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I wrote an essay about inter-war grandprix and fascism as an undergrad, basically, it was even crazier than that. The drivers were "wing commanders" in the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, and expected to act as soldiers for German soft power. Rudolf Caracciola famously drove Hitler around in his Mercedes. After the war, he tried to enter a merc in the indy 500, only to have it promptly seized for, you know, being nazi property. The sport was supposed to be the most real, the manliest, the pinnacle of the futurist ideal. Men racing around to death traps, dying to go faster, to see over the edge a fulfill humanity's great potential through technology and national supremacy; it obsessed the nazis more than even the Olympics.    The Americans loved the nazi racers so much, that when they came over to race the champ cars at Roosevelt speedway, the officials told the drivers to paint bigger swastikas on their cars, because apparently the Americans just loved that. Caraccoila's trophies are now at the IMS museum, he gave them all to the Hulman's as a gift for letting him recover at their place after he drove face-first into a bird and cracked his skull. wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Vasukhani posted:I wrote an essay about inter-war grandprix and fascism as an undergrad, basically, it was even crazier than that. The drivers were "wing commanders" in the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, and expected to act as soldiers for German soft power. Rudolf Caracciola famously drove Hitler around in his Mercedes. After the war, he tried to enter a merc in the indy 500, only to have it promptly seized for, you know, being nazi property. The sport was supposed to be the most real, the manliest, the pinnacle of the futurist ideal. Men racing around to death traps, dying to go faster, to see over the edge a fulfill humanity's great potential through technology and national supremacy; it obsessed the nazis more than even the Olympics. I like the little curb feelers on that last one, you may only ever drive that fucker on the track but by god you need to make sure those mags (were they magnesium?) don't get hosed up if you ever want to take it to dinner.
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toto wolff and hamilton should be put on trial for crimes against humanity
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Zeta Acosta posted:toto wolff and hamilton should be put on trial for crimes against humanity given petronas' actions in Sudan the BLM support from mercedes is extremely 
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lewis helmet and then the rear wing go together like a joke - black lives matter/does not apply in sudan
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It is a literal criminal crime for which someone should be arrested that they did not make the halo red permanently after Niki died. Who should be arrested and prosecuted is up for debate. F1 should have mandated red halos for every team in perpetuity imo.
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Vasukhani posted:I wrote an essay about inter-war grandprix and fascism as an undergrad, basically, it was even crazier than that. The drivers were "wing commanders" in the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, and expected to act as soldiers for German soft power. Rudolf Caracciola famously drove Hitler around in his Mercedes. After the war, he tried to enter a merc in the indy 500, only to have it promptly seized for, you know, being nazi property. The sport was supposed to be the most real, the manliest, the pinnacle of the futurist ideal. Men racing around to death traps, dying to go faster, to see over the edge a fulfill humanity's great potential through technology and national supremacy; it obsessed the nazis more than even the Olympics. This is really interesting to read about, do you mind sharing more?
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With Texas deciding COVID-19 is over the COTA race can have regular attendance numbers and real race weekend feel. 
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This car had mechanical traction control by the way. The Germans had tremendous engineering back then. Just the best.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:This car had mechanical traction control by the way. The Germans had tremendous engineering back then. Just the best. hell they still do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGKcvM2Hh4g&t=1063s
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:This car had mechanical traction control by the way. The Germans had tremendous engineering back then. Just the best. It goes basically without saying, but all that "streamlining" made the car basically undrivable. Auto Union's attempt at the streamliner went as expected: before:  11 minutes later: 
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alfa romeo and by extension scuderia ferrari saved us from the evil nazis and their evil grip on grand prix racing. we all love the italos ITT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLVrqUChC7A Zeta Acosta fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Zeta Acosta posted:alfa romeo and by extension scuderia ferrari saved us from the evil nazis and their evil grip on grand prix racing.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:If by "saved us" you mean "collapsed into abject failure in sporting competition" I didnt mean that
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Zeta Acosta posted:selling my rx590 brb you picked that up in the nick of time, didn't you?
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Rinkles posted:you picked that up in the nick of time, didn't you? i replaced an old r7260x for that. i dont care about cutting edge pc parts and im on a tight budget
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Zeta Acosta posted:i replaced an old r7260x for that. i dont care about cutting edge pc parts and im on a tight budget i'm saying you'd have paid way more for the same card a few months later
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Rinkles posted:i'm saying you'd have paid way more for the same card a few months later no joke already is 50 bucks more expensive than when i bought it. hardware is insane right now
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LeeMajors posted:I'm pretty excited to see the new Aston Martin because I have a throbbing boner for green cars. 
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Zeta Acosta posted:alfa romeo and by extension scuderia ferrari saved us from the evil nazis and their evil grip on grand prix racing. we all love the italos ITT the first work of fasho-futurist was about crashing an italian race car lol driving directly into the wall is ur culture wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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For those doing the historical crawl through the F1.tv archive, they just massively updated the site with a different layout and organization, as well as adding hour-long season restrospectives for the 1970-1980 seasons.
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Vasukhani posted:It goes basically without saying, but all that "streamlining" made the car basically undrivable. Please don't doxx @GramCracker driving his Auto Union.
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Zeta Acosta posted:i replaced an old r7260x for that. i dont care about cutting edge pc parts and im on a tight budget the ferrari of pc gaming
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bgreman posted:For those doing the historical crawl through the F1.tv archive, they just massively updated the site with a different layout and organization, as well as adding hour-long season restrospectives for the 1970-1980 seasons. this is awesome i just wish they'd caption poo poo
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Aston Martin Cognizant https://twitter.com/AstonMartinF1/status/1367126433852760067
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Thanks Ants posted:Aston Martin Cognizant TW: Tom Brady is in this
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I'd like to see Seb's new streamlined look without the hat on.
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Thanks Ants posted:Aston Martin Cognizant another fail british team
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Rebus posted:I'd like to see Seb's new streamlined look without the hat on. at least he doesn't have speed holes like michael schumacher
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lol it looks loving identical to the mercedes but green, right down to the weird engine cover bulge
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a pipe smoking dog posted:lol it looks loving identical to the mercedes but green, right down to the weird engine cover bulge another triumph of british engineering
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It's a very ugly implementation of green. 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:lol it looks loving identical to the mercedes but green, right down to the weird engine cover bulge thank god this isn't a spec series, and the teams are free to spend millions copying last year's car
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Tsaedje posted:It's a very ugly implementation of green. Yeah, I'll give it some slack until I see it in daylight but from what I can tell it's not dark enough, plus the pink highlight isn't great.
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bgreman posted:For those doing the historical crawl through the F1.tv archive, they just massively updated the site with a different layout and organization, as well as adding hour-long season restrospectives for the 1970-1980 seasons. About time. It was pretty annoying that there weren't dedicated pages for each season. It's still not perfect but moving in the right direction. Just finished 1992. All this drama over the Williams seat was hilarious and so was Johnny Herbert going out the first lap of half the races.
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bgreman posted:For those doing the historical crawl through the F1.tv archive, they just massively updated the site with a different layout and organization, as well as adding hour-long season restrospectives for the 1970-1980 seasons. I'm still waiting for the Chromecast functionality, they're so behind on that.
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bgreman posted:For those doing the historical crawl through the F1.tv archive, they just massively updated the site with a different layout and organization, as well as adding hour-long season restrospectives for the 1970-1980 seasons. Okay, dumb question. Is there an F1 TV app I can download to my smart TV? As it is I stream it through my phone app and then cast it to the TV.
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