It’s a slightly different beast, but the RP968 “Porsche” (and I use that descriptor loosely) running at WTAC here in Australia ran a 1:19.277, 1.315 seconds slower than the fastest qualifying time by an A1GP car driven by Nico Hülkenberg (and only 0.135 seconds slower than the fastest race lap, also set by Hülkenberg…

Yep - sudden vaporisation of the water in the pipe (and the sap in the tree) were our assumptions.

And pit them against one another in the soon-to-be-electric World Rallycross series.

Certainly not short on power, no. The exploded tree was testament to that!

The water can still conduct electricity. I’ll admit that it’s anecdotal, but when lightning struck a tree at my dad’s place it chased a plastic water supply line underground and cracked it along quite a lot of its length.

Not gonna lie, I immediately thought of this, but with an iron in his hand:

The fact that they pandered to people who didn’t bother to wear a seatbelt, and that they were designed for the “standard (male) human" certainly made them a lot less safe then they could have been for drivers who actually cared enough about their safety to wear their belt. It's mind-boggling how many people still…

I’ll add to my previous comment that the other possibility would be a radical change to the engine architecture and the reinstatement of refuelling. Which is less safe than not having refuelling, but would leave more room for crash structures. To have a car that reaches similar speeds to the current ones, the crash…

It’s absolutely the case with the current cars.

The McLaren sim, as expensive and accurate as it may be, is seemingly still well behind those of the top teams and Ferrari.

A “car size similar to the 80s and 90s just not as wide” is literally smaller than a current Mygale F4 car (Ferrari 412T1 was 4380 mm long, a Mygale F4 car is 4467 mm long). There's no chance of that happening unless there's a radical reduction in safety.

The occasional missed beat is just odd - I’m still sort of trying to figure out how it works. Well, that's a secondary issue - I'm trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with the charging system at the moment...

SR20 rule?

Does yours do that thing where the speed alarm isn’t consistent either? So is sometimes a rhythm and sometimes not? I’m assuming it’s speed-related (i.e. the time interval between chimes is dependent on road speed), and that it's not quite getting a constant signal.

The “gling... gling-glong, glong-gling” noise as you hit freeway speed is both infuriating and charming.

It’s the lightest road-legal Lotus sold in the US in the last decade though (and even then the Elise was only allowed in with exemptions). Safety adds weight.

An Alpine A310 at the shops just down the road from my house:

Weight isn’t as bad as it looks. From Motorsport Magazine:

And only one comes with a manual transmission and HPAS.

Interesting... I really like the profile, it looks compact and nimble.