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SidiousX
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Quote from UncleBenny :You'd think they'd put up a catch fence there by now, that's not the first car I've seen launch over the wall exactly like that at Williams Grove.

I've seen sprint cars go over the wall a few times at Virginia Motor Speedway. I don't think small tracks want to spend money to put up a catch fence where nobody can sit/get to.
SidiousX
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Anybody know if there are any promo codes for resubscribing?

EDIT: Eh, too late, I caved in.
SidiousX
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Quote from flymike91 :yeah don't really feel like giving google any more of my personal information than what they already steal/sell. They keep a record of everything you do on the internet, now you can upload photos of yourself so they can put a face to your internet history. yay technology.

Facebook isn't innocent when it comes to that either.
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SidiousX
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Does anybody else have it? I kinda like it so far, pretty clean. If you want an invite, just PM me your e-mail address.
SidiousX
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Quote from PMD9409 :
Oh and there is more BS NASCAR is feeding us. Not only is GrandAm going to Indy, but so is the Nationwide series in 2012.

What's wrong with Grand-Am going there? Great series going to a great road course, seems pretty good to me.
SidiousX
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Quote from UncleBenny :I hadn't changed them all year, I figured it would be a good idea for Sonoma though.

I had that philosophy too, I hit a home-run when we went to Sonoma, but I changed them to something different for Daytona and completely failed.
SidiousX
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**** Denny Hamlin.
SidiousX
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Probably the only time I regret not having G4. Such a terrible station.
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Quote from Jakg :
Although you've intentionally made that confusing to read, the US has one of the "easiest" driving tests in the developed world.

No I didn't intentionally make it confusing, and I never stated that it was harder than other places, I just stated that it was an annoying process. Please get off of your high horse.
SidiousX
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In Virginia, when we are 15 years and 6 months old, we can go to DMV(Department of Motor Vehicles) and take a learner's permit test. It's a two part test. The first portion is a 10 question test about road signs, and you have to get a 100% or you will fail the whole test, and have to wait 2 weeks to retake it. The second portion is a 25 question general knowledge test, where you have to get 20 out of 25 correct. Once you pass that, you get your learners permit, which lets you drive with an adult(18 years if family member, 21 if not).

Once you hold your learner's permit for a certain amount of time(it was either 6 months, or 9 months, can't remember) You have to take "Behind The Wheel". Which is a course that the High Schools have. You set a time with the instructor(usually a school teacher), and you have to drive around for a full week, for an hour before, or after school. Now, you can totally **** up during the first 4 days, and nothing will happen to you, because the last day is "Driving Test Day". If you screw up on that day, you have to wait 2 weeks before attempting the whole week again. And I forgot to mention, "Behind The Wheel" costs $100, for every attempt. Now if you do pass this, he hands you your ghetto 90-day Driver's License that is a totally legitimate driver's license, but you have to have your Learner's Permit with it for it to be legal. Once you pass and get that paper copy, the school schedules a "Driver's License Ceremony" in the auditorium like every month. You show up to that all dressed up and stuff, and the judge sits there and tries to tell you all of these bullshit sentimental stories about accidents, and how safe driving is the right way to drive. And after about an hour and a half of ignoring the judge, he calls you up, one by one in order by name. You walk up to the stage, throw your Learner's Permit and paper license into this big bin, he hands you your real hard-copy license, and off you go.

All of this happens after you take the "Driver's Education" class during 10th grade of high school. Basically, it is combined with our PE class. Normally PE classes are combined with Health class, so we would go to PE for 2 weeks, and after those were up, we would go to health class for 2 weeks, rinse and repeat, all with the same teacher. But for the first half of 10th grade, you go to Driver's Education instead of Health class. You HAVE to pass this class in order to take Behind The Wheel. Now, instead of taking and passing this class in high school, you can take a private driving school class, which is expensive as hell.

TL DR; Being able to drive is annoying as shit.
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SidiousX
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Quote from PMD9409 :They screwed Ryan over waiting like that. Not much of a team effort from the Andretti crew IMO.

Well the team wanted to go out again originally, but Marco was too afraid of losing their time and kept saying no. Bad judgement on his part I guess.
SidiousX
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Wow talk about a close bump day.
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Quote from PMD9409 :Hard to do when there is a gigantic storm going on there.

Even before the weather, when there was video, it was like 5 seconds slower than the audio, and then it just cut out. It's so tempting to hear them going around the track while watching a black screen.
SidiousX
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Wow, the live stream on IndyCar's website blows, the sound is great, but it's not like I would like to SEE it or anything...
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Quote from Hahmo :
So, I thought why not to spend a little time finding for a stream (Justin.tv, easy :P) as it's kimi's debut.. and i'm sold. Can't wait for todays race and probably im going to keep watching races every now and then if there are streams :P

Looks like we've got another one that caught the bug.
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Quote from Boris Lozac :Just watching this show on CNN.. apparently only 2 Blachawks were there for the mission, one crashed.. 25 seals, can one hold 25+"1"?

2 Blackhawks and 2 chinooks were used.
SidiousX
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Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :
EDIT: I am struggling to find a time and a place where less horsepower is a GOOD thing... within reason of course, a 5,000 horespower beast would be nearly undriveable

Less fuel consumption maybe.
SidiousX
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Quote from PMD9409 :I think you are yes, but Gibbs gets data from TRD I believe (They converse etc).

Yeah and it gets me irritated sometimes when people are like "Well the Toyota engines have more power than the rest." I say "No, GIBBS engines are more powerful, TRD engines have shit power." There was a test at VIR last year, and Marcos Ambrose and Jeff Gordon decided to swap rides, and Jeff said he couldn't believe how much less power the TRD engines actually have.
SidiousX
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Quote from PMD9409 : Redbull/Gibbs get Toyota backing.

I think it's more like Red Bull/MWR gets Toyota backing. They are the only teams running TRD engines, Gibbs builds their own engines if I'm correct.
SidiousX
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Quote from Cornys :That may be true...

Surprizing race today My driver ended up 2nd thanks to pit strategy

I meant to write "yellow flag" instead of "green flag" in that sentence.

And my driver finished 5th thanks to pit strategy!
SidiousX
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Quote from Cornys :
Also, if you watch the video, Carl was 20 feet from the line (to take the white flag) when the yellow was displayed. Technically, there should have been another GWC attempt.

The flagman waved the yellow there. I think he saw that crash and knew it was going to be a caution so he just waved. The greenflag wasn't announced on Carl's radio(and on the TV ticker) until after the white flag was called.
SidiousX
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Quote from PMD9409 :Well yeah, when you have money on your side you can expose anything. Too bad they don't have the knowledge/brain power in the physics (not just tires) or netcode department though.

Then why don't you head over and do it yourself?
SidiousX
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Quote from deko :yeah, after waiting 5 minutes for a couple of goon crew members to arrive.

+1
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Quote from PMD9409 :
The bit that really makes me scratch my head is how in the world can people in iR be 1 second faster a lap on a <30 second oval than the real thing. People say iR has less grip, but then why is it 1 second faster? .

Because there is no danger in pushing for a fast lap while in a simulator.
SidiousX
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Richard Towler is crying on facebook about how much iRacing's physics are crap. Way to bash the company that got you a job, tool.
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