In the truck drivers defence, the signage is pretty poor. You need some kind of eagle eye to spot that clearance sign and be able to stop your rig in time. It's very close to the overpass and theres a great deal of vegetation around it. Surely this guy cant be the first to smash his trailer against that overpass, and…

He owns a franchise of a business. It's not an independent business.

what would chris harris do?

You desperately need to experience launch control in a genuinely fast car. And stop driving like a pussy on the street.

It's not gaming the system though. It's simply helping to do all the car is capable of doing. This comes from more than just what the engine/trans can do from a locked in gear rolling start. It's about what the whole system can do when pushed using all methods. Go to a drag strip and find a car (that is…

You should let this one go and admit defeat. The launch control times are not inflated. Mazdamonkey is spot on regarding a standing start vs a rolling start, and launch control is not artificial in the slightest. If you race from a standing start, like from a stoplight or a drag strip, the advantage it provides is…

This is a really weak article.

Car and Driver has been measuring the 5-60 times of cars since the beginning of time, and since the beginning of time they have always been slower. Even before computerized launch control, every 0-60 time published has used manual launch control (power braking). I believe C&D is the magazine that is the worst at that.

Honesty is great. A reddit style witch hunt isn't.

Nope, consider it an olive branch of sorts. Proof that they're willing to take a lot of risk to make something truly cool.

I like you.

This one might have been real and hilarious, but that doesn't make the previous one not-fake.

""We were shooting on the lakeside bike trail in Chicago near North ave beach""

As an Evophile, I desperately want to give it to Tommi for his maximum-attack style of driving, but I have to pay homage where it's due.

Colin McRae, Richard Burns, Walter Röhrl, Marcus Gronholm

Toivonen. I think I saw once he was the Senna of the WRC during the '85 and '86 season. The way he drove, he basically either won the rally or crashed out because of how hard he drove. The McRae of his time, indeed he went flat out all the time.

Colin motherf**king McRae. I have to thank that man for getting me WAY into racing outside of American motorsports. I always heard about off-road racing thanks to people like Ivan Stewart, but I never heard of WRC during the late 90's and early 2000's. Then I saw Colin tearing up places like Monte Carlo in his blue…

Some say, he may not be human. He broke almost every record on WRC history . When he start a rally there is 46% of chance that you will see him in the top of the podium, or 68,9 % of chance to see him in somewhere in the podium. Practically unbeatable on tarmac, terrific on everywhere. In his first full season, he…

Walter Rohl