Why y'all fighting?
Because racecar.

 

 

Just imagine if they had brought in a rookie and then started giving said rookie preferential treatment. I bet HAM would go bonkers...

 

 

Imagine how pissed ALO must've been when the "patsy" was a once in a generation talent.

 

Did anyone ever think he was a patsy though? Or was it just a David Robinson/Tim Duncan situation where ALO was supposed to carry things until HAM got his feet under him...it just happened he hit the ground running?

 

Is apples and oranges today doe. Unlimited testing yo

Why you'll likely never see another HAM (not saying HAM wasn't/isn't super talented). Using 2 year old cars to test won't give the last 9 or 10/10ths you need to come in and challenge for a WDC right away.

 

This still my personal fav


Wood give 10/10 but he didn't stick the landing

 

Verstapo was pretty on it, as far as pace goes.

 

 

Over 2015 Sainz out qualified VER, the bulk of which happened in the early part of the season. Late season Max was routinely faster than Sainz. At the mid point of the season they were almost tied for points. VER - 10 with SAI -9. Max ended up 31 point ahead. So I would venture to say he wasn't quick like HAM from day 1. I'd bet if there was unlimited testing he wood have been.

I realize SAI was a rookie too, but SAI had better pace early in the season but we saw Max pull away from him as Max gained more experience.

 

Moar like hit the gravel running

Hey Falco: https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H...Oct+2017+-+12Z

 

So those Ultra Soft tyres for US GP...



Shud bring back this livery...

 

This still crushes me to this day.

 

I was googling for HRRR stuff and found this page on Friday, but nothing was available (or I didn't click through to the correct page). Looks like it's working now. Thanks!

edit- ohh yeah I didn't select Central CA last time. Not sure again what I did wrong, but PERFECT! Thanks again!

edit2- oh fuuuu smoke blowing back into the bay soon.

 

Well wait for the next hour run, maybe it will change. That model is very fickle. It can give you ideas what might happen but run to run consistency is pretty poor.

Not sure if you noticed but you can change areas (even select the whole CONUS). There are times where some or all of the model will choke and only part or even none of the that hour's run will be available.

 

yeah i went back and looked at some of Friday's model runs, some were missing. glad you pointed me back at it. i've been waiting for the winds to shift back onshore pushing smoke back into the bay, so this is confirming that at least, and predicting it will blow out by tomorrow evening. it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

we've noticed dramatic differences in smoke smell just by driving 3-5 miles in either direction (from no smell at all to eye-watering) so i'm sure it will be a crapshoot.

 

I can't imagine being called to a structure fire and showing up to find 1/3 of the town completely gone.

 

Didn't realize that fire rules for buildings aren't always required.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1078288/d...ire-rules.html

 

Some of the dash and body cam footage released are crazy. I wonder at what point a vehicle stops due to lack of oxygen in a fire. I remember on the news a fire a few years ago where a family didn't know a fire was near their rural house (no neighbors nearby) until someone used the bathroom at 2am and saw the bright glow and smelled smoke. They left right away but one of the cars stalled and the news said it was due to lack of oxygen because the fires were so close and there was so much smoke. The occupants of the car didn't survive.

 

I'm far from a Hami fan but was this his fault or the McLaren's fault for keeping him out for as long as they did. I mean look at those tires....

 

The winds are usually better (outside of influence from convection). The biggest crap shoot when trying to forecast smoke is what is the smoke production going to be like? Not only do you need to be concerned with your fire but also other fires around. If teams are running firing operations at another fire it could add a considerable amount of smoke that wasn't anticipated. This was happening to us in Orleans. The fires to our north were using defensive firing and put a lot more smoke than expected into the air. That smoke moved over us and affected our temp/RH and made it harder to get our burning operations going.

 

If there wasn't oxygen the fire wouldn't be there. Intense fires pull air in, ensuring an abundance of oxygen. Most deaths from fires are due to super heated air burning the lungs. Very intense fires can have inflow over 70 mph associated with them.

 

"Damon I almost had you"

 

reminds me of my first playstation F1 game: