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Anton Chigurh

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  1. Good stuff from VB. Translated from a podcast. I copied and pasted this from somewhere else so the added note is not mine. host (oskari saari): you’ve been also following from very close distance someone who i think is the – well, let’s but it this way, one of the greatest f1 drivers of all time, who has been your teammate: lewis hamilton vb: i can say that the greatest of all time oskari: yeah? vb: yes! oskari: what makes him the greatest? valtteri: i have never before, until a few days ago when i saw lewis (note: my understading is that this episode was filmed a little after the mercedes factory celebrations), said that to anyone, because it’s compeletly against the nature of a racing driver to say someone is better than you. so i told lewis that you’re the first and only person i’m saying this to, but you’re better than i am, and you’re the best in the world. and lewis is! he’s been through a hard childhood, he’s got the talent and natural ability towards this sport but he also works incredibly hard. when lewis is working he works so hard that he makes sure he stays in that top level. when you but together the talent, the experience and the the hard work he does, you have to say that he is in his own level compared to literally everyone else. of course i have my days when i can beat him which always feels great, but when you but together the whole season i simply can’t beat him. lewis’ stability over a season, how rarely he has bad weekends and how he can always maximize every situation - you know it’s always about very small things but the stability is where he is a step forward. maybe it’s about having better nerves or something else, but to me he is in a different level than anyone else in that paddock. oskari: i don’t think anyone is in a better place than you to observe these things, so we’ll take your word for it. i think many would also become very demoralisized by that but to me it’s seems that for you it’s the opposite. valtteri: yeah i mean it did take many years, literally it was a couple of days ago that for the first time i could really admit it to myself and also tell lewis that. the first years i was really fighting that and i strained myself a lot - thinking you know, it can’t be, i can beat everyone, but to me now i’ve just had to accept that that’s how it goes. i think in every sport there has to be someone who is the greatest of all time and it’s obviously not me, but it has not always been far off you know. lewis also told me that there has been days where he has felt that he has performed in a really good level but still didn’t beat me, and to me i can take positives from things like that. that you know, on my days no one can beat me but those days just simply aren’t everyday. oskari: so the difference is over a very long season. do you think that in a way it’s inspiring having witnessed all of that from so closely? valtteri: absolutely, and i have learned a lot. like i said it’s all about very small details and there is just certains things where he is a step ahead – specially with lewis on sundays he can always find some extra energy and power no matter the situation. oskari: do you think that it has fed your hunger to be the best having witnessed how lewis does things? valtteri: absolutely: as long as you are in this sport i think you can get better and find always something a little bit extra. i truly think that i can still get better even though i’m 32. so of course it’s still a dream to some day be the best. i also have to say that lewis did tell me that he has learned a lot from my driving as well. we have honestly quite similar driving styles, but of course still different, and many times there has been some corner where he has never managed to beat my time but gotten really close, and he said that if he wouldn’t have seen how i do places like that on the track he wouldn’t have been able to get a great time in quali, so i think our teamwork has been great in that sense also.
  2. Some are saying it’s a planned restructure and that they are just under Bayer now. It’s all just speculative. But we can hope!
  3. Won’t disagree there. Jordan 191 FTW.
  4. 2012 was a little funky on some cars, but I will defend 2013. We don’t get high-nose designs often, so it was unique. And they were slim, unlike the 90s chunkybois (looking at you, Benetton).
  5. Eh, they’re much better than the Phallic year.
  6. Seeing some stuff about this today. Pullrod is harder to get to do what you want it to do, but since they now cannot raise the rocker mounts for a pushrod setup as high as they used to be able to, using it may be too big of a net negative, aero-wise. Interestingly, Ferrari was the last to use it. I am obv not a Ferrari guy, but I actually did like F-138 a lot. It also used pullrod.
  7. Speaking of backmarkers, this was a fun video today. If you can imagine teams one order of magnitude worse than Haas this year, these are them. Kind of crazy to think that was a thing.
