Stoners Echo Chamber II

Man Chase Elliott got totally burned today, by William Byron

2 laps to go, race won, Byrons tyre blows, yellow flag, race lost.

 

At least it wasn't a ham sandwich.

 

My collectors card is under the 1st mini helmet on the wall behind a mini Jeff Gordon figurine.

 

Now I am leading the 2 championship that I'm running our league.

I'll have to record a video of Le Mans at night, ffs I can't see anything hey. I'm relying on brake markers now like never before. I worked out a system on the two long straights, I can see bridge arcs and speed signs so on both straights I look for Bridge, bridge, sign, sign, brake... and if I hit the brakes correctly I might make the corner okay lol. One right hand corner i'm looking at the painted lines on the road the dotted lines then there's 3 arrows pointing the wrong way as I'm going up the road in the wrong direction, on the 3rd arrow paint I hit brakes and turn right, blind corner can't see it with the speed...

 

When you've got 4 mins to kill

 

You ever try rolling and playing on that mode?

 

Wut are the 9 little balls lights rows on each side of the dashboard indicating ?

 

That's the traction control, so every time they light up I'm coming close to spinning out.

This is why I don't like these kinda race cars, with all the gadgets in them. It's so typical of European racing, I've got anti lock brakes, traction control, stability controls... That ain't racing.
NASCAR got none of that, we don't even have a speedo in the NASCAR, we gotta practice pit stops looking at the tachometer to know if we are on pit road what speed you're doing, the Porsche has a pit lane speed meter lol. Mind you the NASCAR now the tacho does light up green when you're around the right speed.

 

Nah lol.
The dashboard in this already trips me out, I don't drive too well in real life at night because of my eyes and it's no different in this either.

 

In the 3:57s now at Le Mans. Late afternoon/early evening conditions so track was cooling. My two problem chicanes I find easy now just gotta not over drive them. Last bits of the circuit giving me a headache im always on the limit of spinning out but I feel like I need to press on and hope German inginuity and technology pays off. It usually doesn't for me.

 

Just ran my fastest lap at Le Mans. A 3:57.1 but I must have been on it cause I can't touch it anymore lol. But I know where I can gain a little time, problem is it's sketchy as fuck. Asking even more speed out of the hardest part of track. But I think if I get out of gas early, down shift and power out of the quick left I could gain a tenth.

I've also noticed that our Porsche is the slowest of the cars in our seems everyone wants to drive the faster fancy pants Ferarri and BMW's. We'll stick with our slower Porsche. It seems to handle the curbs better and can take a beating. Whether the suspension lasts for 24hrs is yet to be determined lol.

 

Good race today i started 5th, finished 2nd on the quickest car on new tyres but ran about 2 laps short of making the move for the win. Pitted 1 or 2 laps too late but, 2nd is great! now I will be 27 points ahead in championship, bit points day as others tried to stay out and couldn't make it work.

 

Interview?

 

Yep, top 3 always get interviews. I tried to slow my speech down because sometimes I'll listen to myself and I'm talking real fast. The guy kept talking about my point lead and wanted me to talk about myself but I didn't. I don't like talking about myself, just what happened in the race.

Pretty much my favourite moment was coming into pits with my team mate right behind him and then beating him off pit lane. That was the race for 2nd.

He said it's impressive since I was practicing the Porsche at Le Mans all week that I could just jump into the CUP car and be that competitive.

Tells me I'm learning a lot. and 27 point lead means I'm nearing the point where if I fuck up a race and finish last, I'll still keep the points leads. So I'm almost a full race ahead.

Next race at Michigan is another points race for me because then we hit the road course of Sonoma and I'll be lucky to get a top 15 there. So I need this points lead it's very good. I thought I'd only keep it for like one week lol. Been like 5 or 6 weeks now.

 

I think Chase Elliott must have been inspired by my Monday night win that he went and won the real truck race on Tuesday

 

Chase Elliott for the NASCAR win tonight!

I spoiled the race by clicking on a Facebook, but I'm so happy he won. Race won't be spoiled now. Less anxiety when watching lol.

 

A pretty cool Doors/Sabbath mashup

 

I hope the SpaceX launch to the ISS goes on as planned today. The contrasting images of streets on fire the past few days with the rocket's engine on fire during lift off seems like it provides an interesting snapshot into the times.