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'This guy's mega' - how Norris developed into world title contender

Lando Norris became McLaren's team leader in 2023, aged 23

McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown has guided Lando Norris' career since 2015, and believed he was a future world champion "pretty much right away".

This could be the year Norris proves him right.

McLaren ended last season as constructors' champions and, barring unexpected surprises, Norris has the chance to build his flirtation with a title challenge against Red Bull's Max Verstappen last year into a full-on onslaught in 2025.

Brown is far from the only one who has long felt Norris was destined for the very top.

Stephanie Carlin, who worked with Norris throughout the junior categories and is now McLaren's F1 business operations director, also always believed he would make it.

“He was just phenomenally quick," Carlin says, "and he was able to execute it really well. There's been an underlying talent and speed and pace that's existed from the first time he got in a car."

'Everyone tells me he's the greatest thing since sliced bread'

Lando Norris (centre) after winning a Formula 4 race at Spa in 2015

Brown has been backing Norris, 25, since long before either were at McLaren.

Until Norris reached F1, the money to fund his career came from his father Adam, who became a multi-millionaire through success as a pensions trader.

Norris, who has dual Belgian nationality through his mother Cisca, was educated at Millfield in Somerset, but as his career blossomed it became increasingly hard to find time to attend school, and there was a fair bit of home tutoring involved.

Every step Norris took on track, he was a winner, but when it came time to move up to motor racing for 2014 after winning European and world karting titles, Adam Norris and manager Mark Berryman did not have the necessary contacts.

They turned to Brown - then the boss of a sports marketing agency called JMI, and well known in F1 as a deal maker and sponsor finder.

Initially, Brown felt "this is not what I do". But Norris' team were persistent. Brown says: "I thought: 'All right, everyone tells me he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, maybe I can help.'"

Brown set Norris up with a meeting with Ron Dennis, then boss of McLaren, and soon started helping him as he moved up through the ranks. "He just destroyed everybody in everything," says Brown.

'Welcome to Formula 1'

Norris (right) poses alongside Zak Brown and Fernando Alonso at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2018. It was the Spaniard's final race with McLaren with Norris replacing him the following year

By 2017, Brown was in charge of McLaren Racing, after Dennis was ousted by the other owners, and he began to lay out the steps for Norris to graduate to F1.

In January 2018, Brown paired 18-year-old Norris with then McLaren driver Fernando Alonso, a two-time F1 world champion, in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race in his United Autosports team.

Norris gave himself the target of setting a faster lap than Alonso - and achieved it. And stunned people with his pace in the wet at night before the car eventually retired.

"Fernando Alonso, one of the best racing drivers in the world, Lando was his match," Brown says. "Cold tyres, middle of the night Daytona, if you asked Richard Dean, who ran them, who was better, he wouldn't know."

When Alonso announced he was quitting F1 at the end of 2018, Norris was the obvious replacement, and McLaren started giving him experience in practice sessions.

Having proved faster than one McLaren race driver, Stoffel Vandoorne, in his first outing, his next was at Monza, with Alonso in the other car.

Brown recalls: "They're swapping times. Fernando has just set his time, so he's done, and obviously paying attention to what times Lando is doing.

"We come on the radio to Fernando and we go: 'Fernando, Lando's on a lap, get out of his way.'

"First sector, same 10th. Second sector, Lando is half a 10th up. Third sector, on the radio, Fernando: 'Sorry, I didn't see him.' Lando: 'Fernando just blocked me!' And we all just giggled on the pit wall, like, 'Welcome to Formula 1.'

"So when you see those things, you just think: 'This guy's mega.'"

How Norris' results have improved over the past two seasons

'You are a rock star'

A few races later, Norris jokingly served Alonso a cup of tea during a wet practice session at the US Grand Prix in Austin. But soon he was the apprentice no longer.

In his debut season in 2019, Norris was immediately a match for his team-mate Carlos Sainz, who had four years' experience, and he destroyed then seven-time race-winner Daniel Ricciardo when the Australian joined the team in 2021.

By then, Alonso had returned to F1 after two years in other categories. He and Norris swapped helmets. The Spaniard wrote on the one he gave to Norris: "You are a star - a rock star."

Norris quickly became a fan favourite, with his diffident-but-jokey personality, and willingness to show his true self on social media. His public profile built through the Covid-19 pandemic as he live-streamed himself playing video games, and he used that to build his gaming and lifestyle brand Quadrant.

Brown says: "He used to be very shy and he still kind of is a quiet, shy guy in his own way. Even though he kind of comes off as extroverted, he's actually not. But as he's become more mature, I have seen him become more comfortable in his skin.

"He has never lacked confidence. He was a young kid when I first met him, he was 14. So what I've seen outside of becoming a better racing driver, (is) a better team leader, more prescriptive in what he wants. And his on-track performance has grown with it."

It has taken time for Norris to establish himself as a front-runner in F1.

In their first few years together, the McLaren car was not fully competitive, although Norris came close to a win with a superb performance in Russia in 2021, only to misjudge the incoming weather and not pit for wet tyres in a late downpour.

Norris kept the faith, signing two contract extensions, despite interest from Red Bull. That, Brown says, was down to "relationships, transparency, visibility to what we were doing. He's comfortable here. This has been his family since day one."

Norris' career trajectory turned midway through 2023, a year that started with a restructuring of McLaren's engineering group by Andrea Stella, who had been made team principal the previous December.

The first fruit of Stella's reshuffle was an upgrade package for the Austrian Grand Prix in July 2023. It vaulted McLaren from close to the back to become the closest challengers to dominant Red Bull.

'I just could not believe his development'

Norris took his maiden pole position at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. He was more than half a second clear of anyone else, and more than two seconds quicker than team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who was fifth fastest

Carlin joined McLaren at the beginning of 2024. It had been more than five years since she had worked with Norris in F2.

"I sat in engineering and heard him giving feedback," she says, "and I was blown away. I just could not believe the development of this teenager I'd known, a very successful F2 driver and champion in F3 and F4. It was incredible."

Those first five years in F1 had turned a boy into a man, and a promising driver full of potential into one of the best in the world. But there was still learning to be done.

