Realistically, it's probably too heavy for making it through really deep stuff (which you need to float on).

A Subaru w/ snows is always a good choice - although I'd say the STI is +1 better, due to having better differentials. The Forester may make up some ground with ground clearance, but I was easily able to power my way through 3+ feet of fresh powder with a stock STI + snows.

Tried using my Miata as a snow rat one year. Was reasonably well prepped with Blizzaks + LSD + about 100lbs of sand in the trunk. Even still though, it got stuck everywhere - mostly due to the lacking of ground clearance. Was also incredibly twitchy on windy country roads. For a frame of reference, I had used a…

Still not as messed up as CAFE where a PT Cruiser is classified as a light truck...

I'd argue that it's just a progressive step in the battle ship - before that we had wooden battle ships (which would outrank this in their importance of bringing us naval battles as a thing)

Specifically what Smalley's referring to is that a lot of 4-wheel disc brake cars have drums in the rear for the parking brake. This generally isn't problematic however since your parking brake pads shouldn't really ever wear down - it just means that your rotors will be slightly more expensive when it comes time to…

Came here to say the same thing - the Monza scenes were especially good as well.

That "Race Wars" thing or whatever it was they did in the desert in the first movie looked pretty sanctioned, at least at some level.

That's exactly the point - drivers could drive as slow as they felt nessesary in the dangerous spot... even if it meant a crawl, since they knew they could just make up the time in the remaining portions of the lap. A driver would have no incentive to fly through that part of the lap, and then sandbag elsewhere -…

They are... if 105% isn't slower-enough then, I'm sure a proper ratio could be found. I didn't do the match and look at old data before quoting the ratio, but I like to think the FIA would.

as was my suggestion - for the race, you can't exceed 105% the pole sitter's qualifying time on any laps where you passed a yellow

Wouldn't it just be easier to say that all laps with one or more local yellows must be 105% or more of the pole position time? For qualifying you could just automatically disqualify any laps where the driver had to go past any local yellows (thus removing the incentive to speed), and for practice it's already a…

Must be allergic to GM, it appears to be having a reaction....

Wouldn't it just be much easier to interface the 360* camera with an Oculus Rift or something similar? Then it's a per-passenger feature, so those who don't like it, don't have to deal with it. It would be much easier to retrofit into existing infrastructure (it could be just a fancy array of GoPro's and software).

An…

More hand-cut tires:

These (non-F1 tires, but still race tires) were cut by hand:

Contingency stickers != enrolling in contingencies != requesting contingencies.... and even still, the contingencies have nothing to do with the actual performance of the car or the event's rules (other than the event sponsor decals). You could put Hoosier, Goodyear and BF Goodrich decals on your car at the same…

Welcome to Street (i.e., the old Stock). If you want to compete at the top - you have to be prepared to buy a different car every year based on class changes. It's been the pattern since forever that as new, faster, cars get popped into the top at SS - everything else gets slowly pushed down to the end, and…

The big difference is that the Goodyear tires they "cheated" with - were perfectly legal for the class as well. They also didn't cheat Hoosier out of contingency monies, since they explicitly didn't apply for such contingencies. Really all they did was deception of their fellow competitors - much the same as if they…

They very well may have an NDA tied into the purchase agreement on cars like the the Ferrari - but even if they didn't, wouldn't be too surprising to see them quickly blacklist the owner from purchasing the the Ferrari Special Edition when it comes out in two years.