Jack Baruth

5 days ago | avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth

Happy Sunday, you maniacs. Speaking of — I’m definitely in the “manic” part of “manic depession”, because yesterday I successfully got my throttle position sensor swapped out of the DL1000 and fussed with the ECU enough to get the bike running well… on a 2 mile test. Will it hold up for anything longer? I suspect that is where my “depression” side will …

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Baruth

“Nobody,” Tisha Johnson declared, in a careworn voice betraying three consecutive days of jet-lagged speech-giving, “wants a bunch of tech in their car.” Not exactly what you’d expect to hear from a senior executive of any Amazon-backed firm, let alone one devoted solely to the production of a controversial new electric vehicle, but the audience didn’t seem worried.

1 week ago | avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth

We have three critically important races to cover from the weekend, plus the Indy 500, so let’s get to it!Formula One has a Monaco problem. It’s the most prestigious and most globally recognized venue at which the sport operates — something that has become increasingly critical to retain as more and more F1 dates go to various unsavory human-rights black holes like China, Bahrain, and the United States — but the racing itself has become embarrassing. So it proved again in 2025.

1 week ago | avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth

Apologies, everyone! I’ve been dealing with an “emergency” work schedule and the fact that some blind old man ran MDG off the track in the first lap of yesterday’s final race. Trust me, I’ll have plenty more to say about this on Wednesday. Short version: If you’re one of the four grown men who got beaten at the start by a young female rookie, maybe the …

1 week ago | avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth

If you’ve been reading ACF for a while, you’ve already heard the oft-told tale of how onetime Road&Track writer and current Hagerty mouthpiece Jason Cammisa ruthlessly edited the phrase “IMS failure”, or any reference whatsoever to the known and extensive litany of water-cooled Porsche problems, from the Boxster section of my late-2013 “Accelerated Depr…