“If there’s any greater pain than crashing out of a race, it’s crashing when you’re so close to finishing that you can see the finish line.”

First thing I thought of was JR Hildebrand at the Indy 500.

I learned on an old Ford Escort. From what I know now the reason I stalled so much was because the car was crap. A lot of nicer manuals will allow you to find first gear if you let the clutch out slow enough. I feel like I practically had to do a 1st gear burnout to prevent myself from stalling on that thing. Then my…

Around 2008 I interviewed for a job at Turn 10 with Microsoft (they make the Forza games). At the time I had a 98 Ford Mustang and a 94 Grand Cherokee. If I moved to Seattle I wasn’t going to have access to my parents pole barn for storage. I needed a car I could run year round.

While I was in Seattle I went to a…

I had a Dodge Magnum in Hawaii for a day. Felt like I was driving a hearse.

I put 500 miles on my car when I went to the Indy Grand Prix a week and a half ago. I have AWD. I averaged 35mpg. I’m not sure the transmission is what helped Subaru get better mileage from their engines, but that kind of AWD gas mileage was unheard of just 6 or 7 years ago.

I use my car for practical stuff. I have no…

I’m ok with both versions of James Bond. I really do enjoy many of Moore’s films and if you asked me to rank them his would definitely be near the top. With that said I assumed I would hate Daniel Craig as James Bond. He didn’t “look the part.” I found I really enjoyed Casino Royale. I’m also totally OK with his “too…

Stef FWIW Davison was originally going to be a 4th driver at Coyne. He has some sponsors lined up so he brings some money to a team that really needs it after having their 2nd car destroyed in 4 weeks (they had to write off Bourdais’ car at Phoenix as well).

While I wholly agree my first instinct was that Wilson should…

They’re cancelling it? I found it interesting. Figures.

You get it! I could play Tetris in class and get away with it because I was using my calculator!

Sure but a small group of people is not a tenable way to operate. Even if you’re there for this group you’re still likely losing more money in overhead.

But this isn’t a car site. It’s Foxtrot Alpha which is a military site.

They also have motor homes with functional kitchens.

Robbery was 9:45pm ish.

Serving food requires paying someone to serve it. When the gates have closed and everyone else has left you’re not going to pay someone for a handful of people who may or may not need food.

Going to C&C isn’t the problem. Leaving C&C is the problem.

No snark apparently they were making a food run for a bunch of the drivers. Which is still a head scratcher, but I’m guessing it was the only place that was open at 10pm on Sunday.

COTD For anyone who doesn’t get it I’m sorry. This is it. Shut it down for the day.

I had a friend I used to run against on Forza all the time. He had an MR-2. He would recommend you buy an MR-2. I recommend you buy an MR-2.

I would. They are two different companies.

No install laps and right up to 240mph. Might be fine for qualifying but that doesn’t give confidence that it won’t be hurt for the race.