WTF? That thing from 00:25 to 00:45 just kept missing and missing. Why no edit?

The cars matter infinitely more than the drivers. They're just bodies in the seat, and pretty much all as good as the other. Vettel was creaming Hamilton just last year. All of a sudden Hamilton is wiping the floor with everyone except his fellow Mercedes driver. If Ferrari has the hot car next year,…

De-icing trucks? De-icing pad? Runoff collection?!?!? AHAHAHAHAAHAHA!! Maybe that's the way it goes at your big-city fancy-pants airports. We here at your friendly regional airport use Bubba, his ladder (or sometimes he stands on the fuel trucks), and a converted power-washer. Mother nature's powers of dilution are…

The bans on sleeping in cars are starting to be overturned - see recent 9th Cir. decision Desertrain et. al. v. City of Los Angeles. I think other federal jurisdictions will probably go the same way, too. If you can't sleep in your car, that leaves the sidewalk or jail - both even more expensive options for society.

There's an absolutely hypnotizing video of the #7 TS040 doing two hours of night-racing at this year's LeMans on youtube. The car is hitting 200++ mph on those straights. Of special interest are the pit stops - I like the one at 6:20 or so - it has that hanging-around at-an-empty-airport at night lonely-vibe to it.

It would be a lot better if the vid hadn't been yanked. Is it going to be available soon?

"...nature's flimsiest tree as a car component at all."

Saabs from the 90's until 2010 were not bad, or ugly. The mid-to-late nineties ones were not reliable, and they all had some stripe of engine issue into the early 2000's - sludge for the 4's, ignition modules for the 6's. So what? The styling of the cars was great, most of them were solidly quick and a blast to…

Perhaps pertinent to the conversation:

Wait a second! What is Carroll Shelby doing giving Guy Fieri an automobile?!? Does this strike anyone else as, well, weird?

1) What the hell would have that rain done to the interior of that car? No way it stayed dry.

Nothing, but flying them would be even better. Like driving, but with added up and down.

A) That sounded pretty whiny - at least you acknowledged that people don't belong to other people.

Buy a reputable third-party extended warranty.

Maybe they should just go full one-design and have a pool of identical cars randomly assigned to the drivers for practice, then again randomly assigned for the race. It would take an enormous chunk of expense away from owning/running a team, would make the racing about the drivers, rather than the cars (unlike this…

CP - $400,000, and you'd have to repaint it right off the bat? Obviously some team's half-baked project - and not even the good half of the team! And tell me, does it come with the garage full of telemetry equipment and engineers? No?

I wouldn't buy it in a million years, but that's because I don't have the money. The asking price is nice enough that the offending subs and wheels can be removed/replaced, and interior repaired. NP - even if it's not my style.

Hear, hear! Although I think the drivers could migrate from one to the other as well as any other drivers migrate from one discipline to another, I agree with everything else you wrote.

Snicker-bar diplomacy; safeguarding freedom for 70 years.

Are you saying that this is the government's way of winning back the hearts and minds of Arizona's children?