robbholland
Robb Holland
robbholland
Pro Race Car driver, former Pikes Peak Hillclimb record holder, 1st American to compete in the FIA World Touring Car Championships, British Touring Car Championships

Agreed. I think more and more tire manufacturers are looking at the 200tw market so it wouldn’t surprise me to see something in the near future Read more

Sure just source me the car and some tires and I’ll get back to you on that.... Read more

One of the main reasons for the (matte) black paint is that it also allows them to run a number of sections in raw carbon, sans paint, and still have the same uniform look overall. That will have as big a difference as the differing pigment weight if not more  Read more

The thing is that (properly designed) carbon wheels can take far more of an impact than alloy wheels before reaching failure. Put the same load into an alloy wheel that fails a carbon one and the damage to the alloy wheel would be catastrophic. Read more

It’s different beast altogether than the Huracan Read more

I didn’t say they were the first I said “Audi changed all that”, I meant that Audi brought the performance wagon to the “mass market”. I’ll give you the E34 M5 Touring but considering that they made less than 1000 and most of those were only sold in Germany, AND they declined to make an E39 I don’t feel that the M5 Read more

The FIA already has rules in place regarding sponsorship so there is exactly zero reason behind no allowing it Read more

Thanks for hanging around in shit weather. Sorry we couldnt put on a better show for you guys. Come back next year and pray for the sun ;) Read more

I don’t know of any professional driver that would ever do something like that. Doesn’t happen at this level of racing. And yes you can still get some level of draft from a slow moving car. Its not much but it is there Read more