There was that bit in Jeremy's intros in Forza 5...

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 01/05/2016 at 23:56 • Filed to: Wheelerguy Ponders..., Musings, Hypercar

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where he said that “motorcar engineers are made of stronger stuff than their colleagues in aerospace”. I agree with him, but then, I haven’t heard much from the aerospace industry, and your lot find this “land-based air race” dodgy and filled with stupidity & bullshit.

For Sweden > Wheelerguy 01/06/2016 at 00:05

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Bruh

Wheelerguy > For Sweden 01/06/2016 at 00:08

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Good thing you posted the right air superiority fighter. For about 3 seconds I thought it was the other one.

Jayhawk Jake > Wheelerguy 01/06/2016 at 01:39

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Wut? Please...

f86sabre > Wheelerguy 01/06/2016 at 08:19

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Bro, do you even lift?

Taking a several ton stick, launching it miles into the air at a high Mach number, and then landing it vertically.

Let us pause and evaluate where most of the advances that make modern hypercars cars great originated:

Composites: Aerospace

ABS: Aerospace

Small Light Weight Computers: Aerospace

Advanced control algorithms: Aerospace

Light weight heat resistive coatings: Aerospace

Carbon brakes: Aerospace

CFD: Aerospace

Wind tunnels: Aerospace

All those AN fitting they use for the wiring looms on race cars: Aerospace

In all seriousness, I know where he is coming from. I don’t think he is knocking the ingenuity of the industry. With Concorde it is more about people loosing the will to do great things.

Wheelerguy > f86sabre 01/06/2016 at 08:37

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All excellent points, sire, and yes, I do know that most automotive achievements are just routine stuff in aerospace because they did it first.

But then, it is hard to do something like the hypercar tier when the stage is in the air. It’s much riskier on the part of the pilot than a car driver, for one.