chanoman, This is the best I can find on his current condition right now: http://www.usatoday.com/story/ ... ascar-sprint-cup/2015731/

Quote from ACCAkut :

and we're pretty offtopic already (then again, if he is representative for american voters ... )

We are more conservative than you overall, yes, but I'm happy to say that he is way out on the conservative, xenophobic end here. I actually think a majority of Americans are pretty culturally understanding, because of how our nation has been built over time. Unfortunately, they one of those groups in which the people are extremely vocal about their batshit ideals.

I have Muslims who live on my block. They are fine people, and for all his talk of Muslim conservative radicals, they are extremely liberal and modern.

Quote from flymike91 :

radical Muslims

Funny you are so concerned with radical conservatives of the Muslim variety, when you are part of the radical right yourself.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw ... dal-at-london-paralympics

Hats off for a remarkable achievement.

Quote from Rappa Z :

I refuse to vote because, quite honestly, they are all useless.

Who would you vote for then?

For me, there's only one possible choice there, and my other consideration doesn't even make that list. Jill Stein of the Green Party.

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Quote from KiRmelius :

what do they enlarge?

your ego

http://youtu.be/4TshFWSsrn8?t=5m57s

Quote from amp88 :

I'm not saying this is false, of course, but let's play a game of "find the oil rails" on the front section of the chassis from this image taken on the Friday of the British GP.

edit: Compare with Force India and Sauber (I think).

Second one is Force India too. It's the same setup and you can see the orange nose exterior on the very left of the picture.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Yeah I was expecting something different.

Like this.

http://thebiglead.fantasysport ... 8/willpowerdoublebird.png

So how's the Delta Wing looking? The times seem to be somewhere in the slower LMP2 cars, which is pretty decent all things considered I think.

But I'm wondering about the speed differences to other cars in the corners especially, and I wonder if it will cause them trouble all race long, and put them into dodgy situations.

Pastrana in the Dodge Dart

Quote from Senninha25 :

Reality check
That is actually the longest time I've heard a teenage couple last together so far

Really? I know plenty that are still together from high school... one of my best friends is getting married to the girl he started dating in freshman year of high school. I can think of several other couples from my class that are still going strong too.

I met my girlfriend in high school and was good friends with her from freshman year, even if I didn't start dating her until the very end of it. Still together, years later, despite being long distance for a lot of it

Quote from PMD9409 :

They didn't think the epoxy would hold up. Quite a few drivers stated that on air. TK (him and Will went on track to inspect it) was the one talking about it the most. He said it looked like it would last 15 laps, and anymore would be too risky. He was hit in the helmet by a chunk of it earlier in the race so he just kept talking about "safety" his entire interview.

Sucks, but oh well. Notice directly after the race finished it started to pour down in rain, so I wanted it to go the rest of the way.

That's understandable I guess.

I was in grandstand 1, right behind pit lane, and we had discovered on Saturday that you could walk in front of it right next to pit lane if you went all the way to the end and around two corners. Didn't require a Pit Lane pass at all, but those people were like three feet closer than us, for a lot more money So we spent a lot of the break time wandering around, basically on pit road, watching the drivers interact. Tony Kanaan was really animated for a while before they went out and inspected the track, and we followed him up and down pit lane, talking to drivers and officials, until he finally grabbed Will and they kicked the Pace Car driver out.

We were also down there before the race, and it was really interesting to see the crew members and drivers before the race. The crew members were out there an hour before the race, and they seemed nervous. They kept adjusting tires by an inch, or moving a wrench from one place to another, and then back again. The drivers walked in 30 minutes or so before the start, and if you stand by the porta-johns, you can see them all feet away We discovered this by accident, as we happened to be standing there minutes before the national anthem. There was a line of them waiting to pee before they had to get in the cockpit at one point. Only one I didn't see up close was Rubens, he was too far down

The rain certainly would have made things interesting. Was about 5 minutes after the end of the race, and it only lasted 5 minutes or so. But it was fairly hard. It might have been just enough to force the off slicks for a few laps, before changing back.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Pretty sure it had to do with the available TV time. Barfield mentioned when they interviewed him during the red flag period that they'd be weighing that heavily when deciding how long the race would go once it got restarted.

