Any reason why not? It weights over 1,000 lbs less than the Merc, has around 70 hp more, and Adrian fucking Newey did the aero. I’d honestly be shocked if the Aston is slower.

Has the Aston Martin Valkyrie set a time yet? I feel like until they do this time is wildly impressive, but not safe from being bettered.

Go to Road America, you’ll be glad you did.  ;-)

To be honest, these race ticket prices don’t seem too out of line for what I expected. It’s not the race expense that’s shocking, it’s what it’s going to cost to stay there.

Car dealership girls are pretty easy to close the deal.

An angry wife pulling a gun on the receptionist of the Volkswagen dealership I worked at. Her husband, one of the salesmen, was cheating on her with one of the receptionists. She showed up and pulled a gun on the one at the front desk. It was the wrong one. In the end nobody got hurt, but that was pretty tense.

Those aren’t new barriers; they weren’t globally marketable at the time. That’s partly what makes F1 so frustrating as a fan of drivers; talent doesn’t always win the seat but backing does. Be patient, the cost cap is changing how all of this works

Racing pedigree? Powered some of the fastest cars of the world in its day? Good enough for a 43 year production life? Just looks really pretty? The Jaguar XK has all of these traits, and I silently judge anyone who transplants a Chevy 350 in its place.

Yes China is the only racist country with expansionist ambitions that would or will ignore any attempt to implement Asimov laws. China and only China treats their citizens differently based on race and China and only China treats their ally’s and enemy’s differently based on their culture and predominate ethnic make…

Don’t worry. I expect most major world governments, including the US, to promptly ignore this letter.

DARPA: What exactly did you think we were giving you all that money for??

I know what’s happened to him recently.

American exceptionalism seems to be alive and well, at least when it comes to wildly mispronouncing German names.

If its one thing you need to realize is that English pronunciation of many words are often WRONG and the American pronunciation is RIGHT. Case in point, Jaguar and Aluminum.  The English accent itself renders many a word they say simply incorrect.  Amazing, huh?

Exactly. That's why I eat tay-cos at Mexi-can restaurants. If you can't do something perfectly, it's not worth the attempt. 

This is some Reno 911 level work right here.

Talk about a target rich environment, holy shit.

Right? I can’t even travel on the same plane with more than three other managers from my company as part of their disaster plan. And I am nowhere near important to the company if something were to happen.

A shuttle crammed with world leaders--with or without the U.S. President--seems like a pretty bad idea in terms of security in general.  Sure, maybe nobody has real beef with the PM of Belgium, but a terrorist attack on (what I presume) a vehicle with a whole gaggle of world leaders would be a big ugly deal.