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Yep. I'll wait and see who replaces him before I get depressed (Otmar, Guenther).

AMuS says Krack is headed there too.

Clark even moreso imho, due to how long ago it was and how short his career was. By all accounts I've heard from the guys who raced against him or saw him drive, he was an absolute alien.

Yeah Karch is the goat imho, and it's not close. THat's one sport where there's a clear goat imho. And I've been lucky enough to chat with him. I described that convo in one of the vball threads. I'll never forget it. But I was never lucky enough to play with him. I played with & against Phil Dalhausser a little at Aussie's, the week before he & Nick Lucena won their first AVP tourney right here at Auditorium Shores, That's who I was referring to as being considered by some to be the goat. That tournament was where Karch started up a conversation with me, much to my surprise.

Good stuff, and yeah, I see the obsession with ranking everything all the time (not here) and I just smh. IMHO among the truly elite drivers of all time, we're just splitting hairs. They all have different styles, strengths and weaknesses, drove different cars for teams of varying quality, against different competition, etc, and in the end, there is little to nothing between 'em. Same with other sports imho. I have a 'goat tier', and leave it at that.

Yeah I used to be an 'A' level beach volleyball player 'back in the day' at Aussie's, and I got to play with and against some 'Open' level guys who played at times on the AVP tour, and two who later became regulars on the tour (one of whom is considered by some to be the greatest all-around beach volleyball player ever). Just like every story I've ever heard about the competitiveness of pro athletes, they hated losing far more than they liked winning. Nice guys off the court. Animals on the court. Completely different people. One time I played an Open tourney with the best guy in Texas at the time. He had played extensively on 2 or 3 different pro tours, including the AVP. He was and probably still is incredible, but at just 6' 1", he had a hard time hanging on for long on the AVP and always had to go through the Qualifiers. But in Texas, he and his regular partner rarely lost. I've never been in such a pressure cooker. He expected me to be able to do everything he could do, which nobody in Texas outside of Indoor VB Olympic Gold Medalist Riley Salmon could do. Off the court later, he apologized. For these guys, the game is everything. Played with some baseball players who went pro later. Raced against and even beat some pros on karts out at Driveway Austin, too. Same thing. /csbthatmightbesomewhatrelatedtothetopic

Yep. Schumi + Brawn + Rory Byrne + Todt.

Yep. Exactly the opposite of what he wants, and what most of the elite drivers want, imho. The guys who can handle it like a 'pointy' , 'on the nose' car.

Yeah I like Crofty ok, more than most do, but his continual harping about that yesterday was just dumb.

Lewis certainly didn't move under braking. I can't see anything he did wrong. As a respected mod put it on Autosport, 'I’d put that in the category of attacker’s fault but no penalty required. Just a misjudgement. Overcooked it a bit. No harm done but to himself', which is what we often see from the stewards. They say they don't look at the result of the action, but they clearly do, and given human nature it may be impossible not to. Had Lewis's car been broken or his race negatively impacted, there almost certainly would have been a penalty.

Yeah that car really did not want to turn in at all. I wonder where RBR lost the plot on their development. I saw something the other day that said Newey left RBR because of a decision that had been taken re: the direction of the car. I wonder if that's true, and if so, what that decision was.

Yeah I was a little surprised Lewis said he thought it was a racing incident, although I can sorta see the racing incident angle since Max did lock up massively. Had he not done that, there's a decent chance he pulls off the move on the inside, and a good chance there's no contact even if he couldn't make it stick. I've seen much worse moves not get penalized, and much less offensive moves get hammered. It's all over the place.

Yep.

As an EMT of about 30 years, with ER experience as well, I've never seen anything that looked remotely like that 'bandage' lol.

The only reason Lando was ahead was because he made the deal for the undercut. You make the deal, you benefit from the deal, and then you honor the deal. Otherwise you're a cunt like Vettel. But in the end, he did the right thing. IMHO that's never been in doubt. Indeed. Yep. Hell, it even happened to Alonso today in this race. Not as blatantly tho imho. Probably due to the horribad AM race strategy as much as anything. AM fucked their strategy before the race weekend even started. The mistake was the entire weekend plan. The AMR24 is one of the highest tire deg cars on the grid. Aston arrived to the race (forecast with high track temps on Sunday) with 1xH, 1xM and 4xS, and they were the only team on the grid that was forced to use the soft during the race. Everyone else had either 2 mediums or 2 hards for the race. If your tire deg is bad, why paint yourself into the corner of having to use the softest tire in a race? They scored an own goal. Stroll's strategy was shit and Alonso's was just horrible. What's really bizarre is that AM seems to be aware that they don't have the tire whispering car of last year but still go with strategies needing exactly that. Fucking crazy. There are so many areas where Aston needs to improve. Race strategy, pitstops, race operations etc. It’s incomprehensible how they could ruin their race even before the start with their tire choices, when tire deg is always an issue with their car, ignoring the dry, hot weather forecast for Sunday. Not to mention several instances of poor timing during qualy where they put the drivers in traffic and fucked them. Yeah the problem was that they made the swap deal so late. I think Lance was still on Yuki's gearbox all the way to the line.

They don't deserve the greatness of The Yord.

Hope JRod's ok. Total baller. I'd love to see that guy in an orange uni.

Alonso was on his hot lap as well, but he wasn't threatening for pole. Might have improved though. ETA: And Fernando was pissed. They red-flagged a T8 incident instantly, when he was in the final turn on a quicker lap. Then they directed him into Parc Ferme prematurely.

Yep. Just got back from Isla Mujeres. We ate street tacos almost every night that were eleventy billion x as good as anything at Chuy's, for like $1.50 a taco. Had some Argentine steak tacos that were fucking incredible. $2 each.

Yep. Mediocre on their best day.

Todo este. Fucking dog snapped at me once from a shopping cart I was walking past ... at motherfucking Home Depot. Please, someone explain to me the need to take your dog into Home Depot, or any of the other idiotic places people feel the need to take their dogs these days.

This reminds me, somehow, of the time when I was working on the IAH ramp tossing bags for Continental. A guy turned too hard when pulling up with the baggage trailers, and a pet container rolled off, and hit the ground, opening the door. Poor cat bolts out like lightning, straight away from the plane and toward the runway. Adios, Whiskers. Have a nice life.

On our trip to Thailand last month, there were dogs in the cabin on 3 of our 8 flights. All barking. One each on American, Delta, and KAL. They may or may not have been legit, but anyone faking it can fuck themselves right in the face.