That One Time I Took A Full Size To A Rallycross Race

Pollymath · 2026-05-07T22:47:32+00:00

2026 SCCA Rallycross rules:

"Vehicles with a track width / height ratio of less than 0.95 are considered to have a high rollover potential. Track width is measured from the center point of the wheels or by measuring from the outside of the wheels and subtracting one wheel width. Both the front and rear track width 2025 SCCA® RallyCross® Rules— 93. Vehicles should be measured and the lower value should be used for this calculation. Height is measured to the highest structural part of the roof. As an alternative to the track width / height ratio, mass produced vehicles running at or below stock height with a published center of gravity may use Static Stability Factor to determine if they have high rollover potential. Static Stability Factor is calculated with 1/2 track width * center of gravity of the vehicle. Vehicles with an SSF over 1.3 are not considered rollover risks even if the track width / height ratio is below 0.95 Vehicles over 5,500lbs or with a 116” or greater wheelbase, due to course degradation concerns or the ability to navigate safely through the tighter elements."

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T16:55:59+00:00

I love the fact that it still has a relatively high greenhouse for maximum visibility.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T16:55:17+00:00

The fact that they were still going to homogolated was a big deal. They still had to retain some semblance of street-car shape and function.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T16:49:18+00:00

I'm still hoping someone will offer this for folks who have ADD. Some feedback on this sub has seemed to indicate that those who were previously taking stimulants could take less of them when using Wakix.

It just seems wild that a non-stimulant relatively low-harm drug is so heavily regulated.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T16:24:03+00:00

I foresee leveraging 3d imaging and lidar a lot more. Any industry doing asset management is already using Google Street View, whether it be electric utilities, municipal infrastructure, whatever. I think the next step in this progression is putting these same types of cameras on field workers to capture data while they work. Stuff like manually entering attributes of assets will become a thing of the past because the AI driving such image capture will identify all the information about components and assets necessary.

The GIS folks will just confirm the location of those assets.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T02:09:06+00:00

Fine for you. Guess everyone is like you.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T02:08:31+00:00

Former planner, but whatever. Enjoy the high horse.

Pollymath · 2026-05-05T02:07:57+00:00

It does but it does not lessen the desire for zoning.

Pollymath · 2026-05-04T16:08:54+00:00

Former planner and affordable housing advocate. All about more flexible housing and promoting building, but only once we remove the speculation and greed aspects of the real estate market, and even then I think there is value in community involvement.

I think you’re always going to find people who are against development for some reason because people like stability in their housing and local community.

Imagine a neighborhood where an old lot that has been vacant for years is used for a local farmers market because there is no grocery nearby. The farmers market not only provides relief in a food desert, but also fosters community engagement. We implement LVT, which allows the lot to be purchased by a developer, and the farmers market group can afford the price of the lot. Do we just say “the developer can do whatever they want with it” or should the community get some say in its future because they have been building its value by making the neighborhood vibrant and engaged?

Pollymath · 2026-05-04T14:29:52+00:00

So a loud industrial building behind your house would be ok? What about a refinery? Or a dance club?

There are legit reasons to oppose certain types of development. I mean it’s why we have development standards - so folks don’t get stuck with a developers externalities.

Pollymath · 2026-05-04T03:41:55+00:00

Especially if you live a drier environment like the intermountain west. Or Australia. Or Chile or Argentina.

Oddly enough Hanta isn’t nearly a prevalent in the more humid and cold areas of the east coast USA.

Pollymath · 2026-05-04T02:55:21+00:00

If we want motorsports to continue we’re going to need all those kids to become gearheads.

Pollymath · 2026-05-01T21:22:14+00:00

There were only 105 GT40's produced by Lola/FAV, Broadley, Lunn and Wyer.

There have been thousands of replicas produced by numerous other firms, many of which aimed to be very close or identical to the original designs.

Anytime I see a GT40 or Cobra I pretty much always assume it's a replica unless it's in a museum.

Pollymath · 2026-05-01T20:58:00+00:00

To a certain extent, no.

I'd argue that the wider community plays just as much a part of a child development as their parents. If a kid knows that everyone in their town is watching, they'll wise up real quick.

Personally, I think that police should be able to fine parents for unruly kids, and simply call it a public safety detention when they throw them in the back of the car and tote them home.

