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wood

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  1. Yeah I'd love to see Palou get a seat. He splits time between Austin and Barcelona. And O'Ward is basically an SA boy, too.
  2. That turn complex is exceptionally good and always produces some of the best racing of any complex on the calendar. So good, and yeah, it also looks great on TV. The way Max took Leclerc to school there late in the race was borderline abusive lol. BTW that Doohan fuckery at the end on Hadjar was bullshit. Yes he got the 10s penalty, but he also should have been forced to give up the position, as he was holding up Hadjar badly. He also got away with obviously moving under braking. Shoulda had two penalties and been forced to move over right away. If I were race control I'd be on the radio saying "Give the position to Hadjar and you can avoid penalty. If you don't give it up, you'll get the penalty and still have to give up the position".
  3. Yep. Either of those has always been a DISQ in F1, and always will be in a series where the margins are this small.The minimum weight is the minimum weight, etc. Skirt it and you've gained an illegal advantage. But my biggest takeaway from this weekend was: Damn, Charles and Alex's GFs ... holy shit. I know they're F1 drivers and all that, but well done, mates. Well done.
  4. Awesome tribute to EJ.
  5. It would be cool, for sure, but I think Sainz will stay put with Audi coming ... and Cadillac seems to be head over heels in love with Herta. For whatever reason. I don't get it. Dude is mediocre imho, even in IndyCar. They have far better options right under their noses in IndyCar imho.
  6. Yep. What I been sayin' all along. People are starting to see the pattern. Yep. They're building the fastest car they can possibly build, and generally a very oversteery or 'pointy' car is faster than a neutral or understeery car, all other things being equal. The less 'stable' the car is, the easier it is to get the car to 'rotate' or turn, and the more performance potential it generally has. The problem for some drivers is that they can't handle a lot of oversteer, even in F1. Meanwhile guys like Max, Lewis, Alonso, Schumi, Senna, and other elites can adapt to and handle pretty much anything the engineers can throw at em. Guys like that with virtually limitless windows always hear the complaints about the car 'being built for them'. The reality is that the engineers just build it to be as quick as possible and the elite drivers are just aliens who are able to handle it better, while their teammates with much smaller windows can't adapt so well. Then as the season progresses, the quicker driver always gets upgrades first, etc. Every team on the grid does the same thing. It sucks to be #2 on the team with any of the GOATs on the other side of the garage. Oh, and re: Checo's career, today I asked my buddy who knows F1 things (who knows the Slims and the Andrettis and is the guy who gave us the signed Checo prints the winter before Checo's first year in F1) whether Checo could end up at Cadillac. His answer was a simple 'yes'. So it sounds like he's at least under consideration.
  7. One of the scariest looking men I've ever seen in the ring. Maybe the scariest. Certified Bad Motherfucker, and by all accounts a great human being. Rest in Peace, George Foreman.
  8. Yep. Foot was completely out of the box.
  9. FYI I dunno if y'all heard a few weeks ago about Eddie Jordan's illness. Welp, today, he passed away. RIP, Eddie. Eddie represented imho a lot of the bad boy, renegade, underdog image that made F1 great and what I wish it could claw back a bit of. And he always made time for F1 fans. Here's a pic of him I shot in front of the podium in Austin in 2012.
  10. Only for the very brave and/or very stupid.
  11. Along the lines of what Troph said above, I'll be 60 this summer and I'm thinking the olds might not have such a rosy future here. Just thinking out loud a little, you can spend 180 days in Mexico just with your passport. I assume that's 180 in a one-year peiod, but I've seen where some people have spent almost their whole 180 days, went somewhere else for a couple of weeks, and then returned to Mexico for another 180 days. I doubt that's something a person could get away with with any regularity ... BUT, you can also spend 180 days in Canada, 90 in Spain, Italy, or Portugal, etc. Short of actually getting citizenship somewhere else, I could see us country-hopping just to stay away from the US as much as possible, at least until we're too old to do that. I'm wondering if a person could accumulate enough days in-country that way in one or more of those countries, to the point that they could satisfy residency status requirements. I'd love citizenship, but simple residency is fine in most countries afaik, esp as long as it keeps me out of living in a potential hellscape that may be what the US is heading to.
  12. Extra jalapenos on my noches, por favor.
  13. necrobump ... Anyone else having trouble with their YYTV tonight? DVR'd shows start, then hang up after a few seconds. Looks like it's the same for live tv too. Restarted router. All good. Other streaming apps working fine. YTTV no workie. ETA: Just checked and now it's all good.
  14. So in. Can't wait.
  15. wood

    F1 - Apple

    Yeah it'll be Top Gun on wheels, with great cinematography, on par with Top Gun, and probably a similarly shitty plot. Like the Top Gun movies, the great cinematography will make it worth suffering through the poor plot imho. I'm still amazed at the fact they actually just named it 'F1' though. BTW, me & my 21 yo were at Daytona when they shot those 24H scenes. Who knows. Maybe we're in the movie.
  16. nsiap ... More great work here from the totally radical, awesome DOGE bros, ferretting out dead social security recipients who aren't actually dead at all. Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
  17. Bernie used to say they should have sprinklers lining the tracks that would just activate randomly.
  18. I'm pretty sure if they'd stayed on the slicks, they'd have been fucked in terms of lap time. It was still too wet in too many places at that point from what I could see.
  19. Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-post-hitler-stalin-mao.html If anyone has access to the full story, please post.
  20. You couldn't see it too well on the tv feed, but here's what caused the Fred spin. Dunno if it was from when Gasly went a little wide a couple seconds ahead of Fernando, or maybe earlier with Piastri?
  21. This is exactly why I've been saying in-season testing should be brought back (or one very good reason, of many). Just put it under the budget cap with everything else and let the teams decide how much to test or not test.
  22. Maybe it's on fire.
  23. Wind is from the west now but about to start coming from the NW. Looks like Fburg should still be ok though imho.
  24. Wow. that's a pretty smooth circuit, so if that's a problem for them there, it could be a big problem for them much of the year.
  25. LOL down here in the '49, my boy Sushi (who thinks he's a dog) is covered in ash & leaves but dgaf. He ain't movin'. Mojo otoh is taking shelter underneath the chair. He's usually camped in the other chair.
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