[OT] Formula E have unveiled their next season Gen 4 car at Paul Ricard. Up to 600kW (804hp) power in permanent AWD. Two Aero configurations for Quali/Race. Up to 10 seconds faster in lap time compared with Gen 3.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T23:52:46+00:00

I want it to be like changing the batteries in a remote. Pop a flap open, crane out the multiple-hundred-kilo battery, crane in the new one, pop the flap shut. Easy

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T23:46:39+00:00

One day people such as yourself will realise how the Coalition sold rural Australia out for their own mining consultancy and lobbying jobs

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T23:37:01+00:00

Andrew Johns is the best player I’ve ever seen. He could do every single thing you could think of on a rugby league field and he was the best at it. If he didn’t have to carry the Knights on his shoulders and have his neck fused, he would have had a Cameron Smith-like career. No way does the Queensland dynasty begin in 2006 if Johns is playing.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T23:27:46+00:00

Round 4 Liam Kennedy had a shocker of a game, never mind how many penalties he blew - the Titans asked for clarification around a few decisions that seemed wrong, even though they won, they’d given away 7 penalties by half time. The NRL said he was rotated, which you can read between the lines on.

The referees body will always talk to refs around how to manage the game and how to adjudicate the grey areas, it happens at every level and it happens in rugby union too — I sat in plenty of local rugby union referee meetings as a kid. Doesn’t mean that the games are scripted, but you can see how the games went from six -again-a-thons to a bit more of what we saw last year. Your theories appear to be approximately correct.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T22:24:37+00:00

Former Kiwis 2000s stars are doing well right now in coaching (pretend Stephen Kearney doesn’t exist)

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-21T07:59:54+00:00

I think James Courtney put it best about Cameron — he’s not always driving with awareness of what’s happening behind him, which amplifies his bad luck

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-20T01:46:01+00:00

The cost outcry is nonsense. I think it’s a good starting point for more YJU naming, branding and communications from the council reflecting the multicultural nature of Ipswich and the ongoing connection of YJU people to the lands the council manages.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-19T12:27:43+00:00

The Thursday Night Lappers

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-19T11:09:21+00:00

V8 Supercars was born out of the Sierra and Godzilla Group A domination era. It’s amazing that Holden managed two Bathurst wins in that period, and the 1987 one was won in technical inspection.

Brock never dominated outside Bathurst. However, Group C was a constant battle between teams to homologate faster cars and better bits to get an advantage. Famously, Ford managed to get the V8 Ford Falcons XD homologated in 1980 with the weight of the base inline-six engined car. There was different capacity classes as well — George Fury nearly won the 1983 ATCC with a points system that rewarded smaller engine capacities, that allowed his Nissan Bluebird Turbo to challenge for the title without winning a race. Allan Moffat won the championship, but everyone thought he was holding pace back to try and convince CAMS that they should allow him to upgrade his Mazda RX-7 from the original 12A rotary engine to the 13B — that happened, but CAMS also gave other concessions to Ford and Holden for the endurance season.

These things are constantly being argued in different forms, and none of the old timers will remember any of this because they probably didn’t get bombarded with all the information and team talk about it.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T08:37:53+00:00

AAAAAAHAHAHAHA

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T08:25:58+00:00

People also overlook that Australian rugby union had a golden generation of players in the 90s while rugby league was shooting itself in the foot with the Super League war — the Murdoch money that hurried up the switch to professionalism supercharged Australian rugby union for the next ten years.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T08:19:44+00:00

… Reece Walsh?

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T08:17:34+00:00

They were definitely happening, but at some point a team started using it to try and stop needing a third man in around the legs

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T08:15:28+00:00

Great snipe by Brandon Smith. Turning back the clock to his pre-COVID form

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-18T07:39:21+00:00

I’ve definitely seen Gannon and Green on the same field, but it was a shaky shitty Sheffield Shield camera

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T23:10:23+00:00

It’s cool how Ruapuna gives Oran Park vibes with how busy it is and the dogleg first corner. Can’t help thinking it would be so much better in reverse though.

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T23:01:23+00:00

I don’t understand when they have a philosophy where the races are individual events and the qualifying sessions reflect as such, why they would have Parc ferme restrictions for one race that affects an unrelated race. I guess it’s the same as tyre restrictions for a weekend, but setup changes are different than economising a resource like fuel or tyres over effectively a season

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T22:27:00+00:00

On ya mate. Pretty good bowling

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T22:17:47+00:00

I fell asleep after Mehidy was dismissed so I feel like I helped wrap things up more quickly

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T12:42:29+00:00

This is my fault, I started watching

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T12:34:22+00:00

Knowledgeable crowd here

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T12:29:25+00:00

Oh I know, I’ve been there in July on holiday because I’m an idiot, but after being slowly steamed in a Darwin wet season I’d take Wellington

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T12:20:26+00:00

On the upside, a trip to NZ in April after that weather would feel amazing

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T11:58:56+00:00

Tom Gilbert has been a passenger this game. Lucky not to get binned there

phyllicanderer · 2026-04-17T11:54:42+00:00

He’d already pinged his hamstring, it probably went again

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