#carlos checa

[boanerges20]

Sete Gibernau Carlos Checa Valentino Rossi Max Biaggi Alex Barros Marco Melandri

[42bakery]

Izasku Ruíz, David Alonso and Carlos Checa dancing (and singing) the Waka Waka

[crosscountryrally]

Listos para sorprender: Century Racing tendrá equipo oficial de dos autos con Baragwanath y Serradori en el Dakar 2023 además de ocho autos privados incluyendo equipos Astara y Coronel

Century Racing no se rinde. Un preparador más pequeño y especializado, basado en Sudáfrica, viene entregando prototipos para rally-raid desde 1996 con comienzos modestos, pero con metas ambiciosas. Poco a poco ha ido aumentando la complejidad y competitividad de sus prototipos, hasta llegar a sorprender con una victoria de etapa con Mathieu Serradori en el Dakar 2020. Buenas presentaciones en fechas del Mundial FIA y en el muy competitivo Campeonato Sudafricano de Cross Country (SARRC) han alentado a Century, que irá con su programa más ambicioso hasta el momento buscando dar una que otra sorpresa. Serán 10 prototipos Century CR6 los que saldrán a la ruta en Arabia Saudita, incluyendo un equipo oficial de dos nuevos prototipos de última generación CR6-T para Mathieu Serradori y Brian Baragwanath. 

Mucho ha progresado Century desde que un consistente Mathieu Serradori terminara en la octava posición general luego de ganar sorpresivamente la Etapa 8 del Dakar 2020. El auto se ha mostrado cada vez más competitivo tanto en el Dakar como en el Campeonato Sudafricano y en 2022, Serradori terminó en la séptima posición pese a que el Century no es un auto T1+. Baragwanath debutó con una P32 en 2021 y terminó P14 en 2022. Algunos problemas mecánicos han sido el principal dolor de cabeza de Century y eso esperan haber solucionado con un nuevo motor completamente nuevo para este Dakar en sus prototipos oficiales pilotados por Baragwanath y Serradori, con un impulsor 2,9 litros V6 biturbo Audi proveniente del Audi RS4. 

Este potente motor de 444 HP estará acompañado con un ECU Motec y entregará tracción a los ejes traseros de este buggy 4x2 a través de una caja secuencial Sadev SL924. Adicionalmente al motor, se ha trabajado en el recorrido de suspensión llegando a 440 mm que dan al buggy con neumáticos BF Goodrich de 17 pulgadas grandes oportunidades de sorprender. Además, se ha incorporado inflado y gato hidráulico automático, para evitar perder minutos valiosos con la punta.

Baragwanath contará con Leonard Cramer como navegante, en tanto que Serradori repetirá la exitosa dupla con el ex-motard Loic Minaudier.

También tendrán algo que decir las tripulaciones privadas que pilotan Century CR6 de la anterior generación, con el motor de 7 litros V8 Chevrolet LS7 derivado del Corvette. Los que más ruido podrían hacer son los autos españoles del equipo Astara, con Laia Sanz, Carlos Checa, Oscar Fuertes y  Sergio Vallejo al volante. También están los siempre alegres hermanos Tim y Tom Coronel con un Century de su equipo Coronel Racing que tendrá para esta edición un segundo auto en Michel Kremer. Finalmente, dos equipos privados franceses tendrán a Yannick Panagiotis y Antoine Galland al volante.

Seguro estas tripulaciones poblarán buena parte del Top 20 y con algo de suerte podrían pelear más arriba en este Dakar.

[generaldavila]

BERNARDO DE GÁLVEZ HIJO DE MÁLAGA. General de División (R.) Rafael Dávila Álvarez

  Estar en Málaga solo para alumbrarse con la luz de sus costas o la seriedad de sus montañas es insuficiente para despejar la incógnita de esta provincia que se reparte por el mundo entero. ¡Ya quisiera París o Londres! Málaga llega más allá de la geografía y en ella no hay distancias que alejen sino que todas acercan a la Historia de España. Cuando un pueblo es culto vuela como sus golondrinas…

[kingofthering]

Carlos Checa : “Marc Marquez starts to walk, not to run, but to walk his first steps on a motorbike. For him, he is so integrated with the machine, his natural activation process is so fast, so automatic, that the integration athlete/machine is one.”

