Unfortunately Irvine was a lazy git and brought absolutely nothing to Jaguar other than his name. Webber did far more to grow that team and give it some confidence. That's half true. Irvine's attitude wasn't very good but Jaguar nee Ford were the reason why the team were abysmal, not the drivers or...
This was my view of the famous taxi ride after the 1991 British GP. Shortly after taking this photo I was picked up (literally) by a police woman and taken back to the spectator area.
From today's Tampa Bay Times, an awesome article about Susie Wheldon. http://www.tampabay.com/sports/autoracing/susie-wheldon-wife-of-late-indycar-champion-dan-wheldon-opens-up-about/2315679 I copied the text into the spoiler link. At the edge of the racetrack, on a wide pad of asphalt, Susie Wheldo...
My unpopular opinion is that a population decline would be far better for the environment than almost anything else. (Fewer people = fewer resources used. Less travel. Less land built over. Less loss of wildlife.) It is happening in some parts of the world already. Not that this has anything to do w...
Just got a chance to catch up on all the truck race posts, y'all are awesome. That was a hell of a fast truck, just sucks the battery got ripped out when the LR tire blew coming through the trioval. Only 100 yards short. I seriously considered pulling a Ricky Bobby. :p That was the coolest moment of...
is about time to ban these softwares and set a point system to limit downforce The most frustrating thing about all this is that the solution is obvious to most people (including former F1 designers!) outside of the vacuum chamber that Liberty and the teams live in: - Bring back ground effects, sta...
You know what? This is fucking awesome. There aren't enough physical altercations in F1 these days, and honestly the one thing it really needs is a full-scale brawl involving two teams and drivers after some real bullshit move on the racetrack. That'd be hilarious. It beats the hell out of using rac...