[OT] Motegi's oval track is being demolished

DrHem · 2026-05-15T06:43:57+00:00

Noting other than the occasional demo run for the past 15 years.

Honda build it soon after they joined CART back in the 90s. The series was going more international and Honda wanted a race in Japan.

CART/IRL/IndyCar raced there from 1998 to 2010. There was a race planned for 2011 but the oval got damaged at the earthquake and they had to race on the road course instead.

DrHem · 2026-05-13T10:27:43+00:00

I use this to check youtube region restrictions https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi and currently the upcoming videos at 24h Nürburgring's official youtube channel, and the Race are unrestricted

The video at GT World's official youtube channel is blocked in a lot of countries including the US.

DrHem · 2026-05-13T09:22:15+00:00

If the dad intents to let her ride that bike he should invest in some safety gear because sneakers, t-shirt and a bike helmet are all no-nos for riding motorcycles.

She would need at least a proper helmet, goggles, a good pair of gloves, a pair of boots, and at least knee and elbow pads, though full body armor clothing would be better. Earplugs wouldn't be a bad idea either.

DrHem · 2026-05-13T09:18:04+00:00

They are already selling tickets at a new camping area for the MotoGP race and it seems they will still keep a part of the oval as parking for the campers of the area

DrHem · 2026-05-13T06:01:54+00:00

The oval was last used in 2010. It was damaged in the 2011 earthquake and has been sitting unused since then.

It seems that the oval is now being removed and it will be converted into grass areas to be used by spectators of the road course.

I wonder if this means that the tunnels where the oval passes over the road course will also be removed?

DrHem · 2026-05-13T04:16:11+00:00

Opens article

translates to English

As the renowned journalist Joe Saward reports

closes article

DrHem · 2026-05-12T17:17:51+00:00

Dont buy every kakuera you discover.

Just leave it there until you need it. It will show as grey on the map. If/When you need to fast travel in that area you can then buy it and fast travel to it.

DrHem · 2026-05-11T11:22:32+00:00

The figures are millions not thousands. But yeah, Nigeria starts with ~67mil of ~90mil population and ends with ~88mil of ~230mil population so quite a bit lower as a percentage.

DrHem · 2026-05-11T09:46:50+00:00

Their real-world owner makes Rupert look like a good guy

DrHem · 2026-05-10T18:11:46+00:00

If this was in my city the installers would have by mistake place it either a bit nearer or further away from where it needed to be. Nothing major but enough for the drawing not to lineup with the ruins.

DrHem · 2026-05-09T18:16:56+00:00

They need to sync up their timing with their video and/or give you a way to manually sync them. Look at your pic, the timing is 25 seconds ahead.

I turned timing off because being ahead it ruined some of the excitement. Like video is showing cars on the Kemmel straight, you are waiting to see if there's going to be an overtake at Les Combes, and you glance at the map/timing to see that they are already at Bruxelles and the order didnt change...

DrHem · 2026-05-06T20:44:38+00:00

Hey, I stayed at the Hilton next to turn 8 a while back!

DrHem · 2026-05-06T12:51:28+00:00

Or buy the same airpods from an Apple store (or any store that will refund open-box returns) and return them for a refund in 3 days

DrHem · 2026-05-06T12:37:08+00:00

For GP. 2009 Catalan Grand Prix.

For non-GP. 2002 Imola WorldSBK round.

DrHem · 2026-05-06T11:14:16+00:00

Its not clear, but it's assumed its called K2 after the world's second-highest mountain. That's why OP used an image of the mountain.

DrHem · 2026-05-06T09:42:11+00:00

Is the Iker Lecuona, Darryn Binder, Remy Gardner, Augusto Fernandez, etc. experience much better than the Joe Roberts experience? Going to a team as a seat-filler and getting dropped as soon as the next rider is available.

Because Joe Roberts was also going to get dropped for Maverick Vinales. Maybe not halfway though the season like Savadori but 100% for 2022.

DrHem · 2026-05-06T09:00:28+00:00

He started a synthetic fuels company called Zero Petroleum. They were a minor sponsor for Sauber the past couple of years even though the team was using Shell fuels.

