The irony of the first post linked in the little ‘related stories’ thing below being ‘Ten annoying things non-car people say’ is so fucking delicious, I’m not going to eat for the rest of the day.

“How hard should I brake?”

The same Chris Evans who when on Top Gear said that the Porsche 968 only ever came with a Tiptronic.

Hundreds and hundreds of MGBs were destroyed as cheap race cars in the early to mid eighties...

The Miata, like its MGB forebear will be the eternally affordable classic. They made so many of the damn things that there are always going to be lots available, from complete restoration basket case to immaculate show queen.

Bad Ferraris could perhaps be relevant to the later, somewhat asthmatic 308i, and the umpteen ruined Quattrovalvoles which still pollute the market. The original, fibreglass-bodied, dry sump 308 is a fantastic car with rally pedigree to boot as well as being quite a rare beast.

Carbon fibre steering wheel in a car fast enough to induce sweaty palms?

Everything he tries.

You think that’s drifting. How quaint.

The diesel-burning heathens are beaten!

Another Bowlby pie-in-the-sky project. Kudos to them for trying, but if everyone else is running amidships engines driving the rear wheels and electric power to the front, there must be a reason. Sometimes different is cool, I don’t think racing is one of those times.

I’ll have to take your word for that. You sound like the consummate motorsport professional. How many Le Mans have you competed in?

Considering the choices were grass or rear end of other car the ‘rookie’ (really? A fucking factory Audi driver is a ‘rookie?’) managed it pretty well.

Never let the facts get in the way of some good clickbait.

Erm, botched pass? Are we watching the same event? That wasn’t a botched pass, he was taking evasive action to avoid cannonballing into the two dawdling GT cars.

And a few years ago it would have been Porsche. It’s a simple numbers game, there are more of them than any other car because Ferrari has an extremely strong customer racing program and they sell more of them to gentlemen drivers (slower, less talented people with money to burn). There are more of them out there so…

Again, sorry to be the pedant, but the Audi crash was caused by McNish going for a gap that wasn’t there.

Apparently the throttle stuck open, you can hear it bouncing off the limiter after the impact.

I know it’s fun to blame everything on Ferrari on Jalopnik because Ferrari is the antichrist, but I thought it would be helpful to point out that it was a Toyota which knocked the Nissan into the wall.

The morphing bit was fantastic, the transparently fake driving through Paris bit on the other hand was terrible.