The guy was German - this was obviously a Fleschleight, the steel-reinforced version.

The Scuderia Spyder 16M is indeed a fabulous beast. I had the pleasure of instructing in one at a Ferrari day at Circuit of The Americas earlier this year, and got to turn a couple of hot laps myself so the customer's wife could say she'd been around the track too. That lusty V8 breathes in via air ducts just over…

Technically speaking, any amount of data can be compressed down to a single bit. The challenge is the decompression!

Of course, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but it's still a compelling argument.

A perennial classic, though I much prefer soundtrack of the original version:

Reminds me of Lindsay Fleay's original minifig stop-motion short film from the mid-80's, "The Magic Portal"

Only in America is an F150 considered a "car".

Workers are still disposable - just not American workers. Just ask Nike or any other company that uses offshore sweatshops.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, c.1925

It was the late 1970's, and we were penniless students shopping around for a car for one of my buddies. At one of the el cheapo car yards, the guy showed us an old POS that he had just taken as a trade-in. He wanted $50 for it. I made him a counter offer, and I suddenly found myself the proud owner of a 1957…

Car shows for the rich and famous are still car shows. This Ferrari might cost you millions of dollars, but the brakes are still far from being carbon ceramics.

I went in to one of these places, told them I had a track day at Circuit of The Americas coming up, and asked about renting a set of Bridgestone Rivals for the weekend. They weren't interested. Douchebags. False advertising, if you ask me.

Turn signals can also be a cause of confusion - does that left-hand blinker mean he wants me to pass on his left, or is he intending to move to the left? Even if it's explained in the drivers meeting, novices can get confused in the heat of the moment. A hand out the window is far less ambiguous.

Depends on how far into the stage you are. Often the best thing to do is keep going to the next control point, where you can raise the alarm.

Back in the Group B days, before the accidents that led to the demise of that category and tighter controls on spectators (which appear to be relaxing again if this is any indication), we used to refer to the spectators that lined edge of the stages as "Portuguese Armco."

I like the way the hood immediately pops up to protect the cabin occupants from flying debris. Nice piece of safety engineering.

He's in good company.

Embarrassing, but at least one Formula One driver has done something similar on the warm-up lap in an actual F1 race. Christian Albers drove into Michael Schumacher at the Chinese GP in 2005, and Lucas Di Grassi stuffed his car into the tire wall at 130R on the warm-up lap at Suzuka in 2010.

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