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  1. Which one of y'all's boat is this? https://riviera-maya-news.com/fast-response-not-fast-enough-to-save-burning-isla-mujeres-boat/2024.html
  2. Re: the Renault/Alpine/GM/Andretti rumor above, now AMuS has an article about it. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-alpine-motor-mercedes-gm-kooperation/
  3. FWIW ... New potential breakthrough for Andretti emerges as General Motors rumour swirls https://www.planetf1.com/news/new-potential-breakthrough-for-andretti-emerges-as-general-motors-rumour-swirls
  4. The higher they're ranked, the better.
  5. The teams should have zero say in rule-making and rule changes. Biggest problem in F1.
  6. Sure, but in the long term, they need the cooperation and fair play of their drivers to ensure maximizing points throughout the rest of the season, and Lando only has an outside WDC shot at best imho. There would have been nothing remotely right or fair about letting Lando stay in the lead, taking away Piastri's well-deserved first win. And doing so probably would have put a swift end to any thoughts of Piastri helping Lando out going forward. The result for Lando over the rest of the season then would probably be a net loss vs playing fair. It would have been a hollow victory anyway, having been taken away from Lando's more deserving teammate and gifted to him. I'm a big Lando fan, but Piastri drove the better weekend of the two and earned the win. I love Lando but if he wants to be a contender he needs the results when the car is capable of delivering. He messed up the start and did not look particularly quicker before the last stop. And the only reason he looked quicker in the last stint was because Piastri was being told unambiguously to manage his tyres and not to worry because Lando would give the place back. Piastri wasn't pushing at all. Oscar fully deserved his first win. You're basically saying the team should put the WDC ahead of the WCC, and that's just not going to happen. That's not F1. It's a Constructor sport.
  7. Sure, in the short term, but in the long term the team needs the drivers to play fair when one helps the other out - so they'll keep doing it and maximize WCC points. And if Lando wants to challenge for the WDC, he needs to not piss off Piastri. He'll need his help.
  8. What do you mean? They got P1 & P2, and that was made more certain by letting Lando undercut Piastri. The only thing that put it in doubt was Lando's reticence to play fair. They were still gonna get the same points haul even if Lando didn't let Piastri by, but in the end he did the right thing and they maximized points, beating Lewis by 12s. The undercut ensured the 1-2.
  9. I'd say so. They're only down 51 from RBR and only up 16 over Ferrari. That's why they did everything they could to ensure Lewis didn't pass Lando for P2.
  10. It was huge, just like the car was for Vettel, Alonso, Schumi, Senna, and so on. Alonso has pointed out that if he weren't in a Renault or Ferrari in 2005-6, he wasn't winning the championship, and nobody's winning a WDC in a slower car unless the quickest team fucks up badly. If Michael doesn't retire when he does, then Lewis is still a 1xWDC and those 7 Merc WDCs get shared between Schumi and Nico, or whomever else might have been in one of those two seats. The WDC only matters to drivers and us fans. The teams like for their guy to win it, but it's just icing on the cake. They won't risk losing even one position in the WCC to get their driver a WDC.
  11. Yep. I'll wait and see who replaces him before I get depressed (Otmar, Guenther).
  12. AMuS says Krack is headed there too.
  13. Clark even moreso imho, due to how long ago it was and how short his career was. By all accounts I've heard from the guys who raced against him or saw him drive, he was an absolute alien.
  14. Yeah Karch is the goat imho, and it's not close. THat's one sport where there's a clear goat imho. And I've been lucky enough to chat with him. I described that convo in one of the vball threads. I'll never forget it. But I was never lucky enough to play with him. I played with & against Phil Dalhausser a little at Aussie's, the week before he & Nick Lucena won their first AVP tourney right here at Auditorium Shores, That's who I was referring to as being considered by some to be the goat. That tournament was where Karch started up a conversation with me, much to my surprise.
  15. Good stuff, and yeah, I see the obsession with ranking everything all the time (not here) and I just smh. IMHO among the truly elite drivers of all time, we're just splitting hairs. They all have different styles, strengths and weaknesses, drove different cars for teams of varying quality, against different competition, etc, and in the end, there is little to nothing between 'em. Same with other sports imho. I have a 'goat tier', and leave it at that.
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