I love when the live race action that I paid for, and spent all weekend supporting, then waited around for almost 2 hours, is cut short by TV coverage. Wonderful.

Quote from Mustafur :

Hopefully the surface gets fixed up, i just hope it doesn't get smoothed out though, it will destroy the character of the track.

Even if they smooth the track out, it will be bumpy again in 2 years. The climate here is awful on the roads. Not like the City of Detroit has any money to throw around either. Any repairs will likely come out of Roger Penske's pocket.

Quote from Mustafur :

Also got to Feel bad for Rahal the guy shows soo much Potential on these Road courses but the Gods seem to be playing tricks on him.

Rahal had everyone in turn 1 cheering him on half-way through the race. He pulled the bravest move I saw all weekend there, and made it stick. Then he did it again. Fantastic to watch.

When he couldn't fire back up, everybody groaned, then he got standing applause when he got under way again.

Did they ever say on TV exactly why the race was shortened? We were kept in the dark about all that at the track, and the announcers were massive idiots. (OMG, rain!!! how will this affect the race???? .... C'mon now. There were all of 3 drops, and the cars weren't even going for at least an hour after that.)

The only thing I could think of is the patch could only withstand 15 laps.

Fairly disappointing to be stuck there for all of that Feel bad for those who had good drives screwed by incredibly bad luck. Some ended up with results they didn't really seem to deserve, while others who deserved great results were caught out.

Quote from Cornys :

Rehoboth Beach

Rehoboth is one of my favorite places... we have family with a house there, so we go there almost every year. Usually rent another one, and pack 20 people into it.

Though, as I've gotten older, there aren't too many girls available to hit on, and not enough drinking Too family-oriented.

I nearly got arrested with my cousin there last year for drinking on the roof of our rental at 4am, and being too loud.

Took forever to clean up... I guess that white Mustang had to have dropped fluids on the track a good way around, because it took a long time to restart after they had cleared everything in front of me (my seats are across the track, almost to pit exit)

Just got back from Belle Isle for the day... Grand-Am race was great, though I do wonder how the Red Dragon car got away without a penalty... he very blatantly blew throw a red flag at pit exit on the last caution. Leaders had some sort of curse today, I'm convinced

World challenge was a load of shit Pole sitter's transmission broke off the starting line (That's what he said, we saw an interview with Pobst as we were walking around later), got crunched by a car from the rear, and most of the race was under caution... they probably got 7 laps of racing in. In 1 hour 15.

Indy Lights... small grid, alright race.

Off to find highlights if they are available somewhere, can't see the other side of the track for what happened

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After watching the race on tape, my biggest impression is that I find Ashley Judd incredibly annoying. Also, the announcers say really, really stupid things.

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Are you seriously spending 38 of the weekend's 48 available hours doing that?

Not quite... they aren't full length games (70, not 90), as they are youth. And some of them are Friday evening/night. It's a tournament. But yeah, basically from when I wake up to nightfall, I'm working. Not complaining about the wages though, It's more than I make in a week with my other job

Last edited by RiseAgainstMe!, Wed, 23 May 2012 21:24.

And what am I doing? Refereeing 19 soccer games. FML

That's not a pyramid scheme, that's marketing :doh:

Quote from rediske :

If you take 1.85EUR/l as the current price it would be 159,7475EUR for a fill which would result (according to xe.com) in 159.75 EUR = 207.947 USD

Using that, it would only cost me 83.25 EUR to fill my tank though... granted, I have a smallish tank (12 gal, 45.4L), but to be over 200, his tank would have to be massive.

I pay about 45-50 USD to fill my tank as it is.