Ryan Erik King

Ryan Erik King

@ryanerikking.com

Sports fan, Everywhere Staff Writer, @jalopnik.bsky.social‬ | Co-host emeritus, Motorsport 101 New York, NY

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Kimi Antonelli wins the United States Grand Prix, but Hamilton and Russell cling to mathematical contention in the championship. At this point, it's only a matter of time. #F1

MotoGP's final Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island has been canceled because of poor visibility, forcing the medical helicopter to be grounded. 😭 Phillip Island is honestly the greatest motorcycle racing track in the world. It's a shame that MotoGP is ditching this place.

Alisha Palmowski wins the F1 Academy title! It felt like she's been glued to the top step of the podium most of this season. ...If I were on commentary, I wouldn't have chosen this moment to drop a Kimi Antonelli fun fact. 😬

Kimi on pole! He's in the best spot to win tomorrow, but he'll need Russell to hit a bit of misfortune to win the world championship on Sunday. #F1

So I decided to watch the season premiere of Law & Order, and oh, buddy! This plot is off the rails. A rogue AI ordered a hit on a whistleblower developer. The ADA tried the company CEO over it. Then, the AI threatened to report another dev's girlfriend to ICE if he testified.

Of course, the AI finds the dev's name on the docket. The dev's girlfriend gets arrested off-camera. The CEO is found not guilty, and the AI gets to go on to kill another day, lmao!

People don't believe me when I talk about malice within Alex Palou's heart. The "adiós" he said on iRacing when he baited me into a poor late-race restart will haunt me forever.

Fred Smith@fredsmith.bsky.social

Alex Palou running an NXT test is a thing of beauty. The man has the unique combination of free time, raw talent, genuine interest in helping a development series team, and malice in his heart necessary to embarrass a bunch of funded 16-year-olds on a random weekday in the offseason.

"Understood. Thank you, Lewis," had me cackling. Lol, Hamilton apologized to the entire team for costing them points today, and that's all Santi has to say in return. #F1

Hamilton may have gotten past relatively easily. The front runners should stay out long enough to pit and come out ahead of Lawson. #F1

F1's overuse of picture-in-picture is terrible. I don't want to see most of the action in a tiny box. They might as well broadcast a second feed for all the teams outside the Big Four. #F1

Lol, my permanent Twitter ban finally got overturned. I had quit the platform, but continued posting racing clips there. That's what led to the ban. About 6 copyright strikes will get you banned. I had over 50 when it randomly happened. I successfully filed DMCA counter claims against all of them.

Let me be clear, I don’t want to go back to Twitter. I do want to have access to an account I've had for 15 years, have the ability to save its data to an archive and delete my account.

The week I'll be in San Francisco, Cal is of course playing a road game against Virginia. I wanted to watch some Atlantic Coast Conference football in... Berkeley, California haha.

In the game of compound roulette, the inter tire runners won and it wasn't even close. The track simply didn't dry out fast enough. #F1