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  1. Thanks pwinger. I'll check & see if my listings have updated...

    Apparently active suspension is being considered for 2021, and 18" rims, & a tire warmer ban. Still standing firm on axing the H. Good. And even better, getting rid of the unanimous vote bullshit that's been slowly killing F1 for decades.

    https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-bosse-plan-2021-bahrain/

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    Liberty Media has put his concept for the Formula 1 from 2021 on the table. The budget cap comes in. It will be around $ 150 million. According to the new distribution key, a small team only has to find 30 million sponsorship money to be on par with the big ones.
     
    The cat is out of the bag. Just in time at 10 o'clock, Formula 1 boss Chase Carey, sports director Ross Brawn and the ten team bosses of the Formula 1 met outside the paddock in a meeting room of the Oasis complex building. The F1 management presented its vision of Formula One in 20 minutes from 2021. If the plan works, it will trigger an earthquake in Formula One. For the first time comes a budget cap. This is to protect the small teams from being driven by the big racing teams with three times as much money and three times as much employees on the wall.
     
     
    At the same time, the revenues are distributed evenly to the teams. A bonus is only available for Ferrari and all engine manufacturers. Liberty wants to reward them for providing engines to the customer teams. "Formula 1 should be a business for all teams to earn," said the headquarters of Liberty.
     
    At the meeting with the team bosses Liberty went into detail. Everyone was given a roll of paper at the end of the session. It was not long before details of the Liberty plan circulated in the paddock. The budget ceiling is set at $ 150 million. Except for salaries for drivers and executives, and spending on marketing. The Formula 1 teams will work in two stages. They want to give the big teams the chance to shrink their staffing levels over a period of two years. External watchdogs and draconian punishments are designed to put off scammers.
     
    According to Liberty's plans, all the teams are to get so much money that they only have to find $ 30 million in sponsorship to reach the budget cap. Ferrari collects as a team with the greatest history and as a motor manufacturer twice and should come to a bonus of about 50 million dollars. That's about half of the special payment they are currently receiving. The engine manufacturers receive a compensation of $ 10 million.
     
    The extra money can not be used by the factory teams to make their cars faster. This prevents the cost brake. The special payment goes as a profit in the books. That should actually satisfy even the controversial Ferrari boss Sergio Marchionne. The Formula 1-Gewraeft will drop for Ferrari from 2021 a profit of approximately 200 million dollar. At the moment you still pay. It is still unclear how Marchionne reacts. The President stayed away from the meeting in Bahrain. We will hear from him soon.
     
    Decision-making should also be simplified according to the plans of FIA and rightholders. You seek decisions with a simple majority. Only with particularly sensitive topics a majority of 75 per cent is to be necessary. Formula 1 commission and strategy group would stand in this case before the dissolution. A panel of ten representatives each of the FIA, the F1 management and the teams is entitled to vote. The goal is to react quickly in an emergency. To correct mistakes or to implement good ideas unbureaucratically. So far, the coercion of the unanimous vote has always been against it.
     
    On the technical side, Chase Carey focused on the future engine format. The rules for the car still have until 2019. Since the manufacturers did not submit any better proposals, FIA and Liberty want to stick to the proposal that they put on the table at the end of October 2017. So a 1.6 liter V6 turbo without MGU-H, but with a stronger MGU-K. The speed at which the engine achieves maximum power, should be increased by 3,000 / min. That should improve the sound. For this purpose, the fuel limit is relaxed. To save costs, batteries and turbochargers come off the peg.
  2. That FOM press release says nothing they haven't already said, really. Hate that they keep talking 'road relevance' though. The last thing F1 needs is to be road relevant. Could be just lip service to keep Merc & Ferrari from losing their minds tho...

    Ferrari & Merc will not like the $150M budget cap talk one little bit tho. Money is really no object for either of them. They're both willing to spend whatever it takes, and they really want to keep the sport as expensive as they can make it. 

  3. 1 hour ago, DaggerHorns said:

    I went to Pearl Jam in 1999 (I think) at Southpark Meadows.

    Gents, this thread is fucking awesome.

    Yeah I really, really dig these old pics and all the memories & stories they conjure.

  4. Yeah, they really aren't doing shit to seriously address the real problem. It's good that apparently someone finally at least acknowledges it as a problem, but shaving isn't gonna fix it, and will probably actually make it worse in the long run. And COTA continuously calling the bumps 'F1-related' is misleading bullshit.

    Breaking out the bump grinding truck yet again <> trying to fix the problem. Doing more grinding might help a bit in the short term with the smaller stuff, but it's really just ignoring the real problem, and could actually make the problem worse in the long run. It's like putting a bandaid on a massive head wound.