After a slow start to 2024, another upgrade for the Miami Grand Prix in May made McLaren absolutely competitive. Norris took his maiden win that weekend. He secured three further victories as it began to look as if he could challenge for the title.

In the end, the head start Verstappen established in the first five races of the year was too much. A few small Norris errors along the way did not help.

"I made my mistakes, and I learned a lot," Norris says. "The one thing I've learned is probably to believe in myself a bit more."

Norris is not one to shy away from his difficulties in public.

Berryman says: "I know he berates himself a little bit but he's always done that. We're trying to stop him doing it as much but he probably won't. He's a bit like Charles (Leclerc of Ferrari). They just say it how it is.

"The main thing from a Lando perspective is that I don't think there has been anything that he's not got considerably better at after review. On a development curve of Lando, we are not plateauing yet. We are still at a pretty high level of (growth) in terms of where he is hungry in looking at himself and helping himself."

Carlin adds: "Learning to be an F1 driver and learning to be a championship-contending F1 driver are two different things. And that's what we've talked about, in terms of learning how to win a race first of all, and learning how to win a world championship are two completely different campaigns."

There were signs by the end of last year that the lessons had been taken on board. Now it is down to Norris to deliver on them.

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Ducati bevel 1000ccm in TTF1 frame made by Jochen Kuhnle 1987. After Marco Lucchinelli won Daytona 87 together with Stefano Caracchi and Jimmy Adamo / Reno Leoni the German guy Jochen Kuhnle decided to start the German BOTT on the Hockenheim Ring on his own made TT1 raced rolling chasis with a highly tuned 1000ccm bevel . In 2015 the bike was invited for the lap of honor at the IOM TT

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South America, Australia, (Jim) France, Germany!

It's a stretch and a half of a title but it's a good bit so I don't care. Let's talk about this last weekend of racing.

We'll start chronologically with the 12 Hours of Sebring last Saturday, where Porsche Penske Motorsport took a 1-2 finish for the German manufacturer. It wasn't the most exciting Sebring race, but we got a little bit of everything with Lamborghini leading at one point only to be caught napping on a restart and retire, the BMWs got pole for the race but fell back, and we saw the debut of the new V12 Aston Martin, which is cool.

Ultimately though, nobody could hold back Porsche today.

Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy, and Laurens Vanthoor won both opening rounds of the season, winning the big endurance races of Daytona and Sebring.

With this, Nick Tandy has not only won the Triple Crown of endurance racing with his 2015 Le Mans win and these two 2025 wins, but also won the 2015 Petit Le Mans overall - in a GTLM car, no less! - along with the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring and the 2020 Spa 24 Hours.

Tandy has won so many big endurance races that they've made a new name for it.

So long Triple Crown, it's now about the Big Six.

Porsche has given us the Germany aspect, now we'll move onto the Australian Grand Prix, which fell on Saturday for us Americans.

I know I've shat on F1 a lot on this blog, but I'm legitimately happy with the Australian Grand Prix and this is the most interested I've been in Formula One in a couple of years.

The reason is simple: we had competition, we had changeable conditions, and we had something truly rare in modern F1: the teams were legitimately caught off guard.

McLaren ran 1-3 in the early stages of the race, with Max initially threatening Lando in the Red Bull, but he was having to push it to the limit. We saw Max lockup just ahead of Oscar Piastri, lose the position, run over a puddle, and then completely lose pace as he couldn't make the tyres work, dropping fourteen seconds off the McLarens.

This left the McLarens in a dominant position, and Piastri was gaining on Lando for the lead. However, with a 1-2 in the rain, McLaren made a very Jordan-at-Spa-1998-esque call and told Oscar to hold position.

An annoying but understandable choice - nobody wants to lose a 1-2 because their drivers crashed into each other.

What was less understandable is that Oscar then had a snap of oversteer and nearly crashed while Lando opened up a three second gap, at which point McLaren told him they could now race.

Bit late for that, eh?

In any case, around lap 33, they all start pitting to make a brave switch onto the dry tyres. On the line, this is the fastest way around the circuit, but just off the line, there's still a lot of water around the circuit. Not only that, but there's more rain on the way.

They have to pit because the dry line is burning the intermediate tyres away, but they'll need the inters again before the race is done.

Then Fernando Alonso lost it through the fast sector two and brought out the safety car, and that SC brought them all the way up to 42...right before it started raining.

The perilous moment of the race came at the end of lap 43, when both McLarens went off at the end of the lap and into the gravel and the grass. Lando managed to recover and rejoin the track before pitting, but behind him...Piastri lost traction in the penultimate corner and spun off into the wet grass, spending the next lap beached before finally reversing his way out of the grass and back into the race.

All of this gave Max the lead, but with slick tyres on a wet track, he was crawling like Marco Andretti at Belle Isle that one year.

Max pit, but the Ferraris stayed out despite a spin for Leclerc, putting Lewis in the lead while Charles in second. For a brief moment...it looked like it could be a fairytale start to Hamilton's Ferrari career...but it kept raining.

The safety car came out due to a crash by Liam Lawson, but Ferrari had to pit regardless, dropping to 9th and 10th.

Up front, it was Lando Norris leading from Max Verstappen and George Russell.

I will admit, given the tricky conditions and that Lando no longer had Oscar Piastri to act as a rear gunner, I figured that Lando was screwed. Max was gonna take the lead and drive off into the sunset like he did in Brazil.

Only that's not what happened, Lando and the McLaren weathered the pressure, and in fact, on the initial laps, it seemed like Max was more defending from Russell than threatening Norris for the lead.

This didn't last though, as Max got up to pace and pressured Lando again, especially after Lando made a mistake in turn six, giving Max DRS again.

This time I thought Lando was surely going to crumble...but no.

Lando held on, he took the win, and Max had to settle for second. George Russell was third after barely getting any camera time whatsoever during the race, while Andrea Kimi Antonelli made an audacious pass on Alexander Albon on the last lap. Initially, Antonelli was penalized and dropped to fifth, but Mercedes appealed successfully, and the Italian's fourth place was reinstated.

Still, fifth place for Albon was Williams' best race in years, giving the team something to celebrate in spite of Carlos Sainz's opening lap crash in the final corner.

