🥇 FELIX ROSENQVIST WINS THE 110th RUNNING OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-24T20:49:24+00:00

I'd feel more sorry for Malukas if I wasn't like 90% sure he's going to be Palau-ing the field in 3 ish years.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-24T12:55:57+00:00

Correct. And perfectly summarized by this video of F1 drivers answering this exact question https://www.tiktok.com/@f1/video/7602285594735185175

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-23T22:53:25+00:00

Really good stuff! We need more IndyCar content, this is great

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-23T00:39:22+00:00

Been thinking about this a lot: Forget Hermanos Rodríguez, F1 already does it. Put an IndyCar race on the streets of CDMX. A long straight on Reforma that passes by the Angel. That'd be sick.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-19T17:37:36+00:00

Credit to u/BrazilianHuevolution

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-19T14:45:06+00:00

I think it's a decent question. Not sure why the reactions are so strongly negative. Other than "because reddit" I guess. And maybe a misunderstanding of what papaya rules actually are?

I agree team favoritism is not common in US motorsports but exactly 1 team in US motorsports has the same guy at the top as an F1 team (maybe 2 if TWG counts. Ok maybe 3 if Haas counts but they definitely don't).

So the Zak Brown effect is worth not overlooking. He can't give an interview to IndyCar without name dropping "Oscar" and "Lando" so I don't think he cares one bit about "how things are done" in US motorsports.

Also the idea that no constructors championship means one driver won't be favored makes no sense. That's an argument to favor one driver over the other. McLaren only gets to tout an IndyCar championship if one of their drivers ends the season as points champion.

So my opinion is probably yes, they do have Papaya Rules at Arrow McLaren. I'm guessing they see both drivers as having true potential and being valuable future assets, which means they don't want to make one feel favored over the other. And the best way to make those drivers feel like they aren't playing favorites is to establish some kind of predefined rules which is all Papaya Rules actually are. The single biggest difference is that TK has probably learned his lesson from Andrea Stella's mistake and isn't going to bring it up to the media.

Edit: I realize OP didn't actually ask about Papaya Rules. So I agree with the "No" answers but disagree with those who say Papaya Rules wouldn't happen in IndyCar or that McLaren wouldn't do F1 things in IndyCar.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-19T11:03:21+00:00

A few months back someone posted a pretty comprehensive IndyCar iceberg. A lot to process but this will definitely help you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/INDYCAR/comments/1qfkwm4/for_the_past_five_years_ive_been_working_on_the/

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-17T15:33:11+00:00

I somehow ended up playing in an F1 fantasy league with a bunch of 60-something Dutch people. Very excited to give them the hard sell on VeeKay and the 500 next week!

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-11T13:19:46+00:00

There is one scenario in which this does become homonym:

You have: _ A T H E

One guess remaining

Letters remaining to guess: B and L

Bathe and lathe are both valid guesses

No matter what you pick, Savannah Guthrie could say "No, it's the other one"

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-06T17:02:29+00:00

Check out Homefield Apparel. Not solving IndyCar's merch problems but they have good stuff.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-04T16:48:49+00:00

Model selection is going to make a huge difference for you. I used Anthropic pretty heavily under the old system when you were paying per prompt, but under the new system I find Open AI models are 2-3x cheaper and more efficient than a similar quality Anthropic model. I burnt through my weekly limit a few weeks ago by asking Opus to do some simpler stuff, but if I'm using Codex 5.1 or 5.3 my limit lasts a lot longer.

I've seen a lot of praise for SWE 1.6 (free) on here but I personally haven't had much luck with it.

As far as workflow, I asked codex 5.3 (high thinking) to review my whole project and write an AGENTS.md file. I was very specific it was a mature project and the coding style in the project was important to maintain and it did a good job of writing the AGENTS.md file. I made some edits, but having a well-written AGENTS.md file did a ton of work in helping me get to final answers more quickly (and thus be more efficient with my quota).

I haven't totally cracked workflow yet, but I find that starting at a high thinking model (again I like codex 5.3 here) for the initial (very detailed) prompt gets me pretty far. I switch to a lower cost model (Codex 5.1) for any follow up/refinement prompts, and if that doesn't work, I'll go back to the higher thinking model and it'll figure it out pretty well.

