Damn, I rewatched it recently, but am curious. I think I recall Hunt being DQ’ed after a win for something Lauda pointed out, but what was the other time?
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The last race, Hunt needed only to finish third to win the championship.
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Seems like lately Hamilton has had the season locked down by the time of the last race or two.
I could give 2 sh!ts about auto racing but know enough to understand and appreciate the skill. I thought Ford v Ferrari was great, and will definitely be checking out Rush now.
I did recently re-watch the 90’s Houston-area movie Rush, which is just as good and rough as I remembered it.
Yeah, the discrepancy between Mercedes and everyone else takes the shine off of it for a casual fan like me.
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Oddly, it’s much less of a gap from Mercedes to everyone else this season. Where the dominance will come from is the consistency.
I guess I’ll watch Ford Vs Ferrari next. I always like that Christian Bale.
Yeah, he’s good in it of course. Matt Damon does a solid Texas accent as well, I’d forgotten Shelby was from here until I heard Damon say a couple of sentences.
I need to find time for it. James Mangold movies always seem to be better than they have any right to be. (Not to say FvF doesn’t look great on paper already, because it does.)
Bale “modifying” his car at the beginning of the movie is priceless.
I watched F v F yesterday before the game. It was a good film, highly entertaining and mostly historically accurate. Carroll Shelby had massive stones. It rekindled memories when I was fascinated with auto racing as a youngster. I remember Houstonian AJ Foyt, my racing idol at the time, won Le Mans in 1967 as a Ford driver (with co-driver Dan Gurney). I believe Foyt is the only guy to have won the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and the 24 hours of Le Mans. Someone needs to make a movie about him.
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Very well done film. Mrs Hawk loved it, even though she has little interest in, or knows little about, racing. Although, she when discussing the strange ending, and the deal with the winner staring further back, she pointed out “isn’t it that way in every race…some guy starts at the front of the line and some guy starts at the back?” She’s not entirely wrong.
Foyt is the only one to win all three of those races. Mario Andretti won the Indy 500 and the Daytona 500, as well as the 24 Hours at Daytona and 12 Hours at Sebring, but never at Le Mans.
Racing’s “Triple Crown” is the Indy 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Monaco Grand Prix. Only one driver, Graham Hill, has accomplished that feat.
In high school in the '70s we used to go to Texas World Speedway in Bryant. USAC was still big in those days and they ran “Indy Car” open wheel races there. Back then, USAC still had a stock car division, albeit not the match for NASCAR. They ran the “Texas Twin 200” there with an Indy car race and a stock car race. A.J. Foyt won them both.
My favorite Texas World Speedway story has nothing to do with racing. It’s the one Robert Earl Keen tells about his car catching fire and burning up at the Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic in 1974. A photograph of the carnage was the cover of his album “Picnic”.
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“That’s my car, man!!!”
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“Wow…way to go”
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Season 2 of Ted Lasso will begin on 7/23.
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Before Ted Lasso Season 2 comes around, here’s something to tide you over:
Crystal Palace has had more than it’s fair share of ups and downs, but this documentary spans the 4-year period during which, arguably, the club suffered its deepest low and its highest high.
When Eagles Dare charts Crystal Palace F.C.’s remarkable resurgence from financial ruin and administration in 2010, to playing in the 2013 Championship Play-Offs for promotion to the Premier League.
In 2010, the club was put into administration (the UK’s version of Chapter 11) for the second time in less than a decade. This triggered an automatic deduction of 10-points, taking the club from a push for promotion to the Premier League and throwing it into a dogfight to avoid relegation to the 3rd tier of English football. Had relegation happened, the club would not have survived [Spoiler Alert: they stayed up].
Still, even though a place in the Championship (2nd tier) for the following season had been secured, the two largest creditors were refusing to sell the club to a new ownership group and were intent on winding it up. The biggest issue was that the club and it’s largest asset - Nelson Road Selhurst Park - had been separated years before by a greedy owner. Both entities were in separate bankruptcies and the wannabe new owners - a consortium of fans called CPFC 2010 - would only buy the club if they could buy the stadium too. The banks would not agree and so the end of the club was nigh.
On the eve of the execution of their beloved football club, Palace fans massed outside the offices of the two banks who lead the two respective groups of creditors. There was no trouble, no window smashing or bottle throwing, just dedicated fans protesting the impending demise of their team. As the story goes, the chairman of one bank - looking out of his window at thousands of fans surrounding his building - called the chairman of the other to see what was happening over there. Same, he was told. At that moment, they decided it might be better to do a deal with the new owners.
Three years later, Crystal Palace had fought its way up the league table and through the playoffs into the largest single game prize in all of world sports: the Championship playoff final. The winner went up to the Premier League and the loser stayed in the Championship - the revenue difference being an estimate $200 million…
The trailer just dropped and, yes, they have Coach Holloway’s “Lasso moment” dancing in the dressing room.
This is awesome!