Tex Arcana

Sitting in the NASCAR offices.

Make it a straight 6. With pushrods.

Might as well, if Liberty dumbs down the technology, it’ll become “F1-NASCAR Edition”.

Wow, all this hate for Bottas (who IS a talented AND smart driver–smarter that Lewis, for sure), and for team orders and communications.

It seems everyone here has forgotten that the drivers’ standings and […]

As Matchett has said in hundreds of American broadcasts before, these tires go off differently than they have in the past (I’m paraphrasing): first, they look great, but don’t grip great until hot; then, they do […]

@peartree I’m sorry, but I don’t think your right at all. Even tho these cars have the ability to limit wheelspin, they don’t do it with Torsen, plate diffs, or viscous diffs (too much power loss), so they go with […]

The strategy went out the window, @freelittlebirds, when the catastrophe happened with Raikkonen. At that point, they had zero chance of Kimi coming out on super-softs, scaring Mercedes into at least pitting […]

Go back to FlintstoneCar, this is too complicated for you.

@thedophins: Negative. He does look at the gunman, has a confused look on his face (as does the backup jackman, who has a pneumatic jack in case the primary fails, @braketurnaccelerate); he starts to lower the […]

They already lost millions with the car retiring. Not to mention a race engineer that they have to replace.

They’ve gone from 20-30 second pit stops with fuel and tire changes (looking like an Italian fire drill), to a symphony of 2.5 second tire changes, with to be honest VERY FEW injuries in the, what, 15 years since […]

Make sense for the Flintstone series, not the pinnacle of motorsports.

He stopped because he was ordered to stop.

Besides, did you see the condition of the rear wheel they couldn’t get off? The edges of the tread were delaminating, in at least four spots that I could see. His tires were DONE.

Nah, the nut was jammed. The gunman asked for the back end to be dropped so he could get the tire to stop turning and help him hammer it off.

They also always have two guns, in case one fails or can’t get the wheel off.

There was a man with a control box at the front left of the car in the Ferrari box, and another at the left rear. I assume the RR is there for fire control. The LF man had control of the lights, and couldn’t see […]

@alfa145: I don’t think Ferrari operated a system like that. McLaren does (see the very next pit stop, the lights on the back of the “go” light had to fully go green before release–how they do that, is […]

Gabriel, Tim Edwards: note that Ferrari had TWO men standing at opposite corners observing the pit stop. Both men had boxes wired into the overhead structure. I can’t be 100% sure what the man in back was for […]

Charles King: they ALL are ahead of the axle lines. Dangerous.

The next pit after the incident (iirc) at McLaren showed all new tire handlers behind the axle line, because once the old tire is off, the remover […]

Asanator: you realize that Piero Ferrari will fish that out of the loose change stuck in his lint trap, right? And the FIA will promptly lose that wiping their butts at the next bathroom break.

That kind of […]

Well, damn. Color me wrong.

Hopefully, SOMEONE high up the ladder will wade in swinging the banhammer for this.

Because Lewis is extra-super-beyondblame-shortbusspecial, and get extra-super-beyondblame-shortbusspecial treatment with kid/silk/carbonfibre gloves.

He’s the “champion”, and EVERYONE should get out of his way. […]