Posts by Kyle Lopez2

Jack Kelly5 said:Honestly, if anyone shows up to a GP weekend with the intention of cheating, I guess a straight-up race ban would be the only fair way to handle it, but hey, what do I know. I just can't wrap my head around whether the FIA actually caught this on their own or if they were just forced to act because Red Bull started making a scene about it.

The thing is, you can't really prove someone intended to cheat. They simply didn't meet the technical requirements, so his qualifying was invalidated via DQ, which is why he's starting at the back.

The one part I don't quite agree with is him just starting from the back. Usually, when there's a DQ or significant car changes between qualifying and the race, the penalty is a pit lane start, if I recall correctly.

As it stands, they've basically handed him a 5-10 second advantage compared to if he had to come out of the pits behind the very last car during a sprint.

I mean, they've got a point if you look at it from a certain angle. There’s enough evidence there to be considered beyond a reasonable doubt, if I'm not mistaken.

Does anyone else feel like there's some serious reasonable doubt regarding whether Max actually damaged Ham's wing?🤔🤔

Fuck, for the Hamilton fans, this whole thing is just a total disaster—it feels like they're bending the rules, especially considering the spirit they were originally written in.

It makes me think back to Baku in 2016, when the guy flatspotted his tires on the out-lap during Q2, and then they just handed him a fresh set because driving with a flatspot was deemed too unsafe.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Raymond Anderson4 said:Well, he could have just taken the middle line. The point is, he had the opportunity and should have moved left to block Max Verstappen, forcing him toward the center instead.
What really changes is that by taking the middle, Max wouldn't have had that perfect line anymore. Sure, he might still try to brake late, but he definitely wouldn't have been able to pull off what we saw at the start yesterday.
Essentially, Lewis Hamilton would have had a much better shot at winning that duel because once Lewis sees Max alongside him, I highly doubt he’d just let Max out-brake him, regardless of those braking issues the team dealt with at Turn 1 this weekend.
If the Mercedes crew had decided to block Max Verstappen, they would've pulled it off. The only one who might have slipped past was Sergio Perez on the outside, which is a sacrifice that could have been made.

Come on now. The plan was for the bot to pull Max Verstappen out of the slipstream, and he actually did it. Lewis Hamilton should have tucked right into that slipstream immediately, but that fell through since he had a better start. So what's your solution? The bot stays put to defend the inside, then Lewis does a radio chop to the bot and then another chop to the outside to block Max Verstappen🤔 or something else🤔

Or even better, the bot leaves the inside open for Max Verstappen.🤣 Instead, Max Verstappen takes the outside, and Lewis Hamilton just repeats what happened at Imola, Monza, or Silverstone.😵

The issue is that fans tend to fantasize about these marginal scenarios where Lewis Hamilton and the bot shut Sebastian Vettel out of third place at FRA-18. They focus entirely on how to move Max Verstappen, rather than looking at actual racing strategy and trying not to get wiped out by a diver from the outside because you were busy ruining the race for Max Verstappen.

The reality is that even though Max Verstappen passed them both on the outside, everyone is going to defend the inside at every race. It's also worth noting that Lewis Hamilton almost crossed the inner line just trying to defend against Sergio Perez.

The fact is, the bot went straight to pulling Max Verstappen out of the draft to help Lewis Hamilton, and the bot tried to let Lewis Hamilton through, only for Lewis Hamilton to let Max Verstappen overtake him on the outside.😵

My point is that people are dreaming up these wild scenarios where the bot hits Max Verstappen at the last second and spins him out. In reality, it would be just as easy for Max Verstappen to cut across the grass into first place while the bot clips Lewis Hamilton from behind, leaving everyone screaming that the bot is an idiot.🙄

Roger Wright94 said:What do you mean, "aggressive" or "ramming"?
I was strictly talking about my line through the corner. Nothing else.
Obviously, you can't just let a car on the outside line align itself with you; you need to be at least a quarter or a third of a car ahead.
Since the first turn is a right-hander and the second is a left, the ideal racing line is to swing wide in that first corner so you can clip the inside edge of the second one more effectively.

And honestly, both Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have done this to each other countless times.
If a car is on the outside, they either have to clip you or go off track entirely.
The Mercedes drivers had everything under control until Valtteri Bottas braked a bit too hard.

