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Just trying to be there at the end. 🪽 @turningfortune.com

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · Aug 14

I’m Jon, 1987-aged, born and raised in Georgia, left for 15 yrs, came back, married a rabbi, got some kids, cats and chickens, and in the past couple years, I have become about as obsessed with motor racing as it is possible to be.

On here to post about racing and befriend people who do so as well.

Two Indy cars racing around a giant spider at Barber Motorsports Park

Two children with red hair in opposite-colored rec soccer uniforms, the smaller one with their face censored by a loving skull emoji, the larger one’s face censored by a slack-jawed unicorn emoji with star eyes. They’re striking power poses in front of a Home Depot #20 Chevy Monte Carlo NASCAR Cup car from the Tony Stewart era, but it is being driven by someone else in a historics race.

Me and my bros, two of whom I’ve known since we were four years old, smiling arm and arm in sunglasses at a NASCAR race

A woman and a man dressed like casual adventurers in brimmed hats staring through aqueous plants

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1m

“Hey, Romain Grosjean” “Oh hey, what’s up”

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 2m

Man, Pfaff Motorsports really figured out the trick to selling clothes, which is to make a race car that looks like clothes

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 10m

In the front stretch bleachers for the finish

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 21m

Got @ryaneversley.bsky.social to finish my hat

Ryan Eversley holding a hat with his name on it, of which he has signed the brim, with me pointing at it

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 32m

@luke.turningfortune.com I can now confirm with certainty that Tyler Gonzalez was able to get another car

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 37m

Westin stuffed it 😞

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 56m

I was wrong. Today is

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 23h

This is the best race watching weather I could possibly ask for

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

Or if constructors have built entire businesses around making a particular kind of engine and have a vested interest in proving that it’s good

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

I am begging literally any race team to publish its event schedules as a calendar file instead of an 8 1/2 x 11 PDF

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

One of the host guys here talks about how the genius of Group C was that you had a certain amount of fuel to make a certain amount of distance, and whatever engine you wanted to use to accomplish that goal was allowed. To me, the new concept of virtual energy that is fuel agnostic expands on this.

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

The part that I understand, but I’m not convinced by, is the feeling that current racing categories are in the “endgame.” I agree that there are a lot of symptoms of convergence and looping thoughts about how race cars should work, but I also see new mechanisms that create amazing possibilities.

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

The only thing I don’t love is that tire is a much less sustainable resource than wings

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 2h

One of the most important and fundamental points in it is that contemporary race fans are bored by a lack of wheel to wheel racing because the cars are so fine-tuned that there is no human element to watching them drive alone

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 2h

This interview is so, so, so, so, so good

RACER Debrief: The racecar reimagined, with JR Hildebrand — RACER Debrief Audio Podcast

As a professional racecar driver and a life-long motorsports fan, JR Hildebrand sees racing from all sides. The 12-time Indy 500 starter joins the RACER Debrief to talk about bringing back the awesome...

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 2h

🚨🚨🚨 WILL POWER IS DRIVING THE 75!! I REPEAT: WILL POWER IS DRIVING THE 75!! 🚨🚨🚨

Power to Compete in Indy 8H in Revised 75 Express Pro Lineup

Two-time IndyCar champ, Indianapolis 500 winner joins 75 Express lineup for Indy 8H...

sportscar365.com

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 2h

Murray/Erebus vs. Kostecki is a pretty good storyline

Murray promises all-out Bathurst 1000 pole tilt

COOPER Murray was arguably the story of the afternoon. The Erebus Motorsport rookie was sensational throughout qualifying for the Repco Bathurst 1000,

www.v8sleuth.com.au

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 3h

Looks like parity to me

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 3h

Day 3 of this race meeting is the first time I have a relevant hat that actually fits on my head

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 11h

You’ve got all kinds of options there, and pushing one seems like a great idea

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 12h

Second race of the day at Bathurst with a race-ending incident in the first turn

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 13h

Of course

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 16h

Qualified P4

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 17h

Road Atlanta, one of the country’s finest

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 18h

Nyoooooom

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 18h

This car does look awesome in person, but you cannot tell it’s them

Vincent Bruins @vincentjbruins.bsky.social · 18h

The WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will be decided this Saturday with the Motul Petit Le Mans. 385 (350 for the win, 35 for pole) points are left on the table. These are the standings, assuming the championship leaders take the green flag.

📸 IMSA | #IMSA #MotulPetitLeMans