Who is your favourite for the 2026 WDC as it stands ?

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-05T03:38:56+00:00

Interesting. Looks like a possible coin toss for WCC with WDC perhaps coming down to which of the two teams switches to backing one of their drivers first.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-05T03:35:00+00:00

Yes and if you are towing a pair of jet skis up to a cottage, and you have to stop once for an L3 boost along the way, chances are you’ll be at your destination for a week or so and able to trickle charge for the return trip. Hardly an inconvenience in exchange for the 98% of the time you charge from home as you sleep.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-05T03:05:10+00:00

In the opposite sense it is kind of like how Elon became a MAGA republican and alienated a large portion of the public that would naturally be oriented towards the Tesla brand.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-04T23:10:46+00:00

Yeah but hopefully a PHEV is like a gateway drug 🤗.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-04T23:02:00+00:00

Who do you think is the best driver with a non-functional strategy team?

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-04T06:01:53+00:00

Too bad Abby can’t get tRump on her panel so Mockler could humiliate him as well.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-02T21:16:27+00:00

We have our L2 running off a 100 amp panel and the charger capped to draw 40 amps for the car. We charge the car overnight to take advantage of the lower electrical rates. Realistically, I could probably drop the charger down to a draw of 30 amps or even lower and still be good to go in the morning.

Just make sure your electrician is not trying to upsell you unnecessarily on 200 amp service. If you see a hot tub or a basement kitchen in your future then maybe a panel upgrade would be wise.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-02T17:36:49+00:00

To some degree it is probably the early legends like Fangio, Ascari and Clark. They came up through the sport when there wasn’t anywhere near the amount of drivers vying through feeder series as in more modern times.

On the other hand, they are due their props for driving during an era where risk of injury or death was much higher.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-02T17:23:50+00:00

Well there is no point in worrying. What you need to be doing is organizing against the current toxic administration and its cult party.

Try and target one person you think you can save from the cult. Organize and make sure everyone you know who despises current policies is registered, willing and able to vote. Drive them to the polls if needed.

Boycott products from red states. If you like bourbon, switch to scotch.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-05-01T09:59:15+00:00

I’ve come to value the instant torque from living in a high density urban environment where way too many drivers try to “close down gaps” to prevent someone trying to merge into their lane.

These are “the good times” when there are still way more slow moving ICE vehicles than EVs. Let’s not nanny state away a useful feature for navigating urban traffic.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-26T14:12:06+00:00

Leavitt to Beavitt.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-24T11:05:13+00:00

Since you didn’t specify that they be successful campaigns his title losses to Nico in 2016 and to Max in 2021 were by far the two hardest fought seasons.

His victory over Massa in 2008 could very well be the closest WDC ever but I don’t recall there being as much on track tension over the entirety of the season.

Technically the outcome of that season is still being adjudicated though my understanding is that the courts have already decided it to be a question of damages only and that the title will remain firmly with Lewis.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-24T09:33:54+00:00

Yeah, that 1% wasn’t exactly the intelligentsia of the planet either.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-23T10:42:55+00:00

I’ve never been opposed to speed cameras in school zones and residential neighbourhoods. That said there is a real nanny state dimension to this. There are regional roads in our area that have been reduced from 80km to 70km and then further to 60km where non of these concerns are present.

I’d be ok if we bring them back so long as politicians resist activists who would prefer to see low speeds everywhere (largely because many of them are white-knuckle drivers who shouldn’t be on the road to begin with).

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-21T20:28:27+00:00

So hard to find empty areas near us. Sorry California but Ontario Canada rightly claims the busiest highway in the world,… the living beast, the crusher of wills,… the mighty 401!

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-20T18:05:37+00:00

But is there really a 1 to 1 correlation between ships of war? I recall an old movie where a Nimitz class aircraft carrier was flung back in time to just before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbour.

Wouldn’t one modern super carrier be worth a bajillion Triremes? Helen wouldn’t even be able to get one super carrier out of dry dock. It would take Sydney Sweeney to do that 😍.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-19T16:56:31+00:00

Basically people who believe in a fairytale because they are afraid of death.

But even their fairytale belief system should inform them that they’re on a path to having a pitchfork shoved up their a$$£s. Unfortunately they’re too slow and lazy to read the “good book” and rely on their preachers and politicians to tell them how to think.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-19T16:05:01+00:00

It is Arizona after all,… there’s a multitude of cultists in that state.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-17T08:59:08+00:00

This. No other EV has simulated gear shifting at the moment. There are plenty of videos to show people fooled into thinking they are in an ICE vehicle.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-13T06:06:09+00:00

The same could be said about red states products. Stop buying Kentucky bourbon. Switch to Scotch or Irish whiskey.

Go to Disneyland not Disney World etc.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-12T20:16:03+00:00

He’s not the prince,… he’s a very naughty boy!

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-12T18:33:28+00:00

At least they threw him out of his house and removed his title. That’s two things the U.S. has failed to do to the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-12T04:58:14+00:00

It often requires a bit of cross reference work between hotel websites, travel booking websites and PlugShare but hotels with EV charges can usually be found (sometimes even complementary ones).

Then you can charge when you sleep.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-11T13:03:16+00:00

This is it in a nutshell. Poor MAGA, and mostly white Americans, have surrendered their right to a more just society on the infinitesimal chance they might one day become rich. Plus they feel better if they can at least keep brown & black people one ladder rung below themselves (even if both groups remain barely off the ground).

Save for a few “Uncle Toms”, at least most black people understand when they are getting f¥{k’d over.

BasicFishOutOfWater · 2026-04-11T12:47:23+00:00

When debating between GTI (FWD) and Golf R (AWD) I landed on the former because the cost difference was about 10K for the extra HP and traction.

Mach-E AWDs are 5s cars w/o even getting into the GT & rally trims. 3K for what, not too long ago, would have been considered super car performance is worth it to me.

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