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Silly season hinges on what Ferrari does with Kimi (or has he signed for next year?) and what Ricciardo does.

I was reading up on Button during 24HoL and didn't know he jumped to SuperGT in Japan. Seems like an odd leap but that's another thing Alonso might do if he can't find a ride in WEC or DTM I guess. Alonso seems more capable than Button so yeah, also highly unlikely.

As much as I wanted to see Alonso win it, I thought the same thing. Sure, there were privateer LMP1 cars in there but they finished 10 laps down on the second place Toyota so there wasn't any real pace competition and they could probably turn the cars down a little to make sure they lasted the whole race.

I just switched from Spectrum/Time Warner to AT&T... I'll have to check to see if Velocity of part of my package. I was bummed to realize F1 France isn't until next weekend but remembered 24HoL is this weekend.

Turning or braking doesn't happen (to an extent) when the cars have no grip from dirty air... I think it plays more of a role during turns than braking but who knows.

My only issue with the tires is the rule requiring use of two different compounds - it limits strategy creativity. I remember back in the refueling days when people would sometimes run 4 or 5 stops but they were on super sticky tires where other people did two stops on harder ones. Get rid of the two compound rules and make the tires way stickier but way less durable. The front wing dirty air thing has nothing to do with passing in the straights and everything to do with how they can manage 5g of lateral grip in the corners. I like that aspect... if you get rid of the front wing effectiveness, everyone is going to either be balled up in the third corner of the race in a passive pile in the runoff area or if they go mega downforce, they're going to be the slowest car on the track on the straights. I have a feeling the front wings have a dual effectiveness where they work at "slow" speeds in the corners but have a way of stalling themselves in the straights to some extent to work like DRS... I have no proof but I have a feeling there's a way of doing that. My biggest gripe is the reliability "to keep costs down." I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or something... the vast, VAST majority of costs in F1 are the development costs, NOT procurement once its developed. More engines with less reliability don't take as much money to develop so that's the way to bring costs down. The engine's the most expensive part on the car so why not start there?

Agreed. They even added another DRS zone for this year and it still didn't have much overtaking. It's shaping up to be a good year though between the drivers... I'm afraid of Merc running away with the constructor's championship though.

Nah, we're talking maybe next year or the year after. Race starts in 3 hours and I'm 6+ hours away

Has anyone been to the Canadian GP? Fiance thinks it would be fun to see it maybe next year or the year after even though she's not a race person so I'm curious how the rest of the city is... something she'd like to do after we do race stuff for me.

True and the same goes for WEC. If we're going to be that black and white on the matter, stop restricting fuel flow, stop restricting MGU-K/H, let the teams go wild because nothing is relevant for street anyway.

Also, regarding the low profile tires: I think it would look goofy on the cars* but Pirelli is right when saying that 18" is more relevant than 13s with 8" of side wall. It would make suspensions more complex or difficult but at the same time, pull and push rod suspensions aren't relevant for the masses either. *I think it would open up the braking and MGU-K options allowing for maybe safer brakes or better cooling to prevent stuff like what happened at Monaco and other races where the rotors overheat and fail. This might be able to fill the back side of the wheels to keep the "full" look the brakes give it without gaping holes in the spokes.

I was watching some of that last year when I stumbled upon it on TV... it's insanity. I couldn't believe they did actual pit stops too with tire changes and everything.

In two days it'll be two weeks since I've cut my grass. Luckily we've had rain a bit so I haven't had to pillage my water bill too much. Grass is green, the rye is germinating, no sign of the Kentucky blue yet. I've spot treated some more areas with more seed and covered them with peat moss. I'm going to try and make it another week at least until I mow to give those areas time to start. It's starting to look like a jungle or an abandoned property. My landscaper guy said "about a month" but I don't know if I can go that long. I've already joked with my neighbors that I have goats on order to take care of the yard.

I noticed that too... and it was a lot. I'm okay with the finish order too. Winner had a hell of a drive with a half broken car but that would only happen at Monaco. Everywhere else it would have amounted to a DNF.

We've got 60/60 at work for about 45 office folks. It's brutal sometimes when downloading large CAD files from suppliers. Business class fiber is immensely expensive too - our internet as is is supposedly $1400 or something a month because it's guaranteed uptime with sub-15 minute outage guarantees or something. In other news, I downloaded a 4.4gb ISO for Windows 10 in about 90 seconds... I bumped into what I'm assuming is 400mbps limit from Microsoft's servers. Best part is, this service is saving me money over Spectrum/Time Warner. Time Warner - $187/mo - 100mbps down, 10mbps up (I usually got 120/12) - Middle tier TV package, no HBO or sports channels - 1 DVR, 1 HD box. DVR records 2 shows at once AT&T - $142/mo - Gigabit synchronous (I get about 800/900) - 2/5 lowest TV package, same channels as before, free HBO/Starz/Cinemax for 3mo - 1 DVR, 1 HD box. DVR records 4 shows at once with playback to the entire house. Non-DVR box can program recordings and pause live TV too via DVR box. The neat thing about this U-Verse is, if you get U-Verse TV instead of the DirecTV option, all the TV is handled via ethernet instead of coax.

Had AT&T fiber installed with their gigabit package. Currently have sub-10ms pings across the country and easily get 700mbps down and 900 up.

I will say though, I stayed in an Aloft hotel in Austin last year and they had those pans like you pictured and I really liked the aesthetics of it but man was it loud when water hit it. Their drain ran along the back wall instead of the side like that one but I imagine you could have it drain on any side if you wanted it to.

Right or wrong, the way I saw a pan was "supposed" to be built was: Frame area using 2x4, plywood, etc as necessary. Plumb the drain. Roofing paper or similar, possibly rubber, staple everywhere, cut out for drain. Only has to go up the wall 1-2 feet. Literally tar it in place, making a rubber/tar bowl. Nothing can leak. Pour concrete or mortar over the bottom, slope toward drain, then run concrete tile board over the walls. The concrete board will cover up the rubber/tar paper on the wall so it overlaps like a shingle. I've never built one but the process makes sense.

Yeah, I thought the same but he had me cut it one setting above scalping before he got there to dethatch so it's pretty short right now... we'll see how it is in a couple days after all the weekend rain and high 60s low 70s sun we're getting this week coupled with the starter fertilizer... I'm usually cutting twice a week in the spring so going a month is

I think I went too heavy on the fertilizer when I tried seeding last year (same method he used this year) and burned it out.

30% rye and 70% Kentucky Blue... guy said the rye should be popping up in about a week and the blue in about a month. Said I won't be cutting my grass for about a month (seeded Thursday) so we'll see. I watered really well that Thursday and then it's rained pretty heavily every day since so I'm off to a good start I think.

No pictures but I had a landscaper friend out on Thursday to dethatch, overseed, and fertilize. Now to jack up my water bill (F me) and hope the seed takes so I don't have one of the more mediocre yards on the street. A couple people at one end got hit with dandelions really badly this year, yellow brick road badly, and they started to creep into my yard, mainly because it was so thin.

Actually just ripped my passenger manifold and crosspipe heatshields off this weekend. The driver's side is still holding fine but I do have a rattle with the uppipe shield. I'll yank them all off eventually and DEI wrap everything.

No kidding. It was awful.

Constructor's championship is the only meaningful championship, though. I get that the drivers want to be the best but if they constantly crash out of races and losing out on constructor's points, they might not have a seat and thus, not get a chance to be the best.