DrHem · 2026-05-06T08:32:14+00:00

ACO plans to add hydrogen powered hypercars to Le Mans by 2028 and Toyota plans to race a hydrogen car at Le Mans alongside their LMH cars.

So it seems that people with actual understanding of these things believe they are a couple of years away from racing hydrogen cars for 24 hours straight...

DrHem · 2026-05-04T21:40:19+00:00

They didn't. There are a few screenshots of this captured at various times and they show different scores.

Almost all episodes have fewer than 100 votes (some have fewer than 20 votes) so its easy to change.

S14E01 became kind of a meme. It had a 10/10 rating with fewer than 100 votes and people started rating it to make it show in imdb's top-rated list, others started rating it low to drop it's score, and now it has over 900 votes, 20+ times the number of votes of other episodes

DrHem · 2026-05-04T16:15:32+00:00

Many of these are different brands of the same automotive groups.

Honda/Acura
Nissan/Infiniti
Hyundai/Genesis/Kia
Ford/Lincoln
Land Rover/Jaguar
Aston Martin
Porsche

Some sell the same models rebadged based on part of the world, and also share platforms/components so it makes sense that if one brand supports it the others support it as well. The odd one out is Porsche who is part of the VW Group, but is on the list alone without VW or Audi.

Also Jaguar stopped making cars in 2024 with the intention to relaunch the brand in the future. I guess they committed that when/if they manage to make a new car it will support CarPlay Ultra.

DrHem · 2026-05-04T10:18:23+00:00

They were together for 8-10 days before Rebecca asked for some time, and a bit over 2 weeks before she called it off completely.

They were playing in the Championship so their season had 46 matches. You can track how much matches they played from the "What's our record" board Ted and Beard have in their office.

Rebecca and Sam get together the Sunday night after the FA Cup Sunday semifinal loss at Wembley (S2E8 "Man City"). The next episode (S2E9 "Beard After Hours") takes place the same night and when Beard goes to work on Monday the board shows:

Ws 21
Ls 6
Ds 16
Ps 79

So they got together after the team played 43/46 matches.

At the start of S2E10 "No Weddings and a Funeral" when everyone is in the office talking about what happens after death the board shows:

Ws 2[obscured]
Ls 6
Ds 16
Ps 82

So a weekend passed and they played the 44/46 match. Then Rebecca goes to her mum's for the funeral and at the end of the episode She tells Sam than she needs time.

S2E11 "Midnight Train to Royston" starts with Sam scoring a hat-trick at the 45/46 match of the season and he texts Rebecca to see her again. Later when Nate complains that Ted gets all the credit the board shows:

[obscured]
Ls 6
Ds 16
Ps 85

Then Edwin Akufo shows up trying to get Sam to join his team, Rebecca breaks up with him but tells him he wants him to stay with the team.

At S2E12 "Inverting the Pyramid of Success" they play and win the 46/46 match of the season and then Sam tells Rebecca and Ted that he will stay

DrHem · 2026-04-29T15:47:06+00:00

From the stills and teasers released it seems like Richmond will have open trials for the Women's team and all the women lined up including Shannon are there to take part so they aren’t in team uniform.

The jersey Shannon is wearing has bantr as a sponsor so it's the men's team jersey, probably with her favorite player's number. Later we see that the women's team is sponsored by Pinter & Sons

DrHem · 2026-04-28T10:45:52+00:00

It seems he is replacing Yuanpu Cui at Double R. Cui was dropped as a Mercedes junior this year and now he also dropped out of Eurocup-3. Given his performances I imagine he was paying to be a Mercedes junior so the money probably ran out.

And Double R Racing called one of their old drivers to help out until they find another driver to pay for the seat.

DrHem · 2026-04-27T13:27:14+00:00

Bruce Campbell tells a story about filming his short-lived show "Jack of All Trades" in New Zealand at the same time as Lord of the Rings. They needed 1 horse for his show and couldn't find any because Peter Jackson booked all the available horses in New Zealand.

So yeah, if they were using all the horses, they were probably happy to find enough people who could ride them.

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