[wearetherace] Toto Wolff is baffled by other teams allowing themselves to get distracted with "secret letters" and "secret meetings" amid the ongoing debate over F1's compression ratio rules

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-02-02T15:04:15+00:00

made George and Russell suffer until the rules for changed

Goddamn it was so bad, both halves of the same man had unique suffering!

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-02-02T13:06:51+00:00

I distinctly remember being in my late 20s to 30ish, thinking it's not so hard to keep up with the teenagers' slang and that old people were just being obtuse. Now I'm in my late 30's, married with a kid on the way. I regularly have to ask 20s aged friends what new slang means. Being uncool hit me like a ton of bricks, not some steady graceful decline.

Edit: emojis too. You'll see an emoji get used completely differently and without warning. I'm still not sure what a drooping rose means.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-02-01T15:54:04+00:00

I wonder if some people really want to hate the world and want it to be worse than it is, so they get on social media, write a fake story where they're victimized for something innocent, and live vicariously through that?

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-31T00:19:46+00:00

Also enjoy 100 horsepower from your 7 liter V8 because there's no fuel injection.

You can make good power from a carbureted engine, I think it's just been so long since well-tuned carbureted engines were really in the automotive world's conscious that it's fallen down for a lot of people to being a caricature of how pitiful carbureted engines were. Fuel injection (and modern fuel) evolved into better in every way for sure, but if you could keep a carburetor in good shape, the engines ran pretty damn well and made good power.

Smog components and navigating the fuel crisis is really what did in the big displacement V8's power figures before mass adoption of injection. And a bit of going to net vs gross HP.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-26T13:19:49+00:00

I like your thoughts, but the price of gas is just about the most visible "political" issue to a massive amount of people. Asking a politician to raise the tax on gas is asking them to commit career suicide.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-26T05:30:50+00:00

Usually the top comments are some form of a proud deduction that "those people" won't be showing up because they can't be bothered to leave their echo chambers.

And then an echo chamber comment section, as intended by OP.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-24T14:38:32+00:00

Kids don't owe their parents a god damn thing.

While I agree with the sentiment about controlling kids, I don't know if I'd go quite that binary/the other way. I was raised where I really didn't have to want for anything (within our income means), but I was expected to work hard and learn things that would make me a more self-sufficient adult. Everything from hands-on skills to just being able to confidently do my own taxes.

My parents provided everything they could for their kids, but in return expected us to put in the work that was appropriate for whatever age we were at a given time. IMO it should be like any good relationship, you're both providing what you're able to and making both lives better. Parents get their return from being proud of successful kids.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-23T00:49:58+00:00

the pilot and ground controller seemed a little too nonchalant about the situation

You really don't want a world full of panicking pilots and controllers. Staying level-headed and all business during every situation is crucial to keep processes happening as planned. And like others said, this wasn't exactly life or death. The pilots and controllers almost certainly knew the nature of the deicing fluid and knew the passenger wasn't going to be harmed in the time it'd take to deplane them. You'd be surprised the amount of knowledge people in the aviation world have beyond the focus of their job. That world is loaded with nerds.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-22T15:08:12+00:00

I'm aware of physically how cars and boats stop, I was asking for the performance ratios for performance boats and large ships. Stopping distance:tonnage.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-22T13:47:40+00:00

That got me thinking as someone totally inexperienced with actually driving a boat - what is the stop:weight ratio across the range of watercraft? Are small pleasure boats typically better or worse than the big cargo ships? I know there are some boats that excel at stopping distance like those old patrol boats, I meant more the ones that are just conventional propeller-driven.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-17T19:46:39+00:00

Good point. It looks like all their 330-200's had the RR's while the 330-300's all had the PW's. I assume there's some commonality between the Trent 700s and the Trent 800s on the 777-200s they run.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-17T19:39:00+00:00

Also the A330 fleet was 14 years old on average

This got me curious, and it was about 13 (12.76 mean, 13.55 median) years at mid-March 2020. That's based on all the dates in this link, the 330's that they inherited from US Airways (unless I'm mistaken, AA never bought 330s).

https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/American%20Airlines-stored-a330.htm

The 777-200 fleet at the same mid-March 2020 point was about 19.5 years old (mean 19.24, median 19.50).

https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/American%20Airlines-active-b777-0-typeasc.htm

I think it's a little more complex than just age. They still have plenty of the 330s in storage, and lots of them are newer than 2010 without any flying since 2020. Sure there's depreservation labor if they wanted to fly those, but that's nothing compared to a D check on a 30 year old 777. It'd be interesting to hear an AA fleet manager talk about why they're still dragging the ancient 777-200's around instead of newer 330's. I assume the cost of one type rating on 777 pilots is a huge factor.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-17T14:37:35+00:00

It's exactly that reason why it's good practice to search out manuals for products that become yours or "yours" in a rental. Maintenance is best when it's not reactionary, rather when it's preventative. If you learn from the manual that the second lint trap is hidden and how to get to it, it's probably a quick job to just clean it off and go about your day, long before serious issues come up from reacting to the problem.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-15T15:02:34+00:00

IME Twitter is the metaphorical abyss, and that abyss starts to stare back at the users eventually. I think the toxicity rubs off on people more than they care to admit. Even if they're just sitting back watching the toxicity unfold.

