#X44

[luchitohamilton]

[wejustvibing]

teamx44: Transportation is one of the fastest-growing sources of global emissions, and not surprisingly, this has placed an unequal burden on vulnerable communities around the world.

So lewis hamilton’s team x44 teamed up with earthrise studio to shine the spotlight on 6 dynamic young activists who are tackling the issue of transportation and how it shapes their local communities and the world at-large. We hope their stories of passion and activism inspire you to think even deeper about what movement means to all of us.

All 6 short films dropping this coming Monday, July 31st on lewis hamilton’s YouTube channel

[tooxmanyxships]

Huh.

I am always completely normal

When it comes to them.

( spoilers RxR won that battle)

[crosscountryrally]

Apuesta ganadora: El X44 gana por primera vez con nueva combinación de pilotos y nuevo partner técnico 

Una importante victoria logró el Vida Carbon X44 de Cristina Gutiérrez y Fraser McConnell al quedarse con el triunfo en el primer Hydro X-Prix en Escocia. Es el primer triunfo en una importante apuesta del equipo de Lewis Hamilton al cambiar de soporte técnico a Carlin Racing y subir a Fraser McConnell a reemplazar a Sebastien Loeb. El resultado también le permite al equipo de Cristina meterse de lleno en la lucha por el título.

Después de ver la Clasificación 1 cancelada por niebla, con mejores condiciones se disputó la Clasificación 2 y en su Heat, X44 dominó con claridad mostrándose como favoritos al triunfo. En la Final, una espectacular largada por una línea alterna puso a McConnell puntero en las primeras curvas, pero fue adelantado por Timmy Hansen del Andretti United luego de irse ancho en una frenada.

Hansen y su compañera Catie Munnings liderarían toda la prueba con McConnell y Gutiérrez de escolta, pero una penalización por un mal protocolo durante el cambio de pilotos les quitó el triunfo. Así, la dupla española-jamaiquina se convertía en una nueva pareja triunfadora en 2023.

El podio lo completaron Christine GZ y Timo Scheider del Carl Cox Motorsport en una carrera donde debieron sobrevivir ya que el Ganassi sufrió un pinchazo y el Rosberg X Racing sufrió un fuerte vuelco tras una salida de pista de Johan Kristoffersson.

Con los resultados de hoy, el campeonato queda muy apretado con Acciona Sainz de Laia Sanz y Mattias Ekstrom, ganadores de la Redemption Race para los picados liderando con 56 puntos seguidos de Veloce con 52, X44 con 49 y Rosberg X Racing con 42.

Mañana se disputa otra ronda en Dumfries and Galloway, Escocia.

Imagen: Charly López / Prensa Extreme E

[motorsportverso]

O que muda na Extreme E em 2024

A principal mudança que a organização anunciou que a temporada de 2024 será a última da Extreme E, más não é o fim totalmente da categoria será uma troca de energia que os carros usam nas baterias, sendo usadas baterias de hidrogênio e sendo renomeada para Extreme H, além de ter a troca para um novo carro.

A ideia inicial era que a Extreme E , e  a Extreme H , correrem no mesmo final de semana em grids separados , tendo as baterias de classificação da serie E , logo depois as da serie H , e depois tendo as finais das duas separadas , como é feito nas categorias de rallycross.

Outras mudanças a saída da ABT Cupra , inicialmente ficaram somente 9 equipes , até a entrada da nova equipe Sun Minimal Team .

A  X44 Vida Carbon Racing sai da Extreme E em 2024

A Hummer EV Chip Ganassi Racing não estará na Extreme E em 2024, há interesse de retorno para a Extreme H em 2025.

A Carl Cox Motorsport não participara da Extreme E em 2024 pensando na temporada de 2025 da nova Extreme H.

E com a saída demais três equipes da temporada de 2024 , ficaram somente 8 na temporada atual. com a entrada além da sunminimal team , a equipe da Nascar Legacy Motor Club entrara na temporada de 2024.

Primeira imagem do carro da Extreme H , creditos imagem  instagram Extreme E News

As pinturas

Veloce : a vai usar a pintura cromada a temporada completa.

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Rosberg X Racing: esta com uma pintura listrada que lembra muita coisa eletronica

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[remotewatch]

i love eating fruit from multiple continents at once just to stick it to those flop roman emperors who would have had me in the coliseum nosebleeds without a real first name

[sionisjaune]

congratulations to rosberg x racing for clinching another championship!!!!

[pickypickypeak]

There is a Twitter Magnifico simp account who has the most braindeadass takes on Wish.

A notable post they made is comparing Asha with Gaston with Knowing What I Know Now compared to the Mob Song.

