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wood

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  1. Wise choice of the word "attend" vs "graduate from".
  2. Yep, & I saw something the other day that said if RBR had 2 Checos & no Max this year, they'd still be ahead of P2 by something like 110 points.
  3. Anyone else who uses Roystream been having problems with it the last few days?
  4. You never know. Max has been talking a lot about taking a break, etc, too. Barring that, it probably depends on how this season ends and how the AM prospects for the future look. BTW I read that in FP1 Fernando ran the new floor & aero parts. then he ran the old floor in FP2, with Stroll rolling with the new floor, to get a direct, back-to-back comparison of the new floor vs the old floor. In FP1 (new floor) Fernando was P2, 0.278s behind Max. In FP2 (old floor, hard tires) he was P10, only about 0.028s behind Lance (new floor, medium tires).
  5. Maybe. You never know. But then again, Williams seems proper quick and may be on the rise going forward. And they love him there. IMHO that actually counts for a lot to most of these guys.
  6. Albon = beast. Chuck = a bit overrated imho. I think I've seen these silly wtf mistakes much more often than the awesome qualifying laps so many people rave about. Checo wtf? Damon is absolutely a waste of a perfectly good mic. They'd have been better off keeping Johnny. Bernie just keeps dropping the knowledge, while Karun replies "Correct", as if she's just saying what he was already thinking. LOL. Sure, Karun. OK. Ocon lol.
  7. Crazy how close 2-5 are ...
  8. Here ya go. How about 14:29? I'll be in me bunk.
  9. KMag says their great new title sponsor has changed everything. The biggest sponsor on that car is Haas Machine Tools, which has plenty of cash to burn. That team is hilarious.
  10. Yeah, they still land helos there. I was just wondering if anyone is still running a helo shuttle service.
  11. Lot A is great if you're at the Main GS or T1. there's a premium for it though. Do they still even run the helo service? I thought that pretty much died out after the first couple of years or so, but I could be wrong. ETA: Maybe there's a People's Helo Service we could use lol.
  12. Oh wow, I've never seen that before.
  13. This weekend's race trophy ... what could go wrong? Also ...
  14. Yeah I loved lying in the grass back in the trees with my family between sessions in Montreal. So many trees that everyone could do the same if they wanted to. No such thing here, even though the City Council mandated thousands of trees to be planted as a condition of endorsement for the METF years ago. I really wanna do the WEC race at COTA next summer, but got damn. It's gonna be the hottest it's ever been for a major series out there. Maybe I'll only do the late afternoons and evenings.
  15. Yeah we've been there on average probably once a week ever since the south store opened several years ago. First time I've ever seen or heard of it. Right now those tickets are the first thing you see as you're walking in the door.
  16. Meanwhile Bobby is doing his best Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer impression, trying to paint the USGP at COTA as the meat & potatoes, blue-collar F1 race in the States. He says we call it "The People's Race". https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/austins-us-gp-not-changing-recipe-amid-f1s-miami-and-vegas-hype/10508756/ At the People's Race, it seems like the People wouldn't have to fork over $900 for a 3-day GA ticket and a Parking Pass. COTA is not as expensive as Vegas is this year, but COTA's F1 prices have tripled just since 2021, and it's still in the top 5 most expensive races on the calendar. Maybe he means 'the race the People pay for', or 'the race that wouldn't exist without the People'. Maybe he's talking about the People who have supported the track since before it was ever built, and are now priced out of attending races there. Got damn I suck at typing.
  17. Yep. I mean for a hundred or two more than the $2600+ it would cost me to take my family to COTA and sit in GA for the weekend, I could buy us airfare to Montreal and grandstand seating.
  18. Every single year. I checked a week or so ago, and there were still lots of tickets at 2, 4, and 6. Bobby says the reason the GA tickets are on sale right inside the front door at Costco is to combat the high prices of the other races and make them available to the common man. Says they do it every year. They may have done it before, but I don't remember that. Y'all?
  19. This is one of the things I miss the most about the old rules. With the smaller court and rally scoring, very few guys now are willing or able to let their nuts hang on jumpserves the way they used to. I was telling my kid about it yesterday. You just see very few of the current players who can use the jumpserve as a weapon very often, if at all. Re: that lateral breaking jumper, that reminds me one of my favorite servers of all time - Brian Lewis. Lewy and Eric Fonoimoana, Karch, Stein, Loiola, Ayakatuby nd more ... People would show up to some of those guys' matches just for the serving exhibition alone. Sander would have fit right in in that era. He'd be lethal from the line, too.
  20. Yep, she's a badass. Nice lady too. Met her in the KXAN suite at COTA a few years back. Hopefully with Jennie they'll just let her ease into it & not have her bite off more than she can chew. Best wishes for your dad. My MIL recently went through a stroke and the changes in the way she expressed herself were definitely striking.
  21. ^ Hamilton fan. Got it. (j/k. I dunno who you root for other than Danny) Anyway, some good news for once: Jennie Gow, back to the F1 grid ...
  22. I never expected to change anyone's mind. I was just stating my opinion based on the obvious differences in the quotes. When someone comes at me, dismissing that right off the bat with nothing more than "You don't like Lewis" and "You aren't being objective (because you don't like Lewis)", that's what causes the pushback. I don't care for Vettel either, for example, but I've never said such a thing about him because afaik, he never did it. Anyway ...
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