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Martin Grossinger
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You don't think you'd feel lighter after paying your carbon fiber toilet a visit? Read more

Technically speaking, it was still within the Nascar rules and regs of 1997. But the car was so advanced that Nascar outlawed it, because it would have forced every other team to spend a whole lot of money to catch up. It was said to have been 10 years more advanced than any other car out there in 1997. Read more

Ellehammer did neither of those things. His design is notable because of its strangeness. It had two counter-rotating discs fitted with flaps, whose pitch was controlled by the pilot. I don't fully understand it, but it has a Wikipedia page where you can learn a little more: [en.wikipedia.org] Read more

While I do agree that the Daytona coupe looks much better than the GT40, it only won its class in 1964, not the overall race. That year's event was won by the factory-backed Ferrari 275P. Read more

I'd hardly call the 2F, D-Type, 787, or R10 part of any sort of "mundane tradition." Read more

I am literally going insane right now. This is going to be one hell of a list. Read more

Looking at the actual events and facts from the day, it seems like he and his team had no choice. If the stewards at the track had gotten their decision to Ferrari on time, certainly there would have been a different outcome. Read more

You make a very good argument, and from a point of view I had not considered. Placing the blame on the FIA seems like the fair outcome here, especially when you add in the fact that the notification that they gave to Ferrari for the penalty was worded in a confusing way. Ferrari did the best they could under the Read more