I don’t know if it’s still available, but I had one written by Bob Bondurant that I bought in ‘99 or 2000 that had some great info in it. One thing that was interesting is that he said to play video games to work on your hand-eye co-ordination.

This is actually a fantastic explanation. Kudos!

But they have a Mercedes!

My question:

In hindsight, this would have been better

“Feels like you’re always stuck in 2nd gear!”

(You’re an advertising joke.)

(It was an advertising joke, but same)

I just hope they avoid the other Jalopnik bump:

Ah, you’re right. I shouldn’t post this stuff because some of you might have seen it already. Fuck everybody else who hasn’t and comes here to see this stuff, it’s all about you. My bad for saving this for a few days so I could have something to post on days I’m working on longer stories.

I’m not sure if that was a low quality copy, but the vieo is now old enough to have some people think it was recorded on a potato.

As a TD who works in sports television I can tell you that this was most likely Master Controls mistake in putting the local truck hot to air when they were not expecting to be live. The switcher was just checking sources and cams during what he thought was off air time. I do this about ten times a day, every day.

Think of the ratings of a show where analysts said what they really thought and acted like the asshole a lot of them really are. Like really.

A. If you can afford to buy a V10 German car you can afford to walnut blast it.

Engines of all types are designed for a certain level of load. A performance engine is going to be designed to ingest a certain amount of fuel and air during use. If you baby the shit out of your V10 and it's barely breathing this is what you get.

Here's Nico shown winning the race in the first two minutes of coverage on NBC Sports. Yay!