Lance Stroll was sixth, Nico Hulkenberg was seventh, scoring more points in one race than Sauber did in all of 2024 and being the highest Ferrari-powered car. Leclerc was eighth having drawn first blood over Hamilton in the teammate battle - not that either of them will be particularly happy with that race - while Piastri was ninth in an impressive recovery drive. Lewis Hamilton was tenth, scoring the last point in a race of increasingly unhinged radio transmissions between Ferrari's drivers and Ferrari's engineers.

A race so crazy it's ended with McLaren and Mercedes tied for the lead in the constructors' championship.

A very fun, old school chaotic Australian Grand Prix.

Onto South America for the Argentine Grand Prix.

Yes, MotoGP is still a thing this year, but with Marc Marquez dominating by winning every race while Alex Marquez has finished second in all four races - two sprints, two GPs - this year, your opinion on the season will vary based on what you think of the Marquez family.

If you're a Marquez fan, you're having the time of your life.

If you're a Marquez hater, you're gonna be miserable.

If you're a neutral, well...it ain't much of a show.

Perhaps that's harsh given that this time around, Alex Marquez was in the lead for most of the race and Marc was having to push hard to pass his little brother, but in the end Marc did, and then he ran away with the win.

Franco Morbidelli was third, getting his first podium since Jerez 2021 and the first since that massive leg injury in 2021 that reduced Morbidelli from 2020 championship contender to a bit of a joke on the 2022 and 2023 Yamahas.

So there is that.

Onto Las Vegas, with its Eifel Tower, much like France. Get it? It makes the David Bowie joke work, right? No? Well, what about Jim France? Jim France runs NASCAR, so can we use that gag? No? Well screw it, I'm gonna do it anyway - I want my blogpost to be a Dancing in the Street reference, dammit!

I won't spend too much time given this is already a long blogpost, but I'm very happy for Josh Berry. This is a driver who has clawed and struggled to get into NASCAR to begin with, then he finally got his big break at Stewart-Haas Racing just to find out that the team has gone to shit and they're gonna sell their charters at the end of the year.

Berry found a landing place at the Wood Brothers for 2025, and he's made the most of it. He's been consistently running with the other Penskes even if he doesn't have the finishes to show for it, but he's made it all worthwhile with a win in Vegas.

It was a deserving win too, because he kept finding his way into the top ten all day long, battled with reigning champion and pseudo-teammate Joey Logano for position multiple times, and in the end, he was up front when a caution with twenty to go reset the race for everybody.

Everyone took fresh tyres, with Daniel Suárez leading the bottom line while Josh Berry was on the top. Daniel had his teammate Ross Chastain behind him, so it looked like Trackhouse had this one, but Berry rallied back, passed Suárez on track, and led the last sixteen laps on his way to victory in the Pennzoil 400.

It was Wood Brothers' 101st victory and the first time they've won in consecutive seasons since 1986 and 1987.

Talk about a feel good story.

On a weekend of four races, it looked like F1 was going to be my favorite of the weekend for a long time, and it probably still is, but that's the happiest I've been at the end of a NASCAR race all season.

It feels nice to be legitimately happy at the end of a racing weekend.

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I'm curious (read invested) do you have a time line in mind for the strollonso au? Like when they met, got engaged, got married

In my pookie au, which I set most of my edits into, it goes something like this.... THIS IS GONNA BE LONG OH LORD, I have a whole thing formulated in my brain and writing is down is gonna be a struggle

2014-2015 They met for the first time very briefly as Fernando was visiting the Ferrari Academy drivers at Prema. Note that Lance is a massive Fernando fan since he was a kid, so this was like meeting his hero. Nando immediately forgot about this meeting as it was just a promotional thing, very sad :(

2017 Lance debuts in F1 at Williams, he's about 19yo and still a massive Nando fan but they rarely interact with each other (see, 'shy canadian rookie'). Sure, they talk every now and then, but no sparks yet...

2018 This is where it starts to get interesting. Nando is struggling (and when I say struggling I mean STRUGGLING) at McLaren and his interest starts to waver which leads to his little fixation on Lance. It started out pretty tame and harmless with Nando writing little notes/letters to him and hiding them around the Williams garage (no one knows how he did it without getting caught) and Lance's belongings. He gets more invested in this than driving the McLaren GP2 engine shitbox.

Eventually Nando gathers up enough courage to ask the 20 year old man out. To his absolute horror and shock, the kid says "yeah, sure" and that's how they began dating. For the remainder of 2018, they keep it strictly to themselves, not telling anyone in case their relationship gets leaked. Lots of hotel room slumber parties, discreet dinner dates and traveling in the same planes between races.

Fun little side story I got is that in 2018, Lance, Fernando and Lando took part as team LANCELANDONANDO (hilarious, I know) in the 24h of Daytona ✨ They finished like... 50th, but it was a big deal since Lando was a tiny little baby boy and Nando was a bit of a mentor to him. (see, 'nando never got kids of his own but really wants to be a father figure)

2019-2020 Nando decides to "retire" from F1 after losing all his ambition to drive because of McLaren draining the life force out of him. Now that Nando isn't in F1, they can make their relationship public since the conflict of interest is no longer an issue.

2019 is a rather dark time for Lance, as the media rips him to shreds for 1) dating a man, 2) being almost 20 years younger AND 3) the person he's dating just happens to be Fernando Alonso. He's called every name under the sun, constantly ridiculed and the fans pretty much turn against him. He tries to avoid all the drama by becoming more closed in and even more shy around people.

Fernando, on the other hand, is off doing indy and endurance racing. He's pretty outspoken about their relationship and does his best to gain respect for Lance, always praising him and telling nice things about him. This starts to work after a while as the media starts to forget about the whole thing.

Nando would visit the F1 grid from time to time and Lance would be at his indy races. Eventually it became normal to see them together and act like a couple and the fans started to support them, so the media did a complete 180°. Now it was a race to get the best Strollonso story in the papers...

During this time also, Lance starts to visit Fernando's karting school a lot more and after a while becomes a key part in its operation. He would volunteer as a race director for the kids' tournaments, pop in as a guest coach or just help around with whatever they were doing. He would become a bit of a celebrity in that community of young drivers and really like spending time there.

