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Lewin S. Day

@rainbowdefault.bsky.social

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i write a lot of fucking words and a lot of fucking songs. Youtube.com/WhatUpTKHere, bylines at The Autopian, Hackaday, The Drive, Jalopnik, Road and Track.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 18m

What a finish. #Bathurst

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1h

The current leaders, with 22 laps to go... started 13th and 18th.

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1h

Now heartbreak for the #2.

It's all about watching the stories build, crescendo, and crash over the day...

"Bathurst giveth, Bathurst taketh [away]"

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1h

Supercars needs those cameras they use in F1 with the rain-shifting ability.

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em¹⁶ 🍒🥝🍇🍉🍓 @averageface.swifties.social · 1h

if you’re awake and not watching bathurst honestly what are you doing lmao

car driving around bathurst missing a rear wing with the bonnet hanging off the front

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1h

Great year to get back into it

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1h

It's amazing how much damage these cars pick up over a 6 hour race.

#Bathurst

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2h

Timing screens show he's back in the race. Would love if anyone on the telecast explained this, but now Feeney's in the wall, so...

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2h

He's back in the pit lane...?

#bathurst

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2h

Kostecki is apparently out of the race but nobody actually mentioned it.

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2h

Lap 117, and pole-sitter Kostecki is now last, in the pits, and several laps down.

For reasons unclear they're still repairing the car...

#Bathurst

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2h

Lap 117, and pole-sitter Kostecki is now last, in the pits, and several laps down.

For reasons unclear they're still repairing the car...

#Bathurst

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 3h

Bathurst timing is atrocious... no information on tyre choices, wrong driver names...

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 3h

Skewer issue, at that

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

I love Bathurst. The race where a driver you've never heard of can end up leading by 9 seconds thanks to intense rain, and where 3 hours in, you have no idea who is going to win

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

www.supercars.com/news/2025-ba...

LIVE COVERAGE: Follow the 2025 Bathurst 1000 action | Supercars

How to get live updates from Mount Panorama

www.supercars.com

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

Supercars (and most racing series) would benefit from larger, readable race #s

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 4h

Even smaller Chinese cities have massive stations for high speed rail. It's kind of wild.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11h

This train station in China cost $7.8 billion to build.

America could have built 4 of these over the last 2 years for under $32 billion, but we decided to send that money to Israel so they could kill a bunch of civilians.

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 5h

It's like an F1 race, the rain teases all day without showing up!

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 5h

Car #100 ran over the shock, not good

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 5h

First safety car at Bathurst on lap 55.

#17 hits the wall, with a shock absorber fleeing the vehicle

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 5h

Spotted a suspected "TITS OUT FOR THE BOYS" flag on Mount Panorama.

Bathurst culture is... yeah.

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 6h

One pit crew member has a helmet that reads "STRAIGHT IN NO KISSING" and I'd love to see them explain that without flinching on the national broadcast

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 7h

Hoping it rains at Bathurst today!

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em¹⁶ 🍒🥝🍇🍉🍓 @averageface.swifties.social · 5h

they’ve got a guy jamming a camera up into the car to explain what the anti roll bars are, what they do, how to adjust them, and the differences a driver might want in the wet and the dry.

f1 could fill the dead air in practice sessions with this but instead we just get mindless drivel

photo of the bathurst broadcast showing the roll bar explanation in split screen with the race

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 6h

Mustangs going backwards as expected, parity motorsports are lame

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I dont think it says good thing about the culture down there

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 6h

I don't know the teams but it was one of the earlier pitters! Will keep an eye out