They’re not going to have a big group of friends hanging out at their house while they work like they’d have a big group of coworkers a few desks over. I mean if you’re at a company where you don’t like your coworkers, this doesn’t apply, but at my company there’s a lot of friendships in the office.

And again, while…

I’m not so sure. My entire company can pretty effectively work completely from home, and I personally would love to continue this. However, there’s a ton of my coworkers who are hating this for not getting the socialization factor of the office. So, it’ll be more than just the economic or climate impact affecting…

Ohhhhhh ok ok I see where you were coming from now. Yeah, in that context completely agree.

Indycar tire changes literally wait on their knees for the car to arrive at their corner, F1 has a massive crew do one specific task each, sports cars have a far longer window to work with, etc. It’s not that it’s not impressive, hell the comprehesive precision required in those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it F1 stops is…

Every single one? No. But the bigger players absolutely spend multiple millions on these. I’m going to guess you don’t have industry experience on this... which is fine. It is a stupidly big number, you’re not wrong lol. 

What you’re looking for already exists domestically, and is even owned by NASCAR: IMSA. Either the Weathertech Championship:

Negative, the trucks are the same tube frame deal as the other two series. 

That’s pretty common for most track day formats, usually the ones with more open track formats rather than sessions are for private events.

That being said, that time is often used for cooling the car as well. I don’t know if charging a just-hot lapped EV car would be a problem. As in, I have no actual idea because I…

This right here. It’s definitely falling under raw semantics, but it doesn’t count for the same reason those didn’t and continue not to count.

Even if that aftermarket supercharger is from Ford Performance Parts, it still doesn’t count as a factory option.

I think this is in reply to his “why no single F1 reporter” response, but in case not, that’s what I’m adding to.

My career has straddled regular automotive and motorsports for almost 6 years now, on the PR/social media side of things. The unfortunate truth is that not only is automotive enthusiast culture a smaller…

I come from the sports car racing world, and it’s still my preference. I used to snub any straight line stuff, nitro or otherwise.

But I spent the last year pretty involved with NHRA as well and if you haven’t gone to check an event out, you should. It’s an awesome experience and I fuckin love it now.

Side note, while…

There’s a mode called playground where you can run around it and do whatever you want without threat of dying (unless a friend you’re playing with kills you)

I agree with your use of “most”. In a few of these series, if everything went to plan and the race stayed green for the entire time, that time lost from a lack of blue flag rules in the first half could absolutely come back to haunt them in the final stretch, assuming all other elements of the race remained “pure” as…

If your lesson on Racing 101 is this inaccurate, I wouldn’t count on anyone signing up for your 201 or 301 seminars...

This was one of those wins that almost everyone wanted to see, even some of the direct competitors. Mazda went from being the plucky but non threatening sidebars during their diesel Lola era to constantly quick but constantly plagued underdogs. Honestly they’ve “almost had it” nearly a dozen times by now.

That it was…

I’d love you to be right but yeah, that’s probably not gonna happen either unfortunately.

I was about to reply to one of your earlier comments in support of your take by using Narcos as an example, and then here I find this. Doubly good take, sir. 

Oh I definitely thought it was a genuine question, apologies if my reply came off as snide or something.

You’re not wrong with the rest of this point. It’s most likely because a lot of the development done in NASCAR is more about materials used for production rather than directly-transferred components. Depending on…

Yes, they do. The conditions NASCAR events put an engine through provide a lot of real, legitimate data that has made its way to production engines. There’s a lot of thermodynamic data that comes from running an engine for close to WOT for several hours on end.

This wasn’t an announcement of a swan song, it’s the same season they said would be the last one three years ago.