I’ve only just realised the icon isn’t actually a mole.

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Zlib still works as well

I remember being pretty hyped for this phone before they partnered with solana.

They need to bring back the drive through and stop and go penalties.

As first reported earlier this month, the FIA has been taking a close look at flexible wings over the first half of this season as it believes teams have been pushing the boundaries in terms of what is allowed.

It is understood that several teams, including Aston Martin, were advised to make changes to their front wing designs around the time of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a bid to ensure that they did not fall foul of any rule breaches.

But as part of a ramped up effort to stop any attempt at getting around the regulations, the FIA has now issued a formal technical directive outlining what it believes are unacceptable designs with regards to flexible bodywork.

In TD018, a copy of which has been seen by Motorsport.com and was sent to teams ahead of the Dutch GP weekend, the FIA states that it believes outfits are exploiting “regions of purposely design localised compliance” plus “relative motion between adjacent components” to deliver a significant boost to aerodynamic performance.

It states that any design that operates like this is in breach of Article 3.2.2 of F1’s Technical Regulations, which states that all components that influence a car’s aerodynamic performance must be “rigidly secured and immobile with respect to their frame of reference defined in Article 3.3.

Furthermore, these components must produce a uniform, solid, hard, continuous, impervious surface under all circumstances.”

The FIA has been prompted into action because it believes that teams are exploiting sophisticated systems that rotate and flex front and rear wing elements in ways that cannot be detected through the regular load tests.

It has made it clear that any “assembly designs that exploit localised compliance or degrees of freedom are not permitted.”

The FIA has duly outlined four key design elements that it considers to be in breach of the technical rules, but suggests there may be other ideas at play that could be illegal as well.

They are:

1. Wing elements that can translate vertically, longitudinally or laterally relative to the bodywork that they are fixed to.

2. Wing elements that can rotate relative to the bodywork that they are fixed to, such as rotating around one fixing.

3. Designs that utilise elastomeric fillets, compliant sections of wing profile or thin flexible laminate at a junction that can either distort, deflect out of plane or twist to permit localised deflection relative to the bodywork the component is attached to.

4. Designs that utilise ‘soft’ trailing edges to wing elements to prevent ‘localised cracking’ as the result of component assembly deflection.

The only exemptions that will be allowed are in the area of floor assembly, bib bodywork and the opening of a small lateral gap to help the sealing of front wing flaps.

Whereas in the past, teams’ flexi wing antics were often responded to by the FIA increasing the load tests that take place in the garage, the realisation that teams may be using clever trickery to make the wings flex in ways that cannot be checked when the car is stationary has prompted a change of approach.

From now on, teams must submit the assembly drawings and cross sections that show the fixation of the front wing elements to the nose, as well as the rear wing elements to the endplates, rear impact structure and pylons.

Furthermore, teams have to supply similar images that show the fixation of the rear wing pylons to the rear impact structure.

These designs will allow the FIA to better understand how the wing components have been designed and if any team has created its parts in a way to flex and deliver an aerodynamic advantage.

Because of the potential work needed by teams to ensure full compliance with the regulations, the FIA has delayed the adoption of its new stance until the Singapore Grand Prix next month - which means competitors can continue with their current designs through to the end of this weekend’s Monza race.

Teams have been asked to submit all the necessary drawings that show their wing designs by 8 September.

If a team gets so many reprimands in a season, does anything happen?

The 2023 campaign is Hulkenberg’s first for Haas after he spent the three preceding seasons acting as a reserve driver for the Racing Point/Aston Martin team, while Magnussen is Haas’s longest-serving driver.

The pair currently sit 14th and 18th in the 2023 drivers’ standings, with Haas eighth in the constructors’ championship on 11 points, after the first half of its campaign was dominated by in-race tyre wear problems that restricted its points-scoring chances despite usually showing good promise in qualifying.

“I think it’s safe to say that we’ve had an extremely solid driver pairing this season in F1 and ultimately there was no reason to look to change that moving forward,” said Haas team principal, Gunther Steiner.

“Kevin is obviously a very well-known quantity to us, and I’m delighted he’ll return for what will be his seventh season in Haas colours.

“With 113 starts [Romain Grosjean is next up on 96] for our team alone, we know where his strengths lie and his knowledge and experience of our organisation pairs very well with that too.

“On the other side of the garage, Nico’s simply slotted in without fuss or fanfare and proved himself to be a valuable member of the team.

“He’s approaching 200 starts in Formula 1 and we’re very happy to be the beneficiary of that experience behind the wheel.

“We’ve had to tackle our issues this season with regards to the VF-23, we don’t hide from that, but we’ve been extremely fortunate to have had two drivers whose feedback is invaluable in assisting our engineering objectives.

“Kevin and Nico gelled well right from the get-go and together they’ve both scored points, and in particular, Nico has excelled in qualifying – getting into Q3 on six occasions.

“[Both] are clearly enjoying their time in the sport, they both have mature heads on their shoulders, and they fundamentally understand what it is we’re asking of them.

“In turn, now it’s down to us as a team to look ahead to 2024 and ensure we have a car that’s capable of scoring points consistently.”

The announcement of Haas retaining its current driver pairing was revealed ahead of the media day for this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

In its official statement, Haas did not reveal any information on the length of either driver’s contract situation – bar stating Hulkenberg and Magnussen have been signed “into next season’s record-breaking 24-race calendar” with “continuity at the heart of its driver line-up”.

In 2023, Magnussen was nearing the end of the “multi-year” deal he signed to replace Nikita Mazepin at Haas on the eve of last season after he’d been dropped by the team along with then team-mate Grosjean after the end of 2020.

