This a Speedbird. Clarkson has had a long time love affair with Concorde. He had a chapter for it in in his book “I Know You Got Soul”. It is also the name of the stylized logo on British Airways jets ( that swish on the front and their call sign.

Always makes me smile when I see a post like that. Here is my 2003 Evo VIII. I’m the original owner. Adult owned and maintained. Been auto-crossed once, but had made a number of trips to the GA mountains. It has 154k miles on it and it still has the original clutch. Stock aside from an aftermarket radiator as the OEM…

obligitory.

No argument there. I was standing in pit lane when the flag came out. The pit officials were not ready for it and hadn't set up park ferme. The leaders just drove down to the pits.

I was watching it closely. I was packing two phones and snuck peaks at team monitors. The whole area was just saturated. If it stopped raining at 9:30 we would have still had running water on and around the track for another hour/hour and a half or more. There was just no other place for it to go. It was unfortunate.…

The ended Petit about 4 hours early in 2009 due to heavy rains.

I was there for that one too! Wore the same rain coat at Road Atlanta today.

Normally I would agree. I spent all day at the track. The rain was crazy and what it was doing to visibility was nuts. The last hour you could clearly see the airflow around the GT cars going down the front stretch if they were following another car. There were jets of water co I got out of the Viper’s hood ducts. The…

Props for including John Force Racing. He built that thing from pretty much nothing, starting with nothing, and has built an empire. Regardless of what one thinks of the merits of drag racing it is a good story.

I was 10 in 1984. Right in the middle of the 956/962 era. For me, that shape will always define “race car” in my brain. It was just a cool car and it dominated for a number of years.

There is help. Use it. One of the best things we did was take advantage of the parenting groups at the hospital where our kids were born. There are few things better than being able to talk with parents who are going through the same experience.

Based on the notion described above where large car makers have been hit by issues like this and bounced back, I wonder if now, or the near future, is a good time to buy some VAG stock? It will find a bottom and will rebound. Even after an event like this VW will not just shrivel and die. It might take a few years,…

Getting in your undies at the race track?

Obviously, it is a prelude to Manor being bought by VW for their F1 program.

I think that is one of the best things Hammond has done. He went genuinely hoping to meet and learn about a hero of his. It was very awkward as it was toward the end of Evel’s life and he knew he didn't have much time left. It still made for an intersting program though.

I’ve been to FOS three times. It is a wonderful event, but different. The verity of cars is staggering. I get the vibe that the Revival is a bit more for the hardcore racing enthusiasts. I plan on getting over there for that before too long. Tough call between the two though. If you are traveling from the States…

You are my kind of people. I bought a white/red Yamato jacket off of eBay and a black/yellow Cosmo Tiger T shirt to wear to DragonCon this year, but we ended up going to Monza for F1 that weekend (I know, tough decisions). I wore the Tshirt there on race day. I felt kind of awesome.

Crap, you just beat me to it!

We all know the true end game for these ships. Space Battleship!

Does it come with the basset hound?