🙄

yeah totally makes sense. song that literally goes “kill the beast” is the same as asha (who is being framed as a criminal by the king and has the whole kingdom against her) telling the truth to her friends about the king being crazy evil

although you know what really makes me mad. it’s people in the comments for these kind of posts. they always blindly go “yeah! so true! disney sucks! don’t watch their movies!” without even questioning what’s being talked about. they don’t know who this is. they haven’t seen wish. they haven’t seen a disney movie in 10 years. but they’ll always go “yeah disney is so bad now that it’s gone woke🙄” I’d literally love to take their phone and throw it out the window

[bitcoinversus]

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[slvrarrws]

It's XE race week and x44 are the only team to have not announced drivers yet. Who do they think they are, JBXE? 🤪

[keepthedelta]

I really enjoyed your brocedes lore drop, do you have any lore about princess cake that you think people should know?

i could hardly talk about princess cake without mentioning the britney of it all. jenson talked multiple times about how into britney spears he was, how attractive he thought she was, he once even said that if he was stranded on a desert island he would take britney and an ugly man with him so she would sleep with him. he then nicknamed nico that because, and i quote "he was so beautiful". one time when nico and jenson went out clubbing with some of the others (mark, lewis, felipe etc.) jenson called out to nico "hit me baby one more time" and nico immediately got upset. since then jenson has gone on to date and marry a woman called brittny, reaching a stage of the psychosexual cycle that most don't ever get to.

jenson used to dock his yacht (park his yacht? idk the technical term) in the harbour overlooked by nico's building. i have no idea whether it was the most convenient harbour for him or not (although i'm pretty sure he didn't live in the same part of monaco as nico) and there's no indication it made any difference to their lives, but it amuses me. like a gatsbyesque kind of cry for attention.

jenson was a huge fan of triathlons, even organising some for charity i think, and nico also got into them. nico did what (according to jenson) many triathlon lovers do and got into finding ways to reduce his time, including getting a really lightweight bike. he and jenson would talk about that sort of thing leading to (what i consider to be) this iconic "hey jb jb jb" moment. they even competed together in several triathlons, including a charity triathlon they did as a team with alex wurz (jenson did the swim, alex the bike and nico the run).

nico originally wanted to do his extreme e team with jenson. he asked jenson, but jenson had already been looking into it and struggling to find sponsors so nico went off and did his team alone. they eventually both ended up entering teams, and nico's team rxr, lewis's team x44 and jenson's team jbxe ended the first season of extreme e as the top three teams (in that order). nico also later stole jenson's female driver mikaela ahlin-kottulinsky for the second season.

jenson's dad's favourite f1 driver was keke rosberg, so when jenson got the chance to meet keke at the 1998 spanish grand prix he was really excited. in his book he wrote about how irritating he found nico (who was 12) because nico was trying to tug keke away and jenson just wanted nico to leave them alone.

this is them both on that day. i like to think that it really is nico pulling at keke's arm in the second photo.

[wejustvibing]

w.

[20dollarlolita]

If anyone is wondering, this tutorial to make this skirt is still a method that works. Both those links are from wayback machine captures from a time before Photobucket betraying us all and deleting pictures.

Yes, I'm still mad about that.

Anyway, in the spirit of seeing if budget lolita was still doable in 2023, here we go with a cost breakdown:

>Main skirt fabric was a $10 walmart 4-yard precut; enough fabric to make waist ties not pictured here >Skirt is fully lined with a polyester bedsheet I got for $1 at a surplus store >The bow lace was part of a bulk purchase, ended up costing 21cents a yard. Skirt probably has 6-8 yards of lace on it. The little vertical strips were scraps from another project. Back shirring on skirt is 1/4" elastic, which covid conveniently made super cheap. >I didn't have the zipper on hand, so I had to buy one for $1 at walmart. As anyone who has been on Wawak knows, that's massively overpaying for zippers.

This skirt is 3" longer and a few sizes larger than the one in the post. I had to make a new cutting layout for the skirt, and it took a fair bit of additional fabric. In addition, to save on fabric width, the "side seams" on this are actually a little bit farther back than the side of the skirt. I cut the back of the skirt to full fabric width, and then added the adjustment for the fullness into the side front pieces. Clarice, who wrote the original tutorial, mentions that the person she made it for was very small, so I sized it up a little bit.

I make sketches like this as I go for personal reference, but maybe it'll be helpful.

In the spirit of livejournal, I "clarified" my sketch by making it more confusing in GIMP. (Your pieces you need to cut will be back: 44"x19.5", cut 1. Side Front, 22"x19.5", cut 2. Center Front, 15"x25.5", cut 1. Frills, 5.5"x44", cut 9 or 10).

So, when we get into it, yeah, if you have a good design (or can copy a good design) and you're willing to put some time into it, you can still do a budget lolita skirt for under $20 of materials, if you're careful. I'm mostly making this post to save which archive.org captures are the ones with working pictures.