That’s a pretty pointless comment since it's the one thing you can't actually control. How exactly are you planning to prevent someone from pulling up alongside you?🤔

On the flip side, driving straight into the sandwich and hoping you don't take out Lewis Hamilton...🤔 What if Lewis Hamilton gets a little too close or clips you, causing a wheel to fly off, or what if Max Verstappen squeezes him right as he's pushing, leading to contact with the rear?🤔

All I'm seeing here is your tendency to suggest that the bot should have been looking to collide with Max Verstappen.😵

Raymond Anderson4 said:Toto Wolff mentioned that the situation where Max Verstappen found an opening on the outside shouldn't have happened.

I'm inclined to agree; Max was actually the most dangerous one there. If they had shut him out, they would have secured a 1-2 finish easily.
Bottas should have held the outside line while Lewis Hamilton stayed tucked alongside Bottas's side, leaving Max with nowhere to go.
Instead, Bottas ended up exposed, though he did share some of the blame by getting himself sandwiched in.

That's a pretty silly take. The track is maybe wide enough for five or six cars, and you're suggesting someone should pull off a blockade right when you aren't supposed to be dancing around on the circuit.🤔

If Bottas were fighting for a championship against Hamilton, it would have been better to just hold his ground at the start and give Max the slipstream to pull him up to Hamilton before attempting to defend the position.

In this case, Bottas was following the plan to immediately give Hamilton the draft, but Hamilton just had a better launch and ended up alongside him. So what was Bottas even supposed to do?

With Hamilton and Bottas occupying the center of the track, Bottas had already made his "defensive move." What else could he have done? Meanwhile, Hamilton is drifting even further wide to defend against Sergio Perez.

By the time they hit the braking zone about 100-150 meters out, all three were lined up. What was Bottas's best move there, considering the worst thing that could happen is staying stuck in the middle?

It’s a nonsensical comment. Bottas just had a poor start, plain and simple. Max used the slipstream to overtake them both, and that was that. There wasn't much else to be done. Trying to dive down the inside here is just asking to wreck both Hamilton and Max—though Hamilton would probably just spin, whereas Max would likely get pushed off without much damage.

Diving down the inside and completely missing the apex would just mean slamming into Max. I highly doubt any Hamilton fan is foolish enough to throw their driver under the bus just to help Max win the championship.☕😵

Richard Walker38 said:I mean, I’m not saying he didn't crash into him, but it wasn't that blatant, classic move where you just squeeze someone out while locking up, like what Bottas did to Norris and the Red Bull drivers.

He just squeezed him a bit and clipped the tire. Honestly, he probably did more damage to his own car than he did to the other guy.

Just a little nudge🤣🤣🤣

The kid caught him right on the rear tire and spun him out at the very start of the race.🙏 He's as guilty as Sanader.🤣

Richard Walker38 said:I wouldn't exactly call that a clean hit. He locked up a little, and Bottas kind of cut him off on the line. The contact was pretty minor, and honestly, Bottas was still pinned full throttle at that exact moment, which probably caused that wheel spin.

Give me a break, he slammed right into his rear tire at the apex of a corner that Bottas was taking normally, while this guy charged in at a ninety-degree angle.😵

The fact that Bottas braked early was just a lucky break for him, whereas losing control and locking up only made things worse.

Ferrari really messed up there; they were letting Valtteri Bottas let Hamilton through, but Hamilton hit a bad angle on the turn and had a dirty side, so Max just swept both of them up on the outside.🍿

😁Wait, hold on... did Bone just end up stuck in self-isolation??🤣🤣🤣

Paul Martinez73 said:"Owners should commit to giving up 50 percent of their profits, then splitting that other 50 percent among the most deserving employees who help pull the company through a crisis. In return, the government should grant those firms total tax exemptions. Management should also waive their salaries—it’s all about building mutual trust," he claimed.

🤣

What kind of fantasy world are these people living in? So, owners just hand over half their profit to some "star employees," while management conveniently gets to skip their paychecks... 🤣
Wait, did he actually give up his own salary?