2021 Surprise! Fernando gets bored of the other stuff and unretires himself to come back into F1 with Alpine! Before this Lance, Nando, Alpine and Aston Martin have a proper sit-down with FIA to figure out how they can allow Nando back in without the risk of sharing team secrets. A couple rule changes, some NDA's and contracts later, it's settled and F1 gets its most popular Spaniard (sorry Carlos) back on track. Everyone celebrates!

Turns out Nando is on a revenge mission this time. All that pent up McLaren resentment is poured right into Alpine and he becomes the villain of F1, which the fans kinda like. Outside the track, he and Lance live their best comfy life, getting a couple houses together, traveling and expanding their family with a doggy, Nyla! 🥰

2022 Alpine is in shambles. Estie Bestie is threatening to strangle his best friend's boyfriend on a daily basis. Lance suggests, just as a joke, that Fernando should come to Aston as he knew Sebastian was about to retire and they hadn't found a replacement for next season. Fernando doesn't take it as a joke. So, Nando calls up Lance's dad and he agrees immediately to take the Spaniard in.

Fast forward to the end of the season, Alpine gets a couple more big L's, and finally Nando can leave that sinking ship to walk right into Aston Martin's motorhome as soon as he drops out the last race. Fans rejoice, as Strollonso is now in the same team, media is fired up from the potential content and FIA can have a breather now that company secrets are no longer at risk.

2023 Working in the same team turns out to be the best choice they ever made. The team spirit is at an all time high, everyone is enjoying working together and the fans absolutely love them. Nando's tiktok influencer career also helps tremendously and people follow their social medias like it's Friends in 1996.

Nando decides before the summer break that it's now or never and proposes to Lance. To his absolute horror and shock, the 25 year old says "yeah, sure" and they get engaged. Everyone expects a big and glamorous wedding, but turns out they have a small civil ceremony during the break with just family and close friends, away from the limelight. It's a cute and intimate wedding party in Tuscany that only gets out as Lance posts a few pictures from it. Fans rejoice once again! Future's looking all bright and rosy for them <3 And speaking of rosy... They got another fur child! Rósa was Lance's 25th birthday present 🥰

2024.... We'll see ✨

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December 15, 1969 – The last Plymouth Superbird

The story of the Plymouth Superbird and its development is fairly well-known, so we won’t get into heavy details. In brief, it had one job, to dominate NASCAR along with its older sibling, the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona. While Dodge only had to build 500 Daytonas to be eligible for the 1969 NASCAR season, the sanctioning body changed the rules for 1970 to combat purpose built race cars. For Plymouth, that meant at least 1,920 Superbirds needed to end up on dealer lots to qualify for the track. With a target set, the assembly line churned. Before long workers hit their mark and the last Plymouth Superbird rolled off the assembly line on this day in 1969. Check out the green car below.

When all’s said and done, somewhere between 1,969 and 1,982 Superbirds left Lynch Road Assembly in Detroit. Approximately 34 to 47 of those became Canadian citizens and the rest remained stateside. When it came time to hit the oval, the Hemi powered ‘Birds really flew. NASCAR Superbird drivers took home 8 checkered flags in 1970, including five wins by Richard Petty, who returned to Plymouth from Ford specifically to drive a ‘Bird. Pete Hamilton scored the first NASCAR win in a Superbird at that year’s Daytona 500.

What’s claimed to be the last 1970 Plymouth Superbird manufactured

The production run for the car was short, with the first one leaving the line on October 17, 1969 and the last on December 15, 1969. Pictured above is what’s claimed to be the last Superbird built. It’s a four-speed, 440 Limelight green car. While the top of the line 426 Hemi ‘Birds tend to command the most dough, this one sold for $165,000 in 2015.

The date of the last production Superbird comes from stats on Aerowarriors.com.

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Charmed Cast Honors Shannen Doherty at 90s Con: 'She Had the Heart of a Lion'

On July 13, Doherty died at age 53 after years of living with cancer

By Esther Kang and Kate Hogan Published on September 14, 2024 07:48PM EDT

The cast of Charmed is paying a special tribute to Shannen Doherty.

On Saturday, Sept. 14, Holly Marie Combs, Brian Krause, Rose McGowan, Dorian Gregory and Drew Fuller honored their late costar with a special live episode of their podcast, House of Halliwell, with guest Brian Austin Green.

"This sucks," Green, 51, said. "Shannen was f---ing tough. She was tough. I think of all the people in my life she was the one that just unapologetically was Shannen. I can see how it would be perceived by some people as brash, 'She's a b----' they used to say early on which drove me nuts. I knew that she had the biggest heart of everyone I knew, and she never intentionally set out to hurt anyone ... she just truly believed in what it is she believed."

Doherty herself had set up the podcast recording at 90s Con, which she was initially slated to attend. Speaking to PEOPLE on the red carpet on Friday afternoon, Fuller, 44, said the cast had instead flipped the moment into a celebration of life.

Sharing his memories, costar Gregory, 53, spoke to the ways Doherty was often "sharing joy."

"The beauty and vibrancy of this woman, that's something I have no words for," he said. "She leaves us with this: cherish every second of everyone you're surrounded by and you love. That's such a gift."

McGowan spoke to Doherty's fierce love for her fans, noting she had the "heart of a g------ lion."

"What a powerhouse," McGowan, 51, said, remembering their first meeting. "Seeing how she navigated — and how I've had to navigate — when people smear your reputation and create this box you can't f---ing get out of and it's not at all who you are. I can't prove it to people. What Shannen did for me, which was so incredible to watch, she kept engaging with people, she kept going forward."

Combs, 50, added a particularly personal anecdote.

"Someone close to me was just diagnosed … and I reach for the phone," she said.

Dozens of audience members came forward to share their memories of the star, too, speaking to her sweet disposition, how well she'd listen to the stories they shared with her and how she inspired them.

On July 13, Doherty died after years of living with cancer. She was 53.

"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease," Doherty's longtime publicist Leslie Sloane confirmed in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Sunday, July 14.

