Thanks. See my reply above, definitely took the wrong lessons from the idea that tires are springs, but still maintain low profile f1 tires are a look even a blind person couldn’t love and wouldn’t in good conscience put on paper let alone the road

Thanks. Clearly my previous information on this topic was very poorly sourced, I ran with the idea that most of the spring in cars like this was the tire and jumped to a conclusion that end result must make suspension design harder. Also Extrapolated from the terrible experiences on low profile road cars, which just…

100% agree, the 18 inch f1 renders look stupid, like some kid’s first attempt to draw a race car when he knows nothing about actual cars. And I’ve yet to understand any benefit to the larger wheels, in f1 the big sidewalks do a ton of suspension work, now they can’t, hard to believe needing larger and beefier…

I want Marvin Lewis back so bad. Making the bengals somewhat respectable while mike brown exists was a spectacular achievement, and something that will never be repeated. But as much as I’d take him back, good for Marvin for getting out. I‘ve been convinced since the day it happened that he retired by choice, and I…

no. At least not normally in the US. They are up in value for the last decade or so, and way overpriced if you ask me, but the best should barely be 6 figure cars even now.

I want Marvin Lewis back. This team would never be great or even all that good with him, but in my lifetime he’s the only coach who ever made them respectable. I don’t and never will trust mike brown to make a decent decision. And this Zac Taylor guy clearly is worse than letting a random fan use Madden to select…

Admittedly I grew up in Cincinnati but I still can’t see how he gave himself up. There was no whistle and the clock ran down during the run and wasn’t restored, so the refs didn’t see him give himself up either, just retroactively didn’t want to deal with the actual play that happened. This whole call was absurdly bad…

At least they realized it! So glad they put on hards today, saved the race for sure. Multiple races I’ve watched them just fall apart on the yellows, and known that there’s no way the whites would be worse, they’d at least last longer

I mean the first real car repair I did in my life was swapping and reprogramming a direct injector on a bmw n54 engine. Dealer wanted like $200 per injector (and to do all 6 when I was bad) plus the DME (the bmw term for ecu) and quoted like $5k. I did it for about $100 and only took a couple hours including…

This. It’s a total dealbreaker for me. I bought a GM electrified car after driving a bolt, but it was a used ELR and the main deciding factor was honesty the lack of adaptive cruise in the bolt. It’s a feature that’s been available all century, anything even pretending to be high tech needs it!  

Electric superchargers are totally a thing, not really that uncommon at all. They have limitations (like they are generally only good for short bursts of boost,while a turbo spools or under very hard acceleration. Otherwise they would require huge batteries and/or alternators), but exist everywhere from formula 1 cars…

The big wheels look really wrong to me (18" wheel look stupid on most everyday cars too, fight me), but I don’t see anyone else saying it so guess I’m crazy and will have to get used to it. Race cars have tall tires for so many reasons, and they only look right that way to me, but f1 hasn’t been about being the best…

I saw this last night, didn’t know it existed but I’m still in awe! I think I need one! (Terrible photo of a Geo metro convertible if the image doesn’t make it) 

That’s a great point! Anything to add back variability and consequences is good. And addition by subtraction is always good, less data and sensors equals less impact of a ballooned budget. And yeah, gravel would be such a major improvement to most tracks. Unlikely to cause injury but much more likely to make mistakes…

Honestly, the more valuable poll may be how many times a year you fly vs how you check in.

It’s automatic. Not sure beyond that but there isn’t a person. It’s how kimi took out a guy’s leg last year, the sensors said the stop was done, the lights went green and he started driving but one crew member was actually still in the way

Rain. Until we can find a way to reintroduce unreliability or make high speed crashing common but inherently safe, the only way to keep mixing up the results is variable conditions. Whether it was 800 degrees at Austria or the rain here, when things don’t go according to the ideal pre-race plan everything is better. 

I’m for real on this train. Like I wish there was an obvious better answer to fix the sport but making most races wet and unpredictable would make the sport 10 times better overnight. And they need an overnight change while they try to find a ruleset that makes for long term interesting racing

Well I’m not shocked, but that’s not a part of the world I’d ever get major work done on a “cheap Ferrari,” shops have too many potential customers with deep pockets and collections to care about yours. If i lived there I’d save so much money sending the car to a shop in a more same part of the world and back, and…

Yeah, less than 10 is closer to what I’ve seen people pay for these services too (in one case including included trailer transport to a shop 3 hours away), admittedly it’s been about 10 years though. 25k is way too steep for anything on a 348, so far off base you could ship to a cheap shop halfway across the county…