It had to do with people gaming for higher classification. Before the rule folks would have a mechanical failure/crash, say 4 hours in, and they’d get it in a condition where it could hobble around for just 8 miles. Then, just before the leader would cross the finish to start the final lap there’d be a slew of broken…

Terrible but one of the things that makes racing racing.

Yeah, I know they have performance balancing, but I thought that was all done prior to the season hence no 'BoP' calls just before races. Is there a provision to adjust during season?

You compete in a different class if you want to target max innovation...that's not a goal of LMGTE, costs would go up significantly and you'd lose a lot of the field.. IIRC, LMP1 has no balance of performance provision during the season.

You need to upgrade to a Pentium. They're all the rage.

Did they ever fix the rear butt-shimmy when going over imperfections? That, right there was a straight deal breaker when I last drove one.

Neutral: What’s Another Car That Should Have Been Great?

Its buddy from the other big Japanese player; CT200h. Both of those should have had a sport-ish version packaged for a traditional ICE.

If you read the testimony they state the ships were specifically not designed for a profile that included extended operations in the Gulf.

Yep, this kind of nonsense doesn’t help anyone.

Yes they do. Here’s just a portion of the text they voted to keep classified:

Depends on the pedal box. I prefer left half foot brake/right half foot throttle, if that's not workable I do toe brake heel throttle. I've never been in a pedal box that would allow heel brake toe throttle without being a contortionist.

Every car will be equipped with a latency free, massive bandwidth uplink to a satellite constellation that covers every square foot of land on the earth.

Sounds cheap! Should only add a couple million to the purchase price fiftieth generation Leaf when it’s ready to be fielded.

In some places that’d be true, but in many other places there's a discovery rule where the statute of limitations clock doesn’t start ticking until the injury is discovered in cases where it was obscured.

One piece is that metal forming technology has grown in leaps and bounds since the early 90s, basically paralleling processing power. The ability to simulate, accurately, how a precision hammer/press/whatever will affect the stock material has allowed all sorts of in-sheet bends/curves/creases/etc. that would have…

Chasing after a truck whose driver just proved he/she was homicidal seems like a good way to draw their ire.

With those miles that car has a use-by date. You won’t get 5 grand of enjoyment before it spoils.

The stewards had already boxed themselves in there. A number of drivers had made that same move at the same corner earlier in the race (Massa did it once almost exactly as Hammy did) without penalty. At that point they couldn’t rule against Mercedes without getting a legitimate protest lodged.

My wife and the…

Not for me, but if I had a kid in HS->college sure. Would want to fine tooth it to see if there are any issues from so few miles (hoses, seals, tires, etc.) but if it checks out this is a hell of a deal for someone's HS car.

Yeah, the old kickdown. Nissans system is kind of a fancy-dancy version of that where the actual detent changes depending on conditions and affects not just the transmission but the butterfly as well.

That’s pretty much how the Nissan throttle eco-pedals (or whatever they’re called) work. There’s a detent that the pedal normally stops at that with additional effort you can push through for moar powers.

BTW, they suck. I never miss them when I get out of a rental. A button would be the same.