The earth rotates ~80mph if you are standing at ~85.6º latitude...

"Bare with me" ? I am sure he usually has someone for that, too.

T'is a deep topic that probably can't be adequately discussed here. Luckily, there have been many discussions elsewhere that you can easily find with a quick search. It's all about curtain area. You can get more flow out of three smaller valves than two larger valves given the same amount of combustion chamber area.

My dad has a used car dealership with a shop in a very rural part of Michigan (in a county with one of the highest welfare rates in the country), which means the local pool of employable mechanics isn't overflowing with MIT grads. Just to set the stage, this is a town of ~1500 people and doesn't even have a fast food…

Oh. Lovely, another new car culture that I can loathe for a few years. Guess they finally got bored with the Donk thing.

I felt it.

Because Miata?

Not necessarily synonymous terms. It's entirely likely that his career is as an undercover officer (working with, say, drug enforcement just to take a random example), but he likes to be an asshole on a motorcyclist during his off hours. I don't think anyone ever implied that he was undercover trying to infiltrate…

But that should be OK. Not dominating every race makes it easier to mask the technology. But for the events where they are dominating, maybe not dominate quite so much. These drivers are SO good, they know exactly where those extra tenths of a second happen and can give or take them at will. You can't convince me…

Well, he is a racer after all. I can't even imagine being a crew chief and trying to manage these personalities.

It's possible. It just doesn't seem prudent. I would think with the investment those teams make, that stealth would be the first rule when developing a game-changing technology.

2-3 seconds was just an ass-extraction of a number meant to say "just enough that you are guaranteed to win, but not enough to arouse suspicion". I think 2-3 seconds is actually quite a bit at some tracks. 32 seconds is guaranteed to make everyone talk about it.

What I fail to understand is, if they really have developed something that gives them that much of an advantage, why would they tip their hand like that? It makes far more sense to sandbag so that you don't appear to have such an advantage. Get on the power later than you normally could, but just slightly sooner…

I would use the term safety device quite loosely in this context. True, it looks like a brain bucket, but I am pretty sure the chrome Nazi lids don't carry Snell certification. Might protect you from getting a bump on your head from tipping your scooter over while pulling it out of the garage, but not much more.

No, this is not true. In fact, the media is lying about him in order to make the bikers look bad. See, they were just trying to identify the driver when he noticed the commotion and asked what was going on. Once he learned that the driver ran over an innocent biker, he orchestrated the beatdown...honestly, can't…

So much win. YO has nothing on this.

Now that you know where it is, please get back there when nobody is looking to see if it was equipped with the optional NYC terrain mode...and if so, what mode the switch left in.

That is exactly what I have been thinking. As an outsider (living in a small enough city where I don't see this behavior), I have been kind of shocked at the revelation that this Mad Max type apocalypse has been going on practically unchecked. It's kind of creepy to think about the parallels between that movie and…

C'mon, don't repress your feelings like that and tell us how you really feel. You think she is kinda hot, don't you?

But those are the same words I utter when I step in cat vomit, yet my brain kind of processes what that is in real time. Same thing with going to the fridge to get a refreshing cold beer only to discover that someone took the last one and didn't replenish.*