I think my favorite bit of that build is the directional tread tires on the rear - one of which is mounted backwards...

Considering that there’s 3 ways to retire from a race and only one of them can be legitimately attributed to the driver, it’s pretty pointless to just count up the total. F1 cars have historically been hand grenades with the pin pulled. It’s only in the last decade or so that reliability became the norm rather than an…

Pretty much all of them. I’ve seen people comment with a perfectly straight face that it’s unsafe to merge on a freeway if you don’t have at least 200hp. I’ve never owned a car in my life which came anywhere close to that and yet somehow I manage to get up to freeway speed and merge alive. I daily drove a 95hp…

“USA averages 3 derailments a day”

On a good day, Nico is faster than Hamilton. The problem is that he is more effected by tension and stress than Lewis, and it shows in his performance.

It’s not coincidence that he went on a three-race win streak at the end of the season. All the pressure was off.

That production continued for a while is not at all surprising to anybody who understands factory logistics planning. Building them and setting them aside is far less disruptive (pronounced “cheaper”) than randomly rearranging the line plan on the fly. Pulling the plug on scheduled builds with no notice will send…

You think “the majority of the driving population” has access to full-time off-street parking at home?

Cost is a problem which can be resolved with development.

RPM. The tinier the pieces are, the faster you can safely spin them.

That may be the most awesomely stupid (stupidly awesome?) thing I've ever seen...

If Georgia wouldn't title it, it's probably still on the Utah title. I'm sure it varies state by state, but I know California will give you local registration for a vehicle still titled in another state. (Kansas in my case). They would in 1985 anyway.

If you write an item bitching about people touching cars at "car shows", don't illustrate it with a photo from a new car show where the cars are explicitly there to be sat in, twiddled, examined, and investigated by potential buyers.

Only problem with the 99 is the stupid water pump built into the cylinder head. I'll take a 900 in preference because of that. Although an original 99 with a later motor swapped in...

By 1951 the Army was using the M38 Jeep with a seven-slot grille. This image shows a Jeep with the WWII era nine-slot grille.

The more technical restrictions imposed to "reduce costs", the more advantage is given to the big-budget teams which can afford the thousands of hours of development needed to eke out tiny advantages within the regulations. Meanwhile, they've prohibited any sort of true innovation, where a brilliant idea nobody else…

When half-filled grids lead to plummeting viewership, suddenly the bigger teams will comprehend the problem...