#SpeedUP Racing

[42bakery]

I have so many questions and none at the same time. SpeedUP at their best (or worst)

[waru-chan8]

Touchy touchy

[vaderetrogames]

BUDDH MOTOGP 24 INDIA GP RACE MOTO 2 PS5 NO HELP MODE PRO IA ADAPTIVE

[sirpercevaleclerc]

Your honor i love them so much my babies 🩷💛

Bonus: Tony commented under Alonso’s instagram post is everything to me 🫶🏼

[42bakery]

SpeedUP back at their game

[42bakery]

One per rave baby. And this week is a special 2 livery for the price of one

speedup changes livery faster than i change bedsheets at this rate…..

[waru-chan8]

History in 2 parts:

Part1

And my reaction:

[crisicsgames]

SUPER FLY CRASH MOTO 2 SEPANG #MOTOGP24 #motogp24thevideogame #epicfly

un piccolo errore per un uomo un grande volo per la moto ... guardate l'altezza ... impressionate 😨😱😱

a small mistake for a man a big fall for the motorbike… look at the height… impressive 😨😱😱

[kingofthecotas]

paperweight pt. 1 | ao3

luca & marc teammate fic. set mostly in 2027 | ~1.5k

——

Luca finishes the 2026 season with a plate in his collarbone and a handful of third-place trophies, which is enough for now. 

He has next year, but he doesn’t really want to think about that. Not yet. 

For now, he’ll let Bez drag them all to a bar in Valencia—the same bar Ducati are celebrating in—and praise everything he believes in that the test starts on Tuesday rather than tomorrow. 

It’s thronged with red when they get inside; good, they can collect Pecco, and let go a little more knowing they’re only surrounded by the paddock rather than the general public. The centre of the scarlet storm, of course, is Marc, bright and happy, arm slung around one of his mechanic’s shoulders as they laugh through the song they’re trying to sing. 

It should be bittersweet, and maybe they’ll all feel it tomorrow, but for now, Marc Márquez is going out on a high. Nine times a champion.

They’ve lost Franky somewhere, and when they find a booth—when Bez politely asks some Ducati engineers for their booth—Cele instantly disappears in the direction of the bar.

Rude. Whatever. 

Luca accepts a beer as recompense for being abandoned, and waves Migno over when he spots him through the crowd.

“Crazy!” Mig yells. “Stay here! Getting a drink.”

When Bez reappears from—somewhere, he has four beers clutched in his hands. Luca doesn’t know how he managed to weave through the crowd without the glass bottles, condensation-slick, slipping through his fingers. “Can’t find Pecco.”

Laughter cuts through the chatter, through the bass-heavy music; Marc has found Álex, both of them jumping up and down, drinks in hand. 

“Is Vale coming?” Cele asks, half-way to drunk already. He’d had some drinks in the garage, of course, with the SpeedUp team, a farewell, a congratulations, a good luck, and Bez seems to have the same head start. 

“No.” Luca shakes his head. “He says he’s too old for this shit.” 

Bez laughs, beer already gone, eyes already wide. “Let’s—let’s look for Pecco. And more drinks! Cele, let’s go.”

And Luca’s alone again. Assholes. He finishes one beer and goes for another bottle. Really, it’s good to have a quiet moment, a breath to collect himself—

Someone slides a tray in front of him, glasses clinking. He looks up, meets Pecco’s gaze.

“What’s this?”

“I am saying good luck.” Pecco plucks a shot glass from the tray. “And also celebrating the end of the worst two years of my life.”

Luca frowns through the alcohol. “You like Marc.” Because Marc is the worst person in the world to have as a teammate. He’s annoying and difficult. He races hard, sometimes too hard, and he apologises for it. Because when Marc had crashed them both out in Austria, he’d apologised. When Pecco had crashed them both out in Silverstone, Marc had forgiven him. When Pecco had won the championship in 2025, Marc had been the first one there to pull him into an embrace before handing him over to Valentino (not a glance shared between them). When Marc won the championship two rounds ago, crossing the line in second, it was Pecco who wrapped an arm around his shoulders on the podium and pulled him up to the top step. 

(And Portimão, they can never forget Portimão, and Franky.) 

“I like Marc,” Pecco agrees. “But get ready for Vale to make excuses to be in your box, and for Marc to ignore him, and for both of them to stare when the other isn’t looking. Marc will crash, and Vale will pretend he isn’t worried. Marc will look for him when he is not there. And they will never talk except to say hello.” He tips his head and gulps the shot, lips curling. “Disgusting.”

