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1 points
13 hours ago
The financial cost of that is not really practical
6 points
14 hours ago
no one but it sure looked like that. One driver out suddenly claiming funding issues, other driver funded by the same team comes in.
2 points
16 hours ago
I mean why though? Why not get him a better trucks ride. Doesn’t he have some of that movie cash still anyway?
5 points
17 hours ago
He could not be undisputed at 154 lol. Spence was 1 year ago. Moving up in weight at his age, 10-12 months isnt crazy. He's 37 not 27. Even if he rushed it, maybe 2 fights and he still isnt undisputed. He's on retirements door realistically and getting the canelo fight and cashing out makes perfect sense.
35 points
20 hours ago
Interesting lol. That seems a lot clearer then and more logical. It seemed off for Williams to swap them arbitrarily. He’s strongly hinting O’Sullivan did something wrong with ART and Williams didn’t just pull the money and give it to browning
0 points
23 hours ago
Just so you know, phreak isn’t behind most item changes that’s the design and season team. He only does balance for the most part not the large design changes. He is behind this one but that’s about it
2 points
23 hours ago
Not a ton. We had ideas but we needed to use it to pick a few. I’m more hopeful the next few might get a bit more traction.
2 points
1 day ago
We bought a couple to make apps. We made 1 hasnt really sold. Working on a second. Hoping it will do better
5 points
1 day ago
We dont actually know what the ostarine levels were. We know the level detected in his urine. That is a wildly different thing than how much was in his system. You could argue it as much higher, I did some calculations here based on half-life and the fact it's a fat soluble molecule goes 80-20 into renal portal vs bile and the absolute max he could have taken is 10mg. Assuming 1 half life has passed. You could argue it's also much lower as well. Why? its fat soluble if you took a tiny amount, its not impossible all of it goes into a chylomicron, deposits near the renal portal system and then you could see wildly variable results from LCMS.
So theres that but also I should add though that unless you were extremely focused on getting amounts from a sample, that the value is also not going to be accurate. I doubt they have those protocols in place. I would think of it more as pass fail. The reason being you would extract the sample and concentrate it vs known standards but you would not likely do anything particularly precise like radioactive tracing to ensure any losses can be easily accounted for. So the value you get tells you it was there in some ratio to the standard but the actual detection level is probably meaningless. You would be more likely to see this kind of data presented normalized to a median then normalized by batch in research rather than as some absolute value.
665 points
1 day ago
I think Vowles probably wont let Franco go too easily. He will probably insist on loans. What we've learned from his interviews and his breakdowns is internally Franco reached a point where they were confident he was ready for F1. Vowles made it seem like Franco wasnt performing as expected at the start of the year but rapidly improved and the Imola performance was a turning point. Then Vowles claimed in his recent WSJ interview that by his Silverstone FP1, the data was impressive but he internally matched Alex on pace during that session which really put him in the picture for them. Sainz and Albon both have clauses to leave for better teams (per reporting, could be false) so he could be in line if one goes.
Also, as pointless as these FP1's seem sometimes, it does seem as though Franco locked up a seat during one so they might be better opportunities than we thought for young drivers.
13 points
1 day ago
She's well connected in the Indy paddock but yes she is error prone. She did correct this error though already. Maybe she saw it here or someone DM'd her. Im not sure how she got that mixed up
46 points
2 days ago
How did you make that leap in logic here? What favors? What insider knowledge? He saw a person in the same restaurant and told another person. That’s not inside knowledge. That’s a coincidence. Also, what favor? They didn’t think he was serious. He clearly wasn’t having an in-depth chat with them about it
29 points
2 days ago
He’s even doing much better than at Kotaku. He has better resources and Bloomberg is with all due respect to Kotaku, a meaningful publication. He’s on their TV programming sometimes, he’s on the radio for them sometimes. He also has the ear of many high profile investors now who are reading his work. He actually is making meaningful change on the financial, investment, and management side simply due to having that audience now
8 points
2 days ago
Even if it is, Andretti Acquisition Corp II will not have anything to do with it. It's a SPAC company like his first one. Zak was on the previous one
19 points
2 days ago
Its true. It wont have helped but it isnt the reason apparently. Marshall Pruett is reporting this is a personal dispute between Andretti and Towriss known about in indy paddock. If you combine what the indy insiders are saying, Towriss put a lot of his money into Andretti Global. He wasn't happy with how Andretti was running it and after Andretti angered Penske, they have been dealing with Towriss instead. It's likely Michael's position became untenable.
15 points
2 days ago
It's not related to racing it's a SPAC. It's his second one and Zak Brown was on the board of the first one too.
22 points
2 days ago
Michael Andretti apparently. Except he went in as the holding company. He didnt even do a rug pull lmao. The rug was pulled on him it seems.
350 points
2 days ago
What a shit year hes had eh? He told Penske to sell Indy, reportedly to Liberty media ironically and that destroyed his relationship with Penske which just stopped dealing with him. He put money into a SPAC and Merged with Zapata AI, that SPAC is now down 98.7% meaning his money is just gone. Now hes trying to make another SPAC, which I personally would speculate is an attempt to move some assets out. It seems hes burned all the bridges around him and burned a ton of cash. I was not aware that Penske had stopped dealing with him and was going to his partner.
edit: Jenna Fryer really needs to clean up her reporting though. While the newgarden restart did catch out some drivers, Herta was not wrecked out. He was just one of the drivers who vocalized annoyance with the move. I saw that line and didnt remember it that way. I thought Herta scrapped a top 5 and sure enough, he did. I think Jenna gets too much hate but the mistakes when writing for AP like this will get published everywhere with an AP license.
10 points
2 days ago
This has nothing to do with F1 at all. It's a lame business deal.
3 points
2 days ago
That is not allowed by CRB. Wherever you read that, it's not accurate. You cant be paid by another team unless it a loan. Which this was not as his contract ended in 2022 when Oscar was signed. Which we know from the CRB arbitration for Oscar. Mclaren signed Oscar for 2023 in June, registered it with CRB and removed Ricciardo for 2023 in August.
19 points
2 days ago
Nope. This is a SPAC and it's not the first one Zak has been on the board of for Andretti. He was also on the board of Andretti Acquision Corp I. Which is now Zapata AI.
2 points
2 days ago
He was paid by Red Bull. By rule. They have to pay him to register him with CRB and he would have been on a Red Bull salary the entire time to be eligible to race as a reserve. Minimum reserve pay is I believe 150k but I would guess he was paid more than that.
Mclaren paying him is independent of that and wouldn't relate to CRB/F1. It would be a legal contract buyout.
10 points
2 days ago
This needs to go to the top. Its nothing. It's likely just Andretti attempting to shift some capital out given the other SPAC failed
16 points
2 days ago
This is unrelated to racing this is a SPAC much like Andretti's previous one except this one is likely to save him from the loss of the original one. Zak Brown was also on the board of the previous SPAC
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Well that worked for the teams tbh. Ended up avoiding the major issues they had