[retromania4ever]

Sete Gibernau 🇪🇸

Carlos Checa 🇪🇸

Valentino Rossi 🇮🇹

Max Biaggi 🇮🇹

Alex Barros 🇧🇷

Marco Melandri 🇮🇹    

#Moto_classic

[batsplat]

from the stuff i’ve heard marc’s former honda teammates (dani jorge and pol in their media careers but joan also i guess) say about him now that they’re racing is generally quite positive, both on a professional/riding level but also seemingly on a personal level? i’m wondering what you make of that given that, yeah, marc doesn’t seem like a very good teammate (unless you’re alex who i’ve left off this list). like MARC wants to separate on and off track stuff and it seems like all of these guys are willing too at least in retrospect, so he can’t have truly burned bridges with them. do you have any thoughts on that

(x, x) most riders are quite good at not burning bridges with each other! it's not like marc's competitors don't know that this stuff is kinda part of the game. I mean, all of marc's past teammates were also trying to assert themselves within the internal hierarchy... you can say that certain teammates engage in 'worse' behaviour than others, but, like, these people do understand they're supposed to be fighting each other! a baseline degree of nastiness is factored in and will be accepted to a greater or lesser extent by your rivals - especially when it comes to asserting yourself in intra-team power struggles. you might hate the other guy in the moment, but generally speaking once the active part of the rivalry is done with... you will probably get over it. marc's fellow riders are aware of how ultra-competitive marc is - and to a certain point they do respect it, not least because they're aware that this is part of the reason why marc has ended up with all those titles. it's like dani said, right, it's marc's strong suit. and in general, you do have to say that there's relatively few teammate pairings that devolve to the level of toxicity that it completely destroys the interpersonal relationship. you might need some level of preexisting animosity... most of the purely competitive sins can be healed with a little time

on the 'separating on-track and off-track' thing... well. this is kind of a question of how you define these things, you can say that marc generally speaking isn't going to massively hold grudges over isolated on-track incidents or whatever... but he doesn't just leave his fighting to the track, and personally I've also never felt he can entirely separate these things out in his mind. can you really say his professional and private relationships with other riders are completely detached from one another? mostly, he's opted to be pretty disengaged from his fellow riders as a collective, and obviously that's a good way to not take things too personally... it's all part of the game, isn't it? sometimes it's good to go with the straightforward approach: marc tells you he will make your life hell, he does indeed make your life hell, and then you both move on with your lives and can maybe actually have a pretty amiable relationship with him in years to come. he's not really defying your expectations at any point here, is he now? it's still a question for each of them as individuals as to whether they think that kind of behaviour is above board and acceptable or not... but everyone by now knows that marc plays these games, so it's not like they're going in blind

and it's not like other former teammates are constantly badmouthing each other. I mean... look, let's just cut to the chase here and bring in valentino as our reference point (as he is for the sport as a whole, which by the way does also help create a certain baseline of acceptability for marc's antics - maybe goated riders are just supposed to be dicks who knows). vale's premier class teammates were 1) nobody (2000-01), 2) tohru ukawa (2002), 3) nicky hayden (2003; 2011-12), 4) carlos checa (2004), 5) colin edwards (2005-2007), 6) jorge lorenzo (2008-10; 2013-16), 7) maverick vinales (2017-20), 8) franco morbidelli (2021), and 9) andrea dovizioso (2021). of these eight men (let's just exclude 'nobody' for now), do you know how many had serious complaints at any point about valentino as a teammate? that's right, it's one guy. one. some of valentino's other teammates, like hayden, checa and edwards, were even quite actively positive about their whole experience. this is the thing - you do need some specific circumstances for teammate rivalries to escalate from 'being kinda bitchy every other month' to 'actively fantasising about stabbing each other'. not accounting for natural interpersonal animosity, let's list some circumstantial factors that you need to get a bridge-burning-worthy level of feud:

