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  1. Re: Stroll, Antonio Lobato tweeted this and later deleted it. "Lance Stroll will not race in the Japanese Grand Prix, as confirmed by Aston Martin. The aftermath of his severe accident on Saturday in Singapore has forced this decision to be made"
  2. Pretty ugly stuff from Checo. Definitely worth a loss of position. Instead, he gets 5 seconds. Same penalty as Alonso, and he doesn't lose position.
  3. ^This. It blows my mind that no other game even tries to do it this way.
  4. Indeed. And yeah that generation of Mustang GTs wasn't terrible. I had a '79, same gen GT. All black. That 302 sounded glorious and was fucking indestructible. Torque for days. Fun, fun car and a chick magnet. I think I paid like $2K for it used. Good times. /csb
  5. I wish. He was an old guy, even if he was an asshole, and I figger Fry's had cameras galore pointed out front. Not worth jail time. But it's close!
  6. Yeah I'm not so sure re: Stroll, either. He's never been beaten like this before, and it can't be fun to be the guy everyone knows is holding the team back, even when your old man owns it. It might even be worse when your self-made billionaire old man owns it. I think he's under considerable pressure. Everyone on the team with an ounce of competitive spirit looks at you like a liability they're saddled with, but of course they're not saying it out loud and are looking for ways to say something positive instead. Surely he can sense it anyway, though, and I doubt it's a good feeling. He's also endured a lot of hard hits in his career, and this was one of the hardest. That was nasty. I also think Big Stroll is serious about making Aston a winner. I don't think it's the same now as we thought it was before, with him buying FI just to give Lance a seat. Owning a manufacturer team is a different beast and comes with serious pressures of its own. Everyone is looking to him for the success of this team, and he's pouring a shit-ton of money into its future with all the new facilities, etc.
  7. :triggered: You saying that reminded me of the time I had to go to Fry's because they were the only ones who had the thing I was looking for. Always hated that place. I went to the one up at Parmer & Mopac toward the end when it was slowly dying. Pull up in my new car and there's hardly anyone there. Just to be safe I parked further out, on and end spot, 7 or 8 rows beyond the nearest vehicle. I'm in the store for like 5 minutes because they actually didn't have what I needed. Of course. I come back out and there's a white pickup sitting next to my car - driver's side next to my czar - with the driver sitting in it. Empty spaces everywhere. Not another vehicle for 50-75 feet in any direction. As I walk up, I see something on my right front door. Fucker got me. Unreal. I walk up and start checking out the damage. White truck. White paint marks on my door. He rolls down the window and says "That wasn't me". I shot back "Oh really? Then who the fuck was it? I was in there for 5 minutes". He just looked at his steering wheel. What in the actual fuck. This pos had to go well out of his way to park next to me and walk further to get into the store. Then he pulls up with his driver's side next to my car, close enough to ding it. I can only assume he gets off on it and did it intentionally.
  8. He's the asshole imho. My complaint wasn't about places where there are plenty of pumps avaialble. Not sure why he wouldn't just go to the next available pump.
  9. Yeah I agree. Seems like a nice kid & the kind I wanna root for, but I just don't think he's really an F1 driver anywhere but in a backmarker.
  10. AMuS: Tsunoda keeping his seat. Announcement at Suzuka. Danny still most likely to retain his seat over Lawson. Mick still on the outside looking in. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/mick-schumacher-f1-ausstieg-wec-alpine-mercedes-simulator/
  11. Good post, and I quoted you over in the Gameday Atmosphere thread. You should chime in there if you haven't already.
  12. I really don't think this is just another 'get off my lawn' reaction. I just don't think it's that simple. I love the music, new and old, the drone show, etc. But a whole lot of that shit in between isn't really that appealing to the kids either. My 17 yo & 19 yo complain about it more than I do. They were talking before I was about the nonstop nature of it all and the crowd not getting a chance to just be a football crowd. In other words, the usual couching of all of this as a young vs old conflict is missing the point. Would I want to go back to the way it was in '83 when I got to the 40? Hell no. The actual football aside, I'd be bored out of my mind, esp with that atmosphere and the crazy-long tv and other breaks we have now. But this has gone too far in the other direction, and I hear people of all ages talking about just wanting them to slow it down a tad, turn it down a tad, and give the crowd a little bit of a break. Interesting post here from the game thread, by @JBJ, which imho sheds some light on it not just us old guys that don't like this shit:
  13. Yep. That was some cringey fucking bullshit. I don't like it much at the volleyball games (Point, TEXAS!), but I can't fucking stand it at DKR.
  14. LOL, yep. Someone up high in the upper deck Saturday night kept making paper airplanes and flying them toward the field. The crowd up there reacted to and got into that about as much as they did to the other filler stuff, seeing how far it could fly, how close to the field, etc.
  15. I mean, I get all that, and I love the music, new and old, the drone show, etc. But a whole lot of that shit in between isn't really that appealing to the kids either. My 17 yo & 19 yo complain about it more than I do. They were talking about the nonstop nature of it all and the crowd not getting a chance to just be a football crowd before I was. In other words, the usual couching of all of this as a young vs old conflict is missing the point. Would I want to go back to the way it was in '83 when I got to the 40? Hell no. The actual football aside, I'd be bored out of my mind, esp with that atmosphere and the crazy-long tv and other breaks we have now. But this has gone too far in the other direction, and I hear people of all ages talking about just wanting them to slow it down a tad, turn it down a tad, and give the crowd a little bit of a break.
  16. Yeah lap 2. The suspension itself was apparently ok, but a big piece of the suspension fairing was broken and moving around all race. That would suck. When he said the car was undriveable, I wondered at the time if he was saying that in a broad sense (which I thought unlikely) or if there was a problem or some damage caused by something external. There was a streamble of the damaged fairing moving around, but it looks like it's been taken down.
  17. So apparently Alonso's car caught a piece of Williams debris early on that damaged and/or got lodged in his front left suspension. Might explain why the car was such a pig today.
  18. The one in the top left corner of the screen? Got damn. It was funny. When she was on the screen, I knew there were a fuck ton of people looking exactly where I was looking. Absolutely mesmerizing to watch her try to keep that tube top from slipping down.
  19. Yeah it really is just too much and too little at the same time. Constant blasting of the jumbotron kills any crowd spontanaety. Constantly showing Bevo ripping through the opponent's flag instead of a replay that never materializes is absolutely infuriating. Going home with my ears bleeding is maybe just not a necessity after attending a football game. Even my 17 yo said it was way too loud for most of the content. When the teenagers say it's too loud, then it's probably too gotdamn loud. The weird part is that it didn't usually bother me when there was actual music playing. It was the worst during anything else. The light show is ok, but nothing to write home about or make me wanna go to the game. The drone show thing is cool, but falls flat a little when it's 10-10 with Wyoming, heading into the 4th. Bottom line, give me a team that's playing good Texas football and winning games, and I'll be happy. Don't do that, and none of the bells and whistles will ever make up for it. ETA: Fuck Bob Cole. Dude needed to be gone ten years ago.
  20. I couldn't make it out at first, but after someone nearby told me, it made sense and seemed to fit what my ears were hearing.
  21. Good race, at least at the end. I loved Carlos's clever intentional creation of a DRS train and his terrible "Smooth Operator" rendition on the cooldown. Good for him. Also, it's crazy how a race that's run in the low 80s is considered F1's hottest race. They even refer to it as 'oppressive heat'. I'm not sure 85F would be considered 'oppressive' even in much of Europe. Lando said he was ready to do it all again. Didn't seem to bother him or anyone else too much afaik.
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