To throw your hands up and say “driving fast is dangerous” is not an acceptable solution to safety issues surrounding race tracks. On modern tracks, walls can be moved and angled, and energy reducing barriers can be added.

You are correct, oil is cooled in the front radiator.

Busch never waits for the replay - he lives in his own universe

NASCAR does race in the rain on road courses. Most recently at Mid Ohio in the Xfinity series last year.

Brake steer is a great way to burn right through your expensive ass carbon brakes.

I have to think that this move was to stay on the good side of Trump/Pence, especially after Subaru and Pence had a disagreement earlier this year.

that’s not a thing.

it’s adding spacers to a body on frame car to raise the body up cheaply without having to do large modifications to the suspension

They have been sponsoring Ryan Hunter-Reay for a few years in Indycar

live telemetry is not allowed in the race.

Toyota’s advantage does not come from bribing NASCAR. Toyota’s advantage comes from outspending Ford Performance and Pratt & Miller on R&D by a factor of around 2. Depending on who you ask, Toyota is about 2-3 years ahead of Ford and Chevy on simulation technology.

I ... feel ... so ... betrayed!

He only stopped racing a couple of years ago. He was running for Mercedes before Mercedes got good - I don’t think there’s anyone out that that thinks he couldn’t hang with either Mercedes driver.

well he doesn’t work for NASCAR - not sure what that affects

He also acts like he is totally forced to leave off 1-2 lug nuts at every stop. If he were truly concerned about safety he would demand that his team hit all 5 lug nuts in the same way that Jacky Ickx walked to his car at Le Mans. Pay the time consequence in order to make a statement.

the current templates are asymmetric

you don’t really want to do that until you’re actually spinning - if you lift too soon it will snap, which is what happened here.

depends on the suspension geometry and the motion ratios of the bars. If your front bar attaches closer to the wheel than the rear bar does then you could have a smaller actual bar up front that is effectively stiffer due to mechanical advantage.

The geometry in this pic tells the story - the sway bar attaches directly to the strut instead of to the control arm. You can see the gold/red endlink coming from the sway bar and going up, attaching just out of shot to a point on the strut. In most cars, the endlink goes down onto the control arm which acts as a…

the engine sits in front of the wheels so that the symmetrical awd system can work (and eliminate torque steer) and so that there is no shift linkage necessary.