you need a competitive bike. it is possible to beef about development direction when you're in the trenches (cf late 2010's yamaha, 2020's honda)... but generally speaking this is going to be quite low-level petty stuff, not actual war

you also need something that approaches competitiveness between teammates. if one teammate is unquestionably stronger than the other one, then it is very unlikely that you are going to get any open hostilities. the tension comes when the two sides are close enough to each other for the internal hierarchy to actually be a contentious issue (this is also basic self preservation... if you're the far weaker teammate then you do not want to make the situation troublesome, because then you will be the one to be fired)

following on from those first two things... well, it doesn't hurt to have a title fight in the mix. there are also other ways you can generate competitive stakes, like, for instance, if you and your teammate know that one of you will be out of a job soon. basically, it helps to have something to squabble over

it is maybe easy to forget how rare it is this century for teammates to be fighting directly for a title, let alone over the course of multiple seasons. only two 1-2's since the year 2000 and they're both for the factory yamaha's (though 2006, 2011-13 and 2017 did all prominently feature two factory hondas). which means that for valentino, the prerequisites were met just the once in his premier class career... and yes, the results were pretty memorable, but (topic! for! another! post!) it's worth pointing out that even that relationship was pretty much 'fine' whenever there was a sizeable disparity between the two of them performance-wise (2008 and 2013 are the most clear cut examples). I think the way I'd frame it with marc is that he has a bunch of mildly dubious strategies up his sleeve to assert himself within the team, which don't really deviate that far from what you'd expect from a rider of marc's calibre and only need to be escalated under specific circumstances. that doesn't mean he doesn't have the potential to be ruthless, but up until now it's mostly been a fairly 'acceptable' level of ruthlessness on the intra-team level... and not something that is likely to make other riders actually hate him

taking marc's teammates one by one... dani was the closest to meeting the bridge-burning prerequisites, though he was only a title rival in marc's rookie season. and marc did go further with him than he did with anyone else, and dani has made some pointed comments about marc's style as a teammate... but yes, he is fonder of marc these days. partly I'd just emphasise again that this is a fairly natural progression when you've stopped directly competing for long enough, and partly it's also just a question of individual personality - dani's not massively into holding grudges. then there's jorge, who... I mean, they might as well not have been teammates, given that jorge was either too slow or too injured to even be sharing any track space with marc. you have to put that one down primarily to circumstance, seeing as jorge's own track record on the teammate front isn't exactly spotless. marc and jorge beefing in 2019 would have been pretty dumb and also a massive waste of everyone's time in a year in which marc singlehandedly won the team's championship. even those two needed more to get things going

moving on to the dark years, pol and marc had an extremely stop-and-start partnership on a honda that was generally pretty uncompetitive... so the only stuff they could get ever so mildly irritable about were riveting incidents like 'marc saying pol wasn't the biggest championship threat' (neither of them were) or 'pol saying he'd copy marc's set up' (which proved entirely useless). not exactly title decider territory, is it now, and marc very much had pol covered as a challenger throughout their partnership. also, those two do have a longer history! they've known each other since they were kids and hold a pretty significant place in each other's careers. now that pol's more or less retired, it's natural there'll be quite a lot of sentimentality there - which will paper over any small cracks that appeared during those two years. and joan was a one year teammate at a time in which the bike was consistently close to offing them both. they only managed to start a sunday race together as teammates on thirteen occasions. it would take some serious effort to engineer a feud with that little opportunity, and, really, why on earth would you bother. maybe if honda had gone for rinsy rather than joan for the factory seat, it could've been a bit more prickly, but it's unlikely that it would have escalated beyond that

