Yeah but you should be braking into the depths of hell while yo’re doing it! (At least most of the time. You still want the ‘at rest’ brake pedal to be a bit higher than the gas or you’re having to reach back for the gas...).

Aston Martin DBC

Best part? It’s a girl driving.

You mean Klaus Bytzek who was one of the first employees of Magna/Multimatic and invented the serpentine belts and chain tensioners that the vast majority of cars use. At one point he was worth around $1billion. He and his brother Harry raced Porsches (RSR’s and 914s mostly) in the 1970's and then the GT1s in the…

I remember a week-end at, I think, Watkins Glen where my car was set up next to his during an SVRA week-end. He was racing a little 1.4 or 2.0 prototype of some sort (can’t remember exactly). Super nice guy but what really got me was here’s a major rock star, a guy that probably has handmade $$$$ earplugs while on…