It wasn’t easier, but there was a national focus on it. I.E. we were racing the USSR, and doing badly. NASA’s budget was 10 times the current budget, in relation to the national GDP. Read more

Re: Reckless Teen Actually Apologizes, great story! I can’t help but assume that everyone else who read this (maybe of a certain age) pictured “Uncle Deadhead” to be Sam Elliot, circa Roadhouse age. Read more

Diehard F1 fans that have trouble suspending reality for 2 hours are just going to spend money to pick apart every aspect of the movie that’s wrong, overblown, inaccurate or improbable. It’s not a documentary. I’ll go see it in the theatre just to be impressed by the visuals...knowing how much money they sunk into… Read more

Oh yes, let’s keep having the powers that be waffling about “oh golly gee, I don’t know if we can keep Spa and/or Monza on the schedule next year!” but keep running this atrocity until the heat death of the universe. Seriously, the entire points-earning grid saw no change whatsoever, and nobody bats an eye. Ugh. Read more

Jimmy’s not gonna like this.

I owned a Saab. I loved my Saab. GM bought Saab and took a giant steaming dump on the brand, nuking it’s character and overall viability. As a result - I’ll never own a GM product. Is it rational? No! Now let me enjoy my spite. Read more

In elementary school, my friend’s dad had a brand new S2K. Hey filled up with gas, then flipped around to the car wash, one much like the lead image of this article. Read more

Worked at a service station as a teen, had a free wash with fill up. Neighborhood kids would sneak in and tie lug nuts to the spinning brushes. Read more

The Palou situation is weird and it does not make him look good. But maybe that comes with knowing that you are the best current driver out there and being able to dictate your terms.  The Jack Harvey situation is not surprising given that he is rarely competitive however I am not sure what replacing him with Conor… Read more

But you don’t get to do a big fancy ribbon cutting ceremony for cleaned gutters
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Not mine, but my FIL. Read more

About 20 years ago I bought a cheap ‘77 911S Targa. The drive home was magical. It sounded good and with the roof off, that car actually feels like a genuine convertible, it’s amazing. Now I knew this thing wasn’t perfect. Someone had lavished it with pearl white paint, a whale tail, pinstripe upholstery, an alarm and… Read more

It’s a terrible price to pay, but I guess I would choose a PT Cruiser, just so I could know there was one less ugly failmobile on the face of the planet.
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M.I.A.T.A (Miata Is Always The Answer)
My 91 stock BRG with the pop-up headlights. My corpse would be grinning ear to ear for eternity!

Lesson from Happy Gilmore.

You’d need to purchase the TT+ streaming app. Read more

I’d say Emerson Fittipaldi, he won two F1 drivers championchips, two Indy 500's and a CART title. He also managed to upset the status quo by chugging orange juice on the podium when he took the checkered flag at Indianapolis.

Never won anything big (and apparently a jerk), but i always thought robby gordon had a pretty fascinating career. Read more

If what I saw in Rush was any indication, James Hunt had an interesting career, his flamboyance, women, partying, women, living large--and did I mention women?  The only problem would be avoiding an NC-17 rating. Read more

Jim Clark. If it had an engine, he raced (and won) with it. Read more