3500 and counting people on this site just read a story while marginally thinking of the Chevy Cruze. Mission accomplished, and I bet Annalisa Bluhm is extremely pleased.

I watched with the members.24h-lemans.com stream, and a couple times when the cars were coming out of the slow zones while showing onboard-cameras, it was just insane seeing the fully-charged LMP1 cars overtake whatever chumps were in front of them. Even when those chumps were the quite-powerful P2 cars.

Good outcome: It turns out all the models crash-test the same, and this is indeed extra bracing to make up for the bigger size.
Bad outcome: It turns out Ford up-armored the only one that was going to get tested.

The engines aren’t used one-per-race. I don’t believe Mercedes have actually switched engines on either driver yet. I think Ferrari just did their first swap, mainly to get the engine upgrades they just produced.

He asked “how is the other car doing on fuel”, but the ‘other’ was pretty short/clipped. You’re not allowed getting data about the other driver like that.

That’s true, but when your bid to supply the engine for the next 100 F35s depends on your engine’s performance on the _previous_ 100 F35s, it aligns everyone’e incentives. The manufacturers would want to supply reliable engines so that they can continue selling them, and so would try harder to do so. As it is, P&W…

Ars Technica has a former-Navy writer that served on the Iowas who has put up some really excellent articles in the last couple months. Foxtrot Alpha should get him on staff :)

If you take a peek on google maps, the submerged Arizona is about 500ft in front of the very-not-submerged USS Missouri. If you’re hitting the Arizona, you’re awful close to hitting the shore or the Missouri.

San Antonio’s chart is just nuts. They’re basically right at the top for 16 years straight. Most other teams have golden years (or droughts) that only last for a couple years before going back to average.

I think both sides are right here.

Part of the idea of the factory is that by manufacturing at such a huge scale, they’ll drop prices for batteries hence drop prices for cars, and therefore create much more demand for the cars. They’re basically taking an enormous risk (partially funded by the Nevada taxpayer/gambler) that by scaling up, prices will…

Sounds like the bigwigs are meeting in a trailer right now for an on-the-fly rule change to improve safety.

If you get to the point where this activates, you were going to have an accident. Period. Much better for you from an insurance perspective to get rear-ended (means the guy following was following too close) than to rear-end another car or punt a pedestrian.

Fuelly.org is a great place to go to get driver’s reports.

The distance is easy for the 2nd explosion - just count how long it takes for the shockwave to arrive. I counted about 6 seconds, so it’d be about 2km from the cameraman.

Come on little thruster, you can do it!

I loved the 2008 cars, especially the McLaren. So purposeful, with every curve and extrusion molded to produce more downforce.

By having the pot in the middle you have already disrespected the game, since the pot is not in the rules :-)

The engine manufacturers likely make a profit per marginal engine sold, and these things aren't cheap. They're developed for a targeted price point of something like $10M/apiece. If Merc had done all their R&D and manufacturing budgeting planning on selling 24 engines/year and then RB wanted to buy another 8, that'd…

Ah ok. So assuming Horton never plays again, on opening day each year they need to be $5M short of the cap (to make room for Horton's corpse), but once opening day passes they can hire $5M of help for 99% of a season?