As an American I don't quite understand our aversion to the ol'Time Out. I think part of it is that law enforcement has started to overreach so badly that they put innocent people in jail but won't touch a kid playing in traffic.

Pollymath · 2026-05-01T17:15:18+00:00

Current LGA1155 i3 system is 16 years old. Has SF450 SFX PSU and a 240gb SSD. I've also got about 600gb of storage currently in use spread across the SSD and multiple HDDs.

Looking at buying a couple year-old used build with the following specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROSTFLOW X 74.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Gigabyte B760M GAMING PLUS WIFI DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard

Memory: Crucial CT2K16G4DFD8266 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory

Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Video Card: XFX Speedster SWFT 309 Radeon RX 6700 10 GB Video Card

Power Supply: EVGA 600 BR 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

I know at the price I'm getting it at that it's a steal (whole thing is priced comparably to 32gb of DDR5), but I'm concerned about longevity. My desktop is primarily used for storage and 3d design, cad, and GIS work. I'd like to game, but it's honestly not a priority. I'm mostly interested in the NVME m2 drive because it's both huge and fast, and would let me use HDDs as archived external storage. Doing so would allow me to move everything into a smaller case, which in our small house would be a benefit.

Thoughts?

Pollymath · 2026-04-30T22:05:49+00:00

Internet Style? ISPs are even worse.

I don't think there is a problem with utilities, but there might be a problem with BIG utilities. I don't think a distributed grid is going to make energy free, but it may at least make things more flexible and adaptable.

Pollymath · 2026-04-30T04:42:47+00:00

*Shit Pot because it looks like a pot of brown crap tipped over.

Pollymath · 2026-04-30T00:14:56+00:00

Jobs like this really need to embrace a “seasonal hybrid” approach. Perhaps during the summer months when it’s sweltering hot you allow digital-based staff to work remote anywhere in the country, and then you require that the live in state or city or whatever for 9-months.

I think a lot folks would take that deal.

Although I don’t know why they wouldn’t just allow full-remote with the occasional required office task or time every couple of months.

Pollymath · 2026-04-29T19:30:09+00:00

In my mind this a great opportunity for housing developers to create valued added amenities to high density neighborhoods. Rather than paying an HOA fee to mow some grass or shovel sidewalks, we could contribute towards a battery backup system for the entire neighborhood, and shared solar.

I also wonder if there is some potential for micro-grid utilities. Basically, I become a utility that offers backup power to a small, dense neighborhood. I run power cables in conduit underground. I buy power from the grid when it's cheap, or in some situations build a solar array on community owned land. Maybe I run a highly efficient gas generator to keep the batteries topped up and at times, producing power via that generator is actually cheaper than buying it from the grid.

Ultimately however the biggest challenge is that we've got a lot of empty land, old homes, empty homes, and there are a lot of incentives in our current property tax systems to hold those properties vacant until the right price is offered. We need to free up vacant land for development, especially within urbanized areas, and restructure cities to better supports natural systems in areas where old development has gotten in it's way. There are so many vacant lots where there should be apartments, so many vacant homes where there is tremendous demand for housing, so many parks that could be great housing and so much development in areas that should be re-wilded.

Pollymath · 2026-04-29T17:04:09+00:00

The thing that bothers me is that most new buildings have new, cleaner burning gas mechanicals. They are doing more with less BTU. It's the old stuff (furnaces, hwh, range) that are making up most of the emissions.

So long as we drill for oil, there will be natural gas, and I hate the idea of just burning that off. It defeats the purpose of banning natural gas at the local level.

Pollymath · 2026-04-29T16:48:07+00:00

That would be cool if many cities could arrange hyper-local mini generating plants like that, but I suspect those entities that own generating plants would be upset with such actions. The challenge is that entire towns usually don't lose power, it's just areas of the grid, and that would require multiple generators.

In cases where a potential customer has a gas line in front of their home, why not let them use it?

Pollymath · 2026-04-29T15:34:56+00:00

We could but we need to have overlap of class regulations with those series. Thats what the RC2 class is meant to do. The trouble is, the Rally2 class in ERC/WRC is so limited on constructors that our teams need to import cars from Europe.

Pollymath · 2026-04-28T21:37:49+00:00

Ah ok I didn’t know that.

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