I was parked in a nearby parking deck on the 3rd floor. Some folks who were parked on…