Your claim is overly broad and your concern with my alignment habits is strange, especially since that wasn’t the point of my original comment. 

Even if they took stock cars, made them throw a standardized weight in the truck, and made them race on a road course it’d be better. Hell, I’d watch that. We’d probably get some pretty sweet homologation specials out of it too.

Looks like the camber is a bit off.

They should care. If F1 is healthy, then they are healthy. The doc was a great way to get new fans into the sport at a time when they’ve struggled. Too often race drivers/riders/teams forget that there is no racing if no one is watching. Most fans don’t just watch because they like fast cars, they like understanding…

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Every car I’ve owned. I like a well-adjusted suspension and the roads around here are rough at best. That’s not the point though.

Same. I watch MotoGP races at all hours of the night. The ones I miss, I just go back and review because SlingTV saves them for you for a couple of days. I don’t even need to tell it to DVR it. Technology like this should, in theory, help F1.

I’d say it was perfect for any audience. I suspect there are very few fans in the US or abroad that are only interested in watching cars do laps around a track. They usually are a fan of a certain team or a certain driver because of some personal connection. The documentary gave us a look at these people and teams and…

No offense taken. Thanks for all of that great info. As you guessed, I’m young enough to not remember the 80s so all I’ve seen of professional american racing is NASCAR, the mcdonalds of motorsports. All of the cool stuff was rally, motorcycles, and F1 and all of that stuff was overseas.

I wasn’t expecting them to do a second season, but I hope they do. This one was so good.

It is, but not unexpected. Up until relatively recently, watered down, lower quality versions of good things were more american than anything else. For example, mega-brewery beer, mcdonalds burgers/fries, and american cars were all anyone considered in this country for a long time. Over the past couple of decades more…

He might have paid him to detail his car. I’m assuming this is the guy’s profession.

Yes, Teslas have moving parts, they just have way less of them. They still have bearings and joints for the suspension and drive train. They still have pumps and valves for the cooling system.

I think that’s great news, but I sort of consider that similar to when people talk about how harley’s sales are down 4%. Yeah, it’s bad for harley, but when you have 90% of the market, it’s by no means a death knell.

It actually is a lot of resistance. Especially in reverse. Case in point, we don’t pop start cars in first or even usually second gear because it just locks up the wheels.

I bet you the netflix doc has significantly affected interest in the sport. I’m surprised FIA didn’t heavily suggest that Ferrari and Mercedes also participate. It’s clear what teams care about fans and what teams don’t. Unfortunately they couldn’t see that fans and viewership are what get you sponsors. I know the top…

Yeah I’ve heard that. Lubing the thread results in a higher tensile load on the fasteners at the same torque value. I guess I’ve never seen a case of that affecting lug nuts. Smaller fasteners, yeah, but not bigger ones. Probably more common when someone gets grease all over the tapered portion of the fastener than…

I didn’t say the entire car was unreliable, but that solely relying on a brake caliper as the securing mechanism isn’t smart. Parking pawl failures are rare. Brake caliper failures are not, especially in colder climates with exposure to salt. It’s a known and established fact for all cars. This is going to be an issue…

I hope you know I was being sarcastic.... You laid out pretty much every reason why EVs are better than ICE vehicles. Despite that, someone is going to reply with some version of what I wrote. You know, a range of 300 miles being equal to about a tank of fuel isn’t enough because we all regularly burn an ENTIRE tank…

But what about when I want to put my pack of doges™, 2.5 children, and wifey in the car and drive 600 miles in the woods without planning and RIGHT NOW? You know I drive straight through like a man, right? RIGHT? There will be no electricity on the way.