I guess Perry on the assembly line at Podravac is the real hero behind the company's massive export numbers and overall success... ☕

Oh, don't be silly—Perry is absolutely crushing his production quotas on the line. 🙏

Jessica Gonzalez said:She just went out...

...to walk the Pet.

brightpilot6 said:So, who exactly is cutting us off here...

🤣🤣🤣🤣

urbanhawk17 said:I hear the mother-in-law finally bailed on Queen.

Aprilililili

😂

🤣🤣 you absolutely killed it 🤣🤣

restlesssurfer97 said:🙏🙏🙏

But what exactly are you looking for, restlesssurfer97? It’s pretty obvious they're spread too thin during this crisis.😁

They probably need to hire at least another 20,000 people just to handle the grueling task of delivering COVID-19 kits to families stuck in isolation.🙏

What a mess this government is in.🤦

restlesssurfer97 said:Even with all those pandemic restrictions in place, this little cafe in Karlovac was still running full tilt, and when the police raided the place, they actually caught the owner and two customers right in the middle of it.

So you've got the owner and two patrons just hanging out in a closed cafe, and the inspectors basically decided it was definitely open because all the machines were powered up and humming away.

Honestly, that’s just how things work in this country—everything is supposedly under control, and they'll jump down your throat to penalize even the tiniest little infraction the second they see it. 🙏🙏🙏

Press conference. 🙏 🙏 🙏

God, I wonder if that meteor is actually going to hit. 🤦

Luckily they weren't playing poker, otherwise the police would've shut them down for running an illegal casino.🤣 🙏

rustywalker42 said:I'll just pull out my phone. Then let him try to claim I was the one causing a scene.

No fine.

🙏 I know how it works, but what’s the point of proving it?

Some cop decided to tear my entire car apart for over an hour out of nowhere, even performing an illegal search just because of a minor violation worth $100 and then had the nerve to tell me we were going to sit there all night until I confessed, all over some measly $30 bucks during the New Year period.🙏 They took my phone and iPod, and even ordered me to take off my jacket...

Instead of catching us right when the infraction actually happened, they nabbed me ten minutes later and insisted I was part of a larger group committing the offense based on their "direct observation."🤦

Honestly, I lost it and told them to just write the ticket. Instead of grabbing a beer and moving on, I’m stuck spending the whole night with two guys acting tough because they can't actually prove their claims. All this over freaking $100 🤦
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To top it all off, the idiot searching my car—checking lights and digging through every single box—didn't even notice I don't carry a first aid kit.🤦 Absolute incompetence.🙄

They won't just detain you for no reason under disturbing the peace.🤣

rustywalker42 said:Just give him your personal info if he asks. That's it. You don't owe anyone an answer to their questions. Period.

I guess there's no point in getting worked up over it. Honestly, it's probably best just to ignore them.🤣Look, if some guy tries to tell you that you have to head home, just turn around and keep walking. If you do that, he’ll realize you aren't falling for his nonsense, and he'll honestly just lose his cool completely. If you need a way to justify it later, just say he refused to follow direct orders and was disrupting public peace and order. Honestly, proving anything else is just a massive headache.🤣

rustywalker42 said:So, I guess you should just shut up and walk. That way, they can't claim you're "disturbing the peace."

They can't touch you. Heh. Let those little tyrants choke on it now.

You can't exactly walk away silently once they've already pulled you over.🤣

Jack Murphy5 said:I spent half an hour just banging my head against the wall.

Total rookie mistake here😁 🙏 It’s just a linear equation with two variables.

p + l = 110
p = l + 100
👍, though I have to admit, I totally tripped up on the first ball myself at first glance.🤣

Larry Walker24 said:HERE'S THE PROBLEM!!!

Dozens of Americans are being flown back home from all those COVID hotspots, thanks to help from our Department of State, according to a statement they dropped on Monday.

We've got 11 people coming back from Los Angeles, 29 from Washington, D.C., and 13 were sent back Sunday from Colorado.

On Sunday, 20 Americans also made it back via New York City after flying out of New Delhi, plus seven people came home from Cuba, 16 from Peru, and one from Bolivia.

They’ve also been coordinating travel for Americans moving back and forth to the Czech Republic for medical treatment.

