Depending on the plane, the autopilot system could’ve handled the plane for the majority of the flight (although it’s obviously a better practice to have someone continuously monitoring the system) - but my question is what happens if the cockpit door latches behind the second pilot as he leaves? Is there a way to get…

They’re a double-edged sword. Sure the snow/ice on your car melts and falls off over night, which is nice and convenient in the morning. The downside though is that unless you’re washing your car every day before parking it, all that salt stays on the car with the newly melted snow (aka, water), giving your car a nice…

It HAS killed someone. We had a fatal accident last year around here when a large section of snow/ice broke free and collapsed the top of the windshield frame of a car headed in the opposite direction (the two vehicles were traveling on a divided highway with only a single jersey barrier between oncoming lanes). The…

I’ve had one of those, and use it nearly daily (we get ~300" a year here). It works great, and not only can quickly clear off 12-24" in one pass (depending on the type of snow buildup), but with a little pressure you can even use it to clear some light ice off the windshield without having to go back for the ice…

“letting your car get dirty”... Around here, it only takes about a 10 minute drive to have a good 1/8" of salt over the whole thing. After my 30 minute commute the only thing keeping more salt from collecting on my car is that it doesn’t have enough structural strength and tends to fall off in chunks when you hit…

I think Mark Donahue said it best: when you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next

The car’s all weigh the same (before fuel). The rules have a minimum weight written into it, which is the weight of the car + driver, but without fuel. The teams then build the cars all to be below the spec, even with the driver, and then add ballast to get them up to the minimum weight.

The reason the car’s will be…

If you like this, you’ll also like Ewan McGregor’s very similar trip (which was done with a much larger production budget). He did one from the UK to New York (by going East), and another from the UK to South Africa.

The roof wasn’t likely to be “fixed” anyways, if it ever were to be repaired, it would’ve been a cut & weld job. Only way it likely raised the bill at all would be if the door was pristine (or at least untouched) before.

Either way, if the car was short of a total loss before, the owner would likely appreciate anything…

I’ve used this strategy at autocross before. Most corners exit speed nearly trumps all... except when there’s a corner right before the lights. It matters how quickly you can break the beam, not HOW you break the beam. If it’s an option, just throw the car in there, and then sort it out later.

That was my thought as well - especially being so close to the edge of a road. You’d think there would’ve at least been some road maintenance guys inspecting things on the side of the road since then.

However, I looked up it’s exact location, and it makes a bit more sense now. It appears to be in a ravine off a…

Not to mention - with how much an F355 depreciates it there’s any record of any “non-authorized” shops working on it, just imagine what an F2001 would do.

Optional or not - it would be highly desirable to have factory support when it comes to maintaining and and operating the car.

I’ve driven cars that were near impossible to shift below 0 degrees, and cars that could care less that it was that cold, and sometimes it was the same car in both cases, just with different gearbox oil.

I wouldn’t be surprised in Honda has just spec’d some higher-temp oil to make the gearbox hold up to higher loads…

With F1 budgets being what they are, even the “poor” teams would have enough money to claim any car on the grid as well. You might as well just make it a rule that the “haves” have to give a copy of their car to the “have nots” every race. Alternatively, you could just raise the price high enough that they don’t do…

Claimer rules only work in series where actual production costs are what rule makers are trying to keep in check. In F1 90%+ of the budget is spent on R&D, and not on production. If the smaller teams could just show up at a Grand Prix weekend, and “buy” a top car, it would actually be a lot cheaper than actually…

I’ve melted aluminum cans in a bonfire before. Google tells me that aluminum melts at 1221*F, and that burning charcoal can reach 4890*F (given adequate oxygen), so I don’t think it’s much of a reach.

The last time I was at the local Lexus dealership, literally every car on the lot was one of three ‘tones’ of silver.

Seems simple: Write a rule into the F1 rule book disallowing teams from competing in a race weekend if any team member has had contact with an individual who was employed as an FIA official or a member of another team within the last XX months*.

I would think that unless the race was called via a red flag, the winner should be the driver who completed the maximum distance, with second on back being based on distance traveled.