  8. In my third league that does two-week matchups and ends the season on the last week…… I’m in the championship and options are limited. Decided to start Dak since he was playing and seemingly a decent amount according to reports. Also threw in Cedrick Wilson over Tyler Boyd at flex, since no matter what he seemed to be a lock for a lot of playing time. Well, those were good decisions.
  9. Nice! Looks like a juvenile Cooper’s to me.
  10. At some level, we don’t know. But on another, the teams that have the best correlation from CAD -> wind tunnel -> track will be in the best shape. Mercedes is typically the best here. Red Bull is obviously good too, but typically not quite on the level of Mercedes. Ferrari I think just got a new wind tunnel, so we are yet to see how their correlation will be with it. There is a budget cap, but the teams with efficient development (related to above) will still be in the best shape. Power unit wise, the manufacturers are having to build them for use with E10 this year. Since E10 has less energy density, it needs more fuel flow, and the combustion chambers will have to be reshaped a bit. They can gain some power back with more aggressive engine tuning as well, since E10 does have a higher octane rating too. All that said, it is possible that someone could step up and challenge, but for my money I’ll still take Mercedes’ at the top, with Ferrari and Red Bull just behind. The aero regulations are actually pretty tight, so I don’t know that we will see all that much innovation. I don’t know for sure, but I’m excited to see the cars.
  11. Not really. I think all LXs came with the active height control suspension, and it was only an option on the LCs. Many people replace it with regular suspension. This is also a thing with GXs. My dad has a GX but has regular suspension on it.
  12. You can still find some high mileage J100 LX470s under $20k. Maybe some LCs too, but they go for a little more than their Lexus brethren. They will all have 150k plus on them, though. You can also look for 4th gen 4Runners and Lexus GX470s. They are the same thing, but the Lexus is nicer inside, and they are all AWD/V8, whereas only the 4Runner limited had that combo.
  13. Yeah, this happened to me once, too. I had a WTF moment there.
  14. I think my favorite is either: “Where’d get the pistol?” “At the gettin’ place.” Or “What do we circulate? Looking for a man who has recently drunk milk?”
  15. Anywhere not in your pocket, where it’ll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. …….which it is.
  16. Anton Chigurh

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    Those are some great pickups. I guess this thread is pretty dead, huh. I’ll list some recent acquisitions, too. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue UHQR The Doors - AP copies of L.A. Woman and Morrison Hotel Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny RSD mono Elvin Jones - Heavy Sounds, Japanese issue from the 70s. This one is hard to find in general. Curtis Amy - Katanga! (Tone Poet) Beatles - first UK press of Sgt. Pepper’s (bargain priced one that is actually pretty solid) Ryo Fukui - TTL Scenery reissue Freddie King - AP copy of Getting Ready (which is still in stock for $35, a steal!) Explosions In The Sky - Big Bend 13th Floor Elevators - A OG 45 of You’re Gonna Miss Me Nirvana - the 30th anniversary Nevermind that included a bonus 7”. This one got a lot of hate because with wasn’t analog but it’s actually not bad at all, and the jacket is a gatefold tip-on, the nicest it’s ever been. Baby Huey - The Baby Huey 2018 RSD AAA reissue Eddie Hazel - the recent reissue of Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs (grabbed the Zia records version) Gram Parsons - ‘74 OG of Grievous Angel
  17. The best site there is Guale 2, but it is pretty coveted so likely unavailable. I haven’t made it there yet myself, but it can be windy and you’ll get some pinstripes. Tres Papalotes is cool but you might encounter other people coming thru.
  18. I had to block that “news outlet” from showing up on my stupid Facebook feed thing. They post 100% clickbait articles that all come from……Reddit.
  19. They are supposed to finally be moving to split turbo on this PU, I believe.
  20. It really is awesome. Then at the end you get to Tea For One, and you kinda always forget how damn good that track is.
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