a hard budget cap, with the whole damn thing managed by an external escrow company. every penny the team spends has to flow through the escrow account.

probably because they found that Masi acted both within the rules and independently.

both Merc and RB were yammering in his ear. earlier in the race Merc demanded no safety car when it should have been one and then tried to prevent the safety car from being recalled at the end of the race. RB wanted a safety car in the…

yeah, no.

honestly I can’t tell you which alphabet soup acura is which. but it looks like they took the bumper cover/grill shell off whatever is the current small acura sedan and slapped it on a civic.

sprint races suck because they completely devalue actual qualifying and grid penalties in favor of race pace and tire strategy.

it just doesn’t look different enough from a civic. it looks like the effort meter maxxed out at throwing on a new front grille shell on the civic.

the old integra, while still just being a civic SI under the bodywork had very different bodywork across the whole car.

honda didn’t even offer a fastback civic, only the…

by going with IFS, they also made it a hell of a lot better at being an on road vehicle, which, just like jeeps, is where 99% of them will spend 99% of their time.

hot take, the only thing wrong with the ‘53 vette is ‘Murica

the white scribble should come down to the crease on the doors.

I would really like to be a fan of FE, but since it only exists on a non-existent cable channel, I guess I won’t be.

they generally don’t, and on the rare occaisions that they do, they leave out the snark.

if you go back 4 months rather than just 6 weeks on Ford there are another 5 recalls.

ford has had 7 recalls since Jan 1 for things like fire, fire, driveshafts falling off, bad brakes, rolling away, rolling away again, improperly installed seatbelts...

Ford has had 7 recalls since January 1.

for things like cars catching fire, seatbelts not being properly attached, rolling away, fire again, rolling away again, driveshafts falling the fuck off.

but yeah, tesla’s speakers not being quite loud enough is a mortal fucking sin.

I absolutely do not buy that those are the sidepods they are planning to use.
first of all the vents on top are something _every_ team has abandoned over the last 10 years in favor of as few outlets as possible and nothing that would affect smooth flow over/around the sidepods into the coke bottle.

secondly, they look…

maximizing airflow into the coke bottle will be, if anything, even more important this year due to the return of the beam wing and the banning of all the aero furniture that has been used for the last 8 years to guide & shape air around the sides of the sidepods. designing the sidepods to bring the airflow down off…

yeah, no. they took the most recent FIA model (where Red Bull used a very old one) and slapped a few half assed panels on it to make it look a bit different. for sure they put more effort in than Red Bull, but this is unlikely to have very much resemblance to the car that shows up in spain next weekend.

the cooling…

someone (jason) hasn’t been paying attention for the last 6 years.

this is like a nightmare real world version of Marshall’s Fiero with “I would walk 500 miles” stuck in the tape deck

they should take a lesson from the youropeens and sell customer “track day” versions of this to rich fuckers.

the two best episodes so far (and really the only good ones, the rest are just cheesy) are the one where they walked through Boba’s history with the sand people and the first of the 2 mando focused episodes.