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Burt Macklin

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  1. Damn. I wonder if Portland is aware they just took the 5th pick in the 2022 draft.
  2. Merc has been sounding more and more confident about their correlation and development path since they made the big changes at Monaco. They’re also saying they have some aggressive upgrades coming before the break. It’ll be interesting to see how much Merc and AM can catch up to RB by the end of the season. Combine that with Checo’s struggles and it seems like someone will be able to steal at least one win from RB this year.
  3. You’re constantly twisting his stats in a way that just makes you look worse. He never shot 27% from 3 in a season. He shot 21% in year 1 and then improved to 32.4% in year 2 on higher volume. He’s also a 77% FT shooter, which is a more predictive indicator of NBA 3 point ability. Sites use 3 point shooting and FT shooting at lower levels to predict NBA 3 point percentage, and his predicted percentage is 34.2%. He’s nowhere near as bad of a shooter as you try to make him out to be, and on top of that, he’s a physical freak who’s shown the ability to rack up rebounds and assists and potentially be an elite defender.
  4. They’re not tuning down Checo’s car. Max will wipe the floor with Checo in identical machinery. I think the difference is due to developing the car to Max’s liking. Max likes an extremely pointy car, while Checo prefers an understeery car. The RB was more understeery last year due to a lack of DF with the new regs. Since then, RB has been able to add DF and make the car more or Max’s liking, which widens the gap between him and Checo. Checo preferring an understeery car just exacerbates the situation. Huh? RB has almost double the points of the second place team. They don’t need anything more than they’re getting from Checo to walk away with both championships. Hell, Max might be able to win the constructors by himself this year.
  5. You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about if you think Scoot and Ivey are comparable prospects.
  6. Yeah, I would certainly like Hudson to be in our class, but he’s currently listed as a composite top 10 prospect in the country. I don’t see that at all. I expect he will drop as we get further in the process.
  7. No. The tyres are super tricky in F2, and drivers struggle with tires more in F2 than F1. The F2 cars are slower and create less downforce, so F1 cars can put energy into their tires quicker.
  8. I don’t really get all the concern from drivers about getting rid of tyre blankets. F2 and F3 don’t use them, and those drivers handle it just fine without having any safety issues.
  9. Yep. Joe Tryon was a 6’5, 230 lb 3 star out of a small town in WA, and PK turned him into a first round pick.
  10. I think it’s supposed to be back up on t Thursday so we shouldn’t miss much Canada GP content at least.
  11. You spelled university wrong.
  12. We don’t want him there either. He should be isolated to the Cloak Room.
  13. The staff wants to replace him. They've tried moving guys to Center two years in a row, but none of them have been able to outperform Majors so far. I like the move, but Conner was quite a bit worse than Majors last year, so it's far from a given he can win the job.
  14. Definitely a weird move. What could be better advertising than the Corvette beating out Ferraris, Porsches, etc.? That's the market they're trying to poach with the Z06. But I guess the bright side is at least they didn't pull a Honda and shut the team down the year before they win.
  15. Some say Charles was in Ferrari’s garage at Le Mans because he loves the Scuderia. I choose to believe he was there scouting a new pit wall team.
  16. Definitely seems like there’s something wrong with Leclerc’s car. He said the back right was off so he lost time on every left turn. Might be suspension or chassis. On the bright side, this may be the first time Ferrari’s ever brought an upgrade that actually makes them faster. We’ll see how their tyres do in the race.
  17. I’m not sure Williams is aware these are ground effect cars
  18. They changed the circuit so it’s about 4-5 seconds quicker this year.
  19. I think we can play Disu, Shedrick, and Mitchell at the 4/5 and get all of them 20+ minutes a game, and we especially need to limit Disu’s minutes in games where we don’t need him with all his injury history. But it will be tricky naming the starters. I don’t think any of those 3 would be happy with not being named a starter. Maybe we start most games big and sub one out early. I don’t think Cunningham or Weaver would have a problem coming off the bench.
  20. Not a fan of the edit. The mascots are not nearly saturated enough.
  21. Yeah, I’d say Holland’s making 500k minimum and probably more. G League Ignite has been increasing their pay the last few years.
  22. So Beard recruited two guys who had no interest in playing school. G League is better than him going to Arky at least.
  23. Here’s another good one of the RB floor.
  24. One of the coolest parts of the Monaco race was that we got detailed pictures of a lot of teams’ underfloors. It’s pretty crazy how much more intricate RB’s floor is than Ferrari or Merc. It blows my mind that Merc and Ferrari have such simple looking floors in comparison. I’d love to see this type of shot to see what AM’s floor looks like, but I haven’t seen any despite Stroll not even finishing the race.
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