Hulkenberg’s 2023 deal was not given such a designation, but was understood to have an option covering 2024, which suggests both he and Magnussen will need further discussions to continue at Haas beyond next year.

“I’m obviously very happy to see my relationship with Haas extended once again,” said Magnussen.

“My return in 2022 had been unexpected but was filled with numerous highlights, and although this season hasn’t gone quite as we’d hoped, we’ve still managed to get into the points and shown potential in the package we have.

“There’s plenty of racing remaining in 2023 and we’ve got a lot of work to do to continue to understand the VF-23 – that learning can be applied into the 2024 car.

“My thanks, as always, go to [team owner] Gene Haas and Guenther Steiner for giving me the opportunity to keep racing in the sport I love.”

Hulkenberg, who is set to hit 200 F1 races at the upcoming Mexican GP, said: “It’s nice to get things sorted early for next season to just keep the focus on racing and improving performance.

“I enjoy being part of the team and share Gene and Guenther’s passion for it.

“We’re competing in a very tight midfield and I’m looking forward to building on what we’ve done together so far and taking that forward into 2024.”

At first glance I just thought the people were birds It wasn’t til I read that title and thought but there’s nothing wrong with the scene, that I noticed.

Any stable linux distro should be fine, as you have experience with Ubuntu I would go with that. There should be plenty of support out there if you run into any issues too.

Why don’t ppl talk about revolt, when talking about Discord alternatives?

Ricciardo’s three-year McLaren contract was ended one year early last winter after the Australian struggled to get on with the team’s F1 cars.

In the difficult-to-handle McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently behind team-mate Lando Norris during his two seasons in Woking, despite taking a shock win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.

Ricciardo was then snapped up by Red Bull as a third driver during his sabbatical until he was loaned out to sister team AlphaTauri ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix as an early replacement for Nyck de Vries.

Ricciardo impressed on his first outings with the tricky AT04 and while he still needs to fully adapt to the car, he vowed never to go to the level of detail that he went through at McLaren.

His efforts to change his driving style at McLaren made him “unrecognisable” on his Red Bull simulator return according to team boss Christian Horner, with Ricciardo having to rebuild his confidence in subsequent runs and a convincing Silverstone tyre test.

When asked if Ricciardo had to dig as deep as he did at McLaren to get up to speed in the AlphaTauri, Ricciardo replied: "I don’t want to get into that detail ever again.

"I think even through year one at McLaren, at the summer break I learned we were probably going into too much. We needed to change the approach a little bit.

“It was all in everyone’s best interests trying to make it work but I felt like I’ve come to the realisation that wasn’t working for me. We still probably did too much in hindsight, but maybe that works for another driver, so it is what it is.”

Ricciardo said he was able to use his natural driving style upon his return to the Faenza squad and found the AlphaTauri to be better suited to him, even if the car is lacking aerodynamic load compared to most of its competitors.

“I felt a little bit more of it. On lap one I already felt like I was getting kind of the feedback that maybe I would expect or like, so that was important,” Ricciardo replied when asked by Autosport about how the AlphaTauri AT04 compares to his old McLaren.

"Maybe I’ll find things that I’ve just got to work on that don’t quite correlate to my feeling, so I expect still some maybe challenges along the way.

“But the first impression was that it did give me a little bit more of a familiar feeling. That was also important because I was hoping to feel something like that.”

Whoops I misspelt it, I meant Arctius. https://lemmy.world/post/2441406

Really liking Arctius, but also still switching use between Jerboa, Thunder and Liftoff as well.

Through Verstappen.com Racing, the Dutchman and his family are planning to put together a two-car GT3 team that could compete in series like the GT World Challenge (GTWC) from 2025 onwards.

“It all started with Team Redline in sim racing,” Verstappen said in an interview the Dutch magazine Formule 1.

"With Verstappen.com Racing we are sponsoring and supporting various racing activities from people close to me. We are also active in DTM and the GTWC Sprint with Thierry Vermeulen [the son of Verstappen’s manager Raymond Vermeulen] and with my father in rallying, but the end goal is to put together our own race team.

"The first step in our own GT3 team and then we’ll see where we end up. It would be nice to be able to grow to the highest level in endurance racing.

“We are working on it at the moment. Next year will be tight, but I would like to have it as soon as possible. Having a GT3 team in 2025 with a minimum of two cars should be possible.”

Verstappen, who is a keen sim racer, is hoping to create a platform that can pick up talented sim racers and prepare them for a career in GT racing, and says he is just as ambitious as a team owner as he is as a Formula 1 racer.

"If I do something, I want to do it right. I want to win with this as well. And it’s about creating a stepping stone from sim racing to GT3, so that you don’t have to only go through karting to get into motorsports, because that costs a lot of money at the moment.

“We have been working on it for a while. The planning phase is over, we are in action mode now.”

Verstappen previously indicated he would be interested in switching to endurance racing after his F1 career, with the Le Mans 24 Hours’ GT class switching to GT3 machinery next year.

But it remains to be seen in which sort of timeframe the Dutchman, who is romping to his third consecutive F1 world title this year, will make it to Le Mans, and whether his 2008 LMP2-winning father Jos will be part of it.

“I am not in a hurry,” Verstappen told Motorsport.com at the end of last season. “A lot of things are changing in endurance racing and it’s better to wait and see how everything turns out.” 

If you don’t want firefox, Cromite is pretty good. Also if you need your vpn for other things, then the next best thing is a custom dns, I use nextdns which is customisable and blocks a fair amount of stuff.

Otmar I can understand, but why Alan Permane as well?

I don’t know, but I assume so.

You can’t get the live stuff but you can buy the tier with access to all the race replays.