    Tony Vilander won two of the recent PWC races there a couple weeks ago & still complained about how bad the bumps were. There are also more quotes of the MotoGP riders going out of their way to tell COTA that the previous measures (shaving) weren't serious attempts to fix the problem and that if something meaningful isn't done, the track won't be safe to ride . It'll be interesting to see how the riders react to more shaving. I also noticed the article says they want to focus on 1-12 for the MotoGP riders, completely disregarding the bump that took two riders down at T18 over the 2017 weekend, including Vinales on lap 1 of the race. Hell, I saw a PWC car get its front right 6 inches off the ground there.

     

  5. 2 hours ago, GabrielsHorn said:

    Except most of the time, it's people from CC that are speeding up to get stuck in traffic at the bridge. It's a dick thing to do regardless as most of the people are trying to zipper merge. 

    Zipper merging is great & that's what I always do in traffic. I'm not talking about when traffic is backed up though. I'm talking about any other time, when I'm going a normal speed and the people coming on from the right off of the LAB on ramp simply just won't yield. Then they look at me all crazy when I don't yield to them. Happens about 2/3 of the time I go through there. It's nuts. Multiple times there I've almost been run into the wall when I was right beside them or even slightly ahead the whole way.

  6. South Congress on First Thursday back in 1914...looks like the two old buildings at Nellie St, right next to the School for the Deaf.
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    Austin skyline & 290 west from Convict Hill in 1981. Note the sign for Mr. Gatti's on the right. That was the first Gatti's, I believe.Two stories, with the coveted "private" booths. Oh man. Good times. I remember my mom would drop me & my friends off there after Bedichek football games. There was an old cemetery out back, connected to the current funeral home on W. Cannon. We used to go out there with girls and hope they got spooked. Been looking for a pic of that Gatti's, but I can't find one. I live just a couple of miles from there but it doesn't look anything at all like it looked then. Sad.

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    1922.

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    Clark Field.

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    Home venues for UT hoops over the years...

    Clark Field.

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    The Ben Hur Temple.

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    UT Men's Gym.

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    6th & Congress, unk date.

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    Tight rope walker across Congress Av. 1867. You can see AB there on the right. Old Capitol building in the background.

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  7. On 3/26/2018 at 10:27 PM, Chet Steadman said:

    Mopac & 35th n 1910 (?):

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    Courtesy of skipperj. Below is the building as it stands now, with part of it removed to make way for the Mopac feeder. It's just a few feet from the road. I always loved that shot. Looks like it could be way out in the middle of west Texas or NM.

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    Fifth and Lamar (year unknown):

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    Looking South.

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    Looking North.

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  8. 16 hours ago, VinyVango said:

    I recall being in an English class in Parlin when the Challenger broke apart... many moons ago.

    Yeah I was at DKR getting my squad ready for NROTC drill. One of my guys, real doofus, was late and came in saying it was because the shuttle 'blew up''. Nobody believed him until others started talking about it.

     

    Got some pics here that I & others posted in the other thread & really liked. Enjoy. Also been trying pretty hard for some reason to find pics of the old Cardi's way out north, but can't find any. If anyone sees something like that, thanks in advance for posting it.

    courtesy PHD... Every time I walked by that Lone Star sign I always hit it to hear the weird sounds it made.

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    Courtesy Longest Horn...

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    Spinmonkey. Research near Balcones Woods. That might be me in that red Chevy.

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    Ben White across from Southwood, 1977, the year we moved to Austin.

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    Matt Martinez in front of the original El Rancho (he sold the spot to the Four Seasons and built the place on S. Lamar. Remember the old Red Wing store down near there ... Raymond's Work Boots, I think? Raymond used to tell me about how he and Matt used to go hunting up north of what is now Oltorf.

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    The 'new' El Rancho.

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    Willie's Picnic at Southpark Meadows in 1984, between my freshman and soph years at UT. Saw the Police there. Back then that was "way out in the boonies" lol.

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    6th & I35, 1960.

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    Snowstorm in the 40s.

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    Research between 35 & Lamar, 1977.

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  9. On 3/29/2018 at 1:51 PM, bolverk said:

    All the really old B&W photos show a pretty fucking barren landscape. Was that because of the prevalence of (over) grazing at the time?

    Maybe. And the lack of fucking shitty cedar (yeah, I know. Mountain Juniper) trees. And from what I can gather talking to olds older than me, most of the big oaks, etc, were planted by residents as Austin grew.