"The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace," Sloane concluded

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and spoke candidly to PEOPLE in November 2023 about her stage 4 breast cancer, which had by then spread to her bones, saying that she didn't "want to die."

“I’m not done with living. I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better,” she told PEOPLE. "I’m just not — I’m not done.”

Following her March 2015 diagnosis, the actress revealed just over two years later in April 2017 that she had gone into remission, however, by 2019, the cancer returned. Doherty announced her diagnosis of metastatic stage 4 cancer publicly in 2020. Then, in June of 2023, the actress shared that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she had undergone surgery.

Earlier in the day at 90s Con on Sept. 14, the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 also got together and remembered Doherty.

"I have a friend right now who is really sick with cancer, and she said that Shannen really inspired her," costar Gabrielle Carteris said. "I think that her legacy is truly making a difference for those who are struggling to know that there’s hope."

90s Con Florida is occurring through Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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Todays rip: 30/03/2024

THANK YOU FOR RIPPING

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Its that time again - another Season 1 finale rip! But there's a good reason these keep showing up, as I reiterate with each one I cover - The Season 1 finale was when the team was truly firing on all cylinders to end the channel off with a bang. Planet Wisp Mashup Medley, The SiIvaGunner Smurfs Collab, File Select Fusion Collab, Stone Halation - tons of these incredibly ambitious, full-blast collaborations, that I've written plenty of words about already. In comparison, THANK YOU FOR RIPPING feels almost as if dwarfed in scope, not helped by being a rip of a comparatively niche series. Which is a damn shame - because what beat_shobon has done here is just as much of a loveletter to the entire channel yet expressed through his own individual style in a far more condensed runtime.

First of all though - wow, beat_shobon! It's been since Rolling Start that I wrote about one of his rips, and since then I've learned that he's become a bit of a superstar since his 2016 SiIvaGunner days - notably winning a Vocaloid songwriting contest with the ironically-named Can't Make A Song!! in 2018. The guy has a great grasp on this kind of music, is my point, and both Rolling Start and THANK YOU FOR RIPPING show that off well - but more importantly, I adore how THANK YOU FOR RIPPING still feels as much like a love letter to SiIvaGunner as a whole as it does a flexing of its rippers' muscles. The song used as the foundation for the mashup is GO MY WAY!! from the IDOLM@STER franchise, a song that was immensely notable in Season 1 as the song to supposedly "replace" Snow Halation during The Reboot storyline - see I Saw a Brainwasher Today for a bit more details on this. Its a song that I remember receiving a lot of pushback during that event as a result of those connotations, as a lot of people found it to be even *more* grating of an idol song than Snow Halation was - yet with The Reboot concluded, with those emotions settled, I find that the song has come to represent a sense of...unity, in the fanbase. It IS silly idol music, but we've come to accept it as part of SiIvaGunner, as a result of what The Reboot taught us.

That's far from all that THANK YOU FOR RIPPING contains, of course - the piano in the background continuously plays segments of The Flintstones theme throughout the entire song, as it jumps from joke to joke. Its a bit of a journey throughout the entire channel's life during Season 1: starting where it all began with Vinesauce Joel's reaction to 7 Grand Dad, to a quick clip of Snoop Dogg's "Smoke Weed Everyday!!", a sudden jumpscare from The Bean (I'll get to it someday), then moving into memes prominent in the season's last few months, in the infamous POKEMON GO SONG!!! and The Nutshack theme. All the while, again, those Flintstones-esque notes stay prominently audible in the background, as to keep reminding us of where this whole thing all began.

Perhaps most interesting of all, though, is near the rips end at around the 1:30 mark. Another Vinesauce Joel clip plays, a quite well known one - "WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS?" - but its pitch shifted in a way that may ring as familiar to many of you. It is, indeed, directly referencing the rip "Creative Exercise - Mario Paint", known by its album name as Mario Paint exe 2. A sequel to a prior-made Soundcloud mashup from the same ripper in 2015, this is as of today the third-most-viewed rip on the entire SiIvaGunner channel - and was, to my surprise, also made by beat_shobon. Making that connection, then, drew my attention to another part of the rip just a few seconds earlier, where the instantly-recognizable bellow of "DAY-TO-NAAA!!!" from Daytona USA plays in the midst of the mix. I cannot help but think that this is a direct callback to Rolling Start, as another one of beat_shobon's most celebrated rips - one also made during The Reboot, tracing back to the rip's central joke.

I dunno - there are tons of these little connections to make within the surprisingly dense 2-minute runtime of THANK YOU FOR RIPPING, yet they all work toward the very same emotional goal. Gratitude - a thank you, from the entire SiIvaGunner channel yes, but also from beat_shobon himself, thanking us all for having enjoyed so much of the channel's life. Through thick and thin, through Reboots and Beans, though rips made by people all over the world - we loved SiIvaGunner more than ever before during the Season 1 finale. And its always such a treat to go back to that time and see just how much it meant to even the rippers behind it all.

[motorsportverso]

Ford na Hypercar no Fia WEC em 2027

A Ford volta a principal categoria de prototipos em 2027 , a ultima vez que ela competiu foi entre 2014-2016 no IMSA na categoria DP em que venceu as 24h Daytona de 2015.

Em 2027 ela retorna no regulamento LMDH , provavelmente com chassis da Multimac, o mesmo usado pela Porsche no 963, e vale lembrar a Multimac opera os Ford Mustang GT3 da fabrica no IMSA na GTD Pró que um deles ganhou as 24h Daytona no ultimo final de semana , seria interessante se o novo Hypercar tivesse o designe do ultimo GT.

A Ford não falou nada sobre entrada na GTP do IMSA, más se espera que por ser uma marca Norte-Americana esteja no campeonato também já que é elegivel com a convergência IMSA x ACO x Fia. Muita gente especula que a Chip Ganassi Racing possa operar o programa Hyundai\Genesis no IMSA, más eu diria que é mais possível a Ford estar trabalhando com a Chip Ganassi Racing , já que trabalharam juntos no Fia WEC e IMSA.

E veremos a disputa Ford VS Ferrari novamente em 2027 nas 24h Le Mans, tivevos essa disputa nos anos 60 , que virou o filme Ford VS Ferrari lançado em 2019 , que se repetiu na extinta LMGTE Pró e teremos mais um capitulo ja que temos a Ferrari 499 P e teremos um novo Ford LMDH.

