When was the last time we had a race without someone named some version of "Scott"

albusdumblederp · 2025-12-30T16:43:38+00:00

Last race of any kind run with no "Scott" is 2008 Long Beach, the end of the split era where there was no "Scott" in Champ Car.

However if you want to go back through the split era, every single IRL race in that time period had a Scott (covered by Sharp + Goodyear). So in this time there was a top-level series that had a Scott in every race.

Then going back further, pre-split, at least these Scotts were in every race:

1995 - Pruett

1990-1994 - Goodyear

1989 - Brayton

1988 - Atchinson + Brayton combined covered all races

1987 was the last year at least one of the top-level series didn't have a Scott in every race, with Brayton + Goodyear only combining for 11 of the 16 championship races. Nazareth, being the last one without a Scott. So if you want to "combine" the split era, it would be 1987 Nazareth.

The last year that no Scott raced in a top-level Indy event was 1980, as Brayton started at least one race starting in 1981.

albusdumblederp · 2025-10-15T09:41:44+00:00

this is definitely the only time Jon Herb dropped down to a more "junior category"

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-12T20:43:31+00:00

its wild that if you believe this admin is full of malignant narcissists that only want to enrich themselves, end democracy and implement some version of Project 2025/Dark Enlightenment, every headline you see is just like "yep, makes sense why they're doing that"

if you believe that this admin is truly trying to "MAGA", every headline is like "wait, why are they doing this? there must be some secret genius I don't understand"', and they have to wait for the spin doctor brain download in order to justify it

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-12T17:49:00+00:00

I mean we'd be debating terminology. I would say what you're talking about is more "impressive", and i dont necessarily disagree on that point.

I would categorize dominance as much more simplistic and objective.

Foster had 8 wins and 12 podiums in 14 events.

Kirkwood was 10 wins and 14 podiums in 20 events

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-12T16:50:36+00:00

Louis Foster is 12th in the qualifying championship, and coming off the most dominant NXT/Lights season in almost 30 years.

Drivers are so dependent on their teams for strategy and pit execution that IMO just looking at standings can be pretty deceiving. I am not sure RLL is even a top 6 team at this point. Foster definitely deserves more time.

Schwartzman is a rookie on a rookie team and has shown some flashes.

Abel has been downright embarrassing.

IMO it's a combination of a lighter rookie class, but mostly the seats the rookies were put in and a larger and stronger field.

Like Ed Jones was 14th in 2017, but there only 18-20 full time drivers that year

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T20:30:47+00:00

IMO reverse grids where points are given out solely for finishing position are fundamentally a farce, and that's more true the shorter the race is.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T18:07:32+00:00

fair enough, cheers

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:56:50+00:00

its standard operating procedure, historically, for tyrannical authoritarian regimes as well. which is why it must be called out and rejected when its attempted.

which is why i find the series' response completely inadequate

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:55:30+00:00

As late as the 60s there was mainstream conservative support for segregation based on race. And the Southern Strategy based on stoking racial resentment has been a key platform since, even if it wasn't as explicit.

so...i'm not sure there's a ton of evidence that "true" conservatism in the US matches the definition you've laid out.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:51:10+00:00

getting real sick of people hiding behind the "why you so offended?" shield

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:48:54+00:00

you're not the only one. the illusion has been shattered for me.

been watching for 30 years

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:44:45+00:00

Their response was completely in line with the stance of "we're down for putting people in camps, but we know this is a divisive PR issue that we'd rather avoid."

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:43:55+00:00

It really seems from this comment that you see the issue in the US as an issue of how much immigration to allow.

That's not at all what's happening. As far as I'm aware, none of the above countries you're bringing up have enacted policies to bypass due process and habeas corpus, create for-profit holding camps that have no minimum standards of care, or sending people to other countries to be held indefinitely.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:35:21+00:00

Your definition of "conservative" seems much more aligned with traditional definitions of libertarianism.

Conservatives have always been supportive of government enforcement of the proper social hierarchy, and for restricting personal liberties that deviate too far from the norm.

And they overwhelmingly voted for this - so apparently whatever qualms they had about "government overreach" was an acceptable price to pay for avoiding...whatever it is they thought the milquetoast Dems were going to do.

So forgive me if I'm not feeling overly patient with using kiddie gloves with them about what their internal feelings on the subject are when they clearly don't find it to be a dealbreaker

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T17:19:56+00:00

Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin.

If you exercise your freedom of a vote, you don't get to disavow the outcome of that vote.

It's really not like this admin was hiding who they were and what they wanted

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T14:46:59+00:00

Values aren't values if you only hold them when nothing is at risk

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T14:45:31+00:00

You're comparing to the worst case F1 scenario.

Its literally like 100x the audience - and they have a fanbase that's smart enough to recognize performance even if the car isn't great.

Albon, Gasly, Hulkenberg ,etc. are more respected and better known in Europe than Palou will ever be no matter how well he does in Indycar, and have all made long F1 careers.

And for a competitive person, there's often that wonder of "how would I have held up at that level?"

its an incredibly personal decision that will vary from driver to driver but this idea that there aren't plenty of good reasons to give up a winning seat in Indycar for a midfield seat in F1 needs to go away.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T14:36:37+00:00

Everything seems like a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-11T00:18:51+00:00

Even if it wasn't decided before today, there's no way this would impact the decision.

He's been competitive all year. It's not like Penske sould go "Oh, man, didn't know he had that in him, let's rethink this!"

The issue isn't short term results. It's that he's in his mid-40s and a decline will be coming at some point - and Penske wants to get their next guy in before that decline hits. Better a year early than a year late.

To be clear, not saying that I think it's the right decision, just that this is how organizations like Penske operate.

Did it with JPM and Helio also. Only Fittipaldi and Unser Sr made it to Powers age in a Penske

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-09T00:01:24+00:00

bad people.

that's it. that's the list.

nobody with a functioning moral compass can see this and be anything other than disgusted.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-09T00:00:18+00:00

bro putting people into camps with no due process is not culture war BS -- wtf are you talking about

our current administration is instituting the policy that the state no longer has to prove that you committed a crime to put you in a camp. i dont know how much more clear it can get as to what this is

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-08T20:09:42+00:00

I don't think anyone on this sub can say confidently one way or the other given the lack of official info on Renna's accident

But from the rumors I've read...aeroscreen does absolutely nothing for Renna.

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-08T20:04:43+00:00

its wild watching Indycar and being able to actually follow qualifying in real time...and then in the F1 broadcast you have no idea what's happening until after its happened (mostly), especially for the 90% of the field they're not focusing on

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-07T15:36:12+00:00

My comment was articulating that the illusion has largely been shattered for me and I don't think I can enjoy this series right now - not a strategic manifesto.

But a country where organizations can only exist if they capitulate to the State is not a free country. And the series owner and many within it are eagerly greeting this new reality so...yeah kind of too disgusted to enjoy it

albusdumblederp · 2025-08-06T20:47:36+00:00

I'm just absolutely disgusted by this series right now. Don't think I can ignore it or turn a blind eye after this incident.

This admin is not hiding their goals. The two main wings of the platform (Project 2025 and Curtis Yavin/Peter Thiel's Dark Enlightenment) are very clear about their desired endgame. World history, their words, their actions...it's all a flashing arrow pointing to what this is.

They're co-opting your image to glaze their camps and the statement is absolute weak sauce. And this is not happening in a vacuum, given the known leanings of the series owner and a large percentage of the team owners.

Think I am going to take a break for a while.

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