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03 May 2022, 5:13 pm
I can run >250 km on a single tank on a superspeedway. This makes a one-stop strategy feasible for a 500 km race.
Not getting caught up in a crash is incredibly difficult though, especially since it's hard to get enough of a lead that a train of cars drafting aren't able to easily catch you. A single car struggles to break 330 km/h, a train will approach 340. A single car can't hit it's rev limiter in top gear, running in the draft you'll be on it for sure.
If you have a fast car and pull into the lead the only way you'll preserve that lead is if the cars behind you keep battling because if they work together the leader can't outpace them. If they don't work together they'll fall behind whoever's got the fastest car. When they do work together you'll think you're still ahead by a full second only to notice a swarm of bees slowly closing in.
I'm not very good at drafting so I'm really going to struggle even if I'm able to qualify well. Anyone who says just turning left is easy probably hasn't actually tried it, I say this as someone who used to be really dismissive of oval racing. 
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04 May 2022, 6:41 am
Well, I certainly feel like 100 years of solitude would be a pleasant relief. 
I had another good night's sleep. Woke up gently with the dawn and songs of wrens and cardinals. I am taking today off. A day to check in with the parts of me that get abandoned when others are around.
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My left arm, forearm that is, has quite a large and mostly purple to yellowish bruise on it from that unbeknownst to me at the time, torn muscle from lifting something too heavy (which even if was "work", that'll still be exercise). Someone thought I self-harmed. 
I had to remind said someone about that large and red swollen area a few days back that was forgotten about. Lifting something that weighs more than me with one arm apparently pushes it to its limits. Doesn't hurt, didn't hurt.
It's noteworthy how if there's a disconnect between pain and action or some other inhibiting mechanism, one can easily damage themselves when it comes to non-obvious things, and one can exceed what their body would allow them to otherwise. This is an obvious thing, of course, but it's interesting when you experience it yourself. I'm assuming my brain would tell me that said object was too heavy and don't bother, if it was normal that is. I've noticed this many other times too.
05 May 2022, 2:24 am
-- how about the old way,
when the standards were defined by family, lager family and other circles
eg, "we (name/denomination) don't lie, gossip, steal, etc kind of thing
now it is; the broader the conformity, the lower the expectation
i don't see how we can care for the specialized victims only, ohyeah there was a precedence that everything is recopied on (follow the.... 
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His fantasies make a mockery not only of “The Jewish State” but, also, and perhaps worse, a mockery of Hans, his only begotten son. There is paradox here, of the tragic kind: Hans, in the grubby garb – with pointed hat and yellow star – of a ghetto Jew, crowned King of the Jews. Or was Hans only to be a Prince, and Theodor – God’s gift – King? It beggars belief – but no more so than another King of the Jews – crowned with thorns, hanging naked on a bloody cross – at whose foot the journey begins; the journey of the Wandering Jew.
mass media -or formerly religion to direct or engeneer the famous worldspirit
back to klaus swaab
short selling for rich and richer: (random)
Hedge, in the section; Hedging equity and equity futures
Equity in a portfolio can be hedged by taking an opposite position in futures. To protect your stock picking against systematic market risk, futures are shorted when equity is purchased, or long futures when stock is shorted.
Investors who primarily trade in futures may hedge their futures against synthetic futures.
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I never noticed we can display posts by author instead of by time.
I might check it out.
Does anyone else use that setting?
05 May 2022, 5:09 pm
The one time I want to do overtime (6 hours on Saturday) it turns out that I can't because I haven't done the task before. 
I want the money. 
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05 May 2022, 5:40 pm
Not getting caught up in a crash is incredibly difficult though, especially since it's hard to get enough of a lead that a train of cars drafting aren't able to easily catch you. A single car struggles to break 330 km/h, a train will approach 340. A single car can't hit it's rev limiter in top gear, running in the draft you'll be on it for sure.
If you have a fast car and pull into the lead the only way you'll preserve that lead is if the cars behind you keep battling because if they work together the leader can't outpace them. If they don't work together they'll fall behind whoever's got the fastest car. When they do work together you'll think you're still ahead by a full second only to notice a swarm of bees slowly closing in.
I'm not very good at drafting so I'm really going to struggle even if I'm able to qualify well. Anyone who says just turning left is easy probably hasn't actually tried it, I say this as someone who used to be really dismissive of oval racing.
I lowered the redline by 250 rpm, which brings the top speed as limited by gearing a little bit closer to the top speed as limited by drag. This should encourage less pack racing because there's less of an advantage to maintaining the draft, especially through the turns. It's hard to 'step out' when you know it's unlikely to result in gaining anything. Now that there's less of a gap that should mean there's less disincentive to try to pass.
Setup is critical, on a superspeedway you want to run the lowest drag setup you can get away with and use the tallest gearing possible to ensure both your drag limited and gearing limited speeds are as high as possible.
You also need a suspension setup that will ensure an optimal contact patch on all four tires through the steeply banked turns. That means the driver's side front is going to have some positive camber so your wheels look like \\-------\\ when viewed from either the front or the back. This means your car won't want to drive straight anymore, so to drive straight you'll be turning right (so much for only turning left).
If you're going too slow your car is going to start falling down the banking towards the apron. On some tracks they'll meet at more than a 30° angle, this can cause a catastrophic loss of control if you contact the apron. The aero forces at >300 km/h are substantially more extreme compared to what's encountered in most road racing in these types of car since road racing only briefly reaches the same range of speeds and only rarely (many tracks don't have straights long enough to reach terminal velocity).
Watkins Glen (without the Inner Loop) I'd see 300 but that was also my cue to hit the brakes for turn 5/the Outer Loop, with the Inner Loop the top speed is lower because the braking point moves up quite a bit. Mount Panorama with The Chase might briefly see ~310ish at the turn-in for The Chase but then you're on the brakes hard (down to ~110 or so) to exit the chicane. Without The Chase I'd probably hit ~325 before having to slow down to ~75. In both case those chicanes (the Inner Loop and The Chase) were added for safety.
Daytona or Talladega involve steadily going ~320 km/h in a car that doesn't want to drive straight while dealing with exponentially more turbulent air than you'd feel next to a dump truck at 120 km/h. Each car moves that much air with even more force and disrupts each other. If you're up someone's ass you lose downforce at the front, if someone's up your ass you lose downforce at the rear. Unfortunately travelling like that is the only way to do it, just like in bicycle racing - the risks are terrible but the advantages oblige it. Since those risks are catastrophic one has to invest significant attention into maintaining situational awareness to avoid getting caught out by someone else's mistake.
I'm hoping that reducing the gearing limited top speed will encourage slightly more spaced out racing since no one has that extra few km/h, the rev limit is closer to peak power so there's less of a margin beyond terminal velocity while following in another cars draft. The low pressure zone created by a car (or cyclist) in motion reduces drag for a car following closely enough behind it, in superspeedway racing you'll often need to lift off the gas at maximum speed while following closely to avoid contact because the lower air pressure almost sucks your car in like a very weak vacuum.
Tiny tweaks in terms of rev limit, power, maximum allowable gearing, minimum allowable drag, minimum allowable weight, etc all play into how the racing will progress but also have some pretty serious safety implications, sometimes with a substantial conflicting interest (like whether or not it provides good racing, good racing is driven by interactions and interactions increase risk, whether on highways or race tracks). In a sim physical safety might not be a concern, but demolition derbies aren't good racing either, especially not as a participant.
In real life those sorts of tweaks will trigger outrage from fans but thankfully I'm the only one who can be pissed and only with myself.
