The right response

Having actually worked on one of these, it’s not terrible. It’s just intimidating and you have to be willing to take a lot of things off to get to other things. Which means huge shop labor bills.

It’s inarguable that our train system is poor. The simple fact is that it used to go everywhere, and we replaced it entirely with a comprehensive road network. I don’t know how long the Acela is at speed, but I know that the normal Amtrak trains hit 111 or so through Lancaster county, so it’s not like everything is…

You do realize that the famed bullet trains maxed out at 145 until 1992. I think the nose is appropriate on a 150mph train…

Honestly Qatar and Saudi Arabia could both go. I realize that for people that don’t live in the US it seems like three races is a lot, but it’s easy to overlook the size of the country. The distance between Las Vegas and Austin is further than the distance between Silverstone and Imola (and the many races in between).…

We rented one as well and were quite impressed. I thought I was the only one that liked it :-)

Ok, you are the first person to acknowledge flag to flag was any good. Ever. And it was! But far from perfect is true. It was frustrating at times but still super fun to play.

I love being at sea for one. But practically you can visit cool places without going from hotel to hotel, you can spend time with friends and family (assuming you go with a group of course) and the cooking and cleaning is handled by the paid staff. You meet new people and have lots of time to get to know them. You can…

That looks amazing to me but I’ve never done one. That would be too much isolation for my wife. 

Cue all the typical cruise ship hate on jalopnik…

I shoot video and always include the employee if they are around. That paid off once when they claimed I had damaged the car and I showed them the video and when they saw the employee they literally went “yup, there’s Emma, ok” and proceeded to remove the charge.

Another song came to me. Soft rock/gospel legend Amy Grant, who was born and raised in Tennessee has a line “you like to drive like Mario Andretti” in the song Good for You.

People of Surrey, you don’t need four wheel drive...

People outside of America have no idea how big of a deal Mario Andretti, and the Andretti name is in this country. I can only think of a few references at the moment, but at least one country song says something like “Mario Andretti would have sure been proud” he is referenced in hip hop songs etc. His name is…

Ultimately the development penalty (less wind tunnel and CFD time) coupled with the budget cap will take some time to really be effective. They might find the need to tweak the percentages a bit over the years, but I really think the groundwork has been laid for the other teams to catch up. But it’s more honest than…

Nope. But the general vibe around town in Austin was that Friday felt like a race day crowd in prior years. And race day was unbelievable. GA was brutal, leaving to use the bathroom was effectively impossible. Of course their answer to this is to crank the price to infinity (reserving a bunch of tickets for “travel…

Totally. When the casual fan moves on, please please please don’t add gimmicks like nascar has. Stupid stage racing caused Kimi to get punted from the race in Watkins Glen (and I promptly turned off the first nascar race I’ve watched in years).

This article is interesting. But as it states it is only one data point. I’m going to add one of my own. This is Austin 2021. On a Friday. Look at the crowd. It was difficult to move. On a Friday. If you have never been to a race Friday is when the crowd is usually at about 10% and you can go everywhere and do…

I’ve never seen this before and it was hilarious. Thanks!

Thank you, old BMW’s are glorious to drive. It feels like they have lost the script with the current cars. I miss the days when they drove better than the specs would ever have you believe.