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Yep. Think about the alignment of stars it took for Ferrari to get out of their own way - Brawn + Byrne + Todt + Schumi + Phillip Morris money + one of the tire suppliers developing its tires specifically for their car + unlimited testing.
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I dunno about Lewis, but I gotta disagree with you re: Alonso. He's a monster out there. Just keeps doin' it. If Newey can give him a car, he'll at least compete for more WDCs. IMHO nobody out there is better in-race than Alonso, even now. Re: AM's pace this weekend, I don't think it's really a turnaround in their fortunes, but I'd love to be wrong. Alonso said around Spa that they were done with upgrades and the rest of the way they'd be good at some tracks and not so good at others. I guess now we know what kind of circuit they can be good at. My guess is those will be the minority.
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Yeah it's always been like that for me, too, even going back to our early PdC days. When I said 'No, gracias', that's always been enough. This was definitely a first for me.
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Just fyi we heard about a little, uh, altercation while we were there. First I can remember hearing about on Isla. Dude from Texas got his ass kicked pretty bad by two 'locals' & woke up in the hospital. His friends said that he said he just went for a walk and these two dudes jumped him. It was out on the east side waterfront area adjacent to the square, up the hill from the hoops court (the old, pretty much abandoned boardwalk-ish area). He said it was unprovoked, but according to other witnesses, he was talking a lot of shit to some guys on Hidalgo not long before it happened. I also wonder why he was walking in that dark area that nobody really goes to at night. We were told by some actual locals that the guys who did it were new to the island and were bad guys, heavy drug users, etc. They said covid brought a lot of people to the island from the mainland, looking for work, and that some of them aren't the best people to have around. They are not impressed. As for myself, during that May trip I had probably the only negative interaction I've ever had with a 'local' (who's probably also not actually from IM). I'd never seen him before, but some of y'all may have seen him - short guy on Hidalgo, kinda jacked, with jailhouse tats all over. On his face, everywhere. Always aggressively selling shit, if you know what I mean. I saw him every single time we went down Hidalgo on this trip, day or night. Offered me pot. I said no. Then he doubled down, "What, I bet you want cocaine? I got it." Me: Nope. Gracias. "You want crack? I got fentanyl, too". Me: 'No. Thanks'. I'm tryna move on but he kinda had me backed into a corner by the store I was coming out of, and really close-talking me, not in a friendly way. Finally, getting more and more in my face, he says "Oh you want a girl? Or a boy? I got little boys". By this point I'm starting to show my irritation, but not wanting to give the obvious ex-con who seemed pretty fucked up atm a reason to lose his shit. Me: "I said no", and I gtfo. This was right in the middle of the strip on Hidalgo at like pm, with people all around us. Pretty crazy. I love Isla and Mx, and I love the people, and they seem to love me back, but that dude is literally scary af. He has the kind of ojos locos you rarely see. I just stayed away from him the rest of the trip.
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Rando thoughts about last our last trip, etc ... - June used to be our go-to month for Isla, but the sargassum is really putting a kink in that. None in May when we were there. Not too bad in June most days afaik, and seems ok now. - Re: Isla not being all that cheap, yeah that ship has sailed. The bang for the buck used to be incredible, but prices steadily crept up and then after the covid restrictions lifted, the prices started skyrocketing & haven't really stopped. Hidalgo used to have lots of lower end places with incredible food for low prices, but now everyone is angling for the 'high end' customer. It also used to be a lot more chill than it is now, but oh well. - Re: Punta Sur, I ccould stand there for hoursing just watch the waves crash on the rocks at the tip of the point. The power of the water is something to see. We also saw more turtles from up there this year than we've ever seen before. Side note: sucks that the turtle hatchery got closed down/bought. IIRC it's gonna be a hotel or some such. - hire a boat captain to take you around the island. We always do it. Always worth it. We snorkel a bit, fish some, swim off Punta Sur with the turtles sometimes, etc. Even just riding alone is worth it to me. The last 2 times we've hired the same guy. We met him just walking on PN, trying to find some business. Good guy. I'll try to find his info if anyone needs a captain. - Re: trusting the locals more than Murcans, absolutely this. 100%. We've been taking our boys to IM since they were babies, and we feel safer with them there than most places in the US, even in Austin. Of course you always wanna be careful, and I tend to be pretty wary with my cash & belongings, esp at the beach ... BUT, in at least 20+ stays of 4 to 10 nights on IM, we've never had a single thing stolen. We leave the hotel (sliding glass doors next to the pool) unlocked all day when we're on PN and really only lock it when we all leave at night. Never had a single thing go missing, even with maintenance, maids, etc coming and going while we're out, etc. We leave money, speakers, water bottles, backpacks etc on our beach chairs with no problems. Leave stuff in the cart when we're out, etc. All good. (yeah we've definitely gotten a lot more relaxed there over the years. ) - Re: the whalesharks. Yep. It's awesome, awesome, awesome. But we haven't been since 3 or 4 years ago when, for the first time for us, it was super crowded with boats. Too crowded imho, for the fish and for the people. I've heard rumblings that they may start trying to regulate it more to keep the crowds sizes down and the people and sharks safe. I can't really argue with that. - @Wally Pryor, thanks for the rec on the Doc! I'll have to keep that in mind. Getting old sucks. - Man, the 'indoor' soccer seems to be getting even better there, or maybe we were just lucky and went on the right nights this time. It was like what I would imagine 18U boys club soccer level would be. One of the teams also had a big, fast American kid who was pretty damned good. They were killin it. We missed baseball again, got dammit. Normally they play on Sundays, but this year we were there during the big fishing tournament, and pretty much nothing else happens that day (Sunday). We always get a cart & go exploring, esp at night. We always find new stuff we've never seen before, which is crazy on an island that size that we've been to so many times. Re: Beach clubs, we always do at least one day at Kin Ha or Castillo de Garrafon. Usually Kin Ha, these days. There's a lot for the kids to do there. We always stay at Ixchel, and everything there is great, but the beach clubs just a offer a little bit different setting and vibe, with some different activities.
