"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/30/2020 at 09:30 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/30/2020 at 09:30 • Filed to: None | 0
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I have been burning though project materials with all of this free time. So I decided to take a break from building things and refresh my home server configuration. I’ve got two headless Dell towers in my “rack” that I have built under the stairs. One runs Windows 10 the other Ubuntu Server. I’m replacing the towers with two micro form factor PCs. One will keep Win 10, but I ditched Ubuntu for a clean install of Arch. As any of you L inux nerds know, Arch takes a little while to install manually. I had my munchkin on my lap, so I decided to throw some Isle of Mann highlights on for her while I worked on it . Which she loved...
Then I thought, “Oh yea! She’s got to hear the older F1 cars. So I googled F1 V10 and F1 V12 and played a few videos for us. She’s just making car sounds and saying “wow”. I’m watching the videos closely as I can hear the sounds in my sleep...I’m watching these cars BUCK out of pit lane, drivers getting sideways on the warm up laps, everything is just electric! I felt myself hunker down for the start of the race as if it was happening live. The cars go off and the sounds! I can imagine tiny rubber hands reaching out from the tires to keep the cars on the circuit because it looks like that are barely holding on though fast turns. It was spectacular!!!
I watched less than 2 minutes of this race and it was more exciting than any F1 race I have seen in the past 5 years (give or take). I know that I am most likely preaching to the choir (and old man yells at cloud and get off my lawn and all that) but FUCK man! Maybe I can get the family to a vintage race one day.
How does it still feel like a Monday?
interstate366, now In The Industry
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 09:43 |
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Yeah, the sound was great, but watching one guy dominate for several years was...wait.
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Tripper
> interstate366, now In The Industry
03/30/2020 at 09:44 |
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lol Exactly! I don’t think that part will ever change so lets at least make it special!
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interstate366, now In The Industry
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 09:46 |
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As much as I don’t like Alonso for his personality, his title battles in 2006 and 2010 were pretty fun to watch.
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 09:48 |
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You’re in PA, right? You should take a trip up to the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix one of these years! If you want to see the really fast stuff, go the first weekend when they race at PIRC. The second weekend is really cool, too, huge car show in Schenley Park, and racing there but because it’s not a real track they limited to earlier, slower cars. Still tons of fun though!
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Tripper
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
03/30/2020 at 09:54 |
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Yes, that sounds awesome!
vondon302
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 10:01 |
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Been on a old race car video rabbit hole for days now.
Watched these last night, not bad a little dry.
Teaching em young. Well done sir.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 10:16 |
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It really is. I don’t think I’ve seen any full on F1 cars, but I know the last time I went to the PIRC race (which was several years ago) they had a few F5000 cars - basically F1 chassis with Chevrolet DZ302s stuffed in them (Chevy’s 302, before Ford had one, with the right setup they’d spin 9,000 RPM and make 500 HP). This past summer my buddy and I went to the Schenley Park show and races and had a great time. They race fun stuff like MGs, Triumphs, Sprites , as well as some early Formula Ford and Formula Lotus stuff, and some early Indy Roadster style cars. And the car show is cool, all sorts of interesting stuff out there form Kei cars to vintage Porsches, you name it.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 10:21 |
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NASCAR did an iRacing race online that was....meh but whatever. Why doesn’t F1 do something similar? Hell, even a Forza thing would be kinda fun to watch.
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Tripper
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
03/30/2020 at 10:23 |
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I’m all in! I was lucky enough to get to the US F1 GP in 2013. My best friend and I were sat backs against one of the track walls on practice day...SOOO hungover when the cars came out...I felt it in my chest before I heard them with my ears it was AMAZING!
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Tripper
> vondon302
03/30/2020 at 10:24 |
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Oo this is perfect she has really been into orange cars for the past day or 3!
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Tripper
03/30/2020 at 10:38 |
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That sounds like an awesome trip!