I would say the pinnacle of luxury SUV is a Range Rover. How are they not flying off the shelves? If I had $120k, im buying a Range Rover...not a X5/7 or G/GLS or Q7 or Cayenne. 

HA! I was there that year and remember thinking “Holy hell, this is that car that was on Top Gear, WOW!”

I saw two Huayras in Charleston, SC the day before they made their way down to the Chateau. Cool stuff!

Ran them for 10,000 miles and only lost 2/32nds of tread. Way better than my M3s 200 tread ware summer performance tires. And I never noticed a loss of traction. I could fold over the sidewalks before the broke loose on exit ramps. And even then they would just growl a little when pushed hard.

You are wrong. All seasons are bad at every season. Winter tires keep you safe when the temps drop below freezing. Its not just the tread pattern or depth but the compound used in winter tires.

100% agree (same car, same tires)

While I do share some of your general thoughts, I bought slotted rotors for a very specific reason that you may be overlooking: water. My daily is not a race car (outback) but it is great at doing commuting. One issue in my area is lots and lots of rain and little to zero water runoff. This means there is standing…

Nope. Thats to prevent the air from going around the wing and force it to go over the wing if my memory serves correct. Nothing to do with stability, just efficiency. 

That paragraph/section where you touched on the fact that teams are selecting tires up to 14 weeks before the race is just absurd. I have no suggestions how to solve that but it just seems ridiculous to loose a race because the air temp is at a record low and you selected the wrong tires 14 fucking weeks ago.

Right, but the guy putting lug nuts on can be trained in a matter of hours and his decision making is absolutely zero. The CEO must be “trained” for +20 years and makes key decisions multiple times a day.

My guess is they dont have to wait for materials or even consider efficient work force numbers. If you triple your manpower (easy to do when you pay them 1/3rd of USA’s labor rates) and have all the steel and concrete sections coming from a local factory without any wait for shipping, you can do just about anything in…

Are you on the board of directors for NASCAR? The downturn in number of fans attending races is a complicated scenario. The NFL has seen a pretty substantial downturn in attendance as well as memorabilia purchases. Their rules dont change significantly, or at all, from season to season.

They “change” every year

Just because you want to believe something does not make it true. CEOs make the decisions that keep thousands of workers and their family’s fed and sheltered. 

Man, that sucker looks very ugly....I hope its just the camo but sadly it just looks bad. It had hope from the leaked images and CAD file but all that is lost on me now.

Right but where is the cut-off? A quartz watch is the best at keeping accurate time. They are like $3.99 at Walgreens. Do you have a nicer watch? Say you have a $250 watch. That is waste, right?

People who want to be in the 100m/yr circle. And then once you get there, you want to be in the billionare club. And then you want to keep moving up.

Well thats a loaded pile of nonsense. Its a spec racing series. Everything must me a specification. Sure, the specifications are set so that teams do not have a lot of design freedom and this is intentional to keep costs down. You are right, a “Chevy” body will fit on a “Ford” chassis but thats because the rules say…

It also seems to work for NASCAR. Not sure I see your point. 

You cant say “stock” and “heavily modified” together.