Belatedly...
Aug. 24th, 2019 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonTyped this out last Sunday night, but didn't post it for some reason...
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Okay, first-lap pass at Pocono was just a touch maniacal on Sato's part. Sato and Rosenquist are both lucky to be alive after that.
As has been the case for the past 45 years or so, my expectations, set in childhood, haven't really kept pace with safety engineering. I'm generally trying not to cry watching stuff like that happen realtime, and especially if I'm at the track. Some part of me never got over watching Dave Savage in that beautiful blue and orange McLaren exploding on the front stretch at Indy.
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Next to Indianapolis, Pocono is my favourite track because it's designed to be driven flat out (and it's fun to watch them go bouncing down the backstretch for some reason). It's well-suited to drivers like Sato, but then again, when things go wrong, it's usually pretty dramatic in consequence of that.
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„Ich wollte nur ein bisschen Autofahren.“
It's a big damn shame that they don't tell the kid's name. Assuming that I'm still alive in ten years, I'd want to see if he popped up in F1.
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Okay, first-lap pass at Pocono was just a touch maniacal on Sato's part. Sato and Rosenquist are both lucky to be alive after that.
As has been the case for the past 45 years or so, my expectations, set in childhood, haven't really kept pace with safety engineering. I'm generally trying not to cry watching stuff like that happen realtime, and especially if I'm at the track. Some part of me never got over watching Dave Savage in that beautiful blue and orange McLaren exploding on the front stretch at Indy.
*****
Next to Indianapolis, Pocono is my favourite track because it's designed to be driven flat out (and it's fun to watch them go bouncing down the backstretch for some reason). It's well-suited to drivers like Sato, but then again, when things go wrong, it's usually pretty dramatic in consequence of that.
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„Ich wollte nur ein bisschen Autofahren.“
It's a big damn shame that they don't tell the kid's name. Assuming that I'm still alive in ten years, I'd want to see if he popped up in F1.
