I was hoping for something like this.

The Oregon Air National Guard does indeed have some fun. I'm not in Cottage Grove, but still get to see 'em flying over at times.

Sometime I should tell you the story

Sounds like a hard lesson for both teen and parent.

iStig

They say that it takes half a second for a driver to react to a car in front of them slamming on the brakes. Let's see if I remember my TSD rally math here...

Absolutely amazing

Not a bad idea. It needs some fine tuning, but not a bad idea.

I don't know about the car, but I see two methods:

A big enough impact will bend any cage. I bent my rally cars' roll cage on a tree (and again a year later on the ground during a snap roll). Both times the cage was overbuilt for the current rally specification (circa 1999-2000), using thicker walled tubing and larger diameter tubing for the main hoop (though that…

Most likely Petter wasn't navigating because there wasn't enough time to teach him how to read Chris Patterson's notes. Each co-driver has their own way of marking the book, and the driver doesn't need to really know, since the commands are given verbally. It was probably more efficient to let Petter give…

Lifting off in FWD is a blast, especially when using it to induce oversteer.

First we need a return of the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage.

I both hate you, and want to be you.

Relevant...

Sure, the lifeboat survives the fall. How about the folks inside?