With all due deference and respect to Senna, the darkest day in motorsports was June 11, 1955 at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

What the heck does it have to with me?

Interesting choice as I just visited the site and wrote up a piece for carsindepth.com. Meadowdale had so many safety issues that SCCA refused to sanction races there after the first year until (costly) modifications were made. It was designed by an architect, not a race track designer, and so much suburban…

Meanwhile, here's the sexiest photo I could find of the McDonnell Douglas A-12:

Thank you, Bill. Well put.

This, plus pretty much everything you wrote afterwards. Also, don't forget that it's the smaller, lighter driver who has an edge over the larger, heavier one, specially in open wheel reacing, such as F1. Differences in culture or interests is where's it's at.

If turn 5 is the nose, 2 the jaw, I can totally see a whiny facial expression going on there...

Where my Multi 21 tablets?

WHAT? Crazy talk! The Fast and the Furious sideways edition clearly stated that drifting is WAY faster than maintaining grip through a corner. Don't be a hater!

I thought this was going to be The Clash playing at a venue named Demonhead...

Because who can deny a true Lancia

We hit it at 4:07. Did our best to set up for it early and didn't lift at all until we were in the air. Not bad for a N/A motor but we probably could have carried a bit more speed through the L5 before the jump. Give us a dry runway next year and we'll go MUCH bigger.