Who says subliminal advertising doesn’t work.

I love it - nine of the ten teams are essentially saying, unless we can do better, I’d rather take my chances than look that stupid. It’s not a ridiculous sentiment.

Also, the 911 GT3R Hybrid had a humongous flywheel sitting in the passenger seat. Perhaps you’d argue that it wasn’t the whole engine, but it weighed 103 lb, and was able to give 163 hp of boost (for six seconds, but ignore that), so significant enough to be a full engine by many measures. And, of course, located…

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I’d still think twice before placing myself mere inches away from his bumper as he hoons a car that was never meant to rally down a dirt and gravel path though. Just takes one brief moment of lost traction to carve a slightly different line that includes you and your camera.

Trust me, I’m not.

Never knew that was supposed to be a proper name. Thanks for pointing that out.

My post (albeit with the wrong euphamism) was aimed at the fact that this is an awfully nice road-track car. Seems a shame to beat on it like a rally car and risk breaking it when that’s not what it’s meant to do.

To me, the perforations remind me of a cat’s muzzle (where the whiskers come out). Perhaps Jaguar was going for this, given their name, but other car companies may not want this same association.

“Some of Central Park’s lovely mature trees would have had to go in order to make a safe track to race on, and that was a hard no for a racing series trying to promote itself as the cool new environmentally-friendly future.”

And why were those people stooping down just inches from the road to get a picture of this guy? It’s crazy enough when pro photographers do this at real rally events where the drivers are the best in the world. But this is some amateur who is abusing an RWD road car on a dirt track — they are lucky to be alive.

What in Sam hell is wrong with this asshole.

Yes. Stancing is like bad plastic surgery, and here it’s been applied to a patient that looked good to start with, making it particularly shameful.

Torro Roso manager: Dammit! That’s twice! I want some butts!

Me too. I looked on Wikipedia, and it says that Zylon has 1.6 times the tensile strength of Kevlar, so I guess it’s pretty damned strong. That said, I seem to recall from Boyscouts that the bowline was the only knot that would allow the rope to break before the knot came undone (seems like that must be wrong…

Seems like a weird tack to take for Toro Rosso. My gut says he was just acting out the Iceman-Maverick back-and-forth, and the FIA guy didn’t know he was kidding:

“taking a backseat in driverless car communication” — very clever. Well done there.

Hopefully as low as the flight ever gets. Hopefully.

Thank you. This is a timely reminder that the past also sucked.

Ah, 80's skiwear. Brings back memories.

Mondial? (I’m ignoring the part about him not driving stick, because I frankly think I must be hallucinating to have read that sentence on this blog.)