Alt+F1: 64 - United States GP Prerace 2015

Well... I guess I'm getting a gyro for lunch.

yay yay yay

If I hadn't had one recently I'd totally go for one today.

... still might.

United States...I've heard of it

Going this Sunday. Finally going to get around to fanfest downtown this weekend as well.

Also, Austin is full of hipsters.

Murrrrrrrrrrrrrrca! as the locals call it.

Hehe, I didn't look closely and figured that was just a cheese steak because 'Merica but now I got to the inevitable point in the show that explains why the podcast image is what it is. Good show.

Elevation map of COTA, illustrates the vertical change pretty well.

Also, I want a Döner Kebab so bad now.

The Street Fighter soundboard kills me every time. It works every time.

SHIT. The guest for the next podcast in Drew's absence is going to be Ryckert. It has to be. That's going to be... a thing that exists.

Oh man that Gyro looks delicious.

This episode has better have an inordinate amount of Drew speaking in his 'merican accent.

Edit: 1:20 into it and I'm liking it already!

and now i want a kebab. Damn you, delicious photo!

Wait, is a Gyro just a kebab? I've always wondered.

now I have a doner boner

For anyone who wants to take a trip around the track, courtesy of Google.

Circuit of the Americas Streetview

@dannyodwyer@drewbert The Coen brothers first film was Blood Simple (I love that the Directors Cut is about 2:30 shorter than the released version) and I highly recommend it.

...going for a gyro tomorrow night (the best I've everr eaten is near my house - they build their own tower rather than use the chopped, pressed, formed... thing that comes out of a factory near Chicago that almost everyone in the US uses: linky).

Pretty cool. But that Google car's racing line is terrible. :P

Oh man, I think the "Acropolis in the American south" is actually just a scale model of the Parthenon that's in Nashville, TN, somewhat near where I live. Here's a picture from Wikipedia:

It's pretty weird, but a pretty alright place to go if you're on vacation in Nashville.

here's the US 2005 video, weirdest start to a race.

If anyone wants to find out what the Bathurst 1000 is, the official channel has full replays of the 2008-2012 races on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3F1DMFQJtIoXQ2kY4QWufDHemu_4O-2T

I think Danny doesn't know how time zones work. We're in the future here in Europe, not in the past! (the race will be at 8PM in continental Europe, 7PM in the UK)

My god. They are going to make Dan watch F1 aren't they?

Dario Franchitti is, in fact, Scottish. He's Paul di Resta's cousin.

Emerson Fittipaldi would probably love to be Scottish.

Jackie Stewart isn't Brazilian.

Looking forward to this one, usually a fun one to watch, great track and the locals really seem to get into it from what I've seen.

wait thats what americans call a gyro? Well I was in philly this summer and they tried to call a sub a hoagie, so at least your sandwich names are consistently crazy.

Anyone know where I could watch the Bathurst 1000?

Formula E and COTA in the same weekend!

Yeah, it's great, Prime Time F1.

Nyown!

Indeed. Dario even has the accent to boot, if my memory serves correctly.

BBC did this fantastic piece with Jenson Button for the last race I think. Their production is always top notch, I'd recommend watching this.

@drewbert @dannyodwyer

You're correct that rain has never happened for F1 at COTA, and in general is quite rare for central texas. However the endurance races at COTA have an amazingly weird history of torrential downpours during track action. In 2013's inaugural "Lone Star Le Mans", the remnants of a hurricane were rolling across texas the day of qualifying. I know this because my father and I hit the storm shortly after crossing the texas border, 10 hours into our 16 hour drive from Indiana to Austin. I finished the stint into our hotel white-knuckled; not sure if the roads were just greasy and terrible, texans can't into driving in the rain, road drainage or whatever, but there were people sliding off the highway everywhere. It was very scary, and needless to say, even though we had intended to make it to the track for quals, we ended up watching the livestream from the comfort of our hotel room.

2014 saw a similar freak monsoon happen during the WEC's 6 hour race, with about 2 hours left to go. Here's some footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0CcRy-3_U

So, yeah. Apparently freak rain stuff happens in texas. I dont think you can count it out for F1.

@drewbert@dannyodwyer

I feel like I just have to say that last weekend's MotoGP round in Phillip Island, Australia, was the greatest motor race I've seen in a good long time. So if you wanna give MotoGP a shot this is definitely the time to do it!

@nmckee503: Yep, it really is a lovely little piece. DC and JB are good mates, and it shows. My dad was messing around in Rally Cross when John Button was winning stuff and says he was a great guy.

@nmckee503: Rally cross is awesome, I would love see Jensen consider career as rally cross driver after 2016. It must of been nice for him to be in competitive car again

@the_ruckus: How would someone follow rally cross? It looks pretty interesting.

@dave_tacitus: His face when he was told he was driving a car that raced his dad was awesome, the sort of look that you can tell he probably had chills up his spine. Awesome piece. I like to think we are all good mates with DC haha.

@nmckee503: Must admit to having a few chills as well at that moment. :)

This might be heresy in F1 TV circles but I think DC's doing a better job than even Brundle at the moment, and for years I reckoned MB was the best co-commentator in any sport I was watching.

@mr_bones: I want to say it rained at the Lone Star Le Mans race here in September as well.

@nmckee503: FIA world rallycross championship which is kind of F1 of rally cross and they live stream the races on the website.

http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/livestream.

cool thing about Rallycross is that it has really great amateur leagues that pretty much anyone can get involved in. I used to race couple years back and it was always really good fun.

Edit found TV listing http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/tvlisting

I can't wait for Formula Dan!

Approximately 2% of Scots are of Italian descendancy. During a period of drought, famine and poverty in the 1890s, several Italian familes seeked a more prosperous life in Scotland.

Source: I am an Italian Scot (surname Romeo)

Certainly, we get rain in Austin -- thunderstorms, even -- but we never, ever get snow.

So @dannyodwyer was talking about how Guiness is popular in Jamaica. But it isn't the Guiness stout that is popular everywhere else, it is a lager that is brewed in Jamaica. There is a cool TV show called Three Sheets that is a travel show about other countries and their drinking cultures. The host goes to Jamaica and talks about the Guiness they drink.

Dammit. I actually watched this race and it's the one they don't actually talk about? So many crash outs and the rest of the season is pretty much null and void with Hamilton winning. it would have been a good one.

oh man how wrong they were/are about Bathurst. I hope they got corrected, they -ARE- v8 supercars, and it's not a 20-lap race, it's 1000km (620mi) and 161 laps.