(It also helps if you don't mess up on the waistband so many times that it slowly shrinks into a 1" waistband.)

Fun fact: the trim on the ends of the waist ties may or may not be because I hemmed them sloppily and the hem came up bubbly, and zigzagging some lace onto the bottom handily covered up the bubbling. One of the advantages about knowing a decent amount about lolita fashion is that you can look at things and go, "Yeah, if I added x here, it'd be fine," and knowing enough about sewing to go, "yeah, if I do x cheat here, it'll look better" and being able to put the two together and go, "hey, if I cheat here, it'll still look lolita!" It's a good feeling.

Anyway, if anyone else has ever used Clarice's tutorial to make a skirt, I'd love to see it! This is my second time using it, but the last time was almost a decade ago at this point, and I think I've improved a lot since then.

[crosscountryrally]

Cristina Gutiérrez retorna al X44 en la Extreme E 2023, será compañera de Fraser McConnell en renovado equipo con apoyo de Rodin Carlin

El equipo de Lewis Hamilton tendrá una importante evolución para 2023, cambiando tanto de preparador como de alineación de pilotos luego de obtener el título por lo justo en 2022. Para esta temporada, X44 Vida Carbon Racing se ha asociado con Rodin Carlin, conocido y exitoso equipo de las categorías menores de la Fórmula 1 e intentará seguir rompiendo barreras de integración con nuevos programas de inclusión. Las primeras dos temporadas, X44 estuvo asociado a Prodrive.

En cuanto a los pilotos, Cristina Gutiérrez seguirá en la escudería campeona pero ahora acompañada por Fraser McConnell, piloto jamaicano del Nitro RallyCross que hizo su debut junto a JBXE el año pasado luego de ser piloto de campeonato.

El renovado X44 será dirigido por Stephanie Carlin, que compartirá este cargo con liderar la estructura Rodin Carlin en la nueva categoría femenina F1 Academy. Además de Carlin, el equipo de mecánicos e ingenieros estará formado por integrantes de diversos orígenes buscando aumentar la inclusión en la categoría.

“Después de la victoria de la temporada pasada, estoy muy emocionada de volver a la pista y darlo todo de nuevo por el equipo. Fraser es un joven talento emocionante y tengo muchas ganas de competir con él este año. También estoy ansiosa por conocer al nuevo equipo y me siento privilegiada de ser parte de la aventura hacia una industria más justa e inclusiva. No puedo esperar a ver lo que podemos lograr juntos” declaró Cristina Gutiérrez, que volverá a disputar la Extreme E junto a X44 por tercera temporada consecutiva al mismo tiempo que participa en el Mundial de Rally Raid FIA W2RC.

Imagen: Prensa Extreme E

[motorsportverso]

X44 Vida Carbon Racing deixa a Extreme E em 2024 

A equipe do Sir Lewis Hamilton , X44 anunciou ontem que não vai disputar a temporada de 2024 da Extreme E , após três anos na categoria , a equipe que foi campeã em 2022 com a dupla Sebastien Loeb e Cristina Guttierrez , que teve 4 vitórias na categoria , uma na temporada de 2021, e também 2022 e em 2023 duas com a dupla Fraser McConnell e Cristina Guttierrez que terminou a última temporada da 4ª posição.

O comunicado da X44

“Depois de três anos como parte da família Extreme E, anunciamos hoje que o X44 deixará a série. Tivemos três temporadas incríveis competindo como X44, vencendo várias corridas e até um campeonato mundial. “Obrigado aos nossos pilotos Cristina, Fraser e Sebastien, e a todos os nossos talentosos companheiros de equipe que trabalharam duro para nos ajudar a alcançar tudo o que fizemos. Ainda mais do que os resultados na pista, estamos orgulhosos de ter feito parte de uma conversa mais ampla sobre como tornar o automobilismo mais sustentável, do nosso sucesso em dar a pessoas de todos os tipos de origens uma oportunidade de prosperar nesta equipe, e do legado que Lewis, proprietário da equipe, deixará para trás com o programa Racing for All. “Embora não compitamos em 2024, estaremos torcendo pela série do lado de fora e ficando de olho nos emocionantes desenvolvimentos no Extreme H. “Obrigado por todo o seu apoio.”

