You have to do remove the front wheel for battery access on Ferrari F355 too.

Yeah Mibe took over as CEO in April. His predecessor was the first Honda CEO to not have been the head of Honda R&D subsidiary, and so far the only. Not seeing why the previous CEO was canned after 6 years.

I feel like standard procedure for lapped cars should be something like this:

My wife however probably still wants to disconnect from me for spending $4k on the setup.

I don’t understand why people would not wish to use the best safety equipment they can get their hands on, especially when cost is not an issue. I can see why people would balk at a $500 HANS device if they’re a hobbyist, but I would be shocked if that price was an issue for any top-tier driver.

I just watched the crash, since I didn’t back then. You’re right, that crash looks innocuous.

I disagree with SUV/CUVs being “worse” — we go skiing a lot, and the slightly higher ground clearance of our CR-V has come in handy. It does warm my cold, dead heart when our raised Civic wagon (which is effectively what a CR-V is) on winters pass brodozers in ditches.

Only in civilised places. Here in the US, they tend to not care too much if you obscure the plate with your bike rack.

suburban moms driving Suburbans.

That hasn’t been our plate in a long time. We went from that beauty, to navy+orange abomination, to the current Excelsior plate, which is pretty meh but whatevs.

Polestar, however, is effectively Chinese.

I see your Delaware plate, and raise you a Consular plate.

around here (NYC area), Florida plates are mostly rental cars. That really screams “stay away from me, you definitely care more about your car than I do mine”.

Replying here, since you should see it :)

Bearings inside the BB are probably shot, though. I’d be surprised if the new crank spins freely like it should.

“Within my means” is really the key to most purchases.

I feel like we’ll see MB still at the sharp end, but RB will likely drop down a few notches for 2022. New aero regs dictate a low rake car. MB has been running one of those for a good while now, and their aerodynamicists will be more familiar with than RB’s, for whom it will be an entire departure in concept.

No one should be receiving death threats.

Hopefully, as one of his first changes to competition, he’ll work with Formula 1 to clarify and tighten up the various procedures around:

I was caught out in my Subaru STI with summers. Mind you, I thought it was hilarious fun being able to drift around corners at 5 mph (and never exceeded 15 with them). To see what’d happen, I tried engine braking. Turns out, if your tyres cannot handle the deceleration, it doesn’t matter; you’ll still skid in all 4…