if Tesla lines its trailer floor with battery cells

Same problem as most local dirt tracks, the “catch fence” is really just fence posts and fabric you’d find in someone’s yard that was bought from Home Depot. It looks okay but fails the instant a car touches it.

Can’t help thinking of Francois Cevert.

Looks like Trey didn’t take the 405 to the 5 after all.

Per Hot Rod, so maybe not better?

You’ve pretty much drawn up Craig Breedlove’s streamliner dragster.

Plot twist: Dude at the end is drinking Tour Water.

Gotcha, perspective is everything.

Does that cage pass Car/Truck Safetyand Construction rule 5.A? It really looks like your helmet is above the top of the cage, the rules say the main cage hoop must be two inches above the helmet.

Some people need to travel with the motorsport circus to get a better understanding of how it’s not like a typical job, sure many people may line up to do it but not many stay with it for the long haul, it easily breaks people. Domestic championships have a bit less strain than International championships, the…

Shows a bit the pointlessness of super cars if a race car based on a little economy hatchback can beat them around a circuit.

Even so, for a ~300hp vehicle to be faster than a ~900hp “super” car around the National circuit with its long straights is quite surprising.

FWD can be quicker than faster, heavier RWD / AWD cars. Case in point, remember when the P1, 918 and LaFerrari set times around Silverstone National? The driver, Mat Jackson, set a faster lap record in his FWD BTCC car than these “super” cars that have more power, which is surprising since the National layout has the…

Not really, even at “pedestrian” speeds the gravity effect is counter-acted by the centripetal force of cornering. I’ve done a few (hundred?) laps in non-race vehicles and within reason gravity doesn’t affect the vehicle too much if you’re moving, only at low speed (<15mph) is there an issue.

Robb, very nice write-up, it’s fun hearing reasoning behind design choices.

Don’t let the bastards get you down.

You’re kinda correct, the name doesn’t mean they’re actually rare.

The drunks are why I don’t miss Nascar weekend, between the fights at stripper poles (between dudes, no less) and people trying to bum rides by saying their partner lost a leg in the war (yet two human legs clearly visible wearing shorts) it was an interesting life experience.

That’s not what I said, I said food shouldn’t be buried in a bag, i.e. should be near the top and easily accessible. Though I tend to fly with bananas and other fruit which shouldn’t be squashed, haven’t flown with grits or anything like that though I wouldn’t bury them either.

Bernie is the same person who recently said races are paying too much to host F1, which is his fault but it’s okay because he had to do it for shareholders, but Liberty doesn’t have to so it’s bad.