[gossipontheasphalt]

If You Can’t Do the Time, Don’t Do the Crime

Stock car racing was founded by a group of rag tag criminals. In the 1940’s, one of the ways people made money in the U.S, was by making, delivering, and selling illegal moonshine. In order to do this without getting arrested, these whiskey sellers built cars that could go faster than cop cars, so they could outrun the police. Then they took their fast cars and began racing each other. Then a man named Bill France organized a stock car race in 1948 on the beach of Daytona. He and a group of people created a racing series and called it the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. This organization has been around for over 70 years, and to this day, drivers that compete in this sport still find themselves on the wrong end of the law. Today, we’re going to look at the times NASCAR drivers got arrested. Also, I’m putting up a disclaimer. I’ll be going over some sensitive topics, read at your own risk.

First up, we have Kurt Busch. He ended up missing the first few races of the 2015 season, due to allegations made by his ex-girlfriend. She claimed that Kurt Busch abused her. This is not the first time Kurt Busch got involved in controversy. His career was littered with crazy things happening to him. Ultimately, Kurt was found innocent and was cleared of any wrongdoing. I would like to point out that at this point in the season, his younger brother Kyle Busch had just badly injured himself after a crash in the season opening Xfinity race at Daytona. Both of Kyle’s legs were broken. Kurt had to deal with being accused of a crime he didn’t commit, while also having to deal with a blood relative going through a really painful injury.

Next up we have the last American hero, Junior Johnson. Even after NASCAR was founded, he was still selling illegal whiskey. In 1956, a police officer caught him with a ludicrous amount of illegal moonshine. Junior Johnson then smacked the police officer in the head with a shovel. He then found himself surrounded by 15 cops. When Junior Johnson tried to make a run for it and escape, he failed miserably. He ended up getting caught in a barbed wire fence. Those things are painful, and I usually try to keep my distance from fences like that. I hope the pointy fence didn’t pierce Junior Johnson’s male part, that would have been bad.

In 2022, 18-year-old Arca driver Daniel Dye violated the bro code. He punched a classmate, in the crotch. I’ve heard of kicks being sent there but punches? In more ways than one, that is a low blow. And this punch did some serious damage. Here is what happened to the kid that got punched, I kid you not. He ruptured his testicle and bruised his scrotum. I cannot believe I am actually typing this right now. Teenagers, am I right? They tend to get a bit wild.

Now we go to 2007. This was the year Michael Waltrip Racing was formed. Team owner Michael Waltrip got into trouble for reckless driving. He crashed into a telephone pole, and then fell asleep behind the wheel. When he woke up, he then got out of his car, and walked a mile back to his house, without reporting the accident. To this day, it is unknown if he was under the influence of alcohol or not. Early in the season, he had already gotten in trouble during the season opening Daytona duels. NASCAR ended up finding jet fuel in the gas take of his racecar. First freaking jet fuel of all things, and now this? Mikey, buddy, take it easy, we’ve already got enough people in this sport going crazy. Don’t encourage them.

And now we come to the fifth and final driver. This time, believe it or not, it isn’t Mark Martin. This time, Mark decided to stay at home and be a good little boy. Good job Mark, have a lollipop. The same cannot be said about former truck series driver Rick Crawford. While Crawford wasn’t a top driver, he was also nowhere near the bottom of the list. His career was pretty respectable. He won 5 races, got 75 top 5’s, and 160 top 10’s. Then in 2018, he was having an online chat with a complete stranger. This stranger was offering to let Rick Crawford have sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old daughter. Crawford was willing to pay 50 to 75 dollars so he could have sex with her. It turns out, this whole thing was a sting operation to catch Rick Crawford red handed. After this, that sick pedophile was put in prison, and he is still there to this day. When he gets released from prison, he could theoretically turn his life around and become a better person, but I don’t have very high hopes. Not many people can redeem themselves after something as bad as this.

Well, that’s it for today. What are some interesting stories you have to share about drivers getting arrested? Let me know in the comments, and I might make part 2.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

L’histoire de Rolex est inextricablement liée à l’esprit innovateur et visionnaire de Hans Wilsdorf.

En 1905, à l’âge de 24 ans, il fonde une société à Londres, spécialisée dans la distribution de montres.

1908 le génie en cinq lettres

1910 la quête de la précision chronométrique

1914 certificat de précision de Classe « A »

1919 Rolex déménage à Genève, capitale mondiale de l’horlogerie. La société Montres Rolex S.A. y naît en 1920.

1926‑1945 avancée dans la technique

1926 la première montre-bracelet étanche

1927 le défi de la traversée de la Manche

1931 Mouvement Perpetual

1933 le survol de l’Everest

1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell à la conquête des airs

1935 les performances techniques de l’Oyster

1945 la première Datejust

1953 les montres professionnelles, l'Everest, l'Explorer, la Submarine, les premiers vols transcontinentaux

1955 La GMT-Master

1956 La Day‑Date

1957 La Lady‑Datejust

1959 Daytona Beach

1960 Deep Sea Spécial

1963 le Cosmograph Daytona

1967 la Sea-Dweller

1971 l’Explorer II, Comex

1978 Sea‑Dweller 4000

1985 Acier 904L

1992 la Yacht-Master

2000 mouvement 4130

2002 programme Rolex de mentorat artistique

2005 lunette Cerachrom, Spiral Parachrom bleu

2007 la Yacht‑Master II est la première montre au monde à disposer d’un compte à rebours

2008 la Rolex Deepsea

2012 la Sky‑Dweller, la Rolex Deepsea Challenge est une montre de plongée

2013 la GMT‑Master II dont le disque Cerachrom bicolore est en céramique bleue et noire

2014 le calibre 2236 avec spiral Syloxi

2015 Calibre 3255

Bracelet Oysterflex

[wytfut]

Excelsior Henderson 25+

This past weekend a couple of X owners I know within the community took off to Born Free Texas for rally down there. Frank Nowacyzk and Mike Seastrome.... And yes nonbelievers, they rode them there.

