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MIKE SPINELLI: Hey, it's Mike Spinelli and this is Drive
Central, where you'll find out what's happening
on DRIVE this week.
And I'm here with the Italian-American Jack Russell
terrier of auto racing, Leo Parente.
LEO PARENTE: So Jack Russell is canine for smart ***?
MIKE SPINELLI: Yes, the smart *** of the dog world.
And why we're here with Leo is that we're going to be talking
about later on a little project we're
working on here at DRIVE--
a live broadcast about F1.
LEO PARENTE: Yep.
We'll talk about that at the end.
But, coming soon.
MIKE SPINELLI: Yes, coming soon.
Also wanted to let you know that @Drive is
our new Twitter handle.
It used to be @DriveTV, now it's just @Drive.
We pulled some strings and made that happen.
LEO PARENTE: Please don't shorten it to
@D. This is it, right?
MIKE SPINELLI: This is it.
This is as short as it's going to get.
LEO PARENTE: OK, good.
MIKE SPINELLI: Also if you're already following us on
@DriveTV, don't worry about it because this will take you
there no matter where you are.
So anyway, there you go.
But first, let's take a look at what Matt Farrah's up to on
this week's Tuned.
Matt did a few laps around Willow Springs in a classic
Dodge Challenger with a few modern tweaks.
Let's take a look.
MATT FARAH: Let's feel the power.
Man, does that sound beastly or what?
Oh, I can already feel the steering.
The handling is going to be good.
MIKE SPINELLI: That's Tuned on Drive with
Matt Farah every Monday.
And this week on Live and Let Drive, Alex Roy continues his
trip to find out if Detroit is really the new Berlin.
He found out Heidelberg Street, where crackheads were
scared away by residents wielding paintbrushes.
Let's check out a clip of that.
Maybe not that, but something like that.
ALEX ROY: And Heidelberg Street is where artists came
to do something really weird.
Concerned about violence, and drug abuse, and sales, they
began painting polka dots on houses and placing art on the
sidewalk and attracting attention to these homes where
criminals were doing business.
MIKE SPINELLI: So if you see a crackhead running through
Detroit with a paint brush sticking out of his ***,
you'll know which direction he's coming from.
LEO PARENTE: Jackson ***.
[LAUGHING]
MIKE SPINELLI: That's Live and Let Drive with
Alex Roy every Tuesday.
And what's that new Toyota, Scion, Subaru
sports car thing called?
In Europe, it's the GT 86.
Chris Harris got some seat time in one of those recently,
and let's see how that went.
LEO PARENTE: It probably went drifting-like.
MIKE SPINELLI: I'm sure it did.
LEO PARENTE: Yes.
CHRIS HARRIS: It's there.
The suggestion is there.
This is the car I have been waiting for.
MIKE SPINELLI: That's Chris Harris
on Cars every Wednesday.
So, Leo Parente.
This week on Shakedown, you showed us some new F1 cars for
the season.
LEO PARENTE: Yeah.
Monday we showed the Red Bull, the Sauber,
and the Toro Rosso.
And the week before, McLaren, and Ferrari, and Caterham have
shown their cars.
MIKE SPINELLI: Right.
So this year, what are we looking at when it comes to
the new cars?
There are some new rules and all kinds of stuff.
What is it that we're actually looking at?
LEO PARENTE: There are a number of new rules, but the
two basic ones that everyone is paying attention to are new
rules for the front-end design for safety reasons and we're
getting all these lowered beaks with different size,
shape versus the chassis.
And in the back, blown diffusers--
the exhaust running into the diffuser.
That's been negated.
So everyone has to redesign the rear of a car with the
exhaust heading up either into the air flow, the wing, or,
frankly, creating these tunnels to create their own
artificial diffuser.
But all of that is new design.
MIKE SPINELLI: So are we seeing a big differences
between the teams so far, or
everybody's following a template?
LEO PARENTE: There seems to be a path being followed on the
front, except McLaren, who have somehow come up with a
beautiful nose.
Everyone else is doing that stepped nose because the
chassis height has to be one height, 65 centimeters, and
then you've got a 15-centimeter gap to lower it
to 55 centimeters for the nose for safety reasons.
But it's created this ugly look.
MIKE SPINELLI: So what do you think it
means for actual racing?
Faster speeds?
Are you making any predictions yet or are you just--
LEO PARENTE: Tough to predict.
I don't think it's going to make a difference.
I think it's all an aesthetic.
I think the teams are going to design cars to be quick.
Pirelli's changed the tire compound to narrow the gap of
a speed differential between the different compounds.
That's going to change strategy racing.
And we've got new drivers.
[INAUDIBLE] back.
MIKE SPINELLI: Right.
LEO PARENTE: So there's a lot to talk about in F1.
MIKE SPINELLI: Well good.
So there's a lot to talk about.
And that brings up this project we're working on--
a live show where we'll be talking about the new cars as
they come out, bringing all the drive hosts together,
including Chris Harris by Skype live from the UK.
LEO PARENTE: Because if you're going to talk motorsport, you
need an English accent.
MIKE SPINELLI: Of course.
LEO PARENTE: And we've got Chris.
MIKE SPINELLI: Right.
Because if you don't have a British accent, you sort of
seem like a *** when you're talking about motorsports.
LEO PARENTE: Well, I wouldn't go that far,
but we need the accent.
So Chris, so you, myself, J. F., Alex Roy--
we're all going to be available for some type of
live chat to listen to what you have to
say, field some questions.
MIKE SPINELLI: Yeah.
So viewers will be able to go on live chat, talk to us about
it, ask you questions about the cars.
LEO PARENTE: Yeah.
Rather than type the comments and we respond, we can do this
now live time.
MIKE SPINELLI: Exactly.
LEO PARENTE: We'll all be here.
We'll start with F1 stories, but wherever the
topics go, so be it.
MIKE SPINELLI: Cool.
And so we'll let you know next week on Drive Central
probably, when this is happening.
LEO PARENTE: Yeah.
We're putting all the back-end stuff together, and as soon as
it's ready to go, we'll let you know.
MIKE SPINELLI: We will let you know.
LEO PARENTE: And we'll have a good time.
MIKE SPINELLI: Cool.
And that's Drive Central for today.
I will see you later.
Leo, good to see you always.
Adios.
LEO PARENTE: Arf, arf, arf.
MIKE SPINELLI: Arf, arf.
LEO PARENTE: Yeah, thanks.
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