Me. Really.

I suspect that I would be a truely abysmal gentleman driver, but the world will never know simply because I lact the necessary funds to expose my horrendous driving skills on the world stage.

Anyone know any more?

Cool. I now have another obscure racial slur to use! I can offend slopes around me without them realizing it! :D

Yes — brake failure. The driver is Michael Mosty, a friend of mine, who races in the Camaro Mustang challenge in Texas. The failure occurred at Hallett Motor Road Racing Circuit just outside of Tulsa. Michael and I were sharing garage space that weekend and I was also in this race, in the American Iron class.

This…

Amateurs can do it too!

Yes, I was simplifying things a lot. There's several different validation techniques that have been used, RFID is probably the most secure and flexible from an integration standpoint.

I've seen a lot of race cars that retained the factory ignition but not the factory steering column or ignition keyswitch. In order to…

There's only a finite number of tumbler patterns for any specific key design, so there is a small chance that any two keys locks of the same design will match. Growing up, the ignition key for my '66 Mustang would start Dad's '57 thunderbird. Later, the trunk key for my '88 Mustang was the same as the trunk key for…

All of them. They're all wierd in a distinctly French way. Not bonkers-wierd like a TVR, though.

I'm going to throw out the Ford SOHC 427 "cammer" motor, the 289 DOHC Ford Indy motor, and my really fuzzy memory makes me think Ford experimented with an x-configuration engine early on.

Are you asserting that we're the only western country where the upper classes are treated differently by the justice system?

I'd take an NSX of it were a few grand, but the cost of operation is high enough on this car that I'd never pay serious money for it, let alone $26k. The clutch for this thing costs $1000 just for the parts. I shuder to think what labor would be to install it.

Every other country what?

When has it ever been different?

For me the biggest difference is the lack of a wall between the racing surface and the pit lane!

Emergency vehicles are required to have flashing blue and red lights. Non-emergency vehicles such as construction and security vehicles may geve flashing yellow, white, and/or blue lights but they cannot have red lights.

I disagree. Bernie's no idiot, He knows the US is a huge under-utilized resource and would love for F1 to become more popular. That's why COTA exists. Having a US-based team would strengthen the ties between the US and F1.

Like it or noit, that's exactly what happens, as evidenced by the traffic in this very thread. One bad apple spoils the bunch and all that.

One of my best friends is an ex-cop, and he's a GREAT guy — one of the most honest, trustworthy, and all-around nicest guys I've ever met. And he agrees with me. It only takes…

There's a difference?

Yes, but at the time (fresh out of school and house-sitting for a family friend,) I didn't own one, so I used what I had and learned a lesson.

Exactly — I have two — one for dry jobs and one for emergency wet jobs, because you don't have time to clean all the crap out of your dry shop vac in an emergency, and when all that crap in there gets wet it's a pain in the ass to clean.