headline implies Verstappen won because LeClerc spun, when in reality, Verstappen dominated the whole weekend except for the start of the sprint race.

LeClerc couldn’t keep within DRS range of Perez at all and his one opportunity came when Perez lost 4 seconds due to straightlineing the chicane over the grass and…

wow,  cool, I guess you could set up a pretty good course (particularly if you ran it all the way around the perimeter road then used some of the interior roads as an infield.)

in a spec series like Indycar, does it matter how old the car is? as long as it is up to the latest safety standards and produces close, exciting racing who cares about if it is a brand new design?

yes, as was the previous AF-1. they were 747-200s, delivered to the AF in 1990 about 5 years after the -400 went on offer and about a year after the -400 entered commercial service.  IIRC they were already talking about parts issues due to it being a discontinued aircraft within about 5 years of it going into…

you would think they could work something out where they bolt wings above wings to make a biplane and then stuff more wings inside....

the whole island is about 1.25 miles from end to end the long way. the longest straight section of road is less than 0.4 miles, even the bridge is only 0.8 miles long.

make for a hell of a shifter cart track, but not F1 without bulldozing the whole island and starting fresh.

when they built it it was surrounded by mosquito infested swampland and the east river was basically a sewer..

today it is between the two runways of LGA, so would be noisy as fuck to live there, only one way on or off the island so traffic would be a shit show

I think a better use would be to fix our broken drug laws which are responsible for a large percentage of the inmates then sell the whole thing off to a real estate developer to be converted into boutique condominiums like Stuyvesant Town or Governor’s Island.

the new hot real estate trend would be “mid century modern …

not surprisingly, the world has changed a lot since mr. honda was 25 and even since he died in ‘91.  drunk driving was normal when he was 25, “geishas” (i.e. nice name for prostitute) were (and continue to be) seen as less than deserving of protection from the law, men were expected to be assholes etc.

I agree it is lower middle to middle middle.

I know where I live, the last 2 years have seen >50% increase across the board in housing prices (i.e. a $200k house in early 2020 is now over $300k and the percentage gain seems to be a U curve with the highest increases at the bottom and the top)

right, and none of those things are true here.

what percentage of residents object?  I bet it is a very loud, but small percentage.

“some” residents, by no means all.

2 years ago a lot of those houses were in the low to mid 200s.  the pandemic real estate idiocy boom has really distorted the market.

bodywork, lights etc are basically irreplaceable on these cars.  you think it is silly when some classic car restorer wants $5k for a rear window for a first gen barracuda, wait until you try to replace the tail lights on this thing.

“ Dreamlifter, a modified 747-400 that carries 787 Dreamliner assemblies on its wings.”

uh, no, it carries them inside its giganto superguppyfied fuselage after hinging open the entire back half:

wait, she was wrong on the vermont loophole? firstly that makes me sad, because I love me some backdoor shenanigans to put one over on the man.

not a fan of the striped paint jobs, but otherwise a very pretty car.

anything over about a 3" lift should not be road legal and the bumper (and related crash structures) and headlight heights need to be mandated to remain at stock height regardless of lift.

I mean, there was a whole show devoted to “restoring” rare numbers matching ‘69 mopars by digging a rusted and crushed hulk out of a forest or a dump, salvaging the block and the vin tag and “restoring” it by building an entirely new car out of NOS and repro parts then welding in the old vin tag and doing an acid dip…