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Burt Macklin

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  1. Alpha Tauri is a fashion company owned by Red Bull. It’s just a different name to throw on the Red Bull B team, but RB ultimately funds their budget.
  2. Maybe. It’s hard to know with how little info we get since Covid, but I think the fact that he has Bama, UT, A&M, and UGA all seriously recruiting him is evidence enough that he’s a really good prospect. Those same schools aren’t going after MHP. We’re competing with Cal, TCU, and UH for him.
  3. I find the Alonso to AM move kind of depressing. It’s just sad watching legends of the sport fiddle around at the back and not even make it out of Q3. Having Alonso in the Alpine is a lot more fun. But I am excited to see what Piastri can do in a top 4 car. Very few rookies get that kind of chance nowadays. Putting yourself in the same category as Russell and Leclerc in the junior formulas is very good company, even if people seem to think he’s not quite that level of talent.
  4. Hopefully not. I still have a hard time believing the staff actually has one spot left at WR that’s for either Hale or MHP. Hale seems like he’s a completely different level of prospect IMO. It’s hard to say without testing numbers and Hale may have some question marks off the field, but Hale just flat out seems clearly better on the field and the caliber of schools recruiting him back that up.
  5. It’s basically just an opportunity for coaches to shoot themselves in the foot by having to spell the players’ names. Still can’t believe Charlie whiffed on Roland Jones. He was so organized and all over that recruitment.
  6. Yeah, I’m definitely with you on all that. I guess we just arrive at slightly different solutions. On a side note, I’ve never reallly watched NASCAR but I saw they were doing the combo event with IndyCar this weekend, so I watched the highlights of the brickyard race, and it was just constant safety car restarts leading to more crashes in the first 3 turns. It’s not even racing, literally just bumper cars then pack them all back together for an “exciting” restart just so they can crash again. I really don’t understand how people like NASCAR.
  7. While I totally agree with that, there would be almost no passing without DRS. I think the answer is to reduce DRS zones, but these cars are too big and heavy to allow for much passing without any DRS. The dirty air has gotten much better, but we won’t be able to get rid of DRS until/if the cars get smaller and lighter. These cars are too wide and not nimble enough to allow for hardly any overtaking other than on the straights. Hungary is a good example of why we should reduce DRS, only allowing DRS on the main straight would’ve allowed for more/better fighting down to turn 4. Too often the overtake was done at turn 1 and then completely over because the overtaking car got DRS. If they don’t get DRS after turn 1 there would’ve been a lot more exciting racing into turn 4 and it would make the overtaking driver have to be more skillful because they’d need to accommodate for a good exit out of turn 1.
  8. Y’all are out of your minds. Leclerc was over half a second faster on his second medium stint than Russell and it still took him about 7 laps to clear Russell on a tight move. He never would’ve gotten close to passing without DRS and then we’d be right back to Hungary being Monaco without walls, which is the whole thing we’re trying to move away from. Without DRS, a car would have to be at least a second per lap faster to pass at Hungary, which would just make the whole race a procession. Cars can follow better, but they’re still massive so it limits the overtaking opportunities mainly to straights and that will still require DRS. I think the best course of action would reducing the amount or length of DRS zones where it becomes too easy to pass, but getting rid of them entirely would be a horrible move .
  9. This is kind of a dumb way of looking at it. It’s not always an advantage to be in the city where a kid grew up. The #74 player in the whole country plays in Norman, OK and he’s committed to MSU right now.
  10. TexAgs usually knows ahead of time when aggy is buying a recruit. This certainly doesn’t sound like that kind of update, which probably means we get him, unless they come up with some big bags in the next 6 days.
  11. Not with Ferrari strategy and reliability. He has two more grid penalties coming. And McLaren.
  12. Not sure about that. Ferrari has been horrible on the softs, but Leclerc would at least be on the podium instead of in 6th. nobody could ever win a title with this Ferrari strategy team.
  13. Ferrari better fire their entire strategy team over summer break.
  14. Ferrari are so fucking stupid. Stick to your strategy and leave Leclerc out for the softs.
  15. This year it would be Ovie and Sorrell at the two spots. From last year’s class, Tapp would project to weak side (though he’ll be strong and athletic enough to make either work) and Finkley would be strong side. Both Walton and Gullette probably project to weak side but idk exactly how big they are. Shelby has the frame for strong side edge if we could get him.
  16. Lmao what? He bitched for laps on end just last race on a dive bomb by him that probably should’ve gotten him a penalty. If Checo didn’t bail, they would’ve crashed and it would’ve been Russell’s fault, just like Ocon. Don’t fall for his fake PR bullshit comments. They don’t call him PR 66 for nothing.
  17. You keep harping on the 2-4 when it’s the exact same as a 4-2. PK usually runs a guy about 245-250 on the weak side and a guy around 260-265 on the strong side. That’s plenty big when he has the right guys and it functions almost identically to a 4-2. Our problem last year was DL who were bad at 2-gapping and horrible edge personnel, especially after Jones got hurt. If you want to focus on a scheme failing from last year, it would be the catch and release 2 gapping when we had DL who couldn’t execute it and bad linebackers behind them , not the use of a 2-4, which is a distinction without a difference from a 4-2. This is also completely wrong. PK ran a 3-3 sometimes, but his base 2-4 does not function as a 3-3. It’s 2 DTs, 2 edges, and 2 ILBs. We always had 2 ILBs on the field. That’s not a 3-3 in function or in personnel.
  18. It’s really not. They offered him a shitload of money. Let’s not act like there was anything more to it. All the confidence out of nowhere from aggy sources and Fong days before was a giveaway. Same thing happened last cycle, except aggy can’t throw crazy money around as much this year so they had to be more selective and picked Hill.
  19. Even when Max, Lewis and Checo are out of it, Ferrari find a way to Ferrari. Crazy how their pace was way off compared to yesterday. All the other support races should help the track get closer to Friday’s condition by the race tomorrow.
  20. The EPA per play stuff certainly confirms what we saw last year. Our run O was better than the pass (mainly because our QBs sucked and our OL was better at run than pass) and our defense wasn’t good against the pass, but we were absolutely abysmal against the run. I certainly expect our Pass O to improve. The real question is whether our Run D can.
  21. Bevo saw the level of stupid achieved yesterday and said
  22. Man, there’s been a lot of stupid on this board today, and it’s no surprise who it’s coming from.
  23. Find a new DC/edge position coach who can actually coach and recruit… or even just one really.
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