I’m lucky enough that I get to employ engineering co-ops at work. When they go back to school I always tell them to take writing and speech classes. Knowing how to communicate is 80% of an engineer’s job. I suppose it is the same for programming. Being able to understand what the customer wants and being able to get…

What were the DMC 1-DMC 11?

TR had his pros and cons, but he wasn’t afraid of taking a risk. That is pretty obvious.

Not this weekend, but I was at Petit Le Mans last weekend. I was lucky enough to have a pit pass. I think I am still drying out.

Thanks for the clarification. I tried to say that, but it came out poorly. According to the all powerful Wiki, the logo came in 1932 prior to the call sign. Either way, it doesn’t matter too much. Just trying to shed some light on where the term comes from.

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…

Seeing it tonight! Does it have any scenes in the credits?

WE have this on the IFE on our planes. I’ve been tempted, but haven’t taken the bait. May need to now.

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 will be looking for the news reports of crushed Walmart employees.

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.

“Now” was built on millions of discoveries from yesterday. Many of which were of no practical use at the time.

Makes me wonder why they didn’t push for a Thanksgiving opening, which would probably still make huge bank, and it would allow them to better capitalize on Christmas holiday purchases. I know that I don’t go anywhere near the malls / toys stores that last weekend before Christmas if I can avoid it. I can only imagine…