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wood

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  1. Great point. Someone on Sky brought it up on Friday I think, talking about the reticence of the stewards to apply penalties to both drivers rather than just one, even when both drivers were wrong. They just go after whomever was predominantly at fault. It's stupid, but I pretty much gave up on F1 being a serious sport in this regard a long time ago.
  2. 100%. Older drivers like Alonso railed against it for years, but eventually they realized that their complaints were falling on deaf ears and said "If other people are going to do it to me and get away with it, then I might as well join the party and start doing everything they're going to let people get away with". Max came into F1 after that kind of move had already become accepted. I don't blame the drivers. I blame the FIA and the idiotic stewarding system for lack of clarity and consistency, letting them get away with all kinds of things. And I blame track runoff design. If the FIA would crack down on this stuff and some other kinds of moves, they would stop and driving stndards would improve, but they don't. Of course, like I said earlier, if there were gravel right on the edge of that turn, 99.9% chance we're not even having this discussion.
  3. The answer to all of this, as it is with most things in F1, is to go retro in track construction. If there's gravel there instead of pavement, neither one of them will go off, and if they do, their races are impacted negatively at best. And the best summary of that incident I've seen, is this one, from a Motorsport Mayhem poster:
  4. I'd buy that for a dollar.
  5. So if those held, how would that EC look? (Spoonfeed me, please! I'm just an unfrozen caveman firefighter.)
  6. Love that kid.
  7. Seriously. They couldn't be much more similar. Take someone else's product and change it slightly to look more like Mickey Mouse. What could possibly go wrong?
  8. US GP fined €500,000 after track incursion by 200 F1 fans Fans spilled out onto Austin's Formula 1 circuit while cars were still on their cooldown lap at the end of the race. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/US-GP-fined-500k-after-track-incursion-by-200-F1-fans/10665198/
  9. Hell, just have Peyton & Eli do it.
  10. Buck up, brother. She's gonna win.
  11. LOL. Good ol' Donald McDonald.
  12. Gotcha. What's the Nazi tie-in? :i'm lazy today:
  13. Este, and I would no longer actually describe myself as a Republican either. Probably never will. Just gotta vote for the best person from here on out, and this year the choice is more obvious than ever.
  14. Ain't nobody got time to read all that. Can someone explain this to me like I'm 5?
  15. Oh, and fuck Governor Wheelchair. No cr.
  16. I'm not saying I like it, because I absolutely do not, but it's quite common and started gaining traction in F1 long before Max got there. The way they have defined the overtaking 'rules' and enforce/don't enforce them has made it extremely difficult on anyone trying to overtake on the outside, not just guys trying to overtake Max. We saw several incidents like Max & Lando's at that turn just this weekend, and iirc only one or maybe two resulted in a penalty for forcing the other driver off. I'm not even sure what was so different about that one, either. There is very little black and white now in the driving standards. Mostly a lot of gray, which seems to be what they want.
  17. Yeah it was new when I lived there, so still fairly nice, but on the lower end. Small houses with small yards. Lots of younger Navy families. /csb
  18. Gladiola Crescent in Green Run, 1975, yo. Probably a real dump now.
  19. They even had fake drive-through customers who rehearsed beforehand lol.
  20. So cool that both of my boys played baseball games at that field. And I almost forgot, I coached there as well.
  21. Pretty much. I was finally able to get the whole article by turning off my wifi right after loading it. Here it is:
  22. Just heard people were stuck in Lot T for 2.5 hours after Q yesterday. Apparently no traffic control. Took 3.5 hours just to get to 130.
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