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People often dismiss (speedway) oval racing as just turning left and it really seems like nothing more than an admission of ignorance of how much is actually involved with just turning left at those speeds.

Anyone can drive fast when they've got room, once you're all bunched up and in each other's way things get more difficult. You don't really have the choice to not be bunched up either since you go several mph faster when you remain bunched up.

If you step out of position when following someone at those speeds the wake of the car you're following can seriously upset your car. At those speeds the cars each displace a lot more air than a big truck does at freeway speeds (and most of us have felt how much air a big truck displaces when it passes at highway speeds). The cars are moving at the same speeds as an EF4 tornado, that should give a good idea of the forces at play.

Road courses usually only have one line, sometimes they'll have the odd corner that allows for multiple lines but overall they'll have one line to follow. Because the (sustained) speeds are lower on a road course downforce is a bigger deal which means generally you go faster in clean air rather than while drafting. All this means cars end up strung out pretty early on and rarely end up staying two-wide for long. In road racing a sustained two-wide battle for position just allows the cars behind that pair to gain on them, which means they're quite rare in practice.

Road courses are obviously more difficult to initially learn, but once you've figured out how fast you can enter the dozen or so corners it's easy to memorize them by rote. That said, very long road courses like the Nordschleife can be quite difficult just due to how long it can take to memorize 154 corners. A more typical 3 - 8 km road course with 12 - 24 corners isn't much of a challenge to commit to visual memory in an hour or so.

On speedways and superspeedways there's usually a top groove and a bottom groove and sometimes a middle one as well. This means cars can lap with similar times while racing side by side. This means you usually end up with two trains that both need to stay coherent in order to be faster than the other train while also being made up of cars that might benefit by jumping from one to the other, as well as breaking up the coherency to gain a competitive edge. Getting stuck in the middle can leave one suddenly losing speed compared to the two main pelotons but it's also a risk you have to take when competing for position.

I used to go to Cayuga. ^

A friend of mine died there.
He crashed into one of the electrical towers, got out of his car and was fried alive.


I stopped going.

I don't think I explained that right.
He wasn't racing.
He was there as a spectator and driving stoned.
He knocked down one of the tower things on a country road.

Thanks though.
He was only 20.
His mother became an alcoholic and died soon after.

It was brutal all around.

On a happier note I also went to Mosport (is that the same place - can't remember) and Daytona 500.

Yeah, like the Scotia Centre.

Oooo I also went to the Sauble Beach Speedway.

Weedwhacker stopped working. Now I have to waste $100 on a new one, s**t. But my sister might sell the house. If I move to an apartment, I won't need a weedwhacker. Don't know when. But I don't want to ask because that will remind her to sell the house. s**t.

Itchy perenium

Armpit rash

Heat wave

Tenesmus

Dyssergenic defecation

Anorectal manometry

Itchy ears, bobby pin feels like orgasm

Don't qualify for SSDI because not enough work credits. Besides, sometimes qualified applicants get rejected from SSDI

Applied for dumpster fire "jobs" at Kentucky fried chicken and Popeyes

Expand comfort zone

Release pelvic floor

Hip opener

Leaking faucet

Dryer not working

Bored of myself and everyone and everything else

Self righteous Karens, customers

Day laborers loitering around all day long every stupid ass day

Plenty of ret*d ass holes owe me apologies, s**t

Idiots don't know how to say "excuse me "

Some coworkers act more like wild animals than humans

Paranoid of weight gain

Military disqualified

Nerves

Splits

Hobbies friends job

No hope

No future

Regret the past

Spoiled upper middle class brat from aikido

Warren

I miss aikido but, $$$, back pain, Kayla b***h, no car, Coronavirus

And I hate some of Kayla bitchs "volunteers"

Manipulation

"Does that make sense

Milkshake

Banana split

Binge eating

"Life" has been over for a long f**k time s**t

My whole worthless corpse weak and limp

Misunderstood

f**k idiots that flap their ret*d ass traps too much shot

It looks like that Fairlady Z stole the wing off of a 911 Turbo.

My brother drove the F1 at Gilles Villeneuve Montreal.
For fun I mean.
I think he went to Nascar in Mirabel too.

I've always loved Mount Panorama/Bathurst in Australia. Part of it is a public road so you can drive on (but only at 60 km/h I think).

Just set up my CB radio, heard a few people on already. Just using an indoor aerial in my living room. The rig is a President George II: AM/FM/SSB UK and EU channels. If I get a car in the future I'll be going out DXing (long distance contacts) up the nearest hill.

Nice one Rossall

Found which facial routine works better for my face... ... I think. I hope.
Well, I also want an upgrade into becoming smoother skin and hopefully it won't be more than 1 USD more expensive.

Still waiting to see if the lotion and soap works well.

Still not knowing what to do with my hair. Had it trimmed, colored it a shade lighter and had a bit of botox.
Pointless to straighten it.

Should I also focus on my feet? Nah.
Just evening skin tone.

Scar removal? Hmm...

My eyes? Oh my.
Other than the frequent dark lines which I don't truly mind but can see if I can work with it, or fancying the idea of cosmetic contacts which can be a sensory bonus for my eyes...
... I still mind that mole on my eyelid because it could hurt when I scratch it on accident.

Perfume? Well, I'm satisfied with only 2 scents so far.

Still thinking of diet.
Still think of working out.
Still thinking of sleep.

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