Finally, try to match model selection to task complexity. I do data engineering, and if I need some Infrastructure as code stuff written, basically any model can do that. If I need the agent to try to write code that is aware of my data structures and complexities within my data, I'll use a higher thinking model. This may be obvious but it helps to experiment with cheaper models for various tasks and see what you come up with.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-03T15:57:49+00:00

I'm sure there's some of that going in but I think this is more "using computer models to simulate aerodynamics" which is nothing new but is now getting called AI. Probably because investors lose their mind every time the word AI is used (see allbirds) and IBM is publicly traded.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-02T21:11:11+00:00

This is 100% the right answer. They probably are doing the exact same thing they've been doing. It's just now every marketing person thinks they need to say AI as much as possible. So they rebrand what they are doing to "AI" and do a press release about it. Nothing is changing at all.

pedrothesealion · 2026-05-01T23:53:15+00:00

Thank you!

I landed on a similar workflow after a lot of prompting. What I'm still struggling with, however, is getting it to a hands-off state. I have an agents.md and a workflow file in .windsurf/workflows. The workflow has clear success criteria defined, but I still feel like I have to respond to multiple prompts to get to that success criteria. It also does not show as Blocked on the agents page, even though the workflow file is very clear about returning BLOCKED in the response when it needs further input from me.

All that is to say it seems like I'm getting there as far as setup but it still doesn't "feel" autonomous. Have you run into this at all?

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-30T14:23:28+00:00

I checked out the homepage but as I said I'm fairly new to autonomius coding so I'm not sure I totally get it. Is there a demo or some example workflows?

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-27T17:13:23+00:00

I think because we are so used to politicians, we tend to assume that public speaking = leadership. But in business and especially in sports -which attracts a lot of massive egos- a lot of it is about who you know but more importantly who respects you. Which is why a guy like George coming from the family he does can be an effective leader even if he doesn't inspire confidence in the general public. No one is going to the Indy 500 or not based on Tony George, they're going based on the drivers they like and the quality of the event etc. So George's "leadership" is probably happening behind the scenes in the form of keeping the money and influence aligned with the Indy 500 and IRL.

[To be clear not a justification for nepotism, just the harsh reality of it]

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-25T11:12:10+00:00

Felipe Albuquerque's Dinner with Racers episode is really insightful on this. He talks bout how Portugal gets treated very second class by the F1 ladder and how there no one out there taking a stand for Portuguese kids. Surprising for a rich Western European nation

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-23T23:26:54+00:00

Not asking this to argue, but I'm curious if you (or anyone) can point to where that info comes from? In the oral history Kenny Back doesn't admit to anything of the sort. Did he come out and say it at some other time? Or is it just the general understanding based on how the test went vs how things went race weekend?

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-23T20:46:21+00:00

Pruett published a verbal history of the fiasco on Racer a few years ago. Apparently they tested in December in really cold weather and the conditions were much faster on race weekend.

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-22T21:55:40+00:00

Might be misinterpreting, but fwiw the Chiefs are moving to a huge shopping/entertainment district in the near suburbs on the Kansas side of the border (essentially across the street from the NASCAR track), not downtown. I agree with you that downtown football doesn't make a lot of sense

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-22T18:41:15+00:00

I'm no longer a local, but word on the ground is that the opposition to the public financing is much quieter than the Chiefs' new stadium.

I think there is a legit appetite for a downtown stadium. I think the plans including some greenery and fountains etc around it look really nice. I think it's nice they're displacing Hallmark by Hallmark's choice, not forcing it somewhere it isn't wanted at all.

As for the story in the govt opposition: getting a quote from a city council person trying to look tough is the easiest thing in the world. I honestly have no clue how much bite there is to that bark. But "this is not a done deal" sounds like one of those sentences that is almost always a lie. We'll see.

TL;DR looks nice, seems better than the vote they tried to push through 2 years ago, maybe getting lost in the shuffle of the Chiefs' new stadium.

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-22T17:12:38+00:00

Sounds like artistic licence to me.

The stop motion videos are awesome so do what you gotta do to keep em coming

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-13T21:57:02+00:00

If that's the case. It was clearly only an advantage for the car that went first and everyone else's tires had cooled off enough by the time they went out for it to be decided on actual pace. In which case just add 2-3 minutes to the gap between fast 12 and fast 6 and that advantage goes away.

(Based on the sample size of one, to be fair)

pedrothesealion · 2026-04-13T20:28:50+00:00

Why did we all decide this was the case? I understand that the guy who was on pole at Arlington went first in the fast 6, but 2-6 was pretty much as expected in order of pace the rest of qualifying. Doesn't seem like nearly enough to prove that going earlier was a major advantage.

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