I’m starting to feel bad about myself for believing any amount of Aston Martin F1 hype. Like, I went against my instincts. I feel like if you go back, you will find posts where I observed individual instances of absolute buffoonery at the team that stood out, but I always got back on the hype train.

This is shaping up to be the greatest “you had one job” of the hybrid era of Formula 1. Like how much more one-job could you get than to be a factory team whose engine damages its battery

Damn I really need to finish catching up on news posts before the IndyCar season starts at 1:35 PM

It’s tricky to manage nostalgia for something that’s about innovation, isn’t it?

New snake car just dropped

Hoooooo mama

Apple: “We’ll give you 💰 to let us show Drive to Survive” Netflix: “Okay, but you have to give us a live race that’s during the day” Apple: “K you can have the one that conflicts with the Indy 500” Netflix: “N… no! We want a good one!” Apple: “K bye” Netflix: “OKAY FINE”

I guess a fundamental question of the F1 rule set is: Is there enough juice in the battery to find an optimal “qualifying mode” for deployment that dispenses with the savings for stint and tire management and traffic and overtaking and all that, *and still produces the fastest possible lap time*?

A Ferrari Year would be so good for Earth

Here’s what I don’t get, race fans: Do you want overtaking, or not? Cuz if you do, everybody going 100% in all the same places means they can’t do it, as everyone knows and is constantly complaining about. But if they’re energy-starved, that creates deltas in speed, which is how passing happens.

FASCINATING

Got some cars

Kawasaki out here delivering the future we deserve:

Does anyone within a four-hour drive of Atlanta want a rooster

I can feel my brain going into wide-open-out -of-turn-1 IndyCar mode

Last year was when I realized my “I don’t get rally; they aren’t actually racing” belief was merely a time management coping mechanism, so I wonder if this year that will happen to “I don’t get motorcycle racing; they aren’t in a car.”

I guess, when you think about it, not being able to admit enough journeyperson cars to the Indy 500 or the 24 Hours of Le Mans because the full-season championships they’re part of have too many cars is not the worst problem in the entire world to have

The reason there is no Rexy/Roxy at Le Mans is because Monsieur l’Automobile Club de l’Ouest would not allow AO by TF to convert their second LMP2 entry into an LMGT3 entry, which is one of the more footguns things I’ve ever seen a race promoter do

Noooooo my craftsmen

I’m considering writing a regular expression to filter out any motorsports news headline that begins with “Can”

Jon is doing a holistic audit of the heading sizes on the site now that it’s fully lived in, so do not be surprised if pages you visit in the next day or so look weird at times. In fact, when you see it, you should revel in the glorious freedom of publishing on the WorldWide Web.

It’s just crazy to me that Racer has employees posting on here, and they don’t seem to care that their links have no metadata

Oh, this is pretty cool. He will be good at this

Oh hell yes, good idea. This kind of matchup always slaps at Goodwood and stuff

I sort of consider actually keeping mental track of a championship to be an optional part of following a motorsport

Come again?

Tonight, try a real education in the state of the nation

Wait this livery absolutely fucks

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Hell yeah, attending a race in person should always be an energising and fun experience. Be a racing fan, it's cool. The next race I'm going to? The Australian Grand Prix, and I can't wait!

Livery of the year candidate

What we got was not an all-timer like the O’Reilly race was, or a master class like the truck race was, but instead we got what I think goes for a normal NASCAR race these days, and you know what? It was fun as hell.

Will Buxton said Max Verstappen has *won the Nurburgring 24* on the first episode of the new Speed, and they did not edit it out

I’m starting to think third-party Bluesky apps that are actual apps for actual phones are not technically possible

How is Super Formula having whole-ass media days without informing the world outside of Japan whether they will be able to watch Kalle Rovanperä compete in it?

Hooooo baby

Having taken roughly a week off of posting racing news on @turningfortune.com is doing a really good job of that avoidance thing of making me do all the annoying crap piled up in my inbox. This is why we blog, people.

HELL YEAH tm

I got enough photos to put in a blog post, let's put it that way

Ride the Dented

I thought the North Carolinian “Toe Yoda” was the funniest pronunciation of Toyota on Earth, but I just heard Brodie Kostecki say “Toiter”

Time to find out if any of my photos are good

The thing about racers is that, by definition, they update their brains faster than fans do

Man racing podcasts were so much better when I was in Belize and there were no ads inserted

Kyle Larson is a good sprint car driver who isn’t quite intellectual enough for Cup racing

I will be buying a 1:24 of the Atlanta race win

Yeah yeah, Hocevar Hocevar Hocevar, et cetera. Daniel Suárez is 7 points behind him.

Listen, I was also devastated when Bubba did not win, until I remembered that NASCAR is a real motorsport again, and 23XI is 1-2 in the points