I think the best moment is at the 6:00 mark, when he's going fast down the long straight, and the car's still wiggling around like a squirming fish. Someone get that man some studded tires!
I think it depends on how you define "embrace".
If "embrace" means filling up the grandstands and providing a healthy TV audience for the broadcaster, then I think that's very doable. There won't be the drenched love fest that NASCAR has/had -- and you'll never reach NFL popularity -- but there appears to be a pretty big potential fan base. The races at Indy were always pretty well filled. ALMS and Rolex seem to be doing fairly well, and fans of those are likely to be aware of F1 if not fans of it. Same can probably be said of the club racing, autocrosser, etc population. Speed still shows F1 races live at the ass end of the morning, and big daddy Fox even shows some of the races, so there is TV money flowing in. We probably couldn't support the whole series itself (see: IRL), but as a one-or-two-off spectacle?
I don't think the bump is really all that big of an issue aerodynamically speaking, anyway. The biggest portion of drag comes from the wake trailing behind the car. It'll give a little extra bit of drag from air hitting it, but it's not /that/ big of of a change (I'd wager the front wing is the main source of this kind of drag), and any wake it leaves behind is (at least partially) filled in by the rest of the car.
I think you might be right there, at least about the pastel part. Hard to tell without better resolution, but I think you could pull it off with dry/chalk pastel, and you do see some dry texture in the gray at the bottom. I could see crayon, too, although I don't think you could get the layering it has in some places (ie, the gray over the black tire, or the flag).
Seriously, guys, I think we need to applaud this. If Lambo's been losing it's crazy and becoming (gasp) reasonable, I think this signals a brilliant return to form. Because, really, this is batshit, even before you consider that it actually looks kinda cool.
That first picture is my favorite kind of old-timey picture... the history melts away and lets you realize that, while times and fashion and manners may change, we've always been people. Take away the car and you'd probably have a hard time putting a date to it.
Conversely, being #1 for your name is terrible when it's because you're the only one with your name, since that means all the bullshit internet things you did as a teenager to pop up ON THE FIRST PAGE.
Yeah, my first thought was "BMW, but more user-friendly." To some degree, iDrive was to car computer systems as the original iPhone was to smartphones, but I imagine an Apple iDrive would be a hell of a lot more useable than BMW's.
None. The pilots are in total control for take-off and landing.
Just in case anybody needed proof as to why small European hatchbacks are automatically cool.
I don't know if this is in his defense, but if that's the shopping center I think it is, people are known to be real dipshits in it. That could very well have been a defensive parking.
I'm a big fan of the new Mini dial font
I think it's confused perspective from that triangle of white. From the outside shots it looks like smooth body.
They may be playing the opposing forces in some fight simulations, like TOPGUN or Red Flag. I don't think we paint F-18s in the gray splotches that one of the planes had.
I may be over thinking this, but how does it work out that the "messenger" particle for the field that gives stuff mass has mass itself? That seems like a graviton having its own gravity field (which, I guess, it might).
And what about photons allow them to show the Higgs field their proverbial middle fingers?
And what about photons allow them to show the Higgs field their proverbial middle fingers?
Makes me wonder how prevalent this sort of car "racism" (probably not best word, but I can't come up with another at the moment) is. My experience was odd, but not as dramatic... was driving around with my dad one day in his 911. We stopped at a light and right before it turned green, a transit van pulled up next to us and the driver shouted "Porsche killed Americans" before driving off. It was bizarre.
I see what you did there
I'd allow it. But, if the Mazda didn't intentionally leave him that gap to go through, I think he'd deserve some scorn for not giving a known faster car enough room to go through.
Conversely, things happen a hell of a lot faster in a modern F1 car. You won't see a modern F1 car sliding around as lazily as that one because the gray area between spinning out and not is nearly non-existent. Plus, the fact that they can take Eau Rouge flat out doesn't mean that it's easier: going through it faster means it happens faster, which requires tighter and quicker control of the car while fighting stronger g-forces. You can't hand wave the fact that a modern car can go 50-100-whatever mph quicker in the hardest parts of tracks, and the fact that the human has to be that much better to deal with it.
Granted, that very fact means that the easier/harder question is kind of a red herring simply because the machines are so vastly different in the capabilities and requirements. The things that made Fangio or Moss or Clark baller in their days aren't necessarily applicable in a modern car (and vice-versa).
Granted, that very fact means that the easier/harder question is kind of a red herring simply because the machines are so vastly different in the capabilities and requirements. The things that made Fangio or Moss or Clark baller in their days aren't necessarily applicable in a modern car (and vice-versa).
