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  1. 1 minute ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Well done for Perez.  That was just a beating watching them not get around Alonso. The RB, Ferraris and McLarens might have gotten much more interesting if they had gotten around Alonso earlier. Oh well.

    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. 

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  2. 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

  3. 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.

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    But research by Motorsport.com has uncovered that while the track looks like it has been painted, what has happened is actually a bitumen surface treatment that is commonly used on roads in the United States and Asia.

    Bitumen is applied in fluid form to the track surface to help bind with the surface of the existing circuit. The idea is that it helps eliminate dust, improves waterproofing and also prevent disintegration of the track.
    It is understood that this work was done in Shanghai last year, and the varied colouring around the track is the result of this treatment having been worn away from track running that has taken place since.
    The manner of the treatment means it will likely further be worn away over the F1 weekend, which could open the door to varied levels of grip around different parts of the track.

     

    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.

  4. 3 hours ago, Macklemore said:

    Every big managerial decision that Espada has made has blown up in his face. He is going to be lucky to last the season at this rate.

    3 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    This is what I said last night.

    theyve just about all been justifiable…but they’ve just about all backfired

    Yep. What's just as worrying to me is how lost he looks in the dugout ... like there's no real plan. But who knows. If they were winning, I guess he could look lost AF and it wouldn't bother me at all. 

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  5. 10 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    “Just cause that’s where he sets up, doesn’t make it a strike” from the Astros dugout on that 2nd strike to Jake 

    Did they say that? If so, good. Needs to be said about eleventy-bazillion more times, apparently.

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