this is the thing, right, the only one of these partnerships that would have been worth burning bridges over was dani, and even there marc pretty much had him handled after the first season. in general, marc has been pretty clear on how he's not interested in making friends with the other side of the garage while the teammate relationship is ongoing... which is fine! there's some prominent-ish teammate pairings that are actually good friends, some teammate pairings where one of them is actively helping out and advising the other one, but some riders prefer to just keep their distance. it would have been a little silly of marc to start a feud with a teammate who is galaxies away from being a competitive threat, let alone a title rival, but generally it is possible to toe the line between 'attempting to suppress your internal rivals enough to stop them from becoming a problem for you' and 'taking radical enough action to make your internal rivals despise you'

especially in the post-dani era, marc never really had any need to push things too far... and, let's face it, how many of your teammate relationships end up with burnt bridges is also quite frankly a question of luck and circumstance. do you want to guess which top rider on paper has the worst track record this century with premier class teammate feuds, in terms of a) how many they've had, and b) how little public reconciliation there has been since the end of the rivalry?

yes, that's right, it's the first name that comes to mind when you're thinking of toxic and conflict-prone riders: andrea dovizioso. that old devil, constantly causing trouble. just couldn't stop undermining his poor, innocent teammates. can somebody please stop this ruthless bully before it's too late

I think you get the point. I would personally suggest that dovi is not in fact the worst teammate it is possible to have in a motogp top team. he just happened to find himself in a situation where he was teammates with two separate guys he did not click with at all, in situations that involved a pairing of riders who were (or had the potential to be) competitive with each other, as well as some proper stakes attached to the rivalry. in general, situational factors are going to determine this stuff more than anything else... and marc more often than not does have a reasonably good feel for picking his battles. he's flirted with the line, but he's mostly avoided crossing it. he hasn't had to

[boanerges20]

Sete Gibernau Carlos Checa Valentino Rossi Max Biaggi Alex Barros Marco Melandri

[42bakery]

According to Checa, Marc could have save that if there wasn't any piano (which is a Misano 200)

[fotograrte]

Castillo de Karlstejn, República checa:

Este castillo medieval se encuentra al suroeste de Praga, a 32 kilómetros (...y ...) fue construido en 1348 por encargo del emperador Carlos IV.

En épocas posteriores el castillo tuvo diversas reconstrucciones. Asi, en 1485 se remodeló en estilo gótico, y más tarde, a finales del siglo XVI, en estilo renacentista.

Fue utilizado durante un tiempo para guardar las joyas de la corona de Bohemia.

Karlstejn Castle, Czech Republic (by bialobrody)

[waru-chan8]

Do we believe Checa reporting Bezz staying with the Mooney VR46 Racing Team?

[crosscountryrally]

El Astara Team aumenta sus ambiciones para el Dakar 2023 con tres prototipos con combustible sustentable y una alineación de figuras emergentes en el rally raid

En su segundo año como equipo en el Dakar, las ambiciones del grupo de movilidad Astara han crecido. Por un lado, está el crecimiento del equipo ahora a contar con tres prototipos basados en el Century CR6 y con alineaciones de pilotos emergentes en el rally raid de cuatro ruedas como Laia Sanz y Carlos Checa, ambos en su segundo año en autos y Oscar Fuertes. Pero también está el objetivo de la sostenibilidad y el vehículo llamado Astara 01 Concept será propulsado por combustibles sustentables en un 90% con e-fuel, subiendo el porcentaje del 70% de 2022.

El equipo atendido por SMC Motorsport y la estructura del director de equipo Gonzalo de Andrés contará con ocho vehículos de apoyo para los tres prototipos y un equipo de más de 30 profesionales. Al igual que en la edición 2022, el grupo Astara medirá, reportará y luego compensará la huella de carbono generada en los 15 días de competencia en Arabia Saudita. Esto mide tanto las emisiones directas e indirectas generadas por todos los vehículos del equipo y sus integrantes.

“Me hace especial ilusión formar parte de este proyecto, con un vehículo mucho más sostenible, un equipo preocupado por reducir y compensar su huella de carbono y comprometido con la diversidad… Confío en que Maurizio y yo haremos un gran papel…, ¡al igual que todo Astara Team!” comentó Laia Sanz, que suma un segundo proyecto sustentable a su palmarés deportivo luego de correr las dos primeras temporadas de Extreme E junto al Acciona Sainz y Carlos Sainz. Laia volverá a contar con el experimentado ex-motard Maurizio Gerini de navegante.