“They spoke in the paddock today,” Luca argues, but he reaches for a glass himself. 

“Could you imagine if he didn’t?” Pecco laughs sharply. “Nine championships, and not a word?” 

Fair. Vale is nothing if not fully aware of how to operate in front of the media, in front of the world watching through camera lenses. Luca sighs, raises the glass, tips it back. “Fuck, Pecco, vodka?”

“Celebrating.”

“Really that bad?” Luca goes back to his beer, trying to wash away the taste. Fuck this; he can’t drink like he used to. 

“It’s��it was—” Pecco shakes his head. “It was weird, Maro. Like—like they could get better, if they tried, but neither of them do.”

“Marc would.”

“He would. In a second.”

“So why doesn’t he?”

Pecco laughs again, then reaches for his second shot. “Because he thinks Valentino will not—you know. Marc has been ready for years.”

It’s always been Marc, a relentless wave crashing against the cliff face of Valentino’s disdain: Marc outside the box as Uccio shouted him down; Marc holding out a hand; Marc, willing to be something like a good teammate for Pecco despite it all.

“I know.” Luca wraps his fingers around the final glass. 

“Shots?” Bez’s voice cries, before he’s winding himself around Pecco, all clumsy limbs and curly hair. 

“Why don’t you have it, Bez?” Luca says, and Bez, trusting Bez, takes the shot and downs it, already bouncing off to hug someone else—Cele, probably.

“I’m not dealing with him later,” Pecco warns.

“Of course not. Celin will.” 

That’s enough to draw a laugh out of Pecco, which Luca can only count as a success. “Ah, I will miss Marc, you know? Do not tell Vale I said this, but he made me better.”

“I know,” Luca says again, grinning this time, because who could forget Pecco skating on his knee around the final corner in Aragón? Marc had crossed the box when it replayed on his screen, had slapped Pecco’s leg with a bright laugh. Social media lapped it all up.

“You’ll be fine.”

Maybe it’s the beer, the shot, maybe it’s the sense of an ending and a frightening new beginning, but something makes Luca say what he never would on any other day. “I was thinking it was going to be fine, until you told me that he’s still in love with my brother.”

Pecco chokes on his drink. 

——

Luca can compartmentalise. He’ll be fine. He can separate things.

That mantra lasts until the Tuesday morning, when Vale wanders into the Honda box like he has every reason to be there and slides into the chair beside Luca with an easy smile. 

Luca raises his eyebrows. “Should you be in here?”

“Who’s going to stop me?” Not an answer, but somehow an answer in itself. “I came to wish you luck.”

Wish him luck, like Vale hasn’t angled himself so he can see the back of the garage, can see everyone who might walk in or out. 

Pecco isn’t often wrong, but he could have been this time for the sake of Luca’s sanity. Because this is not Marc extending a hopeful hand; this is Valentino, waltzing through enemy lines—fuck’s sake, at least he had a legitimate reason to be in the Ducati box—and turning Luca’s quiet assumptions on their head.

“Thanks.” Luca debates putting a proverbial foot up his backside, but no—Valentino is skittish when he wants to be, and proud. If this—his half-formed skeleton of a plan—is going to work, it needs to be done gently. So he doesn’t say you could just talk to him. 

“Next year will be good, I think.”

“It’s only testing, Vale. We’re not even on the bikes yet.“

“Still. I know how hard you’ve worked. It will pay off.” Valentino fixes him with a firm look. “I’m proud of you. It would have been easy to stay with the team—you did the brave thing.”

And Luca might be twenty-nine, but his brother is still Valentino Rossi and Valentino Rossi is still his brother, so he leans into the praise with a smile. “I’m VR46 for life. You know this.”

“I know.” Vale smiles back. “And now it will pay off for you, doing the difficult thing. It will be a good year.”

Footsteps, words in quick Spanish—Vale’s eyes snap to the back of the garage. Santi and Marc file in, talking, laughing.

“Ah, we thought we were early!” Marc says with a smile. “Good morning, Luca. Ciao, Valentino.”

“Ciao,” Valentino replies, like it’s normal. Like it’s nothing. 

And then nothing else. Marc turns back to Santi. Valentino unlocks his phone. Luca stares.

They don’t speak except to say hello. 

He pulls out his own phone, opening his chat with Pecco, and sends a quick SOS.

