Yep. We are still owed a few million from his inauguration too. Starting to feel like one of the many small contractors that he won’t pay for the work they do on his properties

Except DC taxpayers (like me) are having to foot the bill for added security and road closures needed for getting these things installed on the mall for no good reason. It sounds like nit-picking, but it adds up to way more than you’d think. This is an especially sensitive issue here because the local DC govt is still…

I think the sweet part of living in America is that we don’t need to see things like tanks in our cities. These things exist to keep us safe at home, they’re tools, not objects of military fetishism/worship. 

I respect your opinion, but I have no opinion on this. I don’t go offroad, so I don’t need an SUV (whats a CUV?). I’m still not sure what they offer people that a wagon does not, except for a higher perspective that makes people feel safer?

Yeah the video is certainly interesting. Max was certainly very nearly at the point of dive bombing/outbraking himself on that last pass, and that forced him to delay turn-in until very late. Which is why I’m surprised LeClerc chose to go outside vs the classic switch-back move. But it’s racing and decisions happen…

**carmakers to themselves**“wow, our data shows that customers really love aventadors!”

Eh, not really true. 911 margins are good now, but Porsche were getting killed on the 964 and nearly as bad on 993s. The ground up co-design of the 986 and 996 coupled with finally moving to actual mass producing their cars (vs ostensibly hand building each 993) is what saved them. SUV brought them into massive…

Boxster + 996 were the initial co-saviors as they were always designed in tandem and to share a huge number of parts. They literally kept the ship afloat and funded the SUVs development, which are what’s actually brought them into massive profitability 

Yep, no surprise. If you judge solely based on sales numbers, Porsche is actually an SUV company. 

Agreed that it’s best to leave it engaged on the street. Track/autox is a very different thing. Wheelspin is slow, so if it;s stopping you from doing that it’s not really making you slow, you are making you slow. The thing that I find traction control has a hard time dealing with is getting good rotation on entry, the…

Usually it has to do with a lift as well. Step 1 - Too heavy of a right foot = the back end loses traction (in this case while turning slightly). Step 2- Driver kinda freaks out and just lifts off the gas = weight transfers to the front of the car and away from the wheels that need it most, so then you have even less…

Less is more, if less is executed with the right eye. This car is so much more for having so much less going on. It’s beautiful. 

At the very least, please bring this design philosophy to your US products. Way better than the ugly origami mess currently on sale. This thing is stunning 

Some of their rules are incredibly vague and open ended, yet here they took the time to try and be specific... yet it still leaves tons of questions.

It’s worth reading the rules again because what we generally understand them to mean is often not precisely what they actually say. They are hard to find actually, but here is the link. You have to go to the ISC, then Appendix L, then chapter 5... Because why make it easy right? https://www.fia.com/regulation/category/…

Go back and watch every driver at t3. They all struggle to hit the inside curbing and not wash out all the way to the sausage curb. This is the broader context of the whole race. You’re completely ignoring LeClerc’s conscious decision to contest the outside in a place where the inside driver has the right to shut the…

Ok, so every little thing is debatable here, including how even they were or weren’t. Also, Max was taking a different line than basically everyone else all weekend at t3. Most people were struggling with the camber to even hit the apex and ended up washing out over the big sausage curb and breaking front wings, etc.…

This is going to be debated forever and we are never going to convince each other to change our minds by going back and micro analyzing car positioning, wheel movements etc. I don’t think this was unfair, I think this is the way racing has always been. You see moves like this in grassroots racing every weekend. You…

*facepalm* 

“Why do people keep perpetuating this horseshit about the overtaking car being entitled to the racing line?” this is what you said. Now re-read my original comment. Ignore the names. The person who takes the racing line is entitled to it. When you lose a corner and try to hang on late in a risky way, you need to take…