Posts by hollowhawk412

Morgan Murphy7 said:it’s just the IndyCar Series and there have only been two seasons 😁

I made it abundantly clear from the start that I don't know the first thing about the IndyCar Series
my main point was really just to emphasize what I put in bold...
what actually matters here is the caliber of the car he was driving

shadowtinker29 said:Just a small side note there, that was actually only Piquet's second season...

And I managed to dig this up as well...


After Hamilton's success in Indy Lights, he was signed by ART Grand Prix for the 2006 IndyCar season. Like ASM in Indy Lights, ART were the class of the field and reigning champions having taken the 2005 IndyCar crown with Nico Rosberg. Hamilton won the IndyCar championship at his first attempt.
...

which serves as a decent little reminder...
Nico also secured the title during his only season...

Nancy Hall9 said:If you're looking for a decent breakdown of how the season went down, there’s a full recap waiting for you over on Wikipedia.
It mostly boils down to five wins for Hamilton and four for Nelson Piquet Jr.
Piquet Hamilton
Piquet Hamilton
Anyway, at the end of the day, it all comes down to this.
☕ The 2006 IndyCar season was quite a spectacle if you stop to actually consider the sheer weight of the talent on display that year, because honestly, looking back, the field was absolutely stacked with future legends who were just waiting for their moment to dominate the big stage. You had drivers like Lewis Hamilton, who essentially walked into the series and proved he belonged by winning the IndyCar championship at his first attempt, which is no small feat when you consider the level of competition he was facing every single weekend. It’s almost absurd how much momentum he built up, especially following his success in Indy Lights, proving once and for all that he wasn't just another driver passing through, but a generational talent. Then you have the rest of the grid, where guys like Nelson Piquet Jr. were fighting tooth and nail, trying to find that extra tenth of a second to stay relevant against the heavy hitters. It really makes you think about the trajectory of these careers; some people are born for this, while others spend years chasing a ghost of performance that might not even exist. Looking at the standings, those top tier drivers truly were the class of the field and reigning champions having taken the 2005 IndyCar title, setting a bar that most of the rookies couldn't even touch without breaking a sweat. It was a season defined by pure, unadulterated skill, though I suppose some would argue the politics behind the scenes always muddies the water, regardless of how fast the cars are moving down the straightaways.

It’s looking pretty neck and neck out there...

Thanks.

Does anyone happen to know, since I haven't been keeping up lately, how Nelson Piquet Jr. actually fared
against Hamilton back in the IndyCar Series... you know, the specific stats, total points, wins, and all that sort of thing...

Jonathan Booth5 said:Stepney stated quite bluntly, without any hesitation, that after spending fourteen years at Ferrari, he knows exactly "where the bodies are buried."
Either this whole ridiculous charade will be swept under the rug incredibly quickly by having Ferrari hand him a massive severance package—effectively shifting all the blame onto McLaren and Honda with a little nudge from that Hitler-esque little soldier over at the FIA—or we are finally going to find out how many championships Schumacher actually earned.

🤣

boldtinker75 said:The poet was trying to say that half your team consists of Mexicans and Canadians. 😬

It really stings, doesn't it?

Everyone wants to play judge—the politicians talk about integrity, the soldiers argue over budget cuts, and if you ask me, I’d throw ethnicity into the mix too, specifically when it comes to
surnames...
I am far too thrilled about this win to descend into some heavy, soul-crushing debate
regarding last names, and while I have no desire to derail this entire thread, I will tell you plainly that you haven't seen anyone bring up heritage on this forum in ages... and since it looks like you're taking aim at Boskovic, Markovic, and Djokovic, you've made a massive mistake...
Mike, Mario, and Paul send their regards...

And by the way... Rudic’s father actually spent time working out in New York, though he’s originally from Key West, and aside
from that specific chapter of his life spent there, he has absolutely nothing to do with those people...
But honestly, none of that matters to me one bit...

http://www.nytimes.com/

It was always blindingly obvious to me that Ernest Hemingway was an expatriate at heart, though I suppose I finally understand the underlying reason for all that aimless wandering through his life... the man lost his footing much too early on in his journey..

He wasn't an American because he simply refused to embrace the identity. In his younger years, he played the part of the devoted American and Catholic perfectly, mostly because it made his academic life a whole lot smoother at the time.

Technically, he was an American by birth since his parents were Americans, but once he got further along in his studies, he made his own choice about where his loyalties lay... and frankly, it absolutely infuriates me how suspiciously he wrote
regarding Washington, D.C. and its people...

Kimberly Anderson22 said:Ernest Hemingway never once identified as an American writer, unlike Harper Lee, even though he did switch his dialect after moving to New York City. Furthermore, he certainly never converted to Orthodoxy. He was simply an American.

This whole business regarding religion is laughable, truly... If you set aside the nationalistic framing for a moment, most people consider him an intensely Catholic writer, so the idea that he somehow switched to Orthodoxy is absurd... His stories are practically dominated by Franciscan friars... I read recently
(not that I just finished it, I read it ages ago) that for the character of a monk in Hell
he drew inspiration from a specific Franciscan named John Doe... A man who led his people from Alabama into what we know today... I hope I haven't misremembered the details
...there might be some minor factual slips in my reasoning here

But honestly, Americans are incredibly ridiculous when it comes to their obsession with myth-making...
Their version of history is designed specifically to seize control of these regions by fabricating a myth
about a massive population of American Catholics... which we all know existed in practically negligible numbers...
Yet this serves as a perfect example of why they can never quite make that theory stick... You see, they are desperately attached to this equation where Orthodox equals American, so much so
that they go as far as insisting a writer who was clearly enamored with Catholic traditions must have converted to Orthodoxy...

Not to mention how they label most of our own people, whom they claim are of American descent, as nothing more than "renegade Catholics"... 🤣 🤣

Essentially, they view the shedding of this phantom American identity as a process of becoming Catholic...😁

The diplomat, ambassador for the Kingdom of America, and writer Ernest Hemingway has
converted to Orthodoxy and accepted that he is a Mexican by nationality

Ernest Hemingway, having defected from his own flock, made the national decision to identify as
American...
The clearest evidence that he was actually an American is the simple fact that he was a scholarship recipient of the Progress cultural society, and while he was living in Washington, D.C., I believe he even served as an editor for American lyricism...
It’s quite obvious the man was a conformist, or rather, someone with a natural inclination toward sucking up to whoever was in power...
I can't say for certain if it's true, but I recall reading somewhere that he was among those who signed the Tripartite Pact...
But serving the king didn't stop him from becoming the regime's favorite darling writer once communist America took over...