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I had about 12 minutes of Youtube this morning of an Ariel Atom (?) doing the fastest lap of that day's cars at Nurburingen. An F1 car with no body and all horsepower.

It is hard to imagine a less necessary activity than driving a road course really really fast, except to remember that these tiny automotive shops come up with the most incredible engineering advances. Maybe someone will design a pair of fuel cells or batteries that will replace the side sponson fuel tanks on a Sherman and an engine powerful enough to get an M4 up and moving. Until that time, I respectfully want to preserve my historic military vehicles as well as possible as examples of, oh look at that trick.