Por su parte, el ex-campeón de Superbikes, Carlos Checa buscará pelear por puestos de avanzada en su segundo año en el Dakar: “El año pasado fue una toma de contacto. Ahora, con Astara Team contamos con unos medios para aspirar a resultados más ambiciosos; por eso, Marc Solà y yo nos hemos preparado a conciencia”.

“Estoy muy ilusionado por regresar al Dakar, que siempre supone un desafío enorme, pero estamos preparados para superarlo con nota. Además, tengo otra vez a mi copiloto Diego Vallejo a la derecha y eso me aporta un extra de confianza.” concluye Oscar Fuertes, el más experimentado en autos de los pilotos del Astara Team.

El Dakar 2023 está programado para largar el 31 de diciembre en Yanbu, Arabia Saudita.

Imagen: Astara 

[10siglosdehistoria]

Velká Knihovna or the Giant Books

Velká Knihovna, los libros gigantes

(English / Español / Italiano)

The Giant Books, or "Velká Knihovna", housed in the Prague Castle Archives, are among the most important historical collections in the Czech Republic. These huge tomes, dating from the medieval period, were compiled by the rulers of Bohemia and contain valuable records, manuscripts and documents detailing the history, laws and administration of the region. The archives have grown over the centuries, particularly during the reign of Emperor Charles IV in the 14th century, who was a great patron of the arts and learning. Preserved through various political changes and wars, the Giant Books offer an invaluable insight into the cultural and political heritage of Central Europe. Today, the Prague Castle Archives remain a vital resource for historians and scholars studying the rich and complex history of the Czech lands.

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Los Libros Gigantes, o "Velká Knihovna", que se encuentran en los Archivos del Castillo de Praga, se encuentran entre las colecciones históricas más importantes de la República Checa. Estos enormes tomos, que datan del período medieval, fueron compilados por los gobernantes de Bohemia y contienen valiosos registros, manuscritos y documentos que detallan la historia, las leyes y la administración de la región. Los archivos han crecido a lo largo de los siglos, particularmente durante el reinado del emperador Carlos IV en el siglo XIV, quien fue un gran mecenas de las artes y el saber. Conservados a través de diversos cambios políticos y guerras, los Libros Gigantes ofrecen una visión invaluable del patrimonio cultural y político de Europa Central. Hoy en día, los Archivos del Castillo de Praga siguen siendo un recurso vital para los historiadores y académicos que estudian la rica y compleja historia de las tierras checas.

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I Libri Giganti, o "Velká Knihovna", conservati negli Archivi del Castello di Praga, sono tra le più importanti collezioni storiche della Repubblica Ceca. Questi enormi tomi, risalenti al periodo medievale, furono compilati dai governanti della Boemia e contengono preziosi registri, manoscritti e documenti che descrivono la storia, le leggi e l'amministrazione della regione. Gli archivi sono cresciuti nel corso dei secoli, in particolare durante il regno dell'imperatore Carlo IV nel XIV secolo, che era un grande mecenate delle arti e dell'apprendimento. Conservati attraverso vari cambiamenti politici e guerre, i Libri Giganti offrono una visione inestimabile del patrimonio culturale e politico dell'Europa centrale. Oggi, gli Archivi del Castello di Praga rimangono una risorsa vitale per gli storici e gli studiosi che studiano la ricca e complessa storia delle terre ceche.

[clovisfo]

15 teatros de ópera mais importantes do mundo:

1- Teatro Colón - Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2- La Scala - Milão, Itália. 3- Teatro Massimo - Palermo, Itália. 4- Opera Garnier - Paris, França. 5- Vienna Opera - Viena, Áustria. 6- Royal Opera House - Londres, Inglaterra. 7- Gran Teatro La Fenice - Veneza, Itália. 8- Metropolitan Opera House - Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos. 9- The Estates Theatre - Praga, República Checa. 10- Fox Theatre - Detroit, Estados Unidos. 11- Copenhagen Opera House - Copenhague, Dinamarca. 12- Teatro Bolshoi - Moscou, Rússia. 13- Opera House - Sydney, Austrália. 14- Margravial Opera House- Bayreuth, Alemanha. 15- Teatro San Carlo - Napoles, Itália.

