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wood

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  1. Yep. Sportscar racing in general, V8SC, and MotoGP are pretty, pretty, pretty good.
  2. Yeah but fuck Okie State. Karma's a bitch.
  3. Hey you won't get any argument from me on what F1 has become. This isn't an F1 vs NASCAR thing for me (and probably not for PoD either, though I won't presume to speak for him). To me, both F1 and NASCAR are fucking it all up. F1 could be very exciting, with great racing. So could NASCAR. But not on the roads they're going down. Este.
  4. Eh. Well. FML. Possibly. ESPN reportedly will not renew. Looks to be between NBC and Netflix. Similar to Sky a Netflix deal will likely bring more money but at the expense of number of viewers. https://sports.yahoo.com/report-espn-tells-formula-1-it-wont-renew-its-us-tv-deal-at-the-end-of-2025-134636618.html Also a piece in the Times that's glowing but minimized the fact F1 is still a pimple on Derka's ass in terms of ratings. It also mentions Amazon potentially in the mix. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6129337/2025/02/12/f1-tv-rights-netflix-espn-amazon-streaming/?campaign=12624894&source=athletic_targeted_email&userId=12505127 Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please NOT NBC.
  5. So lol, how many cars actually crossed the finish line?
  6. Like Kyle Busch or not, he's right about Logano. Preece was fucking cleared for takeoff. Wow. That was not good. At all. A 3,300# car, looking like a leaf blowing in the wind. I say it every year. It's stupid. Even the announcers admitted they knew what was coming.
  7. Damn. That was a couple of big hits ...
  8. LOL. Fucking Logano. Fuck that guy.
  9. Whitney shoulda been the last ever Super Bowl National Anthem singer. They should just play that video, every year.
  10. Man, this is such a great idea ...
  11. Where you be? (Asking for a friend who's looking to maybe relocate)
  12. Oh FYI & nsiap, some location info, from another board.
  13. One word: "Haitia"
  14. Yeah, just more of the usual COTA revisionism. I guess they're still pissed at Supercars for pulling out before the money shot.
  15. Maybe I'm late to this idea, but I'm starting to think maybe the at-work portion of life experienced by the innies is a simulation and isn't being experienced physically, but rather takes place in their minds. With that in mind, maybe Mark's wife is actually dead IRL and that's why he can only see her at work. But who really knows ... Or if you wanna give it a really good twist ... given the perpetual winter and odd lighting in the outies' world, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the outie world is the simulation and the innies' office is actual reality.
  16. This is simply fantastic.
  17. He'd be in way over his head running a 7-11.
  18. Yeah my 21 yo has been playing that since they first posted it. F1 should take note.
  19. That would definitely be nice, but the biggest problems with ingress and egress are on the property at COTA itself. And a rail line, as someone mentioned on the Autosport board the other day, will never make any sense as long as it would be just COTA at the end of the line. There are only a few days out of the year that COTA would actually need it. The biggest help imho would be COTA getting its shit together on race days, not skimping on buses, on-site personnel and traffic control, cooperating with the neighbors who sell parking, like Daytona and IMS do, instead of trying to shut them down, etc. Hell, Daytona arranges free parking right across the road from the NASCAR T4 entrance for people who don't want to pay for on-site parking (which is typically not crazy expensive to begin with). We parked there last year, at the mall. This year my kid parked there again and slept in his car instead of going to a hotel. He said the track had also provided portapotties in the lot for people who might be staying in their cars. Bobby would rather set himself on fire than do anything like that. Oh, and the first event was the 2012 USGP. MotoGP was next in April 2013, and then V8SC in May. Here's some typical COTA fuckshittery though: COTA has a page with a history of the events they've held. On it, they list V8SC as a support race of the Pirelli World Challenge weekend. LMAO WTF? It was the other way around. It was all billed as a V8SC race weekend, with PWC as a support series. Even wikipedia shows PWC as a support race for V8SC that weekend. PWC has its own weekends here now. I guess this is COTA's lame attempt to make a current race weekend seem like a bigger deal than it actually is, and maybe also to diminish V8SC after they pulled out of COTA. https://circuitoftheamericas.com/timeline/#2012-2
  20. Yeah it's gonna suck for the captains of both ships, no matter who was predominantly at fault. In the maritime world, a collision is generally going to be laid at the feet of both of them, because in open water the general thinking is that there were always things both of them could have done to avoid the collision.
  21. Why in the actual fuck do we have Pete Hegseth of all fucking people publicly speaking to foreign dignitaries on sensitive Foreign Policy matters, and JD fucking Vance talking about war with got damn Russia?
  22. Oh yeah, I forgot they were talking about doing that. It'll help keep the cars in front of the fan-accessible parts of the track more. The only series iirc that's ever done that was V8SC, and it did that, but it also seemed too short, and left a lot of people wishing they had run the full circuit for at least one of their races that weekend.
  23. nsiap ... Critic’s Notebook: In This Trump Presidency, the Domination Will Be Televised From the Super Bowl to a self-produced version of “Cops,” the second Trump administration is using imagery to project an air of authority and invincibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/arts/television/donald-trump-tv-ice.html
  24. Yeah Sunday last year really wasn't even close to MotoGP level ... and damn, the yellows between the stages are just brutal. So stupid. ETA: Oh, and they'll likely restrict you from a huge portion of the track again this year, which sucks balls. Some of the best action last year was in parts of the track inaccessible to the fans.
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