“I don’t know shit about this, but my only guess is that you aren’t racing against anything in a fighter jet where as every millisecond counts in a race car.”

Well, at least the FIA is consistent. Consistently terrible but consistent...

You get an F1 Car, You get an F1 Car, You are all getting F1 Cars! - Oprah when this plan succeeds.

If they really cared about getting women into motorsports they would have chosen Oprah. It would have made her care a bit about women in motorsports which would have made her realize that there aren’t many women in motorsports because they don’t have as many opportunities.

Are you going to cry because you lost to a girl?

This lady is not the right one for the job, but she seems to be the right one for the FIA.

You know what’s even worse? I was their second choice for this job.

Wrong. Traction helps cars move. All the horsepower in the world, and torque in the world still results in no movement without traction. Also, I am just being argumentative.

The ignorance here is astounding. Power, by definition, is dynamic - it requires motion to exist. Force (torque) does NOT require motion to exist (sitting in this chair, I am creating a force, but not moving an inch). If motion exists, that force is said to be doing work (force over a distance). Power is the rate at…

Schumachers F1 V10 only made 259lbs ft at 19,000 rpm. 

“You also need to understand that torque doesn’t mean something will move QUICKLY.”

Yeah, no.

On the street, the old saying is wrong.

I do the same thing with some artificial flavors. I think of purple candy as tasting “purple” rather than grape because that’s nothing like what grapes taste like. Especially fake watermelon. That’s “green” flavor #1. #2 is the green apple that has no apple in it whatsoever.

Me. I’m very clear that I’m not James Bond. I am a punter that saved up enough scratch to buy a V12 Aston, though, so I’ve got that going for me.

A bunch of people were saying that they’d buy the NSX if it wasn’t $150k/180k/225k w/e number they came up with cause it wasn’t worth the money.

I would agree with you if there weren’t two dedicated, full time road courses already on the season schedule. That implicitly suggests that these guys must spend at least some of their time road racing. Having one in the playoffs reflects that, and also goes against your whole “fundamentally changed” argument, because…

I would rather see them run more dedicated road courses like Road Atlanta or Road America or Barber or VIR but I’ll take this.

The entire infield portion is going to be single file follow the leader. The only passing opportunities are going to be on the backstretch chicane.

Yes. It’s easy to imagine hypothetical data in which this happens: imagine that if the only cars that come in yellow are in models that depreciate very little.