Top Gear season 13 has arrived! ARRIVED!

spent the day shooting a big motorcycle cruising event thing with lots of bearded, tattooed bikers. it went pretty well until some drunk white kid called me a “son of a bitch” for “bombing Pearl Harbor.”

didn’t think that sort of thing happened anymore.

i think i just caught the notoriously unemotional Dani Pedrosa cracking a smile. i wonder what queries were going through his neuro-net processors.

KOENIGSEGG WANTS TO BUY SAAB!

finally, some good has come of the GM meltdown (besides Pontiac getting the axe).

for those of you wondering what i’m talking about, Koenigsegg is a small Swedish car company that makes fire-breathing supercars that have held world records like fastest production car (241.63 mph until it was beaten by the Bugatti Veyron), highest power to weight ratio for production car (an outrageous 2.87 pounds per horsepower), and most ridiculous speeding ticket ever written (242 mph in a 75 mph zone). they’re the ones taking over Saab, a major manufacturer whose underlying madness had been all but subdued by its soon-to-be former American owners.

excited? maybe not, but i am :)

automotively speaking, this is what southern California is all about: lowriders. here you have a basic Chevy pickup truck from the ’60s that’s been modified, lowered, refinished, painted, buffed, and generally loved, transforming it from a 40 year-old rust bucket into a pristine old school cruiser that’s worth more than Chevrolet ever intended. slick!

when we started shooting this morning at Road America, my photos looked like this:





but by the end of the day, they started to look more like this:





HUZZAH!

leaving for Road America early tomorrow morning with my brother to shoot practice and qualifying sessions for AMA Superbike, Daytona SportBike, SuperSport, and Moto-GT. sleep time!

i’m not quite sure how many layers of hilarity and irony accompany this news but Hummer is reportedly being sold to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company. brilliant!

what’s up with bad drivers and the Ford Taurus?! the two curiosities seem to attract one another.