Me

help

Pecco

I told you

Welcome to the next two years 

Me

fuck

Luca’s own team start to filter in, buzzing with quiet anticipation, and Vale jolts back to life, sliding his phone into his pocket and getting to his feet. 

“Should probably make sure Uccio doesn’t need help.” A glance towards Marc’s side of the box; Marc isn’t looking. 

“So you are not supposed to be in here,” Luca says, pointed. 

“But no one stopped me.” Valentino smirks back. “Good luck today.”

“Yeah.”

When Vale has already left, already out of the garage—only then does Marc look, gaze lingering after him.

Jesus. Jesus fucking Christ.

[waru-chan8]

Who’s their biggest shipper?

they are🥹🫶🏼

[42bakery]

SpeedUP I'm begging you, let it be purple and let us complete the rainbow

[waru-chan8]

SpeedUP Team celebrating 1&3 ahead of the 2023 Australian GP

[crisicsgames]

MOTOGP 24 SEPANG INCROCIO PER LA VITTORIA 🏆🥇 MOTO 2 -1 #motogpthevideogame

[entrenched-heart]

My heartbeat picked up pace immediately as I watched him reach for the box. As the round steel lay on my chest, I swear I could feel my heart racing against it, as if he had just dialled on the speedup button. I instinctively look at anywhere but his eyes, but at some instances our gazes locked momentarily, and it killed me. A while later as he took it down, I tried to smile as casually as possible, “ ears okay?” I was met with a smile back, “yeah. You okay?” My breathing was already somewhat shallow, “I’m never outgrowing the nervousness of this.” And it showed, because this was the first time I stammered today. “Good”, he said, “Don’t change. I like it.” A tinge of sadness swept over me, “you’re not gonna see much more of this, you know.” And then his right palm rested on the upper part of my heart, gently, “yes, so I may as well make the most of it.”

That’s really all it took, and all it will ever take, for me to enter into a trance right there. A hand over my heart is my eternal weakness. His hand was warm and comfortable, but electrifying all at the same time. I trembled- or shuddered- and I wondered if he knew. A huge wave of sensation shot through me, a feeling that was so specific, that was that way only because this extraordinarily specific craving was satisfied at last. In just the right way. My heart beat eagerly, earning to get closer to his palm, to be in it. I looked at him with a nervous smile, knowing that he was enjoying what he just did, too. In that moment, it was almost like I wanted my heart to send a message that I myself had no intention to. That I had really liked it. That this couldn’t just be done with anybody. That I was glad it was with him, and there was no other way.

But it was okay, because I was drowning in the waves of dopamine. Ear stething, hand stething… Choking, stimulating, caressing… But always, focusing on my heart. “What?” he asked, looking at me as if seeking for an answer. Instead of something out-of-the-world nightmarish, this time I’d finally learnt to simply indulge in the moment and tell him what’s on my mind, “I’m just thinking… that I’ll let you hold my heart if I could.” It was strange, us desiring the same thing we couldn’t have, but also strangely nice that we actually desired it mutually. “I want to hold your heart in my hand… I want to wrap my fingers around it, I want to squeeze it tightly…” And he got as close to that as humanely possible, while I savoured the clutches deeply in my memory.

Eventually the sky got dark, and I couldn’t see into his turquoise eyes like before. But they were still as deep, and I actually wanted to remember how he looks like. Though it will fade away so soon, as always.

“I’ll really miss this – your heart beating into my hand.” I whispered back, “me too”.

Maybe my heart had told him, this was my peak and my end.

[sand-realtor]

Humankind periodically goes through a speedup of its affairs, thereby experiencing the race between the renewable vitality of the living and the beckoning vitiation of decadence. In this periodic race, any pause becomes luxury. Only then can one reflect that all is permitted; all is possible.

-The Apocrypha Of Muad'Dib

[uthra-krish]

Quantum Computing and Data Science: Shaping the Future of Analysis

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and data-driven decision-making, I find two cutting-edge fields that stand out as potential game-changers: Quantum Computing and Data Science. Each on its own has already transformed industries and research, but when combined, they hold the power to reshape the very fabric of analysis as we know it.

In this blog post, I invite you to join me on an exploration of the convergence of Quantum Computing and Data Science, and together, we'll unravel how this synergy is poised to revolutionize the future of analysis. Buckle up; we're about to embark on a thrilling journey through the quantum realm and the data-driven universe.

Understanding Quantum Computing and Data Science

Before we dive into their convergence, let's first lay the groundwork by understanding each of these fields individually.

