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relapse98

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  1. It's interesting to hear the strategy that the teams use for practice. They go out in a pack of team cars and try and figure out how their car works with each other, then like Rossi, he dropped back behind a big pack and then fought his way back up to see how it operated in traffic. Or Kaiser seeing how fast he can brake from speed to get down to pit road limit when a drive through penalty doesn't matter.
  2. Al Unser, Jr. arrested for OWI. He fell down embankment, refused sobriety test, Avon police say Most f'ed up part: A beetle? 4 time Indy 500 winner driving a beetle?
  3. Good on Alonso, much respect. He's a racer and knows how bad that would come off that he couldn't qualify on his own.
  4. Good page, thanks. I can confirm it's missing a lot of F1 practice and qualifying.
  5. Reminder of the upcoming events for Indy: Practice 8 - May 20, 12:00PM ET Carb Day Final Practice - May 24, 11:00AM ET Pit Stop Competition - May 24, 2:00PM ET Race - May 26, 11:00AM ET
  6. That's a good way of putting it. It's Monaco. It's tiny, fast, deadly, beautiful, glamorous, may it never change.
  7. Congrats to Simon Pagenaud
  8. Fitting. I mean, his family literally owns IMS. J/k, good job.
  9. I see where they are coming from, but yeah, f that. Bring it or go home. If you are afraid of part time teams, nut up time. Oh, and I'm sure they remember 28/5.
  10. Hell of a fucking drive by Kaiser. This. Is. Indy.
  11. 2 time F1 Champion backed by mighty McLaren fails to qualify for Indy 500, that's kind of a big deal.
  12. Damn, Sage, dat fast. Bye Max.
  13. Keep that speed up, he's in.
  14. Sitting at the pool, using Indy Race Control to listen. We'll probably get last row but that big rain line coming makes me question if we'll get Pole in.
  15. The qualifying that NBC showed today was awesome. The fact that a 2 time F1 champion has to fight tomorrow to make the field is huge. So happy for Pippa. Man, Hinchcliffe can't catch a break. And I dont get the Arrow backup car being a road car. Do they not have spare oval cars? That hard up for cash?
  16. Good drone footage, weird misinformation. GBRA has never said they were going to remove the broken gate. They may have said the lake was going to drain, but that was either a mispeak or misreported. It's about the same as it's been 8 hours after the mishap. The bank is just now the old river channel, it still has 2000CFS going through it. GBRA has said they can't really look at the gate to see what can be done until the Corps stops releasing from Canyon, and it's still got a couple feet to go so it has a few days to go.
  17. Interesting, we saw pictures that had 3 pumps pulling out of the channel in front of the dam but weren't entirely sure what they were for. San Marcos purchases raw water from Dunlap and their inlets are in the hydropower canal on the north side. So the pumps are to make sure there is water there for them. 75% of their water is from Dunlap, 25% aquifer. Kyle also gets some portion of its water from Dunlap but I don't know if it's from the canal or the water treatment plant, which is on the south side. Kyle has asked people to cut back water usage.
  18. Maybe? Right below the dam is The Bandit golf course and neighborhood. Their boat house looked pretty low in the water but I haven't heard of any problems. I have a friend that owns a house on McQueeney (the next lake down) right across the lake from the the Lake Breeze Ski club, she didn't report anything and her house would be one of the first to take on water. There's been some lake bulkheads falling into the water in Dunlap, I bet as the soil subsides and dries out, there will be more. I saw some boats that landed on the hard, but it was probably a gradual thud, so they landed in mud and should be fine, if they can get them out.
  19. You would need a much taller dam, which would then mean the lake spreads out. It's normally fairly close to the top of those gates. And then there's the actual channel that goes down to the powerhouse. And then the houses that aren't built all that much higher than the (previous) lake level. It sounds like a neat idea but would not work on that lake, there's just no vertical space left. And I know the same thing with McQueeney, a few feed would have it in homes. Maybe at Canyon, but then you run into the issue where the Guadalupe below the dam is used for recreation and the amount of water it would take to generate any usable additional electricity would mean a pretty good flow. I still think you'll hit vertical issues there because it was at 912 (conservation pool level is at 909) and there are some of the ramps closed.
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