Plus, if you’re more a fan of mixed drinks no problem. Pack a few cokes and Jack Daniels in the plastic bottles. At most tracks you can also take in a backpack for snacks too. I was at a race at the Bristol track and was sitting by a woman sucking wine from a camelback.

My wife used to work for a law firm. They had offices in twelve cities. The offices in DC and NYC have been used in several different tv series over the last 10 years. The D.C. Office was used often enough that they actually reconfigured one of the sections of cubicles so the crews could set up more quickly.

There’s a track near me that used to do school bus figure 8 racing. Then after running 20 laps any buses that were left finished with a demolition derby to determine the winner. Unfortunately a combination of rising insurance costs and cuts in school funding leading to keeping the buses longer put an end to it.

Not even remotely close to what movies show.

The units they rent with the ability to talk to each other don’t do it by broadcasting a signal. They actually plug into a common splitter and you just talk through that system. It does limit it to being able to speak to one other person, but if you need to be able to talk it’s better than nothing.

I saw something about that job and my first thought was that I hope there’s an official badge that goes with the position. I hope it’s a metal police badge in the shape of a hedgehog.

No gifs to share; just thoughts and prayers.

Since you asked:

Every Friday needs to include an article about one of natures unique creatures! I call for wombats since I’ve already learned their poop is cube shaped and used to mark territory in their tunnels.

I say have them run the stages in rental cars with the insurance coverage. Weigh the cars at the beginning and end and give time bonuses based off of weight of parts left on the course.

That is the one reason I am glad for my off schedule. I regularly drive on a nearly deserted interstate, but if I look across the median I see three lanes of barely moving, bumper to bumper traffic.

Well, the owner just wrote a check for the work. I’m sure the shop that did the work had plent of Monster in the break room fridge.

If you pay full asking price I hope they’d fill the entire rear hatch area with La Croix.

The test is called a “blade off test.” It is used show what would happen if a blade failed due to either fatigue or an unforeseen crack in a fan blade. The idea is to be sure that all the debris from the blades stays inside the engine cowling. It’s fully expected that the engine will be destroyed, but they want to be…

The risk of bird strikes is worst at take off and landing. The vast majority of bird strikes happen below 11,000ft. However, there has been one verified bird strike that happened at 37,000ft!

I’ll take the king air any day over an MU-2. We used to get a lot of freight companies that used them when I worked the line (well, they were owned by a single company that had several). Anytime I heard one announce they were entering the pattern I put muffs over my foam ear plugs.

Hmm, if only Jalopnik had someone on staff with a Yugo to test that theory....

This is the autonomous future I want, and I can think of the perfect car to have my robo-valet drive me around in.

I was drooling over that exact car just yesterday.

Plastic or not everyone knows what they’re really covered in!