This does look worse than the Phoenix downtown track, and that’s truly saying something.

Y’all have short memories. This abomination in Phoenix was effectively the answer to the question “what does an F1 track with a bunch of 90 degree turns feel like” that nobody asked. 

Sepang and Turkey are genuinely great. Bahrain has given us very good races. COTA is challenging track with great sight lines and a fantastic fan experience. I know it’s trendy to bash Tilke and all, and he has plenty of misses, but “any” is just a bad take.

It wasn’t any better on TV. This layout feels like a weekend club track that happens to host an F1 race.

I agree with you 100%. Watkins Glen is amazing. But it’s hard to find lodging for the IMSA race weekend. The closest city is Corning, and the lodging there is pitiful. Watkins Glen is a charming lovely town, but nothing is even four star let alone five. And practically speaking, I would LOVE to Party at the Seneca…

A car is always better with three pedals unless you are physically unable to drive it, or you have to deal with a lot of stop and go traffic (in which case you should move).

This type of thing backfires easily. Instead of feeling cool, it will most likely feel incredibly fake. Except for the alligators. They will be real. 

Sell them all and split the money between the refugees who have fled Ukraine due to this war.

Honestly, morons is a better term. That’s an opinion on their intelligence for making such a purchase. A sucker is one who was deceived into making a purchase. I think your choice of words is the better one for communicating a poor opinion of the purchases.

People who buy cars at auction are not suckers. They bid what they were willing to pay for a vehicle they wanted. This is not the same as a salesmen changing the numbers or pushing true coat. Auctions are the fairest form of auto sales. You might not think the cars are worth these amounts, but clearly the buyers do. 

That’s the job of the city engineer, not the business. The fact that the business is successful is good, working with them to move them to a new location with better traffic patterns is better. Blaming the business for being crazy popular is just dumb.

I was shopping for a lightly used car, and the cvt was so bad that I bought a five year old model with a proper transmission. Yes. 

My work: the brand new 2015 Nissan Altima I rented buzzed and whined and was craptacular, vastly inferior to the 1990 Nissan Stanza (the predecessor to the Altima) that was my wife’s first car, which had a stellar automatic.

A town in Vermont is testing an approach to bussing where you call a bus like you call an uber. Which on the surface sounds insanely dumb. The results are predictable. People don’t like it, and about half as many people are using the bus as they were before they instituted this new approach.

Subaru went all in on the CVT. Their modern cars are all saddled with it. I honestly did not know this until I was on a test drive and the transmission was absolute garbage.

The F2 cars are a great idea. Or even F3. 

Personally? Props to nascar for trying something different that doesn’t involve messing with the fundamentals of how racing works. I love the location, the idea, the performances, all of it. I’ll take these ideas over “stage racing” and “the chase” and “ competition yellows” ALL DAY LONG.

The Sprint races ruined qualifying. The first race was fun, the next two...not so much. I’m all for some form of racing on Friday, maybe do something totally different like a 30-45min race on Friday that has each team enter two cars in a 100% spec series with almost no downforce. This would allow us to see the drivers…

This is the right answer.

This is the type of topic we need Fancy Kristen for.