Jon πŸ›ž

Jon πŸ›ž

@jon.turningfortune.com

Motorsports news and other automobile posting πŸ•ΈοΈ web: @turningfortune.com πŸ“§ email: jon@turningfortune.com πŸ’¬ Signal: turningfortune.404 πŸ“ Decatur, Georgia, U.S.A.

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I don't know about you, but as my second full season of yapping about motor racing on Bluesky nears its conclusion, my sense that it is the only civilized place to do so online is only increasing.

If you post a video to show off the engine sound of a Magma GT, and it's just idling in front of a jewelry store in Milan with the damn doors open, I'm blocking you

It's time for me to come clean about the fact that I'm only a Cadillac fan because of the power unit, and when the Ford comes in, I'm going to be a traitor

The message online racing fans are sending this week is, "It is vital to have as many manufacturers as possible competing to win in every racing series, but the teams they hire to accomplish this must be absolutely forbidden to help each other do so."

Based on conversations that have spawned off of this, I think any motorsports people who do feel like it’s too quiet on here would do well to start following proper car people. Motorsports, after all, do have a fair amount to do with cars

Jon πŸ›ž@jon.turningfortune.com

I don't know about you, but as my second full season of yapping about motor racing on Bluesky nears its conclusion, my sense that it is the only civilized place to do so online is only increasing.

I see enough wind on this that I must post. Have you noticed that sports car categories make no sense? That is what happens when motorsports and automotive economics lose contact with each other. It is sensible β€” nay, necessary! β€” to periodically realign the former (which is made up) to the latter.

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Stephane Ratel has suggested the creation of a new GT3 class that would β€œgo back to the fundamentals” amid continued discussions, including with the FIA, on the future direction of various GT platforms.

One further note on this point is that the professionals who *are* here β€” notably multiple staffers of one @roadandtrack.bsky.social magazine β€” have earned support for siding with civilIzation.

Jon πŸ›ž@jon.turningfortune.com

A fair number of people who were around for the first season have gone dark since then β€” some of whom are professionals, which is regrettable β€” but in terms of both day-to-day yapping and in-race yapping, it remains firmly in "their loss" territory.

This is not a Politicalβ„’ statement in the partisan sense people tend to make about Bluesky, but rather the simple demonstration that a healthy media would always choose effortful community-building over submitting to techno-feudalism. Those who still make the civilized choice must be cherished.

I don't know about you, but as my second full season of yapping about motor racing on Bluesky nears its conclusion, my sense that it is the only civilized place to do so online is only increasing.

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I don't know what I'm doing with my website and so on, given that my collaborator is one of those gone-dark people, but I'm continuing to work on the functionality of it that (once it works again) automatically ingests my Bluesky posts, because posting here is the most rewarding thing to do.

I guess what I want to say is that I am still actively looking for ways to DO MORE, which means collaborating with you (yes, the person reading this) on making motor racing culture into the best culture on Earth, but also I feel pretty good about how we're already doing at that.

I don't know about you, but as my second full season of yapping about motor racing on Bluesky nears its conclusion, my sense that it is the only civilized place to do so online is only increasing.

A fair number of people who were around for the first season have gone dark since then β€” some of whom are professionals, which is regrettable β€” but in terms of both day-to-day yapping and in-race yapping, it remains firmly in "their loss" territory.

It's actually really embarrassing that the NASCAR fan base is full of people who think they know what lifting on a straightaway looks like but they actually don't

Remember a thousand years ago when Isack Hadjar was so undamaged by Formula 1 that he was just stoked to even be in the same paddock as Lewis Hamilton, let alone on track with him?

Okay so the RFKs gave back about half of their lead on the second run, and they're about to get forced to give up the rest, but they get paid back for the time they gave up on track in fuel, right? So they can still restart in the lead after a shorter stop. But is that the end of the game?