The memo points out that since we're currently holding the presidency of the European Council, our embassies outside the EU are basically acting as coordinators. For example, the U.S. Consulate in Dubai even managed to get a flight out for EU citizens who were stuck in transit on a plane arriving from Dubai to Washington, D.C.

There were 32 Americans on that specific flight.

- They mentioned they know a lot of seasonal workers are stuck in a bad spot right now, and the consulates are trying to figure out the best way to get them home.



And they're coming straight from the middle of the outbreak too. 🤦 🤦 🤦

First off, they have to let people come home. You can't just deny a citizen entry into their own country.🤔

This is exactly what I’ve been warning about since this thread started, even before Beros mentioned we wouldn't be closing borders with Italy. We shut down Washington, D.C. to stop local transmission, yet folks are flying in from Australia and Germany without being tested, heading straight back to homes where their parents live. They claim they're self-isolating, but they're living with people who are out there working in grocery stores and factories every day.🤔 🤦

That’s the whole point of "mass" testing. Just test everyone coming in..

On top of that, we've seen positive cases being sent home to live with essential workers. It feels like nobody is looking out for those families—whether they'll have enough food, enough money, or if anyone can even trust them to actually follow the rules.🤦
So instead of actual quarantine facilities (which, by the way, is what I'm being accused of wanting), we’re doing this "home quarantine" thing without any testing at all—unlike the serious countries in Asia. Then, we turn around and blame the public for spreading the virus when the government hasn't done anything to actually isolate the sick.
👍 😵

Our leadership, both in the administration and the opposition, seems completely caught off guard by this crisis. It feels like the state has zero material or financial reserves set aside for natural disasters, so like everything else, they're trying to weather the storm using the savings of its citizens.🙏

briskjackal5 said:lol no way

I honestly have no clue who told you that, but I am pretty sure they were lying to you.

-Steve

Hasn't everyone been comparing him to Grip since the very beginning, both here in the States and abroad?🤔

Didn't Rudan basically admit he regrets comparing the virus to the flu? I guess it's because none of us ever take the flu that seriously anyway.🤔

mellowotter36 said:What did we establish? I don't even remember posting here in the first place.

Over the last month, from the coronavirus in the Chicago area, 1,617 people have passed away. Between 2012 and 2019, the total number of deaths in March looks like this: 879, 768, 811, 956, 914, 887, 890, 886. Even if you count every single natural death as a COVID death, your theory still doesn't explain this massive anomaly.

That’s just not how statistics work.
Estimates for how many people actually catch the flu are always just educated guesses. With COVID, those projections are easily ten times higher than the official confirmed case counts. Because of that gap, we probably won't have any real, accurate data on this until the whole epidemic has finally run its course.

We also have to take into account that Italy was absolutely hammered because they lost control of their quarantine measures and allowed the virus to spread among those with chronic conditions. On top of that, they were trying to admit every single COVID patient into hospitals. That’s why you ended up with situations where morgues were overflowing in certain areas. It basically turned hospitals into infection hubs for the most vulnerable people.🤔

We won't truly know the full scale of the damage until the end of the year. It'll be interesting to see how many lives were actually lost versus how many people simply had their lifespans cut short by a few months. It’s pretty obvious we're going to see a massive drop in mortality rates from the flu and other typical illnesses once this epidemic finally settles down.

Once you see how long this decline is actually going to last, you might want to start making those calls. It’s pretty sobering to realize just how much COVID has cut short life expectancy over in Italy.

Just a side note here—I really hope they don't start playing those statistical games where they try to double-dip on the numbers. It would be a joke if someone dies from COVID but gets logged under a different disease category just because they argued that lowering cancer stats would mess with the public perception of risk (which we all know is just code for protecting funding). Plus, let's be real: it’s just not logical to claim someone in stage three lung cancer died of COVID when they were already battling both. You can't just pad two different lists with the same person.

velvetstag5 said:Show me where you read that.

In America (with a population of about 330 million), we see around a hundred cases during bad seasons.

If you multiply that by 15, then Italy should be looking at 1,500,

not 15,000.

Something definitely doesn't add up here...

If you look at their agency statistics, things were actually even worse a few years back, climbing toward 25k.🤔 These are official figures being released while the population is busy getting vaccinated.