  10. On 3/29/2018 at 12:18 PM, TXLNGHRN10 said:

    I might be a little slow, but I didn't realize that Rock The Casba video was filmed in Austin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

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    This was filmed out at Bergstrom when it was an airforce base in the early eighties. 

     

    Man, those F4s in that video ... those fuckers were so fucking loud. In about '85 me & a couple UT buddies got an apartment at Candlewick over there on East Riverside. We were right in the fucking landing pattern. When we'd hear one of 'em coming, we'd just stop talking, 'cause we knew we weren't gonna be able to hear a got damn thing for about the next 20 seconds.

  11. On 3/28/2018 at 5:12 AM, DaggerHorns said:

    The 90s Austin was the one I fell in love with. Life was so simple back then and such a bad ass city. Old country, quiet hippies, and a mass amount of enjoyable sluts. I’d pay billions for a repeat or a time machine.

    Este.

  12. 9 hours ago, Fico said:

    Or instead of holding the position that development is evil, we could have planned and built to accommodate growth.  The people are coming, no matter what, and they have been for 30 years now.  This conversation is for a different thread.

     

    8 hours ago, TXLNGHRN10 said:

    We are making the same argument. We encourage development, but don't build roads for it
    I didn't mean to say development is evil

     

    7 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    instead like others said they sat back and thought that limiting road construction would stop development while telling everyone on earth that they should move to Austin (and then vote to limit development especially roads)

    Yep. Just take a look at Riverside east of I-35 for example. You know why it's divided? It was gonna be an east/west crosstown expressway, from Lamar to 71, I think. People were planning for growth, and wanted to get ready for it all the way back in the 50s & 60s. Then it got shot down by the 'No Growthers'. And that's just one example. There was an extensive freeway system planned in the 60s. That got shot down & replaced in the 70s. Same thing in the 80s,  yada yada. Thanks a lot, assholes...

    http://www.texasfreeway.com/austin/historic/freeway_planning_maps/freeway_planning_maps.shtml

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    Historic Austin Freeway Planning Maps

    Last updated 9-August-2001 (add link to 1969 plans), created August 2000

    1962 - An extensive inner-city freeway network is planned.
    1969 - The approved 1969 plan still includes the inner city freeway network (no maps). Go to 1969 detail page
    1980 - The inner city freeway network is wiped out, and a new plan emerges.
    1983 - Minor adjustments to the 1980 plan
    1985 - A world-class freeway network with 2 loops is planned
    1987 - An extensive arterial network is planned for northwest Austin
    1994 - The 1985 plan is devastated as environmentalists seize control
    2000 - Explosive growth and gridlock make it necessary to add freeways

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    ...and finally this POS...

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  13. On 4/4/2018 at 8:54 PM, 1978horn said:

    I think I heard about year ago that they are expecting 10k new homes in the next 5 years on 290 west of the Oak Hill Y.

    Got damn.

    18 years ago when we were looking for our first house, we saw some really nice new neighborhoods out there, but in the end the 290 drive was the deciding factor for me in me putting the nix on that shit. Now we only drive out there when we have to for some reason, and got damn it sucks. So glad we chose to buy where we did. /csb

  14. 2 hours ago, GabrielsHorn said:

    Getting onto Mopac SB from Lake Austin, there's almost always assholes that are entering Mopac from Cesar Chavez that try to run you off the road. Every time it's a prick getting off at 2244 too. 

    The LAB traffic has a yield sign. The CC traffic doesn't. If there's a situation where the two cars are side-by-side there, the LAB traffic should be changing speeds to get out of the way, not the CC traffic. It's amazing how often they'll just act like you have to get out of their way though.

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  15. 2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

    People who tailgate in the middle lane of a freeway when the left lane is open.  

    I'm typically 10 over the limit, but I realize some people want to go faster, so I stay in a middle lane until it's time to pass someone.  So if I'm the one you want to pass, have at it dipshit; that's why I'm not in the left lane.  The fact that you're one car length behind me going 75 or 80 tells me that you're not actually in a hurry, you're just too stupid to realize how fucking stupid that is.  You leave me no choice but to take my foot off the gas until you get the point and go around.  Please neuter yourself. 

    Yep. This shit. And that stupid fucker behind you is probably also one of the first to stay the left lane, blocking faster traffic.

  16. FYI local Austin start times for  Bahrain are as follows:

    FP1:  6am  FP2: 10am

    FP3: 7am  Q: 10am

    GP: 10:10 am

     

    No pre-race show listed this time. I was afraid of this. I think maybe they only offered it in week one because the app wasn't. Still no word that the app is ready now either tho. E:60 is listed just before the race. Who knows?

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