A Journey Into the Emerging Field of Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is a field born from the principles of quantum mechanics. At its core lies the qubit, a fundamental unit that can exist in multiple states simultaneously, thanks to the phenomenon known as superposition. This property enables quantum computers to process vast amounts of information in parallel, making them exceptionally well-suited for certain types of calculations.

Data Science: The Art of Extracting Insights

On the other hand, Data Science is all about extracting knowledge and insights from data. It encompasses a wide range of techniques, including data collection, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation. Machine learning and statistical methods are often used to uncover meaningful patterns and predictions.

The Intersection: Where Quantum Meets Data

The fascinating intersection of quantum computing and data science occurs when quantum algorithms are applied to data analysis tasks. This synergy allows us to tackle problems that were once deemed insurmountable due to their complexity or computational demands.

The Promise of Quantum Computing in Data Analysis

Limitations of Classical Computing

Classical computers, with their binary bits, have their limitations when it comes to handling complex data analysis. Many real-world problems require extensive computational power and time, making them unfeasible for classical machines.

Quantum Computing's Revolution

Quantum computing has the potential to rewrite the rules of data analysis. It promises to solve problems previously considered intractable by classical computers. Optimization tasks, cryptography, drug discovery, and simulating quantum systems are just a few examples where quantum computing could have a monumental impact.

Quantum Algorithms in Action

To illustrate the potential of quantum computing in data analysis, consider Grover's search algorithm. While classical search algorithms have a complexity of O(n), Grover's algorithm achieves a quadratic speedup, reducing the time to find a solution significantly. Shor's factoring algorithm, another quantum marvel, threatens to break current encryption methods, raising questions about the future of cybersecurity.

Challenges and Real-World Applications

Current Challenges in Quantum Computing

While quantum computing shows great promise, it faces numerous challenges. Quantum bits (qubits) are extremely fragile and susceptible to environmental factors. Error correction and scalability are ongoing research areas, and practical, large-scale quantum computers are not yet a reality.

Real-World Applications Today

Despite these challenges, quantum computing is already making an impact in various fields. It's being used for simulating quantum systems, optimizing supply chains, and enhancing cybersecurity. Companies and research institutions worldwide are racing to harness its potential.

Ongoing Research and Developments

The field of quantum computing is advancing rapidly. Researchers are continuously working on developing more stable and powerful quantum hardware, paving the way for a future where quantum computing becomes an integral part of our analytical toolbox.

The Ethical and Security Considerations

Ethical Implications

The power of quantum computing comes with ethical responsibilities. The potential to break encryption methods and disrupt secure communications raises important ethical questions. Responsible research and development are crucial to ensure that quantum technology is used for the benefit of humanity.

Security Concerns

Quantum computing also brings about security concerns. Current encryption methods, which rely on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, may become obsolete with the advent of powerful quantum computers. This necessitates the development of quantum-safe cryptography to protect sensitive data.

Responsible Use of Quantum Technology

The responsible use of quantum technology is of paramount importance. A global dialogue on ethical guidelines, standards, and regulations is essential to navigate the ethical and security challenges posed by quantum computing.

My Personal Perspective

Personal Interest and Experiences

Now, let's shift the focus to a more personal dimension. I've always been deeply intrigued by both quantum computing and data science. Their potential to reshape the way we analyze data and solve complex problems has been a driving force behind my passion for these fields.

Reflections on the Future

From my perspective, the fusion of quantum computing and data science holds the promise of unlocking previously unattainable insights. It's not just about making predictions; it's about truly understanding the underlying causality of complex systems, something that could change the way we make decisions in a myriad of fields.

Influential Projects and Insights

Throughout my journey, I've encountered inspiring projects and breakthroughs that have fueled my optimism for the future of analysis. The intersection of these fields has led to astonishing discoveries, and I believe we're only scratching the surface.

Future Possibilities and Closing Thoughts

What Lies Ahead

As we wrap up this exploration, it's crucial to contemplate what lies ahead. Quantum computing and data science are on a collision course with destiny, and the possibilities are endless. Achieving quantum supremacy, broader adoption across industries, and the birth of entirely new applications are all within reach.

In summary, the convergence of Quantum Computing and Data Science is an exciting frontier that has the potential to reshape the way we analyze data and solve problems. It brings both immense promise and significant challenges. The key lies in responsible exploration, ethical considerations, and a collective effort to harness these technologies for the betterment of society.