If anything, the only pretending is that non-wealthy people can make it into F1. Even the best of talents have to prove themselves worthy before they can get that first (even modest) sponsorship check. Getting to that first rung of the ladder that even offers a sponsorship check anything close to covering your…

Burdick Mitsubishi in Syracuse, NY had two or three Evo X’s still sitting there last I checked, all listed for MSRP.

Ask the local Mitsubishi dealer with three “New” Evo’s still sitting on the lot

Which makes me wonder - why not buy an actual GT3R? Coming from someone who’s owned stupid fast track toys, even the fastest of them get boring after a while if you’re in a class of your own.  With a production run limited to 200 examples, what are the odds you’ll see another one show up at a local event?  Get the…

I agree. I think most of the drama is that the driver felt there was a fire (perhaps he felt or saw something we didn’t). I think the only improvement would’ve been if the marshals could’ve relayed to him that there was no visible fire, and why they were delaying extraction. Once the F1 doc arrived (who presumably was…

To be fair, he’s been saying the same thing for years.  Right after the first prototypes of the halo were seen, he went on record saying what their response would be should the driver be trapped upside down in a burning car.  His response then, and the marshall’s response at Yas Marina, was that it’s incredibly…

She sits in the passenger seat

I came here to say the same thing. It’s a size roughly between a modern 3 series and a modern 5 series.

Makes you wonder how big the 7 series of 2050 will be.  Will you even be able to drive one without a CDL?

Even with boost-by-gear, the car should have it’s maximum rate of acceleration when it’s traction limited (assuming no wheel spin). Almost by definition, that’s when it’s putting the maximum torque through the wheels, and thus has maximum acceleration.

He mentions the GPS system having a 0.05s refresh rate, but doesn’t…

A hydraulic valve body works much like an integrated circuit in a computer. Valves replace transistors, channels replace traces, etc. They can certainly be complicated, just as a CPU with billions of transistors is - but they’re both just combinations of many, many simple circuits.

Basically - he struck gold.  My guess is he got financing for the restoration, and we’ll soon see it go for several million on the auction block.

FWIW, carbon fiber is actually quite flexible when molded the right way. If you held a thin single-layer sheet of it, it feels about as rigid as a piece of cardstock (although nowhere near as thick).

There’s actually several examples of carbon being used in flexible components. Probably one most people have felt is a…

Most rediculous way possible?

I’m sure they were wise enough to never actually promise they will only ever build 500 GT’s.  They could’ve said “plan to build...” or even just said “500 2018 Ford GT’s”, with the new ones being “2019's”.

“Winter” tires have now basically split into two sub-sections:
“Performance Winter” tires are more tuned for cold and dry, but occasionally wet or ice/light snow.
“Studless Winter” tires are more tuned for deep snow/ice/slush

Basically it means that at room temperature the pistons are actually bigger than the cylinder bores, which means that you couldn’t possibly turn the engine over without causing serious damage (if you could even get it to turn over).

Instead what they do is hook the cooling systems up to an external heater to heat the…

The service intervals will be short, but at the same time, these won’t be daily drivers. These will be garage queens that will maybe see a few days of use, and possibly as many as 2-3000 miles/year... maybe.

That was my thought as well.  I suspect they thought of it as well though, so I’m sure there’s more to the story.

They do - below operating temp they’re effectively seized. They also need to be stored (even when not installed in a car) on a rudimentary life support system to keep the pneumatic valves from collapsing.

I’m sure they just opened the tolerances up a bit for this engine to allow it to serve street car duty.  This may…

I guess that’s possible, but I think it’s more likely he thought it was more special than it was.