World record motorcycle jump.

Hahah, when one of those things pops up on my back bumper, I look for the nearest semi driving 55 mph and camp in the left lane. What's it going to do? Peck you with that hideous beak?

Problem is many stickers are made out of stuff that adhesive removers don't penetrate, so you gotta get the sticker of before you attack the adhesive it leaves behind.

Your track prepped $5K Miata is still a 100 rwhp car. That extra $5K at FM puts you in a car with the power to weight ratio of a C5 Z06 without all that pesky .

All car repairs are merely a sequence of small tasks. Big jobs time to finish, but tacking them is more a matter of being confident/stupid enough to start, patient enough to label stuff as it comes off, and stubborn enough to carry through.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and Common Sense.

I wouldn't even trust THIS Lambo to Best Buy.

The average american household spends 12-14% of its income on transportation. My family spends about 4% INCLUDING the money I spend on my track car.

Donning my nomex underpants...

Funny, cutting off a hand is exactly the punishment I'd suggest for this sort of 'accident'.

Grad school is the new undergrad.

Ah, Europe, showing up with unattainable toys in the 3rd world since....well, forever.

Miata. Let's be honest, they're going to get you. It's inevitable. You might as well die happy.

You forgot:

I can never get enough slo-mo motorsports. I'm kinda blown away by how much the tires (rear esp) appear to be slipping. Insane.

The gyroscopic effect is fairly small, isn't it? Also, this is cool: [en.wikipedia.org]

I suspect I could at least stay on the track in an F1 car from the pre-aero period, but a modern F1 car would have me sitting in a pile of my own feces and carbon fiber shards faster than I could say "So how do I let out the clutch?"

This. The collection of trains, stationary steam engines and generators alone will blow your mind.

Mazda's Nagare cars. Current Mazda3's are the fishiest things I've seen, though less in a bass way and more in a weird japanese fighting fish way.

That's too bad. I always liked the idea of those things.