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I don't mind the service charge for the convenience of pulling out cash on the island, but Mrs. Wood (no pics, assholes) likes to go to Frost Bank downtown in Austin and get cash ahead of time. Don't have to have an account and iirc it's no charge. Anyone can walk in & exchange money. I have no idea which ways get the best/worst exchange rate etc, & I stopped having the energy to gaf. I know we're gonna spend a shit ton of money down there and I'm just better off not worrying too much about it. When I'm on the island I just use my card for everything I can use it for, but we still end up needing quite a bit of cash. YMMV. OBTW, when we were there in May, finding operation and/or stocked ATMs was hit & miss, even at Chedraui. The only one I found that worked every time I tried it was the CI Banco ATM next to the OXXO on Medina at Madero (heh. they named a street after me).
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LOL. Dang. I thought it woulda been obvious by now!
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In aggyland. Shocking.
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Heading to Vancouver on Tuesday for a week.
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So Mikulski is worth Carlos Correa + $33M? I guess Matt's probably getting a pretty good chuckle about that. Good story for his grandkids some day.
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So, Fox bought 1/3 of Penske Entertainment, which owns IndyCar & will extend their media rights deal. That's kind of a big deal. https://racer.com/2025/07/31/fox-corporation-acquires-one-third-interest-in-penske-entertainment
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Most of that thread? Yeah, probably. There are quite a few people in the thread these days. Many of them are newer fans, but some of us have been to a shit ton of races. Not sure that's a solid indication of much though.
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Yeah they sounded eleventy bazillion times better not too long ago. They sound like vacuum cleaners now compared to even just 2012. Those of y'all complaining about the cars not sounding loud enough ... sadly, it was realistic for today's F1. That's just how the cars sound now. That engine formula change in 2013 was probably the biggest mistake F1 ever made, on multiple levels.
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I love seeing movies in the theater, but people fucking talking out loud or looking at their fucking phones during the movie are just a beating. They can eabod and diaf, and the world will be a better place. Seriously. No doubt these are the same people that park shitty at HEB when it's open, then leave their cart sitting in a parking space when they leave. The prices suck, but if they got rid of the inconsiderate assholes, I'd pay even more. Last movie I saw with an intermission iirc was Reds, when I was in high school in like 1980. It was brutal. /csb
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Nah, ignore him. He's never even in the F1 thread, and most of us there enjoyed the movie despite the rather inconsequential hollywood-ized silly moments. Like I said earlier, yeah, there are some things they got wrong, but no deal-breakers. It was a good flick. Is it Grand Prix or Le Mans? No, but imho nobody will ever do it that well again, which is crazy when you consider the era in which those movies were shot and the challenges they faced getting onboard shots. They remind me of 2001 vs modern sci-fi movies.
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liam neeson is frank drebin, jr. naked gun is back.
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So, like I said above, nothing changes with those guys, and they'll always be around no matter what. But in the meantime, a whole lot more people who don't know shit about their cars won't know they have dangerous issues with them because they won't be getting inspections.
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In before Classics.
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There will always be exceptions and people gaming the system, but cars are more complex now than ever before, and drivers in general know less about their cars than ever before. Hardly anyone these days even knows how to check their oil much less change it, check their tire tread, and lots of other super-basic shit. Without inspections there will be a great many people who won't even know they have fundamental safety issues on their cars that would have been easily detected with a simple inspection. Yeah I get that it's a pita and that the gubment uses it as yet another excuse to tack on an annual tax on top of the annual registration fee, but they're just shifting that now to the emissions testing fee anyway. Sure, reduce the frequency to every other year or so if you want. That's fine. Cars are more reliable than they've ever been. But eliminating inspections completely is stupid and just plain irresponsible.
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Exactly. There was a time when I'd regularly see cars on the road that weren't a whole lot better off than this one. You know, people just doin' their own thing. But not in decades, because inspections.
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I mean ... I've been getting cars inspected in Texas for 45 years - long enough to know that there are some pretty basic safety items that they inspect that will go uninspected now. Lights, tires, brakes, mirrors, seatbelts, tint darkness, valid insurance, etc. I've also been around long enough to have seen that many people will push and often exceed the limits in the absence of inspections and drive cars that are unsafe to drive.
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Even ignoring the emissions implications, doing away with inspections is madness in pretty much every way.
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LOL. It's Scotland, so of course Trump is triggered again about windmills. Here he is explaining how windmills are compoletely unrecyclable, that the carbon fiber blades 'rust' and 'rot', and they have to be dumped into the sea, all of which is complete fabricated nonsense, of course. LOL Starmer's doing everything he can to keep the stupidity from 'sploding his head. nsiap.
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Wow. They actually do believe that every time you see a con trail (condensation that freezes in the wake of a fast-moving plane) that it's actually cloud seeding. I guess those Indycar and F1 cars I've seen generating wingtip vortices/vapor trails were part of the conspiracy too! Dang. I wish I's MAGA smart!
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