#Affordable Racing

[laidbackmarco]

How to Race With Almost No Money

In a post earlier this week I shared my experience driving to a local mountain pass with my friends. Despite feeling increasingly jaded and apathetic as I age, driving always gives me a sense of joy. The reason I fell in love with motorsports is a combination of motorcycles as a child. Need for Speed Games, movies, cartoons, continued to fuel my love of cars and machines. As a child I remember…

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[peace-hunter]

tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

[racingcore]

I think Charles and Max are the most talented out of all the drivers from their generation. and what made me happy and assured that unlike Charles, Max has always had a team who backed him up no matter what be it on track or in media. His hobbies, his driving endeavors whatever. But RBR not letting Max sim race late at night while they fully know how he functions and works are a person for years now? Moving a bit like Ferrari aren't we here? If team isnt delivering its either dont support the driver at all or blame the driver in media at Ferrari. I would not wish it upon my worst enemy what happens to Charles' image in media because of Ferrari, so not at all on the other driver i love the most. Max I hope you sim race all you want with an alias!

[23fallencomets]

clutching my bedsheets in despair bc i am in fact not a billionaire that can fund a silly american f1 driver so he can have the best things ever

[sk-yay-sk]

I don't like any of the maps I've seen for HTTYD so i'm playing a puzzle game w all the locations. This is the 3rd version so far

[leclerc-s]

the only possible answer i have for williams (read: james vowles) wanting carlos as bad as they do is to secure that sponsorship money because what the fuck do you mean this is the first race week in months where logan will have the same car as his teammate?

[thatgirlmj]

[hussyknee]

Seeing characters in romance stories just jetting between countries at a moment's notice with no thought for visa; seeing airports as sites of triumphant climaxes and romantic denouements instead of places of fear and danger where a sword hangs above your head— it all breaks off little pieces of my heart. They're constant reminders that my people will never be human enough in the colonial world order to be allowed to move freely around it. No matter what your race, those non-refugees living in the Global North will never understand what it's like to be part of a global ghetto where your passport is nothing but a trembling supplication and humiliation.

[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

[rickybaby]

Money Badger strikes again!!

[just-an-inchi-dent]

newey newey newey i know ferrari and aston and whoever else are like shiny and expensive and all that but woudn't it be so cool to go back to williams and like bring them back to their glory days

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Weiss: Where's Penny? She said she wanted to show us something, and I'm getting tired of Waiting!

Ruby: Come on Weiss! Give her a minute, you know she wouldn't waster our time!

Weiss: I know, I'm simply Annoyed. She usually is more on point than this.

Ruby: I know, I know, but we should-

*Ka-Clunk*

Ruby: ?

Weiss: ?

A sleek Vintage car rolled it's way out of a set of Garage Doors, Penny in it's driver seat, wearing thick Road Goggles, and a Leather cap.

*Clickety Clickety Clickety*

*BANG BANG*

Penny: Salutations!

Ruby: Penny!?!

Weiss: What's with the car?

Penny: I was watching an old "Classic" Movie to try and understand popular culture better, and simply fell in love with the Vehicle in it! The project I have been working on has been a Replica with all the Modern Features to be Road Legal!

Ruby: Why's it backfire?

Weiss: It's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Ruby: It's what?

Penny: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a Musical Feature Length Motion Picture from approximately 60 years ago!

Weiss: It was My Grandfather's Favorite movie! It's one of my own!

Penny: Would you like to go for a ride, Weiss?

Weiss: Would that make me your Truly Scrumptious?

Penny: *Blushing* I- I suppose it would!

Weiss: *Climbing in* Then let us be off, Professor Potts~

Penny: One moment. Ruby? Please lower the Bonnet.

Ruby: *Watching the engine* Sorry! I just wanted a look under the hood!

Penny: I can show you later, for now would you like to join us?

Ruby: Absolutely!

[incorrect-prema]

Antonio: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate, or malewife our way out of it this time.

Pierre: *cracks knuckles* Manslaughter it is!

[garbagequeer]

really interesting to go back to the office after a while of fucking off from work etc because i get to see all the tabs i left open last time i was there doing whatever instead of work and it's like. girl. get well.

[andromedasummer]

just because dan ticktum isnt purposefully crashing into people anymore doesn't mean hes suddenly become a good person like he just complained about ""wokeness"" in an interview last january because people dared call him out on speeding on public roads. he is the epitome of bland white man. if i saw a photo of him and didn't know what he was famous for i would assume he was a racist minecraft youtuber