Circa-2007 Evo!!! Read more

Thanks for all the kind words. My new job will involve a team supporting the New York editorial crew from Hungary with all sorts of things involved in creating a website. But I wouldn’t rule out further crayonwork. I hope Jezebel is game! Read more

To be on the safe side, I keep it taped to my computer.

Every V12 Lambo that came before the Aventador! Read more

Bonus: The view from my friend Erik’s apartment, who referred to the event as the "2012 Grand Prix of My Living Room Window".

Yeah, I noticed it, but I wonder what’s in the back. Or will the venturi tunnels create all the downforce that’s necessary there? Because there are no wings and no flying buttresses there. Read more

He did! And when he left Pininfarina to join Bertone, he put buttresses on the Mantide, just not in the back but in the front. Also, the F12 has a similar arrangement in the front, very hard to photograph, but it looks like a tunnel which creates downforce in the front. Read more

Corrected! Read more

Oh, thanks. I fixed it. Read more

Speaking of seagulls, it’s not like Honda (and McLaren) didn’t use this idea for their 2008 F1 cars.

I have to admit I do keep a dead Old World Swallowtail in a box. I found it on a sidewalk in Bethesda, MD, when I was interning for the NIH a long, long time ago. Read more

There has been talk of the BBC offering its programming outside the UK for a fee, but the BBC being its glacial, bureaucratic self, this will obviously not happen before Sky takes over for next year’s F1 broadcasts. Sure, the BBC will get half the races, but that’s no way to watch an F1 season. It’s incredibly sad:… Read more

This car is a bit of a legend in Hungary’s mad automotive underworld. It’s called The Nose, it was build of half a Trabant and half a shopping cart, and this other video shows what it does to its occupants:

Transversely mounted V16! Read more

Transversely mounted V12! Read more

Oh dear, Porsche has put magic mushrooms in its press champagne! It’s actually a V12. Read more

It was fantastic indeed! Everyone, watch it. Read more

No! Watch it! It’s great! And it will be partly off the BBC next year, so grab your chance. Read more

Well—the DRS zone was up there and people were passing each other all the time, but none of those passes mattered ultimately, and there was plenty of real passing in other parts of the circuit. So I took it as more of a TV-happy sideshow. It certainly didn’t bother me to the extent that DRS bothered me in the… Read more