Airline Defends Low Flyover Through Stadium Smokeshow
The aerial display was admittedly cool as hell, especially with the second plane climbing through the smoke after clearing the playing surface.
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These Would Be Your Ideal Drag Strip Sleepers
Responses ranged from daydreamers wanting to embark on a shock-and-awe campaign with a panel van to experienced wrenchers turning subdued classics into rockets.
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Alex Palou Enters Rare Air With 5th IndyCar Title In 6 Years
The unusual circumstances also led to Pato O'Ward becoming the first IndyCar driver to win twice in a single day since Rick Mears in 1981.
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How World War II Rationing Led To 35 MPH Speed Limits And Bans On Driving For Fun
Fuel and rubber shortages during the war meant strict limits on how much driving you could do, how fast you could go, and whether or not you could buy a car.
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It Took 60 Years To Finish The Last 8 Miles Of This 1,900-Mile Highway
It took hundreds of millions of dollars and decades of work to complete, and the final piece of this highway was finished less than 10 years ago.
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This City Built A Multi-Story Parking Garage When There Were 800 Cars In The Country
Over 100 years ago, parking garages were being built not just as storage locations, but as charging locations for electric cars. They even had car elevators.
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E-Bike-Riding Teenagers Invade Airport Runway, Forcing Pilot To Abort Landing
Unsurprisingly, Oakland Southwest Airport is planning additional security measures to ensure an intrusion like this doesn't happen again.
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FAA Fires Two LaGuardia Controllers For Leaving Work Early Before Fatal Crash
Veteran controllers revealed that it was common for shift supervisors to let overworked controllers go home early as a reward.
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What Would Be Your Ideal Drag Strip Sleeper?
The goal is to make sure your opponent doesn't realize what's going on until you've left the line.
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FIA Declares Red Bull's Engine Best In F1, Gives Everyone Else Catch-Up Tokens
Thousand-dollar event tickets and stadium parking-lot races aren't the only things Formula 1 is co-opting from the United States.
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Google Bid $10 Million For Spirit Airlines' Corporate Data To Train AI
A bankruptcy court will decide whether or not to approve the sale to Google in early September.
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Police Officer Racks Up 100 Felony Counts Allegedly Using Flock Cameras To Spy On Civilians
The residents of Lufkin don't have to worry about another police officer spying on them, at least for a little while.
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Car Salesman Becomes Belgian Prince After DNA Test, Don't Expect Smaller Dealership Markups
Philandering car-loving European royalty isn't anything new.
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Empty Tanker Pays $4.6 Million To Cut Panama Canal Line
Obviously, it would be a dream for shippers to avoid the auctions, the locks and Panama entirely.
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Kyle Kirkwood Wins Trump's Bizzaro Land IndyCar Race In D.C.
Up was down, down was up as IndyCar visited the nation's capital last weekend.
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Max Verstappen Not Retiring After All, Extends With Red Bull Through 2030
Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren have their driver lineups locked up, so If Verstappen wants to stay in F1 and be at a title-contender, it'll have to be Red Bull.
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After A $42.9 Million Sale, The Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe Is Now The Most Expensive American Car Ever Sold At Auction
This was the only Daytona personally owned by Carroll Shelby, and it shattered the previous mark of $22 million set by a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ in 2018.
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What's The Fastest Car You've Ever Driven?
There's no shortage of fast cars out there, so what's the speediest you've (legally) driven?
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The Vegas To Reno Legends Rally Is A Baptism By Dust For Novice Desert Racers
Desert racing isn't like other sports, or even other forms of racing. It's one part cutthroat competition and one part communal adventure.
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These Vehicles Deserved A Second Generation But Never Got One
Based on the lion's share of responses we've received, the Big Three have a lot to answer for because our commenters have dreams of the Detroit that never was.
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There Are Plenty Of Reasons To Hate Trump's IndyCar DC Street Race, But Road Damage Isn't One Of Them
The current full-time IndyCar field of 25 cars is a literal drop in the bucket.
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Marine One Came Within A Mile Of Hitting Regional Jet Over DC, Corps Called Flight Routine
The cause of the two incidents may even be related.
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Those Exit Numbers On Highways Are Telling You More Than You Might Think
There's method amid the confusion.
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Civilian Medevac Crash Likely Caused By Military GPS Jamming Exercise
The crash was likely the first for civilian aircraft in the United States where GPS jamming was a contributing factor.
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These Are The Worst Two-Car Garages You've Ever Seen
The comments section was peppered with a selection of disappointing and confusing two-car pairings.
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Cinema's Next F1 Period Piece Will Spotlight The Unlikely Rise Of A Canadian Icon
"Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend" will premiere as the closing film of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 19.
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NASCAR Cup Cars Have No Speedometer, So Here's How They Stay Safe In The Pits
NASCAR has a precise system for keeping drivers within pit road speed limits, even as crews work just feet away in one of racing's most dangerous areas.
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