Well written Elizabeth. Thank you for this. I had never heard of Harry before, despite my love of F1.

Your cynicism is almost certainly spot on.

So much this! I got this game for Christmas and we have had a great time playing it. I don’t buy games based on “are other games a better value” I buy them based on are they fun to play. And this is fun to play.

Indy car needs to be humble enough to look at F1’s projected schedule, and do everything they possibly can to be racing when F1 is not. I’m not saying they should only race when F1 is not racing, but rather that they should grab every opportunity to snag people like myself who are bummed there is no F1 race this…

I put 170k miles on a 1999 Sonoma with that motor. It was mostly trouble free except for a TPS failure. I beat the ever loving crap out of that truck, I lived down 2 miles of unmaintained dirt road at the time. Perhaps you had a bad sample. I can confirm the rev limiter kicks in at 95 though.

My sister had a 1987 Toyota Tercel with the 1.5L engine. It was brown and so glacially slow we called it the magic turd. With the automatic transmission sapping about half of the massive 78hp, it’s zero to sixty time was “maybe if you are lucky”

Sochi makes us long for the days when F1 raced at superior tracks like…Caesar’s palace. Seriously, Sochi is terrible. Bring on anything else.

Or maybe, just maybe, having an angry looking military character is pretty generic no matter what race they happen to be. If they had called him Booker instead of Prophet, or even “the wrestler” you might have a case but otherwise these frivolous lawsuits need to end. 

You can never have too much 11

Ah the love child of a lunar lander and an ATM machine...

What monster did that?

Elizabeth has been around for a long time, but she got married in the last few years. She primarily writes about motorsports and she is excellent at it. I met her and her husband at Watkins Glen a couple years back. It’s a good sign when motorsports writers actually go to events. You’d be surprised how many do not…

Two words: Watkins Glen

The Queen Mary is the defining feature of the port of long beach at this point. Scrapping it would be a bit like tearing down the Statue of Liberty rather than pay the maintenance. Long Beach absolutely has to resolve this.

The idiot Grandson was absolutely taken advantage of by smart people who would gain if Indy failed. Bernie and the France family were threatened by Indy’s success and by the fact that top drivers would defect from F1 to Indy.

When I was a kid they ran ads of a bloke super glueing his helmet to a steel beam and hanging from it to show how strong it is. One giant tube of the stuff ought to fix that beam just fine...

Indeed. The next person who calls our infrastructure garbage needs to drive in Romania or Ukraine or any one of a the dozens of countries whose roads make ours look amazing. Our infrastructure is far, far from perfect. But it’s a long way from garbage too. 

I was researching this and then wondered “can I do anything with the unused phone line throughout my house?” Online I found the suggestion that ,ost phone wiring installed after 2000 was Cat-5 or Cat-5e. Lo and behold, mine is 5e! I bought new jacks at Home Depot for $5 each and then simply had to cut the cables in my…

Counterpoint, the Chase nearly ended my interest in nascar and stage racing killed it for good. I haven’t watched a single nascar race since they went all in on gimmicks. I have attended nascar races at many levels and used to watch it frequently. With F1 I watch all three practices, qualifying and the race. I don’t…

I’m missing the part where I stated this was about a single race. Regardless, feel free to throw rose pedals in adulation at an over the hill driver who won two championships fifteen years ago and then fell apart when his rookie teammate was faster than he was.