TouchedTheAxeIn82
Favorite team: | California |
Location: | near the Apple spaceship |
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Registered on: | 11/5/2012 |
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re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/23/24 at 9:48 pm
[quote]looks like there will be rain early then a window until late afternoon / early evening[/quote]
If this remains the forecast early Sunday morning, depending on the length of the delay, this may be the situation where Larson and Hendrick have to make a decision to do the 500 or do the 600. The...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/22/24 at 11:35 pm
Darn it, I looked for the TV schedule for the Monaco GP, expecting to catch some FP1 / FP2 action tomorrow. But I have now learned that the Thursday running was scrapped two years ago. Now it's a conventional Fri-Sun schedule. Oh well, gotta wait another day....
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/22/24 at 3:06 pm
I was heavily into race sims and online racing for a few years, but I haven't done it in several years, so my knowledge of the sims themselves is very dated.
Back in the day, I favored a sim called GSCE, [i]Game Stock Car Extreme[/i], where stock car refers to Brazilian stock cars, which were roa...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/22/24 at 12:33 pm
[quote]The Mick/Mazespin era was quite a blur.[/quote]
Constantly spinning cars make for fuzzy memories. :dunno: ...
re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 11:31 pm
If Larson starts the Indy 500, but then abandons his car when a rain delay occurs, that's going to piss off a lot of people and sponsors.
If the chances of a rain delay during the Indy 500 are very high, then they should just start TK. That will be a popular move.
Maybe if you're leading the C...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 3:31 pm
[quote][img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOGtzE4W4AAJMhs?format=jpg&name=small[/img][/quote]
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_FCglY1vk[/embed]...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 3:13 pm
Relevant from this morning:
[link=(https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/andretti-hires-pat-symonds-as-push-to-join-f1-grid-continues-/10613735/)]motorsport.com/f1/news/andretti-hires-pat-symonds-as-push-to-join-f1-grid-continues-/10613735/[/link]
[quote]Pat Symonds was set to leave his position ...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 1:40 pm
[quote]Going back to Andretti, doesn't tweak anyone else a little bit that they are calling themselves an American team but are going to be based out of Silverstone?[/quote]
Not in the least. The vast majority of F1 talent resides in the UK. Basing the operations outside of UK would greatly limit t...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 10:11 am
Perez certainly has not earned a two-year contract. His up-and-down performance screams one-year contract [i]at most[/i]. Obviously. This would explain why nothing is happening at the moment.
I wonder what the issue is with Sainz. Do they think he'd be too disruptive to the harmony of the team? ...
re: Songs about Outer Space
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 5:19 am
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weighed
For the Earth is old and grey, little darling, we'll away
But my love, this cannot be
Oh, so many years have gone though I'...
re: Songs about Outer Space
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 4:46 am
Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships
Lyin' in the yellow haze of the sun
There were children cryin' and colors flyin'
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' mother nature's silve...
re: Songs about Outer Space
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 4:24 am
I could not take it oh so seriously really
When you called and said you'd seen a UFO
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c070IfKFlU[/embed]...
re: Songs about Outer Space
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/21/24 at 4:19 am
Space and time makin' love!
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5B3vbwSuUc[/embed]...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/20/24 at 12:02 pm
[quote]Is there a season long standing or for now just week to week?[/quote]
Your prediction is just for the [b]final standings[/b] at the end of the season. After every race I score your prediction against the [i]current[/i] WDC and WCC standings just for fun. These in-season ranking scores [b]don...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/20/24 at 12:17 am
So after Imola, the only changes in the WDC/WCC standings are that Leclerc passed Perez for P2, and Hamilton passed Alonso for P8.
These two changes caused considerable shuffling in the prediction rankings. While [b]MikeD[/b] leads again for the seventh straight race, [b]sorantable[/b] and [b]bus...
re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/19/24 at 7:11 pm
[quote]Why not just widen the track so the cars can pass?[/quote]
I was wondering why the front straight wasn't adequate for easier DRS passes. I think it was on the broadcast that someone said that the reason is that Rivazza corners are too fast, it makes it more difficult for a following car to s...
re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/19/24 at 4:59 pm
The grid is set. I think they said McLaughlin had the fastest four-lap average of all time.
[b]Row 1[/b]
1. Scott McLaughlin #3 (Penske / Chevrolet) 234.220 mph
2. Will Power (W) #12 (Penske / Chevrolet) 233.917
3. Josef Newgarden (W) #2 (Penske / Chevrolet) 233.808
[b]Row 2[/b]
4. Alexand...
re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/19/24 at 4:11 pm
[b]ROW 11[/b]
31. Katherine Legge #51 (Coyne - RWR / Honda) 230.092 mph
32. Marcus Ericsson (W) #28 (Andretti / Honda) 230.027
33. Graham Rahal #15 (Rahal Letterman Lanigan / Honda) 229.974
[b]Bumped[/b]
Nolan Siegel (R) #18 (Coyne / Honda) No speed
...
re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/19/24 at 4:08 pm
Graham is in! By the skin of his teeth!
Sad end for Siegel....
re: 2024 NTT Indycar Series Season Thread: Indy 500 Qualifying, 05/18 - 05/19
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82 on 5/19/24 at 4:05 pm
Wow, Legge in the Coyne car outqualified Ericsson's Andretti car.
Wow, Siegel has the opportunity to make Graham cry for the second year in a row....
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