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wood

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  1. Ha, yeah. I do what I can ... esp when what I'd like to do costs an amount of money I can't justify. DKR will be full and loud though. So we got that goin' for us. Which is nice.
  2. These SEC games are gonna look pretty nice on the big-ass screen I'ma buy with the money I'm not spending on tickets, and I get the bonus of knowing I helped 4 waitlist people get the seats I won't be using!
  3. I saw someone on Quora saying F1 cars are heavier than FE and FE's “handling capabilities on the same road course are generally comparable”. That's cute, but naw, man. Now, I know F1 cars, even as bloated and heavy as they are, are still lighter than FE, and I know that even the Gen 3 FE cars are still way slower than F1, so I decided to do a little digging and find out just how slow they are. FE has never run on the same circuits F1 runs on until recently, and there’s a reason for that - the same reason they choose small, narrow street courses - so they don’t look so slow. The one F1 circuit that FE has raced without changing away from the F1 layout is Monaco. Even on F1’s slowest track, F1 cars were miles ahead of FE in 2023. So were the F2 cars. And the F3 cars. Current FE cars are comparable to 50 year old F1 cars from the early 1970s, but not new ones. Fastest Qualifying Laps: F1: 1:11.3 F2: 1:21.05 F3: 1:23.2 FE: 1:28.9 Fastest laps in the race: F1: 1:15.6 F2: 1:21.7 F3: 1:25.1 FE: 1:31.1 At that time differential, F1 would lap FE about every 5 laps. F2 would take 8 or 9 laps, & F3 something like 15 laps. The closest time that I could find to an FE 2023 car for a top runner at Monaco was the 2022 Monaco Historique Serie E winner, in a 1973 McLaren M23. Stuart Hall put it on pole with a 1:29.4. He also won Serie D that year, in a 1971 McLaren M19A, with a pole time of 1:30.1.
  4. Wow. That escalated quickly. You mad about me laughing at a cybertruck? So mad it drove you to necrophelia?
  5. LOL yep. Welcome to aggy, AD Trev!
  6. It was Mackowiecki. He was also in the car when the left rear went down (same corner he hit Legge with). Was that right after he tried to kill Legge or was it later? BTW that Gradient car Legge was in is from Austin (Round Rock)
  7. That video also confirms what I thought about Derani's Whelen Cadillac crash. He just didn't give the Ferrari any room & had plenty on his left as he made what should be a very easy pass on a much slower car. Such a needless crash, esp from the lead. That's the most common mistake I see from prototype drivers passing sportscars. So stupid & careless. Didn't help the other guy's race any, either. Some of those guys drive like the slower cars just cease to exist once they catch 'em, or like the other classes don't have a right to any room on the track.
  8. Yeah fuck that guy. She oughta press charges for attempted murder. Any idea who was driving the 6 when that happened?
  9. Got dammit. Fuck NBC and all their commercials.
  10. Why, what did he do? Haven't been watching the whole time.
  11. FFS, Blue. They don't need any help. That was 4" out.
  12. Yeah - at Texas - letting the pitching staff fall this far is unforgiveable. DP needs to go.
  13. Yeah he looked safe af to me, but ok, cool. Hookem.
  14. Yeah count me on the team that thinks it'd be hard to bench a NC-winning setter, esp one who played hurt while doing it. I can't help but think it's early and she'll get some jumpsetting accuracy back over time. But who knows. We'll see, I guess. Maybe if it comes down to only her overall setting accuracy, then she might go to #2, but the overall package she brings to the table is very strong imho.
  15. Yeah to me he's kinda walked that fine line most of the time he's been here, where we as a fanbase overall weren't quite sure what we had in DP. Now it seems like we know. Time to move on imho.
  16. Yeah there are several times Hanks either wasn't very good or was miscast. Esp as Robert Langdon. Reading the books, you'd never think, "Oh yeah. This guy's gonna be played by Tom Hanks". I'll add Road to Perdition. Not terrible, but not very good, and he just didn't fit imho. And that Tom Parker accent is one of the worst things in the history of cinema.
  17. Agree with all of this and noticed the bold part too, but he pulled it out of that pattern toward the end. Overall I loved it. Given the way it sets up for season 2, the future potential is huge imho.
  18. Just finished the season. Couldn't stop watching. So good. So many great performances. Theo James for the next James Bond, imho, I told that to my wife about half way through the season, then googled it, and there had already been several articles written in the same vein in the last day or so. /csb
  19. LOL yeah I used to do stuff like that when my boys were little, then I'd forget about 'em and find 'em years later (the gifts, not the boys).
  20. WTF was up with the refs late? We score & then after the faceoff Borque is going after the puck behind the goal. He gets tackled from behind within seconds and is on his back with a guy on top of him the entire time. He gets 4 minutes for Roughing. What in the actual fuck? Then, there's the guy taking down one of our guys on the boards, then starts throwing fists outta the blue after he has him on the ice. Ref is literally standing there watching the whole thing for 5-10 seconds and just stands there & does nothing. It was truly bizarre.
  21. 3 or 4 of those cars aren't ugly at all in race trim.
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