Constant Abuse of Track Limits

Lewis, BobbyK, and w/e catches my interest / feel free to like w/o reblogging

[lewisinlace-deactivated20230123]

Miss me with that lost in translation bullshit.

[yekoc]

okay mig did in fact release episode one of his podcast featuring franco morbidelli and i listened to it with the auto-generated english subtitles. this is the interesting info i gleaned... please refer to your local italian for whether or not it's all 100% true.

his head injury: he said that in general he's not scared to race now because you're just so used to racing and it's what you've done your whole life, but he was a little worried going back for the portimao GP that he would be slower there because of what happened with the training fall (when he knocked himself out and had a severe concussion that meant he missed all of pre-season). after his first lap of the circuit in free practice he looked for himself on the timing screens and looked at the bottom expecting to see himself down there and didn't see his name so he thought his transponder had broken! then he realized he was actually at the very top and that's when he knew he would be okay racing at portimao because he'd accidentally gone the fastest of anyone on the very first lap of the weekend.

his relationship to brazil: his mom always worked hard to keep him connected to brazil and she stayed in close touch with her family there (he's like, i grew up in internet cafes because my mom was always going there to talk to her family). when he was 10 years old and starting to really get into motorcycles, she took him to brazil with her because she wanted him to experience "another story" and see other possibilities for his life. he had a great time and became really close with his cousins and their friends, but he started to miss motorbikes so she brought him back to italy.

recently she went back for her 60th birthday and called him to tell him she was going, and after he hung up he thought and then called her right back and said "mom i'm coming too." he went for 20 days back to the favela that his grandparents live in outside recife, which he loves and feels like an important part of him even though it's so different than tavullia. he said of his friends "who are still alive" most weren't around but he made amazing new friends just in those 20 days.

moving to tavullia and training with vale: his dad moved him to the tavullia area in 2008-2009 because he realized that is where franky would have to be if he wanted to be serious about riding motorcycles, he couldn't get the same training in rome/his dad didn't have the same contacts there from his own riding career. his dad talked graziano into letting franky train in the famous quarry and then eventually he started training with carlo, vale's trainer, and vale and marco simoncelli.

when his dad committed suicide (franky refers to this as "and then the thing happened that happened with livio [his dad]") vale, graziano, carlo, and albi, the whole VR team, took him under their wing and "embraced me even more" and did their bests to make him not feel the difficulty of this really difficult moment, and according to him it worked.

other facts: he has a poster of ayrton senna above his bed that his mom first put there when he was born and now he always has to have it hung there.

mig teases him by saying "what's the passion of the last two weeks, vegan again? surfing? anime?" implying that franky always has a new interest or hobby. franky starts to answer and say that he's been listening to an explanation of the Divine Comedy and mig immediately is like okay we can end here --

in 2020 he was upset about everything happening in the world (doesn't get more explicit than that but he's talked before about it being related to racial equality, etc) and so he wanted to make a special misano helmet that spoke to that. he worked with aldo drudi to make a helmet based on spike lee's Do the Right Thing, that also says "equality" on the back, and spike lee saw it/heard about it and liked it so much he called franky and they had a really cool conversation.

[umlewis]

"Up close with the drivers and teams on the grid in Shanghai 📸" - april 22, 2024 📷 @.f1 / instagram

[l8tof1]

[cursedtrekedits]

last minute announcement that i’m having top surgery today

[comraderoscoes-deactivated20240]

tokyo drifting p2

[wejustvibing]

The arrival of Lewis Hamilton? It's important for the team. Beyond speed, it brings serenity to the team, experience, a track record. An experience of victory that we also need at Ferrari to move forward. I'm also super happy because I'm convinced that the two (Charles and Lewis) will get along well. This will help Charles. The driver is not just about performance in the car, in qualifying or in the race. It's also 365 days a year and on that I think Lewis is an absolute master.

- Fred Vasseur

[ayrsontenna]

[thepotentialof2007]

"They say racing drivers talk more and do less about sex than men in any other sport."... I treated her to a bitter smile. The playboy reputation, and its sarcastic flip side, is one we no longer deserve. Everything has become too competitive and commercial. Indeed the playboy image has all but expired.

"Formula Zero has rekindled our infamy," I explained. "New cars. New regulations. They want to rekindle the old magic. It's plastic. Packaged. Our sponsors twist incidents into publicity gimmicks. It sells ratings."

- "Grand Prix" by Simon Ings, Omni Magazine, June 1993

No one spends eight figures sterling on one man without some feeling behind it. Me? I get fresh ROMs sent me every month from Achebi where they analyze my race data. It helps me drive better. Only they went one stage further. They built me a second jack, behind my arse. When I strap myself in, I hotwire myself to the car. I don't drive it; I become it. This has consequences. My body is a corporate concern.

[heartsoftruth]

Lewis after finishing P9 in Japan | 07.04.24 “I mean the car is never what I hoped it would be (giggles). It’s never what we hoped it would be.  I got some damage I think after the first stint. At the restart with Charles and I had massive understeer. Like huge huge understeer. That’s why I decided to let George by. He seemed quicker and I just couldn’t turn the car. It took us two stint to finally dial more and more wing in to make up for that loss.” 

[comraderoscoes-deactivated20240]

was looking for a specific post of his but found this instead. i love him so much lmao

[wejustvibing]

A journalist asked him (Lewis) if he was “jealous” when watching Ferrari’s strong performances.

“Do you have any better questions?” Lewis asked, and then walked away from the media session.

