I think he forgot to drop the tire size down about 6 inches, just maybe.

Van Der Mark also has ridden [the same bike] 26 races more than Hayden. This is VDM’s second season on same bike, he was only 1 place ahead of Hayden on the second race last weekend. That must tell you something doesn’t it.

http://www.worldsbk.com has a season pass which lasts all year. You can stream live or watch any past race from like 10 years ago to present.

Nothing in that race was dirty. Not that I could see.

100%

I’m going to have to disagree with your assessment of Nicky Hayden.

Thank you Doug! This is the best birthday present anyone could give me. I was starting to think how I would make it through the rest of the work-day, but now I’ll be fine.

Elio next-gen rotary confirmed.

Bring a few rolls of duct tape and zip ties.

I understand that, but 10% performance loss is not that much considering they are dumping 40x NOx into atmosphere every day. I get the 10% performance loss from here.

I don’t think having a buy-in tax then even distribution makes sense. Did we learn nothing from USSR? I agree that a $.50 - $1 gas tax could be beneficial, but not sure where that money would go or how much would be wasted, you know, government red tape and all.

I don’t get it, why can’t VW issue a firmware fix for the emissions issue. If they can detect when the car is being tested, and put it into “limp mode”, they can certainly issue a firmware fix to have the car permanently in “limp mode”. That could have been a day 1 fix. While researching other possible fixes.

Have you ever heard of driveline binding?

And ruin your transmission at the same time, yeah, sounds like a good plan.

Steering wheel on my MINI Cooper has bluetooth controls but car does not have bluetooth.

I thought you were gonna say just park next to the Alpha car, then you will be OK, but that’s not what you said, now is it?

93,000 miles is nothing, when you have 238,000 miles on a 26 year old engine, then you can brag to me when you are still changing your oil every 8,200 or 10,000 miles.

Or if you have a mini cooper, you have to pay for a TSB firmware fix out of your own pocket.

I can’t believe the value you can find out there on 5-10 year old cars. Assuming that you are picking up a “reliable” vehicle, modern cars are so much more reliable than they were in the past. I have picked up 3 used cars in the last 3 years for less than $40K combined, none of them have given me crazy repair bills. I…

Well if you want power slides you will have to watch McCoy or Stoner videos, both of those guys were in MotoGP. Marquez slides a little bit but not much compared to those two.

WSBK like someone else mentioned I can’t think of anyone recently who slides. You will have to go back at least a decade or two before all the…