sidewaysondirt
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
sidewaysondirt

I like ridiculous tiny cars. I’m seriously thinking about selling my BRZ and buying a Mirage.

What? These things are so easy to drive and just smooth out as they go faster.

Yeah, it’s all about treating the throttle like it has an egg under it. Tiny input changes change the entire balance of the car. That’s what I love about it. Lift a bit and you’re on the nose. Give it gas and it pushes. Find the sweet spot and you’re right on the edge through the turn.

I’ve spun mine at half that speed in the rain. I wasn’t even pushing. I was just suddenly facing the other way.

So hard to sedate, Bill Cosby gave up.

OMG, I LOVE IT! If they sold that Spark here, I might buy a used one.

AW11 MR2. It WILL try to kill you every chance it gets. This one especially.

Ear plugs are my best friends. Friends make fun of me at shows for wearing them, but I can still hear and they’re already starting to get damage.

I totally misread the brand and was wondering why a Senna helmet isn’t yellow.

The news coverage these days may as well be a reality TV show.

McLaren were about engineering finesse. Now I don’t know.

It looks to me like that would be the case, but with cars like this, it’s not usually as big of a deal as you’d think. They’re usually designed to drop out of the bottom without much fuss.

Jump test.

It’s a mid engine’d car. There isn’t that much of a need to get to the top of the engine as the engine’s going to be dropped out of the bottom if it needs serious service anyway.

Went?

Oh yeah, not saying it wasn’t fun. Just surprised at how thorough it was. Part way through I scrolled down to see how much was left and was surprised to see that I had just started.

Stef, has anything come out about his backing yet? I’ve heard rumors that his backers will be more prominent at COTA, but I’m curious about what kind of package he can put together. He’s probably paying for the Manor drive and it doesn’t seem likely that he can get a seat at any other team at the moment. Pascal

This is an unreasonably long and thorough analysis of something that doesn’t matter.

Jeez, that’s rough.

In Florida, if you pass your driver’s ed class, you don’t have to take the driving test. They do make you take the vision test without your glasses still even if you can’t see without your glasses and tell them that.