[thepotentialof2007]

Alpine WEC driver Habsburg injured in testing accident

Alpine factory driver Ferdinand Habsburg suffered two fractured vertebrae in a crash while testing the team’s A424 Hypercar at the Spanish c

Alpine's statement:

On the afternoon of March 27, 2024, during the A424 test session in Motorland (Aragon), driver Ferdinand Habsburg had an accident at Turn 7. The cause of the accident is currently under investigation.  Ferdinand was taken to the hospital in Alcañiz for examinations and was discharged in the evening. The next day, he was repatriated to Austria, where he underwent further examinations. Ferdinand suffers from two fractured lumbar vertebrae, with no neurological impact. He is beginning his recovery, the duration of which has not yet been defined. It will determine its participation in the next round of the FIA WEC at Imola. Alpine gives Ferdinand its full support and wishes him the best and quickest recovery.

[nonbinary-octopus]

if you got an additional line of income that guaranteed your basic needs would be met, (notes below)

would you quit your job?

yes, immediately

I'd wait a few months or a year to save up a cushion, but then yes

no but I'd reduce my hours somewhat

no but I'd reduce my hours considerably

no, I'd stay at my current job exactly as I am

I'd get a different job

I would take a vacation and then return to work

I'd take a vacation and then return to work with reduced hours

I'd take a vacation and then get a different job

I already have my basic needs met without a job ^-^

other

Voting ended onApr 9, 2024

notes:

- the money can come from whatever source you'd like to imagine. UBI, sugar daddy, magically delivered in unmarked bills onto your dining table overnight by elves, blackmailing jeff bezos, wherever

- it will keep coming indefinitely

- basic needs: housing, food, medical care, clothes, a bit of disposable income, etc. You would not be rich, but you would have enough. It will rise with inflation and such, to have the same purchasing power as before, and will cover you and your dependents

- any money you earn at your job (or anywhere) is on top of the basic needs money. How much you get is not affected by how much you make elsewhere

- vacation doesn’t necessarily mean you go anywhere; you just don't need to go to work

[userhamilton]

[kanguin]

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I've also shared this on Reddit!

[jadagul]

So there's this idea I've seen circulating periodically of "don't tag your hate", that fandom tags are for being positive about the fandom and if you're going to say negative things about a work you shouldn't tag it and harsh the vibe of the fans.

And this is, like, utterly baffling to me. If I'm a fan of something I want to see critical analysis! And some of that will say good things and some will say bad things. Unmitigated positivity mostly just pisses me off for being shallow.

Like, the first thing I ever really did with the internet was join a Wheel of Time fan community. But I also spent time looking for negative comments about the books. (I just didn't find any that made sense! The two critiques were "it's too long", which like fair enough but I was a bored speedreader in high school; and "all the female characters are indistinguishable", which may be one of the most incorrect claims about a work of literature that I've read.)

If I post meta about a work of literature, I'd kinda like people to argue with me! That's fun and engaging. (As long as the things they're saying aren't stupid, obviously, but stupid responses are annoying regardless of whether they're positive or negative.) And when I search for commentary, I'd like both positive and negative commentary.

I kind of suspect that I just don't do "fandom" in the sense that people who are part of fandom think and talk about it.

Of course, the weirdest one is that in the early days of this blog, I did a lot of criticism of effective altruism, and I got asked not to tag it "effective altruism" because that tag was for positive stuff about EA. Which is why my tag for effective altruism discussion is still "ea cw".

[sparklyeevee]

If you like the thing, what you're posting probably isn't hate, even if it's critical. Most people who follow a tag do it because they like the thing. Posts from people who hate the thing, don't see or don't value its positive qualities, and only want to talk about how bad or annoying the thing is, are not what they signed up for in following the tag. The Wheel of Time tag contains quite a fuckin lot of criticism, just, y'know, from people who like the series and are interested in engaging with its flaws.

Where this tends to become more of an issue, honestly, is character and ship tags. Plenty of people who like Wheel of Time unreservedly hate Cadsuane, or Gawyn, or Siuan's relationship with Gareth Bryn. If I were particularly fond of Siuan/Gareth (I'm not, although it doesn't upset me as much at it upsets a lot of other people), I might follow the tag, specifically in hopes of finding interesting discussion and analysis that wasn't about how terrible the relationship was, and to increase my chances of seeing fic or ship art about a relationship that doesn't get a whole lot of positive attention.

If you look at the Wheel of Time tag, you'll see a fair number of people discussing it critically.

[jadagul]

clearancecreedwatersurvival People who follow the main tag for something don’t want to see people shitting on that thing recommended on their dashboard. Being critical of something is fine and good, but at the very least it’s polite add a critical tag to it so people who don’t want to see purely negative takes can filter. Ex: #wot critical. It’s just about being courteous. There are a Stunning number of people regularly posting in the main wot tag about how much they hate the books which is Really Annoying.

I do think it's funny that these two responses seem pretty opposite to me!

But they both reinforce that there are some people using tumblr in ways that are absolutely wild to me. Like the idea of reading a tag is just...I couldn't do it! Most people write shallow and bad analysis, whether it's positive or negative. The couple of times I've done a global search on a tag I've just been sad at like 90% of what I've read.

(And the value is to skim through posts until I find one or two writers that I like and then I can read their stuff, but even then I don't think I've done that more than like twice.)

Whereas tags are super useful for organizing the content within someone's blog; if I find a writer I like, I'd like to see all of their Wheel of Time commentary, whether it's critical or not. "Bad analysis" is a much worse sin than disagreeing with me.

And like I believe you that plenty of people are using Tumblr the way you're talking about; I just don't get it, at all!