PROTIP: If some nefarious ne'er-do-well and/or weather system breaks the glass in your car, do your best not to handle it with bare hands. I've found that a vacuum works well at cleaning up broken pieces. In addition, while you're getting your broken windows replaced at an auto-body shop, they'll probably just clean…

It doesn't matter what the minimum weight is, there will still be advangates gained by having an extremely light driver and therefore an incentive to do what it takes to lose weight.

The fix for this is to have a "spec" driver weight of, say, 200 pounds. Drivers under that weight would then use a removeable seat (jut…

The crux of the issue is that cars are weighed with the driver in the cockpit. If the minimum weight limit isn't high enough, than the combination of driver plus car must find weight to lose somewhere. And sometimes, it's easier to lose the weight in the driver than in the gearbox.

If you want a cheap track car, buy a used Miata for chrissakes...

Citing speed, distances the accident from the human element. "excessive speed" would be better, and "reckless driving by a bone-headed idiot with too little regard for his own, let alone other people's safety," would be better still.

I'm slightly against it, mainly because it's so easy for a car to miss a bike that's lane -splitting and change lanes infrom of the bike. Drivers are paying attention, and looking for slow-moving traffic in the other lanes, not for fast-moving bikes in-between the lanes.

If that were true, youc could build anything you wated and this comparison becomes meaningless.

However, if we're talking about an F1 versus LMP shootout, THOSE cars would have to be built to a certain specification set in their respective rules. But the OPERATION of the cars would not have to follow any rules since…

Yes, but in a demonstration like this, neither car has to follow any rules, so It's not really the same, is it?

What about the F1 car versus a front-running LeMans Prototype?

Chip, what would it take for you to sponsor a race team?

(I'm not asking your to sponsor me, I'm looking for advice on what I need to do to make my team more attractive to potential sponsors.)

Still bigger than yours.

True enough.

Put down the cocktail and slowly back away...

Yep — in the past. But with the *-by-wire systems now and in the future, that gets cheaper. ZI think the biggest impediment is the Federal requirement stipulating that there must be a mechanical backup system to steed by should the hydraulic/electric/whatecer primary system fail.

Well its a HELL of a lot cheaper to design an implement a joystick than it is a steering column. It also makes ait a log cheaper to design world cars that can easily be swapped between left and right0-hand drive. Then there's the elimination of that big piece of equipment that you can slam into in an accident.

I'm…

I'm guessing sound systems. Have the cars play another noise. Any noise. Just as long as it's not the auditory garbage being vomited all over the track out the back of every F1 car.

Ron Walker, the Australian race promoter, told Melbourne's The Age that the quiet growl emitted by the new V6 turbo engines is "clearly in breach of contract," which are some fightin' words when it comes to things involving money:

Driving, Dallas. You're doing it wrong.

That too.

No but my race car will be!