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wood

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  1. Yeah I noticed that yesterday after the sprint, too. One day when he goes to WEC or whatever, he's gonna be a beast. He and Alonso are talkiong about doing WEC together on the same team. Think about that for a second.
  2. Ah, ok. Ain't nobody tryna win a Pullitzer up in the Surl. ; )
  3. JPM sounds like a Simpson's character. Aight. I'm out. I could watch this tonight, but then I'd be a veg tomorrow. I'll watch it with my kid tomorrow. Y'all enjoy!
  4. It's simple. Alonso's moves to Renault from Minardi, to McLaren in 2007, Ferrari, and Aston Martin have been great moves in terms of predicting who's going to be fast. Alpine wasn't awesome, but what else was available to him when he returned? Availability is a huge factor, of course, and over at least the last 15 years, the teams with the top cars weren't looking for anyone to challenge their #1 drivers. ... They can do it if it's a repair/replacement of like for like parts and they get it approved.
  5. Which part are you confused by?
  6. Yeah in like the 70s or early 80s. This guy is such a tool. Still bottles my mind that so many people fell for and are still falling for his shit. P.T.Barnum never stops being right.
  7. Seriously. What a fucking moron. The Navy retired F-14s almost 20 years ago.
  8. NSIAP. Fuck Elmo & Tesla. 'Environmentally Friendly' Tesla Is Trying To Skirt Austin Pollution Laws. https://jalopnik.com/tesla-the-environmentally-friendly-ev-maker-is-trying-1851422743?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_twitter Apparently, Austin won't let Tesla pollute the Colorado River as much as it wants to.
  9. So, 2 closers who can't close. Awesome.
  10. LOL two different purples for TCU's unis & helmets. Weird.
  11. OK, let's not get all crazy now ...
  12. Just like most drivers. He's just been around a lot longer than most and has had a lot more options than most would have. None of them have a crystal ball. Since 2010, there have been 4 drivers sharing all of those WDCs. Vettel, who was a Red Bull junior driver and fell into a dominant car. Lewis, who was unhappy at McLaren and was looking for a way out after 2012. He had one decent alternative, and that was Mercedes, where Michael had decided to hang up his shoes. And Mercedes had just one elite driver available, and that was Lewis. Nico was already at Mercedes for four years before they got their PU advantage. Max had been at Red Bull for five years before winning. Only one of those guys made the move into a WDC-winning seat, and he had nowhere else to go. Since Alonso's been in F1 (2001), the only drivers to move to a new team and win WDCs quickly were Alonso at Renault, Kimi at Ferrari (and only because McLaren botched it), and Lewis at Merc.
  13. A big 'Gracias!' goes out to Carlos Sainz for demonstrating how tracks should enforce their own limits.
  14. Alonso given a 10s penalty for racing, in a race he finished last in. This 'sport' is off the rails. Meanwhile, Sainz is not penalized for completely ignoring the apex en route to also causing a collision. It's just bizarre.
  15. Yeah over on Autosport people are trashing Alonso for making it too hard for those guys to pass. WTF? I thought we were racing here, lol.
  16. I'll take Nico over Karun, Damon, or Johnny or even Jenson, every single time.
  17. I get that Yordan wants a pitch to hit, but patient Yordan is the best Yordan.
  18. Mario says there's been one meeting with FOM and there will be another during the Miami GP weekend. https://www.nbcsports.com/motor-sports/news/mario-andretti-offended-by-formula-ones-treatment-of-michael-andrettis-bid In other news ... Ted has a theory that the fires are happening so easily because there's peat in the soil. I doubt it's that complex, but who knows. It's an interesting idea, and reminds me of something that happens here every year around this time with the brown stuff falling out of the oak trees. Dead oak blossoms? I dunno. I'm just an unfrozen caveman firefighter. Sometimes when it's particularly bad and the conditions are right, it can spontaneously combust, like a mulch pile would, because of the heat built up internally as it decomposes. Sometimes we have 50 grass fires because of it in just a day. Sometimes it even causes structure fires when it collected on rooftops. It's crazy. /csb
  19. Both Saubers in SQ3. First time either Sauber has made it into SQ3/Q3 all season. In China. Interesting.
  20. Welp. Looks like Shanghai channeled their inner Bobby Epstein and found a new, different way to cheap out on the track surface. The story behind Shanghai's 'painted' F1 track surprise: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/the-story-behind-shanghais-painted-f1-track-surprise/10600016/ They do this nonsense on our neighborhood streets here in Austin. It only lasts a couple of years and wears through even with that limited amount of very slow-speed, residential traffic. Imagine what it it'll do on a racetrack. If it's as durable as the crappy street surface in front of my house that's constantly littered with loose, tiny rocks that have worn off, then yeah, the track will wear away and grip levels will vary during the weekend. Not as bad as COTA's varying grip levels throughout the track, I'm guessing, but probably still significant. But as Kimi says, it's the same for everyone, so wewillsee.
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