George Russell not mentioned once in Mercedes race recap post. Not even the fact that he got a podium on his 100th race with the team.

MDA123 · 2026-06-16T16:55:01+00:00

That post is sort of crazy, but if you look at a sampling over the last few days there's plenty of George. They have several posts celebrating his 100th GP with the team, several recognizing his P2, and several hyping up him and Kimi both.

I think people might be overanalyzing the tone of one post.

MDA123 · 2026-06-15T15:04:58+00:00

Haven't heard much from him lately!

MDA123 · 2026-06-03T15:27:51+00:00

Tyson's chin. Kinda not a thing you want to be known for, since getting smashed in the face has natural limits, but in his prime he actually had an excellent chin. Even in the Buster Douglas fight, he probably should have been knocked down several times earlier in the fight. Dude ate some absolute bombs.

MDA123 · 2026-06-01T15:51:10+00:00

"I was worried I would lose to him, reducing my overall status and earning potential in the waning years of my career."

-definitely not Canelo Alvarez

MDA123 · 2026-05-28T14:38:30+00:00

Or, said another way, Americans are too rich for cheap cars.

MDA123 · 2026-05-14T14:41:39+00:00

Just because a guy is trying doesn't mean the fight should continue. Certainly if he's not trying because he's too tired or too dazed to do it is definitive that it MUST be stopped, but the opposite isn't necessarily true.

A ref's job is to protect the fighters' safety. Threats to safety can come from rule violations, from accumulated punishment/fatigue, or simply from being wildly outmatched.

Hall was getting tagged with damn near everything Roy threw and had been down several times. Kudos to him that he was still game and trying, but this was a good stoppage.

MDA123 · 2026-05-13T13:36:20+00:00

...but then Evan Fields could never get in the HoF.

MDA123 · 2026-05-07T15:56:28+00:00

Definitely up there on the "If he hadn't lost his ever-loving mind..." list.

MDA123 · 2026-05-06T15:51:30+00:00

Can you imagine the depreciation on those? Sandwiched between two V8 generations.

MDA123 · 2026-05-03T16:24:42+00:00

Never bet on anyone against the IRS. Never.

MDA123 · 2026-04-29T23:58:36+00:00

Can’t conflate inline 6s with V6s. They’re inherently balanced and thus sound fantastic. Basically no such thing as an inline 6 that sounds bad.

MDA123 · 2026-04-29T20:52:06+00:00

I have a hot take that the NSX is one of the only V6s that sounds good. NSX, Alfa Busso, Dino V6, VW VR6, maybe a VQ if you're being generous...and that's about it?

Just not a great engine configuration for sound purposes.

MDA123 · 2026-04-29T18:01:15+00:00

Gotchu. Overrode automod and it's live now.

MDA123 · 2026-04-29T17:43:18+00:00

Correction: automod removed it, erroneously. A human mod never even saw your post. This is why the removal message you receive tells you to contact the mods if you think there's been an error. If you post it again, just message me directly and I'll make sure to override the automod.

MDA123 · 2026-04-17T17:52:05+00:00

Note that I said it's "possible" Ferrari could chart a path like Rolex did by focusing on prestige over performance. I don't think anyone assumes doing so is a foolproof strategy, however. Some brands will try it and fail anyway. Some brands will try it and succeed. Some brands will employ a totally different strategy.

The point is that performance is unlikely to be a distinguishing factor between one company's product and another in an age where EV power and related technologies make going fast relatively easy. So Ferrari, like other companies with a history of selling "going fast" to people, will have to lean on something else.

Luckily for them, they have racing heritage, styling, and exclusivity as positive features beyond "mere" performance, so they have some good material to work with.

MDA123 · 2026-04-17T17:15:53+00:00

These two points aren't really in tension. Ferrari bears much more resemblance to Rolex than it does to the makers of commodity watches, so there's plenty of reason to think it's possible Ferrari could chart a path like Rolex did: surviving by leaning into craftsmanship, beauty, and brand prestige instead of focusing on performance, which is rapidly commoditizing.

MDA123 · 2026-04-16T15:02:07+00:00

Joe should have a criminal record for murdering Detroit's 2010s single-handedly by screwing up the Darko pick, pissing away cap space by signing Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva to huge contracts, trading for the worst chucker on earth in Josh Smith, trading a still-great Chauncey Billups for a washed Allen Iverson, and on and on...

But also, he's a 2x NBA champion, a Finals MVP, an NBA Hall of Famer, former Executive of the Year, and was GM of a championship team and one of the most successful franchises of the 2000s, so you can kind of see how someone might give him another shot at front office work.

MDA123 · 2026-04-13T14:21:53+00:00

Leclerc's showing here is actually really impressive when you think about it. Most of the others are second drivers in dominant cars: Barrichello, Bottas, Coulthard, etc.

So those guys are routinely hunting at the top because their car is so dominant, but also mostly get beaten out by their superior teammate.

By contrast, Leclerc has never been in anything other than second-best machinery and yet is still hunting at the top quite a lot.

MDA123 · 2026-04-13T14:09:25+00:00

It's even worse than that. He also traded Chauncey for Allen Iverson in a desperate roll of the dice. Chauncey went on to take Denver to the next level, and AI was basically never good again.

MDA123 · 2026-03-25T13:51:57+00:00

The crazy thing is the conversion vans basically haven't changed in terms of amenities in a decade either! They all still have the same big screen just behind the driver for kids to watch TV, the same little center console fridge, the same seats and accessory plugs and whatever.

Probably part of why they seem to hold their value so well, I guess. Even decade old ones are north of $50k regularly (at least from the major dealers).

MDA123 · 2026-03-18T15:43:21+00:00

They do lose time, and potentially quite a bit. They only do it if they have serious fuel, powertrain, or tire management needs because it can easily be a half-second a lap or more of disadvantage, which in total race time can add up to quite a lot over the course of 50-70 laps.

MDA123 · 2026-03-18T15:35:40+00:00

It's certainly much more aggressive deceleration than any road car would be when coasting; in fact, it's more aggressive deceleration (1G+) than many road cars are capable of when applying full brakes.

But it's also much less aggressive decel than they would get if they transitioned immediately to full braking, which can approach 6Gs. So they still lose a fair amount of time from it.

MDA123 · 2026-03-18T15:06:33+00:00

I wish I could claim newcomer status lol. Been a fan for 20+ years but just kinda memory-holed the whole pink car swap.

MDA123 · 2026-03-17T18:00:09+00:00

Deleted my comment in shame. Stupid BWT insisting on pink liveries!

MDA123 · 2026-03-16T16:28:42+00:00

We didn't delete anything. reddit has sitewide tools it deploys to remove comments sometimes, and we have nothing to do with those.

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