I was there today - pretty scary. The accident caused a red flag that ended race 2 of 3 and then we saw the medical chopper take off. Glad to hear he is OK!

Another vote for the Flex. We do a yearly Michigan to Arizona trip with our 3 kids each summer. We easily cover 800 miles a day. Accelerates hard and corners faster than 3 kids, wife and all our stuff care to experience.

From my Michigan CDL test:

Everyone interested in automotive engineering should come out and see Formula SAE. 120 colleges building and racing some incredible open wheeled race cars, plus a LOT of automotive recruiting. We'll be at Mich Intl Speedway May 15-17. If you have any questions drop me a message.

I just returned from 2 weeks in Melbourne. Where else you can buy a 450 hp supercharged Falcon and every damn driver on the road is driving exactly 102 km/hr? Also, speedos in Aus are calibrated to always read high, so that if you drive 102 on the speedo in the 100 zone you are likely doing about 99. I used my GPS to…

Peter from Ford / The Tools here - are you back into Chump on the west coast? Turbos are fine so long as you can change them quickly (VIR Aug 2013) :).

Try spending 1.5 hours in a race car on a warm day and then come back to this discussion. I am in reasonable shape and after a 1.5 hour stint in ChumpCar my ass had been kicked like never before - needless to say even Nascar is a bit more intense than ChumpCar.

Clarkson's starting problems were with the crap immobilizer his insurance company required to be installed on the car, not due to an issue with the GT as Ford built it.

Jim Farley and his USRRC Cobra?

For those looking to tow you need to try the Ecoboost in any of these CUVs. I had an Ecoboost MKT and it towed my enclosed snowmobile trailer better than my previous Expedition. Set the cruise at 75 mph and let the turbos do their job.

I saw a tour on TV of Mario Andretti's house with an Indy V-8 for a coffee table in his trophy room. I'll need to think a bit smaller scale though, the new Mustang Boss V-8 looks great.

I'm all for close up access to racing but do the spectators have any idea what is going on with the steering wheel when he passes by?