So basically like Bernie on Venezuela. He was smart and played it the right way.

This is really good advice. I hope Mr Brownell reads it.

Wrong. The engines did last because they use them in practices every race weekend. The engine changes have been driven by performance upgrades. Every “old” engine is still available in the pool. There’s a massive difference between taking a grid penalty voluntarily because you actually have a chance to win future races…

The early season performance was apparently more due to a lack of front end downforce that they were only able to get on top of by Silverstone. Honda’s engine has steadily improved through 4 specs to the point where the gap between them and Mercedes is less than the gap between Mercedes and Ferrari. In some situations…

Mercedes and Ferrari are on target to finish the season using only 3 engines. Renault and Honda both take grid penalties for more engines where Renaults are on their 5th/6th engines and Honda are on their 4th. The difference is that Honda take voluntary penalties to introduce new engine specs that improve performance…

Honda’s current motors are good - imho far better overall than McLaren’s Renault PU in terms of reliability (not outright top end power) and fairly even with Mercedes on performance. They’re still quite a long way off the monster Ferrari PU that is the class of the field though given how well they’ve done this year,…

Looks plenty for the Whole Foods parking lot curbs most of these will end up having to tackle. I would not be surprised to see these sell in ridiculous, even Wrangler like numbers. I’m sure there will be better underbody protection and even more offroad capability offered for the few sold for that purpose.

I wonder if Ferrari picked the wrong driver to clip for Leclerc at the end of last season. Kimi had been quicker and more consistent than Seb pretty much from Belgium last year. He’s been very good at Alfa this year as well. With Leclerc now clearly the man at Ferrari and one of the 3 best drivers in F1 at the moment,…

So much this. Antonio Brown. 47th President of the dystopian wasteland that used to be called the United States of America.

As a Steelers fan I was initially really happy with how this went down but I then realized that along with calling this a week back after watching his Rockies IV style training montage to end Hard Knocks I also called him signing a team friendly deal with the Patriots a few weeks in to the season. FML.

Ferrari doesn’t do a NA V8 of any kind any more, let alone a flat plane. Even the turbo V8 isn’t long for this world because the F8's 2021 successor is going to have a V6 turbo hybrid. If the rumors of the C8 Z06 going for a NA flat plane 5.5L V8 are true, the last two mass production cars with that engine are…

It was a good race with a result that felt just right after all the tragedy this weekend. Leclerc should have had at least two race wins already this season so it was fantastic to see him finally do it. It really does feel like a changing of the guard at Ferrari with Leclerc taking over as the lead driver. Luck hasn’t…

ROFL.... I live in Houston and it’s always fun to troll the locals on the dollar store Belichick cosplay they’ve progressively handed over the entire franchise to. This is just another brick in the wall.

If they can get this in under $120k fully loaded RIP Porsche 911.

Only way he can get a W these days.

It’s going to be a major problem for every sports car on sale everywhere. Its hard to overstate the reaction the C8 has received amongst long time Porsche owners I recently met at a PCA event or online on rennlist. There are posters from Germany asking about the EU launch. Its probably the biggest deal I’ve seen for…

All very good reasons that make sense up to a point but I have something thats a lot closer to the main reason there’s this divergence. The Europeans don’t turbocharge engines for the primary goal of increasing performance. They do so because of (imo silly) environmental regulations that over penalize per car CO2…

Hell no. Touchscreens are worse in every single way. They’re less precise, attract fingerprints and are massive safety hazard to use while on the move. I don’t care if there is actually a touchscreen but give me a tactile control system any day of the week. There’s a reason iDrive is widely regarded as the best…

These things are a virus upon our cities and the planet. They don’t belong on surface streets, let alone highways. Ban them outside parks/trails and arrest anybody distributing them.

It’s incredible. A home run knocked way out of the park in terms of design. For the first time ever, I might have to cross shop a corvette when it’s time to replace my 911. If the materials and build quality are up to the standards set by the design both outside and in, this could be a game changer.