There was another trick in GT3 where you could do the 24hrs of Lemans with some rediculously fast car in “b-spec” mode, and let the computer do all the driving for you. Set it all up, and let it run at 4x speed, and in 6 hours you’d have millions - all hands off.

That certainly worked, but I found that doing the 24hr race was much more lucritive for me. I could just set it all up, and walk away - the next day I had something like $2 mil or something crazy like that. Doing all the shorter races took too much time to actually start & end the races -and once you did the $2 mil…

The “extra space” would just be a myth. Airlines would use the extra space to add extra seats - but that may mean reduced ticket prices for everyone.

I have to give that car some credit - it did a horrible thing, but it at least did it “all-in”. I mean it’s all there.... the intentionally rusted body panel, the fender-mounted mirror, the unnecessarily large roof rack, the stretch & camber, the splitter that’s not really finished (and broken), the add-on rear view…

Any of the V8’s that they put into the Dodge Ram of the era would’ve worked just fine. Sure it would’ve added weight, and probably made the same power (or even less) - but not having 8 cylinders under the hood meant that car was a non-starter to it’s potential market. If they could’ve made it survive long enough to…

The viper swapped s2000 on NPOCP a while back should qualify

Seems I’m always placed in the dilema of:

I thought it was Button in 2006...

You know you’ve won a bunch when you’ve racked up enough miles, 1/4 at a time, to justify Castrol GTX “High Mileage”

I’d have to say Hamilton’s W05 chassis, or Button’s BGP001 would be right up there. One of Vettel’s RB car’s very likely claimed 8 wins as well...

I don't believe FOM pays the drivers (at least above board) - the respective teams do. Many of the drivers live in tax havens (Monaco and Switzerland are especially popular), which tells me that they must be able to avoid paying taxes in at least some countries due to this - most notably the UK, where most of the…

There are 4 planetary gear sets, each with two distinct ratios using a sun/planet/ring arrangement. It then uses clutches to engage different ratios for the four different gear sets to attain the 12 different ratios (11 forward, 1 reverse). This is essentially two 4-speed automatic transmissions conjoined end-to-end.

Surprisingly absent: The one who touches the drivers control’s. Unless I’m unconscious, you should never, under any circumstances, perhaps even impending doom - touch the steering wheel, the gear shift lever, the parking brake, the horn, or anything else in the driver’s domain.

My wife’s gotten better, but she used to be really bad at the “knowing where you are” aspect of navigating. She used to need to rely very heavily on the “blue dot’ in Google Maps to know where we were - so the “oh, I guess that was the turn” happened very frequently when she notices that the blue dot didn’t turn, but…

You can get by for a good 4 months this way around Central NY:

How about a used race car? $13k seems to get you there: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-MULLI…

I also wouldn’t be surprised if Ferrari had a GPS-enabled datalogger in the car, you know, for diagnostics and all

Likely coated in shoe polish so they can easily tell what the tire makes contact with

It's worth restating how significant this single pass was on the future of these two teams in F1 - Marrusia only exists (in Manor name) in F1 today because of this pass, were it the other way around, it would arguably be Caterham on the grid today.

I know around here that when we have weeks on end of sub-zero temps (and salt stops working), our roads end up having a pretty solid 4-6" base of hard compacted snow+ice. When this happens, the roads are horribly rough, since you end up with all sorts of pot holes and washboarding in the snow/ice "pavement".