I'm no expert on true phobias, so this may be moot, but I wonder how you would respond to taking a performance driving course at a track - away from traffic, intersections, and pedestrians - focusing simply on improving your confidence in your ability to control a car. Now, even if you have 100% confidence in your own…

It was pretty clear he was in over his head about, oh, 5 seconds into the video.

Yeah. It's kinda silly. I timed the laps in the video out of curiosity, and if the playback speed is accurate (it looks like it), the fact is that neither of these guys are exactly setting the world on fire. They both had to deal with bit of lap traffic, but were running right around 1:30 laps. The fastest cars in the…

A lot of folks on the thread have been disparaging the Aventador driver's skills, but here a few things to consider:

Actually the Lambo driver was also an instructor, although I'm sure he was taking it a bit easy. He had only recently taken delivery of the car (it still had that "new supercar smell"), and I don't think it was even fully broken in.

Slow in, slow out is right about the track. I was at this event in a Nissan GTR. It definitely felt like a lot of car at several places around the track (particularly the Rattlesnake, which is the really tight right-left-right-left section). My tires were not particularly happy with me.

I'll be there in the Turn 15 grandstands. Looking forward to someone trying something brave and/or stupid in the 12-15 complex.

OK. Didn't read carefully. Shame on me.

Parking fail. Quite a few commenters seem to be defending this guy (perhaps because they do the same thing?), but I'm sorry. If you have enough money to affort an Aventador, you have enough money to afford an inexpensive daily driver you can take the the strip mall and park normally. No car, no matter how expensive,…

If you only know one rule then that rule should be "DON'T DRIVE."

I'm not sure these vehicles are really directed at (Western) Europeans. I'm thinking various points further east...

Many thanks to the Jalop & Giz crews for an entertaining evening (held, in proper Texas fashion, in a dirt lot next to a trailer with plenty of Lone Star).

Epic weather fail, but I'll try to make it out there. Took my car in for an 18 month service this morning, so it's already a mess...

There's a term we use in the software industry that encompasses the issues you describe. They're called "corner cases." In other words, unless you're a motojournalist or rich enough to be constantly handing your car over to a valet (oddly, most people aren't either of these things), these issues tend to crop up rather…

Not really. I have a Volvo with that system, and frankly it tends to defeat the purpose of having a proximity key (other than the fact that the key in this case is a featureless hunk of plastic that doesn't tend to tear holes in your pockets).

Point taken.

Am I the only one who was amused that the Mustang's live axle chassis was already being described as "dated" nearly 30 years ago?

I'm not sure this really constitutes a visibility improvement. They need to paint it safety-cone orange.