In other minor complaints, I'd like to be able to shift gears with the lever. In a turn or away from a stop, it's sort of a natural impulse to reach down to the console. The paddles feel good and have a great weight, but the option to use the lever would be a nice touch.

Rally cars usually have special jack stands that insert into sockets on the frame like this:

Jason, apparently I'm late to the comments on this, but wow- I was thinking of the EXACT same thing last week. In fact, I'm wondering if you're spying on me somehow.

Patrick, I agree, but I'd like your opinion on this one, my favorite and most inspirational:

From the level of interest you've been showing, it seems like you might enjoy reading through our team's blog (go through the "past rallies"):

Hah, Perce Neige... What an event. In 2012 I remember it being in the double digits in the negative every morning, and every surface was covered in ice. At service we set up our tent and draped tarps from all the sides, and set up our propane heater. This gave us a nicely insulated heated working area- and we were the…

I just wanted to add that the role of "sets up the car and diagnoses things" gets to drive the car a lot too- just not at the events.

Raphael- I kept looking for you around the service park throughout the event but didn't end up finding you. Were you really there? I wanted to say hi.

BTW, this is the "Phil Mills Crash Position" we were referencing in the video:

The kind of people who volunteer to be codrivers are actually looking forward to this kind of torment.

"literally no one ever takes their kids to school in a GT-R"