Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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So, truth be told, I click on nearly every article every day, but I got the “beat the snot out of it” headline and didn’t click it because beating the snot out of a vehicle doesn’t necessarily imply racing. However, had it mentioned ice racing I’d have gladly clicked it. I suspect many Autopians have a certain level of automotive sympathy, and not specifying why something is being beaten on just leaves a sour note.
You think Torchinski is joking about the boxing, but I have seen him wrestle the head of the local college young republicans in front of several hundred people… and win! You should ask him about it.
I want this to be real.
It is and it was glorious
Meanwhile – Did anyone go to the Rivian R2 preview drive?
And have you seen the Skoda Vision O and the Canadian Borealis concepts?
I think racing headlines fail because the people who care about racing generally care about particular types of racing. Also, while I love to watch racing, I don’t get much entertainment from reading about what happened in the race.
A: Hilarious. B: I’m sad so few care about racing as someone who cares about racing.
Given that you guys clearly put lots of time, effort and attention into getting posts noticed, how about reworking your subheds? Instead of just showing the randomly-cut off intro sentence of the post, which almost never includes enough words to actually complete a thought, write up a true subhead that tells us what the post is going to be about.
Nobody cares about ice racing? How about Ice Boating? This was a big thing on the lake I grew up on, Lake Winnebago, which is very large and also shallow, which means that it freezes over almost every winter.
“The official ice boat speed record is generally recognized as 143 mph (230 km/h), set in 1938 by John Buckstaff in The Flying Dutchman (often referred to as Debutante) on Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin. While this record is sometimes disputed, modern high-performance ice boats (Skeeters) regularly achieve speeds of 80–100+ mph in suitable conditions. ”
The ice is also usually thick enough to drive cars on, which accounts for the first-ever Ice Bar that opened 1 mile offshore this season.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD02lorq360