Bees can drift too!Or you could crank it up just a bit :

a spoonful of oxiclean and a half-hour soak in hot water with a soft brush does wonders.

F1. GP2 is step series. But, sure, ok. He won a title; but not an F1 championship which is entirely different.

Ohh , prodding the rightwing donkey bears, are we? That’s some serious heresy you’re espousing even if it’s right...'murikans can believe in their own horsepuckey just as much as anyone else now. Don't be telling people the truth now. They can't handle it.

COTD 

I want 1. It's a van truck, are there rear doors? If so, hope they're asymmetric.

Yeah, it’s just that many people consider wins, the sole reflection of success and therefore belonging to the legitimacy. If he won a race, therefore he belongs. If not, then there must be some other reason like money in which case, he may not be a winner but he’s a legitimate competitor. But if a woman dares to…

Sure, but he didn’t win an F1 championship which is essentially all that matters based on the metric of true merit. Whether or not, the competitors are men or women, have any previous experience or success, in the ultimate comparison the only final qualification is whether they won the F1 championship.

So what? He never won a championship and clobbered a lot of cars on the way to his F1 retirement; if that’s considered success......geez... whoopdeeffingdo. That’s a low bar for uncriticisism but apparently since he has gonads, it’s awesome. 

Meh, it always looks like the criticism gets wielded whenever they’re outstandingly agregious, a la Crashtor (who won 1 race, at least) or Karthikeyan (anyone remember him?). Alex Yoong? Taki Inoue? Yuji Ide? Chanoch Yissany? These guys get dumped on justifiably for being bad but are always given a meh-pass because…

Yeah, but the implication there is they must be willing to make a Colin Chapman style trade-off for performance improvements. It’s not really an American trait though when it comes to car selection.

I think it was a miracle the Rondeaus even managed to be somewhat successful given his money issues. Not only that, considering that the DFVs had actually won LeMans ‘75 and the DFL was fielded in ‘82, the lifetime of the Cosworth was already pretty stretched out. Add to that the aero that was being developed, it’s…

‘S’allright. The only reason it came to mind was you mentioned the Daimlers’ 2.5 which reminded me that Mark Donohue drove that briefly. And then the 917/30 came to mind (not because of the engine, but because of Donohue). After that, the GT40 came upon the scene (because of small-block vs big block) and then the Ford…

Righto. Not even listing the previous generation of Mopar big-blocks which had displacements as low as 350c.i. (older B models).

Could go down that road with power-to-weight ratios, BMEP, fuel/weight efficiency, torque levels, etc. etc. It gets pretty complicated.

Yeah, TBH, big to me is anything over 400 c.i. Mainly, this is because Chevy has so small blocks punched out to 396-400c.i. So big blocks tend, for me, to be physically capable of handling at least 400c.i. AND greater. Which is why, when something gets to 8 liters or more, the term big(ger) makes sense.

There’s always Cosworths 3.5 DFV series...

Ahh, I see. Well, that’s nice, I suppose. Although, I could swear there were so many of these tooling around town(s) that I never viewed them as exclusive porters of executives or captains of industry. Nice cars, yes. But, not an analogue of something like a Century or a President.

Sounds like they need a version of the RAFs Operation BlackBuck.

Are you sure you don’t mean V-class? S-class competition would be something like a LS460; why would anyone cross-shop an Alphard (even a upmarket executive model) against an S-class? Most Alphards would be compared to other vans so a V-class Merc compared to an executive model Alphard makes more sense; something like…