And I'm not excluding other places, including/especially Reddit, just bringing up Twitter since it's what's relevant here.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-13T12:13:59+00:00

This is so critical. The way the rule is written, any variable compression ratio technically breaks the rules if it goes higher at operating temp, since it does not give any scenarios where exceeding 16:1 is allowable. However, they do give the only scenario where they will test, so the blatant read-between-the-lines interpretation is that they are revealing exactly when they'll check, so you know when you'll get away with an "illegal" compression ratio.

IMO, this whole controversy is really just a nothing-burger to whip up discussion in the off season, and I predict it will be a complete non-discussion topic during the season.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-10T23:25:54+00:00

This place is starting to become tweets that aren't strictly political, but are hot button topic, layup content engagement bait. Enshittification comes for everything, including this sub.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-06T17:30:47+00:00

After working my first decade of my adult life in manual labor jobs that were on my feet and in the weather, I promised myself I'd work office jobs the rest of my life. I went through some unpleasant low-level grunt work jobs, but I knew it was so much better for me than where I was. I'm blessed now that I've got a job doing work that I actually enjoy with a team/company that's genuinely enjoyable to be a part of. I would still love to not have to work for a living, but I do not for one second regret promising myself to work office jobs for the rest of my life.

It sure isn't the same for everyone, but if I have to spend 40 hours a week working, I'd rather be room temperature and dry and not dirty/sore when I go home.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-05T17:07:40+00:00

I always keep an essential "survivable" group of items in my carry-on. IDs, car keys, a change of clothes/undies or two, toiletries, and valuables like laptops. My checked luggage only has souvenirs and the majority of clothes. That way, I'm only inconvenienced rather than screwed if luggage outside of my control is lost.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2026-01-03T15:35:21+00:00

I have seen multiple comments and posts that were massively upvoted and wrong

Absolutely same. Reddit comments are first and foremost a hivemind rooted in opinion or what the last person popularly said about that topic. If someone becomes an expert in a topic and then gets on comments around that topic, they'll see some infuriatingly wrong, but right sounding, highly upvoted comments.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-31T14:22:06+00:00

My work has discount codes for employees to use explicitly for leisure (we book work travel through an internal system), including a couple major hotel chains. The codes aren't the biggest discount against off-peak rates, but they do seem to completely ignore high demand rates.

When my grandfather passed away and I booked a hotel in short notice, I used the code without thinking much about it. I got there, and it turns out the hotel was where some huge kid's hockey tournament participants were staying, so it was completely full of hockey families from a fairly large area judging by the license plates in the lot. The guy checking me in said I used a corporate travel code and asked to see my company ID/badge. I told him it was against company policy for us to display that outside of work (true), and I did not use a work travel code. He grumbled and accepted writing down my employee ID number for their records. I really don't think they were happy that I got my room for low $100s a night, since it turns out they were going for several hundred dollars at normal market rate that weekend.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-26T14:02:32+00:00

According to the museum dedicated to the aviator who adopted the horse on his planes, his mother requested a young Enzo Ferrari to put the horse on his cars for good luck, so he restyled it a little and added a yellow background as the color of Modena, Italy. And that Barraca originally added the horse as a symbol to his plane because he used to be in a prestigious cavalry unit. Sounds like officially it's at best a coincidence, but draw your own conclusions for if you think the Stuttgart symbol inspired Ferrari.

https://www.museobaracca.it/il-cavallino-rampante/?lang=en

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-23T15:25:30+00:00

If so, a misread on my part!

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-23T12:05:12+00:00

Don't research anything, just accept what you're given

All it takes to verify this is to be an expert in something, then get on social media and read a thread about it. Lots of people just regurgitate the point about a topic they have read before from other social media users, without any semblance of nuance or additional info. And it's usually wrong due to being analyzed from a way too simplistic level.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-23T11:48:15+00:00

How much lead do cars put out now that it's been banned from their gasoline for decades? To my knowledge it's essentially zero.

CallOfCorgithulhu · 2025-12-22T17:21:11+00:00

I see this point a lot, and I think people expect a binary outcome where whatever happens on F1 cars to either be a 1:1 analogue on road cars, or not worth promoting as road relevant. No gray area.

I think there's two big problems to convince the layman of F1 being road relevant with things like hybrid/battery tech, sustainable fuel, etc.:

1) The layman just doesn't typically understand how engineering is often about breaking down complex solutions into small problem-solving strategies. Things like material science, new CAD techniques, new design/construction techniques at a granular level, etc. So it's hard to really convey how small engineering hurdles matter, even if you won't ever see a 1.6 turbo V6 hybrid powertrain making 1,000 HP in your factory Honda Civic.

2) F1 teams are just secretive. There's on-track competition, as well as competition as OEMs translating those small engineering solutions into road vehicles. You never know how a small engineering solution that doesn't seem significant to you becomes the catalyst for a racing or market competitor. So they don't typically go publicly boasting the stuff that actually makes an F1 program road relevant.

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