You’re a great social worker every moment you put that car out on the roads. Enjoy safely and in good health!

Nice!

Truly wonderful cars, they will be missed. We can at least be happy that it went out on the top of it’s game. And while I am proud that FCA never caved and gave it an auto, I am sure that isn’t helping it’s sales numbers. I’m gonna go home and give mine a big hug.

My 2003 Acura RSX Type S doesn’t cut power when brake and throttle are engaged. Is this something that only automatic cars do, or are new FWD cars with manuals also part of this? I know that newer BMWs with sticks don’t do this, and my 2014 FR-S doesn’t do it either.

Hobbs is hilarious, Diffey’s calls are fantastic, and Matchett has great technical insight. Add on Buxton’s pit reporting (walks up to Enrique Iglesias... “Who’s your hero for this race?” hahaha!), and the NBC crew is pretty great. They’re hampered by their network, and all the commercials.

I miss Bob Varsha’s F1 commentary.

Eh, if you used lasers and the bolts had nuts had sensors, the robot could technically figure out the velocity as the car enters an area, lets say when it dives in to the box—and be able to follow the center of the wheels to a stop. However, I must say, I don’t think you can get a robot to do it any quicker. The only…

Really impressive stuff, meanwhile at Redbull.....WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE TIRES?! lol

If something so basic and fundamentally important as the gear selector is so confusing that people cannot figure it out, then I’d call that broken, regardless of whether or not it was actually malfunctioning.

I think what he's saying is the non-lead GTs were running faster than the lead car, presumably to catch up. Just because the car is in the lead, doesn't mean it's turning the fastest laps.

I’m all for building a better car and running away with the race, if that’s how the series is setup, but that’s not how the WEC is set up.

There’s no point of class divisions at all if they all just make the fastest car they can. 7% likely is arbitrary, but there needs to be a distinction between or definition of each class. If the only distinction is that one’s a road car and the other isn’t, you’d see some pretty crazy homologation specials as…

Agreed, if anything all that Le Man really showed us was that the GTs can be very quick (maybe already knew that) and can hold up for 24 hours, which we hadn’t seen yet. It definitely doesn’t hurt that the GTs arguably had the most star studded cast of the GTE field which nobody seems to be mentioning.

My thoughts exactly. Ford obviously sandbagging during test day to gain a BoP advantage. ACO I think was in on the whole thing, hence the weight break before the test day happened.

Stef are you seeing these penalties and complaints between Ford / Ferrari?

The Jalopnik bump lives! Recent Q&A feature Jeff Segal’s Scuderia Corsa team cruised to a 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in the LM GTE Am class. Congrats to the No. 62 team for taking their Ferrari 458 Italia to the top of the podium!

Yeah, it makes no sense for the Ferrari and Ford to receive increased restrictions (weight penalty and boost/rpm reduction) and STILL be faster than they were in final qualifying. It may as well have been a different classification between the turbo cars and the naturally aspirated cars.

So the Chevy car being more detuned means they built a worse car than Ford? Your argument is shit. Just the fact that Ford was allowed to bring four cars should be indication enough of a unbalanced field even if you forget the BOP.

its called sandbagging, Noob. Congrats to Ford for doing it better than Ferrari.!