Looking at the pictures, looked like a great time.... home style with no frills. Just my type of gathering.

They met John Oates who was also attending. .... as an aside.

In their comments reporting back to all of us nonparticipants of the rally..... There was a comment made, that most of folks attracted to the 2 X's, had never seen one. And I'd possibly assume never heard of one too.

This comment astounds me. As long as I've owned my X, it never ends...... "what is that?" or "I've never seen one". It makes me giggle.

In the early years of EH (1999-2000), EH factory.... pounded marketing. Being in the EH world, it surprises me how much money was spent to get the name out there. Myself I'm constantly falling across marketing items I had no idea were even thought of.

Even with all of the marketing they did, when I bought my X, it was surprising how many motorcycle people hadn't ever heard of them. And there was a dealership right here in Lincoln Nebraska.

Occasionally, thru the years I'd run into "older bikers" who had been present at Daytona or Sturgis (1997ish) unveiling of the "new" motorcycle. Nice to see their grins, remembering those events.

OR.... a really old biker, who knew of the old name (1911-1931), and knew someone who had one back in the day .... usually 40's. Really enjoyed meeting these guys.... lots of hidden/unknown history. Easy to laugh here, as before I knew about EH, I had no idea there was such a critter back in that era either. Same battle?

Being neck deep into these fine beasts, I find it hard to understand that more people don't know about them. From a human nature point of view. Yeah.... its not accurate.

A large portion of owners in this community, have gone out of our ways to promote the bikes name. This tumblr account, Youtube, and owners being involved with the motorcycle community, a website, the facebook page, rally's, pokerruns, etc.

Us as a community, we will show up with all of our X patches, tshirts, dress shirts, jackets, coats, ball caps, stickers..... etc etc. And its almost comical the reaction we get from the ignorant.

My thoughts partially, its due to attrition. The older bikers with the old timey stories are dying off. Its not hard to figure out...

Back in 1999, when Super X first came out, and you were 25 years old, that'd make you at least 50 now. Another side of it, heavy cruisers (the category X's fit in), are becoming passe. This is not the motorcycle making money in the current market, unlike the mid90's thru around 2015 or so. Back then HD had 6 month waiting lists, as they couldn't keep up with the demand.

In turn it means less people involved in the heavy cruiser class. Less knowledge of "other" motorcycles..... etc.

As well known, I'm all about these bikes, I've got the sickness. If I'm around another biker for a bit of time, and I trust them.... I promote/offer them to "take it for a spin". Besides promoting the "name", its important to me, that people get to experience the ride...... "I just road an Excelsior Henderson, of which less than 2000 were ever made". That's quite quite the statement a person can say to themselves and friends. I beam when I do that...

Our community seems to be growing older. From what I can figure, I'm #5 in age seniority. I maybe wrong, as I just got back onto facebook on the EH page, I don't know most of them.

But looking at that facebook page..... there is quite a few younger owners out there..... lots in late 30's to their late 40's.

I keep hoping that we can attract even younger owners,.... owners in their early 20's. But the current motorcycle trends are not heavy cruisers, and this age group is all about buying power. Not sure, but there maybe 1 or 2 in this age group that I know about, but not their names.

When I get asked "what is this".... I try my hardest to pace myself. I can easily come across as some sort of nut, almost chasing the inquisitive away, puking out irrelevant trivia that nobody cares about.

The good meetings, I keep my answers short, testing the water, of this person (are they really interested? or are they just being polite?).

As far as I know, I've only gotten one person interested enough to go buy one. Thats a lot of tongue wagging.... LOLOLOLOLOL

Story is, Frank and Mike rode there and back with NO ISSUES. There was a long period of time, where any owner taking his X out for a spin questioned themselves "what kind of adventure will occur today?".

Old guys I used to ride with back in the day, recommended I drag a big commercial magnet behind my bike. And of course lots of laughs.

Most likely promoting our bikes is going to be never ending. But its fun part of owning one.

Its cool to think, that someday, our bikes will become just as valuable as the Excelsiors and Hendersons of old are today. Very probable though if that happens, it'll be long after I'm gone.

Long live Excelsior Henderson!! An American made motorcycle company...

[alifeasvivid]

So awhile ago, I did a headcanon post about America and England's watches and jewelry... and I CANNOT BELIEVE that it took me until now to realize:

FUCKING JAMES BOND. Almost every watch featured in those films is instantly iconic. So here is are the ones that I think England would have (aka the ones I like the best >.>)

007 perfers dive watches. Basically every film has the character wearing at least one dive watch. I tried to pick one from each actor, but Timothy Dalton wore a Tag Heuer watch and I don't like Tag so >.> there it is. Here is a link to a blog so you can see more about the films that these are from, since I'm gonna stay in my lane and just talk about the watches.

The main brands in the franchise are Rolex, Seiko, and Omega, though some others do make an appearance.

a) Rolex Submariner Ref. 6538, 1962 - Rolex is on the list for "first dive watch" and this particular one can reach a depth of 200m, pretty impressive b) Rolex GMT Master, 1967 - I like the bezels on these the most. The Blue/Red is pretty iconic and lovingly referred to as the Superman bezel or the Pepsi bezel. c) Rolex Chronograph Ref. 6238, 1969 - very shortly after this watch, Rolex would release its iconic Daytona, so these are pretty rare d) Seiko 7549-7009, 1981 - Seiko is considered more of an economy brand compared to the luxury of Rolex and Omega, but their dive watches are top notch and can hold their own against their higher-end counterparts e) Omega Seamaster Professional 300M Ref. 2541.80, 1995 - Pierce Brosnan wore basically this watch for his entire run as Bond, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. f) Omega Seamaster 300 Ref. 233.32.31.41.21.01.001, 2015 - >.> I love this watch. It's so sexy. This one was designed specifically for the film, Spectre, which makes it instantly recognizable.

Do I think England keeps these in their own special box and tends to them himself? Yes.

Do I think America occasionally tries to get his hands on them through unscrupulous means? Yes.

Do I think England shuts that down right quick cuz nobody touches this collection? Yes.