[chussyracing]

f1 news and rumours to keep us in shape during the winter break:

apparently Fred didn't want Charles to risk p2 in the race and his own position in the standings with the brave move he did to grt the team p2 in constructors

points are calculated and with them also entrance fees which for red bull for next year equals a huge amount of 7.4 mil

Merc team found the missing wedding ring in Yas Marina, congrats!

everyone heard the story about how Newey almost went to Ferrari (because they offered huge paycheck, a flat in Monaco and complete autonomy over F1 and hypercar projects to him), but I never knew Aston Martin was the key to tying him to Red Bull. Apparently Marko took him to the side at the time, asked what Ferrari offered and then offered more money (which is not what sealed the deal) AND a full hypercar where he can design his car how he wants - and that's how Aston Martin Valkyrie was born out of his papers

Este and George were sick (again) in Abu Dhabi and some team members across all teams were too, which raised important question that has been floating around f1 spaces for a while - how huge of an impact has this extensive calendar (even more so in 2024) on the mental and physical health of both the drivers and the team crew

Pourchaire potentially going to Ferrari/AR WEC? Or maybe Superformula, because he didn't manage to grab the F1 seat, but hinted at a new contract

cooling equipment from 2024 should be used at races with extremely warm condition as a reaction to Qatar gp this year, more over there is rumoured [very simplified non technical explanation from me coming] solution of making a small hole from the bottom of the front spoiler to make space for more air and fia claims it will all have precise rules so nobody could end up using it to gain unfair advantage

Merc seem to be finally scraping up the concept that didn't work for 2 years now and said they are completely reworking basically every single part of the car

Val rased 150k with his BotASS

Stephanie Carlin who is CEO/team principal of Rodin Carlin and Lewis' extreme e team x44 will be joining mclaren as business operations director

Ben Sulayem expressed how he would love to get Masi back into FIA

Logan has been official announced to complete the 2024 grid which remains unchanged for the first time

Tina Hausmann to Aston Martin F1 academy seat (I can't wait for Ferrari to announce who they decided to sign)

Jessica Hawkins expands her role in Aston Martin to head of racing for f1 academy too

Pato Oward now has enough points to qualify for a super licence

wet weather wheel covers will be tested in in spring 2024

no work on 2026 cars before 2025 is allowed to make sure nobody gets an unfair advantage

CBS is planning a comedy with Guenther Steiner

the Apex movie with Brad Pitt had its release date pushed back to summer 2025 (they face financial issues apparently as well as staff issues after the strike in Hollywood)

Iwasa is headed to Superformula for the next season

Forbes calculated what each driver made in 2023 (idk what their sources are for this tho) and the order is: Oscar + Pierre 8 mil, George 9 mil

Alfa Romeo as a brand is focusing from f1 to WEC now after the contract with Sauber expired (so no Alfa Romeo to Haas as some rumours suggested)

speaking of Sauber, on 10th December they are announcing a new name (based on new title sponsor) in the UK

Honda racing Thanks day (or whatever they call it) happened a few days ago and Yuki looked very cute, also Ferrari had an event in Jeddah last week and Charles could finally do his wishful donuts

Autosport Awards took place and Horner, Verstappen, Piastri and Norris (and who knows who else of the people i don't like) won in some categories i am too tired to list here

Ferrari movie red carpet happened yesterday and some big names including susie and toto wolff were there (fun fact: toto and Christian were asked about charles' rumoured contract extension and they both said he is a great driver and tvereis no reason for ferrari to not lock him down before 2024 contracts expiring carnage happens)

speaking of, Gazzetta reported that charles apparently signed a 5 year contract extension with ferrari and Carlos is expected to extend as well except he is asking for 2 year contract (or at least 1+1) and the team wants to sign him for one year only

some people (cough Horner cough) were concerned about conflict of interest of Susie and Toto Wolff because they hate to see the girlboss winning - there is now official investigation that neither the Wolffs/Mercedes nor the F1 were informed before FIA let the info go into media

Madrid street circuit signed a contract for 10 years starting with 2026 and while Barcelona promoters are trying to keep their place on the calendar i doubt we would have 2 spanish gps with how packed the calendar already is

F1 also announced 6 sprint locations for 2024 and it will be a mess :))))

also remember how Doohan tried to get a place in Alpine wec before mick took it? He is now out of f2 for 2024 and turned down indycar offer too so rip to him

Ferrari drivers are on sim duty this week to give feedback on 676 project

Fred also admitted they scraped 2 more upgrades they had planned out for this season to instead focus those sources (financial and designer) for 2024

Alonso and Verstappen are reportedly planning to do Le Mans together and looking for a third one (worst threesome in the history of universe, no matter who they choose)

Prize money was also calculated and it's 140 mil for rbr, 131 mil for merc and 122 mil for ferrari (etc etc)

everyone is so silent about Andretti (who got approved by fia but didn't get an agreement to join the grid from other f1 teams yet) because apparently Hitech who also tried to get into f1 got turned down despite being much futher in development (concept in wind tunnel, merc pre contract for engine supplying etc) and they will be launching legal action against fia/fom acussing them of bias

And finally Liam Lawson is now a youtuber (as he waits for f1 opportunity because he has the 2025 seat confirmed and ricciardo has a clause in his contract to be 1st priority for rbr if they let go of Checo but also to hire lawson for his place if it happens)