Wrecks were something a lot of people joked about Patrick for, but the jokes and attention to her wrecks were unwarranted. People paid more attention to her because she was a woman, and judged her harder

The scene in Two Lane Blacktop where The Mechanic talks about changing their carb jets, long before EFI you had to manually keep your air/fuel ratio in check and be mindful of changing altitude during your cross-country trek.

Speaking of EDM at race tracks, the people at Insomniac (Eelectric Daisy Carnival, Electric Forest, etc.) once had an EDM concert at the track I used to work at. The last night heavy rain hit the area which resulted in their main stage being surrounded by mud in the tri-oval, you can imagine how fun that was to…

So much engineering went into the car, the front uprights have one half of the brake calipers built into them and other neat things. There’s a thread on Pistonheads where a (now-former) engineer on the project documented a lot of the build, you could lose a day or two reading through the entire thing here:

If you haven’t been watching Gymkhana Files, what have you been doing with your life?

Show of hands, who here has actually responded to a rolled-over racing vehicle?

Tires are apparently TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane).

So it’s an 8-into-1 header configuration? The article really isn’t clear on that.

It pretty much is, it’s an Evinrude 2-stroke v8.

Never seen it.

Gives a whole new meaning to “cooking the books.”

if bones started breaking probably just call the amberlamps.

For anyone interested the sim pictured above is rFactor.

Negative ghost rider, honestly don’t know who the driver was.

The net went upward because he hit the bottom of the net. There’s ropes in both top and bottom of the nets with energy absorbing systems for each rope, the car maxed out the lower rope before the top rope and that’s why it went upward. It also hit the second net which certainly didn’t help things.

...Really? Darrell Waltrip was making that joke well over a decade ago.

Remember that time Mark Webber fractured his shoulder mountain biking in 2010 and is speculated to be the reason why he lost the WDC?

Yep, here’s another one.

They did, but each template was measured independently of each other as opposed to The Claw being used today. So for example the rear bumper was one template, as long as the bumper template fit you “could” put the bumper wherever you wanted. Rinse/repeat for the entire car and you end up with funky shapes as seen…

Back in the day (90s to mid-2000s) the oval cars were very specialized for ovals, from the usual suspension points to such extremes as asymmetrical bodies. This is why teams build cars for SuperSpeedways, Intermediates, Short Tracks, and Road Courses because each car was literally different. Here’s an old Harvick car…