[bikefuckersoftheworldunite]

lmao the state of motogp journalism……it wasn’t carlos checa…..it was alex barros who talked to valentino at interlagos.

attaching that bit again (translated from spanish)

[viviendopraga]

Praga – Hoy, 28 de septiembre, la Rep. Checa recuerda a su patrón nacional: ¡San Wenceslao ruega por nosotros!. El príncipe Wenceslao I, Premislita, muerto en la ciudad de Stará Boleslav (cercana a Praga), en donde se realiza la “Procesión Nacional de San Wencesleao”, que llega hasta la Iglesia, donde se expone el cráneo del santo patrono checo. Moneda de 20 Coronas Checas. Foto: TodaPraga. San Wenceslao es también la imagen de la identidad estatal checa, su más importante estatua está en la parte alta de la Av. Wenceslao en la capital checa y la moneda de 20 coronas tiene su imagen con el pedido: ¡San Wenceslao, No nos dejes perecer, ni a los por venir! Dos años para la muerte: 935 y 921 San Wenceslao fue asesinado un 28 de septiembre de 935, dice una versión. La historia se refiere a él como alguien muy educado, leía y escribía en latín, algo que en su época hacían muy pocos. Cultivaba el vino y la leyenda afirma que hacía muchas cosas buenas. Lo educa su abuela, Ludmila (quien será otra de las patronas del Pueblo Checo). Asesinada por su yerna, Drahomíra, la madre de San Wenceslao. Los historiadores dicen que mientras Ludmila favorecía a Wenceslao para que fuera rey checo, por ser el primer hijo de Vratislav. Quien, en ese momento, era príncipe y no había obtenido aún la bula papal que le consagraba el derecho a ser Rey y con título hereditario. Boleslav, el hermano mayor de Wenceslao nació después de la bula. Su mamá estimaba que él tenía más derechos a ser el soberano de las tierras checas. Vratislav muere en 921, según la otra versión, y es Drahomíra quien asume el mando por que sus dos hijos son aún menores de edad. Es cuando arrecia el pulso entre ella y su suegra. Ludmila deja el Castillo de Praga y se refugia en el Castillo de Tetín. Hasta a donde la manda a matar. La ahorcan con su propio velo. Václav ordenará, cuatro años después, traer los restos de su abuela y colocarlos en el Claustro de Jorge. Desde entonces empezará el Culto a Santa Ludmila. ¡San Wenceslao, ruega por nosotros! Boleslav II inicia el culto y Carlos IV lo extiende por Europa La mañana del 28 de septiembre del 929, Wenceslao va a la Iglesia, en Stará Boleslav, es interceptado y atacado por su hermano, Boleslav y tras una pelea, lo matan quienes lo acompañaban. Moría un príncipe, cristiano, bueno y empezaría la leyenda, que cobró más fuerza en el Siglo X. El sobrino del patrono, Boleslav II aportó mucho por que se le realizara culto. Por cierto, San Wenceslao está enterrado junto a su sobrino, en la Capilla de San Wenceslao. Hasta el emperador del Sacro Imperio Románico Germánico, Carlos IV honraba a San Wenceslao. Fue él quien mandó a construir la famosa Corona Imperial de San Wenceslao, la más antigua y más importante pieza de las Joyas de la Coronación de los Reyes Checos. Desde el año 2000, el 28 de septiembre se declara un día de feriado y recordación nacionales. Foto: Copia de la corona de San Wenceslao en el castillo de Karlstejn.Foto: Dominio Público CC0 1.0 ¡San Wenceslao, ruega por nosotros! https://www.viviendopraga.com/faltan-creyentes-asi-que-regalan-119-iglesias