Pole vault.

One of the things that I always found most interesting about Stirling Moss was the extent of his family connection to motor sports. IIRC, his father had a significant car racing background and his mother did hillclimbs. His sister, Pat, was one of the most famous rally drivers of her time and his brother-in-law, Erik…

Nah. It was put there by the municipality as a traffic-calming measure.

Yup. I’ve heard that drunks are often pretty “limp” during crashes, which apparently helps to avoid the injuries that an otherwise sober and tense person would get in a similar crash.

I really can’t understand why there’s a debate about this.

I don’t recline, but you are wrong.  As long as its a feature, no one is a monster for using it.

British Airways managed to operate the “too expensive” Concorde at a profit every single year it was in operation almost entirely because of the JFK-Heathrow route. The Concorde was horrible, just completely useless, as a subsonic aircraft, which is what the U.S. forced it to be at all times over land. The government…

I bet at those altitudes it’s pretty Chile all the time.

Damned socialists - we must fight them with everything we have or we too will be doomed to this grim reality!!!

Enough about the BMW X7, can we get back to the tractor now?

After all, “A rendezvous in space isn’t as easy as just pointing and thrusting.”

This “side loaded brakes” thing makes literally zero sense. In order for it to flex enough to cause THAT much drag the wheel bearing and hub would have had to been broken or this would happen anytime anybody gets a little sideways because the dyno is not “forcing” it to track straight any more than a road would be…

What’s the difference between people in Dubai and people in Abu Dhabi? People in Dubai don’t like the Flintstones, but people in Abu Dhabi do.

Red and white like the bloody phlegm you cough up as you succumb to your lung cancer, emphysema, etc.

Anyone that knows me, knows Id’ drive a kart to work.

Silver Cobra, COB 13A, chasing the white Corvette with the blue stripe was me! I started racing because of Goodwood and just over a year after my first race in a VW Scirocco, I took the start of the TT in a 289.

Having never been touched like that by a woman before, it was all he could do to prematurely eject her.

Don’t care.   My commute to work is 5 miles.

::parks restored RR near beach::

Edgy take.