TouchedTheAxeIn82

All-Honda podium at Chevy's home race. :lol: :bow:

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I was trying to throw a hail mary and get some points back on the board for the F1 Pick 'em (seeing as how I suck at it), and I asked Claude to help me out trying to pick the order based on recent car updates, races, historical driver performance, etc.

It was looking good until it put Alonso at 9 and Yuki at 10. So, yeah, Claude was less than zero help

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AI can be helpful if you ask it very, very specific questions. However, I've asked AI for information about events that happened in a specific year, and it would return with info about the same event but from a different year. So yeah, since it can't be trusted to extract time-based information, it can be useless for certain types of queries.

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It's going to be a bloodbath for Kimi and George. I wouldnt be surprised if they both want it so bad they take each other out.

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That's exactly what we the fans need to see, a virtual knife fight. :bow:

I still remember 2016 and my impression that Rosberg drove desperately to try to get an advantage over Hamilton. Hamilton was of course a cooler head and still fierce competitor, not wanting to give an inch.

Edit: What's funny is, in reviewing the two biggest incidents between them in 2016 (Spain and Austria), it was Hamilton that seemed the more desperate driver. I should probably should review the season on F1TV. :lol:

OMG, the blend of humor and creepiness is fantastic.

OK now it makes sense why they released two episodes at once.

I recognized Richard Warren as the guy from Midnight Mass.

When they were digging up the coffin, I was thinking of the ghoul from Fallout. :lol:

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And something is off with Wyck.

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I sensed this as well. :popcorn:

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The closeup of the painting at the end of episode 7 hints that his daughter survived.

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Ah, I was wondering what that was supposed to be telling us. Lots of reddit discussion about this. BTW, they showed five children in the Warren household, but it was documented on the show that he actually had seven children. And while looking into this I see that there was a passenger on the Mayflower named Richard Warren who had seven children.

All right, the TD F1 Championship results are in!

dg42.net/TDF1/race-results.php?race=5

The winner of the TD F1 Canadian Grand Prix is pitstop, for his third podium and first win of the season!

The podium is filled out by Greace in P2 for his first podium, and Rendevoustavern in P3, also for his first podium.

Congrats to the players scoring their first points of the season: Rendevoustavern, NfamousPanda, and Noryev.

These players have scored points in four of the five races so far: MississippiLebowski and TouchedTheAxeIn82.

Here's the championship table: dg42.net/TDF1/index.php

We have a new 2026 TD F1 Championship leader, and it's pitstop! But this isn't a good thing. pitstop was the 2025 TD F1 Champion, and the last thing I want is for pitstop to win two years in a row! Greace has shot up the charts to P4 after a great podium finish.

After five races, 27 out of 29 players have scored points! Great job!

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Malukas is devastated

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If he wasn't already, he will certainly be a crowd favorite going forward.

What a finish!

Awesome Felix! :bow:

First time winner!

Penske loses! I like Malukas, but can't root for Penske. I always root for the underdogs.

Red flag.

They've put in enough laps. Dixon might be declared the winner. :lol:

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Daly to the lead!

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With two Ganassi and three Penske drivers in front of him, Daly can have the race of his life and it's still going to incredibly hard to beat the two best teams, whose drivers are now in a position to coordinate and conspire.

It's not an Indy 500 without a controversial Sato move. :popcorn:

BTW, the IMS Pagoda is so iconic. There is no other racetrack that I know of that has such a stylish and recognizable control tower.

I found this page that has the history of the IMS control tower. The first pagoda-style building went up in 1913. Tony Hulman may have saved the track, but he built a non-descript control tower to replace the stylish pagoda. His grandson Tony George, who I hate for breaking up IndyCar in the infamous 1996 split, at least made the smart decision to go back to a pagoda-style control tower, and here we are.

indymotorspeedway.com/ims-pagoda-history.html