You're confusing your mediums. The Bikini/fitness model look has never favored the waif-thin fashion model type. None of the girls that SI have featured have ever really had the "anorexic-heroin chic" type look.

Thank you. That's the first thing I've been thinking every time I see this story brought up. Kate Upton isn't a "tiny" girl, and she's been on the cover.

Cardio dude, it fixes a lot of things.

Exactly. She's the hot chick that hit the freshman 40 and now subsists on a diet of 4 redd's apple ales a night. She's a good looking bigger girl, but this bullshit of "Oh, she's a NORMAL woman" has to stop. She's overweight, she's doughy. Normal people that are active and don't gorge themselves don't look like this.

Which part is confusing to you? Different classes, different rulesets that are class specific, and a different rule violation. WTR violated a safety rule by about 4 minutes, caught themselves, brought themselves in, taking themselves out of the race for the win, served the penalty for pitting at the time they did,…

In no way was it the same thing, nor was it the same rule. Different classes, different rules, and way different infractions.

That is essentially what the rule is. Every "Am" rated driver must have at least 4 1/2 hours in the car. There's a max of two "gold" or pro level guys allowed on an am team like that, with a max of 5 drivers allowed. This team was waaaaay under on their times.

What do you mean "the ad campaign hasn't started yet"? They've been running commercials hard since the beginning of College Football season. The CFB playoffs were almost wall-to-wall Colorado ads.

That's rose tinged nostalgia. Go read contemporary Nascar stuff going back to the early 70s, they guy who could bring funds got the ride, this isn't a new thing.

Pissed?

Today? When has it not been? It's racing, it's never been cheap. The guy that brings money is going to get more opportunities than the guy with an empty wallet. Been that way since the 20s.

You say that sarcastically, but it's honestly the truth. Look at the current cup grid. You've got a handful of "top" guys in pretty big contracts, then you've got your mid pack guys like Vickers, Truex, Almendinger, Kahne, etc who can run top 15 all day and occasionally challenge for wins, then you've got your back…

The last 5 years of its existence, there were more Grand Am teams running at Le Mans than there were ALMS programs. The ALMS programs almost always turned down the Le Mans invite. The "automatic" bids were pretty much a farce, as none of the teams outside of Corvette ever had any real intentions of racing overseas.

Dyson and Muscle Milk both ran P1 for years in the ALMS, received numerous invites to run Le Mans, and turned them down each and every time. Dodge received an invite to run Le Mans this past year and refused it as well. Having a legal car is no guarantee of anyone actually wanting to run the race. If the money was…

Like who?

Yea, let's do a big story on the guys who are running away from Tudor because they can't compete in the Pro class, resorting to the "AM" mandated P2 classes in the WEC. Maybe they can last more than 3 hours before blowing up.

Plenty of US teams with ACO invites have received them and turned it down, Dyson, Muscle Milk, Viper, etc all within the past couple of years. Who do you think IMSA should have given them to? ESM is off the table after their nonsense, Shank barely had a pot to piss in until a few weeks before the 24. Everyone else is…

Nope. The P2 cars are faster, clearly. The P2 teams are not. It's as simple as that. ESM is an amateur level effort due to a never-was Indycar driver from 20 years ago and the CEO of a hair care products company. Mike Shank Racing would have walked away from the race on their own lap if he didn't have a 58 year old…

Short of a heart transplant, he's going to have problems down the road no matter what. What exactly would you suggest he do? With his current health issues, he can barely walk.

The Team owner who consistently runs well at plate tracks at Daytona, and a fairly quick kid on the lower levels with a big check in his pocket to run the second race. If I'm MWR and needing to fill a ride for 2 races, I can't think of a much better plan than that.