Henry Rollins does not approve.

Cheers - you're most welcome. And the community of commenters is definitely a big part of the appeal (which makes the blatant disregard/active hostility of the site owners towards commenters all the more puzzling).

It likely wasn’t considered nearly as much of an issue at the time - racing’s approach to safety was much more reactive at the time. F1 only introduced pitlane speed limits in 1994 after San Marino. And it wasn’t a general reaction to the deaths of Ratzenberger and Senna - it was because Michele Alboreto’s car shed a…

Yep - F1 for example only introduced a pitlane speed limit in 1994, post-San Marino.

Andretti *kinda* have a team in Supercars. It’s a joint venture with Walkinshaw Racing and Zak Brown’s United Autosport (Walkinshaw and Andretti own 37.5% each, United the remaining 25%).

Almost certainly vaporisation, yep - though that is a result of energy transfer into the water, which is an electrical charge in the case of lightning (you can get instantaneous water heaters that work on the same principle, they just don't have the capacity to dump anything like as much energy into the water).

Gynophobe!

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?