America can gtfo with his apple watch or casio g-shock (jk jk, see the link to my headcanon post for my actual thoughts on his watches) and honestly, I can totally picture him as just as big a Bond fanboy as England so he probably has his own collection of these. XD

[cultstatus]

getty image search Kyle Busch 2015 (with the intention of looking at championship pics) *proceeds to be shown images of his Daytona wreck*

[coimbrabertone]

NASCAR Numerology: How NASCAR's Current Teams Got Their Numbers: Part Five.

Alright guys, we've gotten to the last part of this little miniseries.

Today we're covering:

Front Row Motorsports, who run the #34 Ford for Michael McDowell and the #38 for Todd Gilliland in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series.

Legacy Motor Club, who run the #42 Toyota for John Hunter Nemechek and the historic #43 for Erik Jones.

and JTG Daugherty Racing, who run the #47 Chevrolet for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Fittingly, we get to end on representation for all three brands.

Front Row Motorsports debuted in 2004, running the #92 Ford on a partial schedule with drivers like Brad Teague, Tony Raines, and Stanton Barrett, but they would fail to qualify for any races. Furthermore, the Mach 1 Motorsports team ran the #98/#96 car that year, splitting time between Ford and Dodge, and running drivers such as Todd and Geoff Bodine, Larry Gunselman, Derrike Cope, Chad Chaffin, and Randy LaJoie.

This team did manage to make some races (keyword: some) and in 2005, Mach 1 would attempt the full schedule with a #34 Chevrolet while another slew of drivers (mainly LaJoie, Chaffin, and PJ Jones) but by the end of 2005, the team was up for sale. Front Row Motorsports would buy this #34 car, as well as Mach 1's shop, and build their team around it.

Often running as a start-and-park team with a revolving door of drivers, Front Row finally got some stability in 2009, with John Andretti driving the #34, and dragging it up to three top twenty finishes, at Daytona, Loudon, and Fontana.

Andretti left after the 2010 Daytona 500, but the top twenty streak remained, with Travis Kvapil scoring an 18th at Talladega and Kevin Conway a 14th at the summer Daytona race.

David Gilliland (Todd's father) ran the full 2011 season and scored a third place at the Daytona 500, building on the results of the last three years to make Front Row Motorsports a proper contender on the superspeedways.

For 2012, Gilliland was moved to the #38 (more on that later) while David Ragan took over the #34. This car would top off FRM's superspeedway streak by winning the 2013 Aaron's 499 at Talladega.

Ragan would leave FRM after the 2015 Daytona 500 to get the opportunity to fill in for the injured Kyle Busch, so that season was a bit of a revolving door for the #34 yet again. Yet, for 2016, they got a technical alliance with Roush Fenway Racing in exchange for running Roush development driver Chris Buescher.

And Chris Buescher would win the 2016 Pennsylvania 400 for them on a Monday after a rainy weekend followed by a foggy weekend led to a segmented and ultimately shortened race. It took a bit of luck, but it got FRM its second win, and the first that wasn't on a superspeedway.

Chris Buescher went to JTG Daugherty of all places for 2017 (more on that later), so FRM hired Landon Cassill, without much success, before signing Michael McDowell for 2018.

McDowell has seen FRM become a legitimate team, winning the 2021 Daytona 500 and the 2023 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at the IMS Road Course. Furthermore, in 2024, now in alliance with Team Penske, Front Row Motorsports is no longer an ironic name, as McDowell has started first or second multiple times this season, including at Daytona, Atlanta, and even Gateway, the latter two being pole positions.

Michael McDowell, however, will be moving to the Spire Motorsports #71 for 2025.

FRM has built their numbering scheme off of the #34, running other cars such as the #35, #37, and most commonly the #36, but its second full time car has been the #38.

Driven by David Gilliland from 2012-2015 and son Todd Gilliand ever since 2022, the car has also seen drives from Landon Cassill, David Ragan (in a return to FRM), John-Hunter Nemechek, Anthony Alfredo, and Zane Smith. With four top tens and a further ten top twenties, 2024 has thus far been the most successful season to date for the #38.

FRM will run a third full time car in 2025, having bought a charter from SHR, and has signed SHR's Noah Gragson, but it is unknown was number he will run. FRM ran the #36 this season for Kaz Grala, but Bob Jenkins says he's not married to this numbering scheme. Still, even numbers in the mid-30s are as close to consistent numbering as FRM has ever gotten, so I hope they do decide to stick with the #36.

Onto Legacy Motor Club.

First things first, this team is a Frankenstein's Monster mess of forgotten NASCAR teams in hilarious fashion. Petty Enterprises, officially ran from 1949 to 2008, when sponsorship could not be found, leading to the team merging with Gillett-Evernham Motorsports for 2009. Gillett-Evernham Motorsports consisted of Evernham Motorsports, the former Dodge factory team that ran the #9 and the #19, MBV Motorsports (which was essentially the #10 car owned by Valvoline at this point), and money from George Gillett, who was at the time the controversial owner of the Montreal Canadiens and Liverpool FC.

So already, you had the Petty #43, Petty #45, Evernham #9, Evernham #19, and Valvoline #10 merging into one team, but for 2010, they also bought Yates Racing to take over Paul Menard and his #98 Ford. This allowed the entire team to switch from Dodge to Ford.

So come 2010, the team is running the #9, #19, #43, and #98 with relics from three different numbering schemes remaining in the team. It's freaking awesome.

The #19 and #98 went away after 2010, leaving the team with the #9 and the #43.

The #9 was initially their most successful car, with Kasey Kahne winning Sonoma 2009 and Fall Atlanta 2009 with the team, before Australian Marcos Ambrose won Watkins Glen for the team in 2011 and 2012.

The #43 would, to its credit, with the 2014 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona with Aric Almirola, and it would become the team's only car after 2016.

After the 2021 season, GMS Racing, a truck team, bought into Petty, becoming Petty GMS. Ahead of the 2023 season, the team became Legacy Motor Club, with Jimmie Johnson buying in, Richard Petty chasing out, and Maury Gallagher of GMS becoming majority owner. Petty remained involved a spokesman for the team, however.

So, finally, onto their numbers. They run the #43 and have since practically the beginning of time, because that was Richard Petty's number? Why, well, that actually takes us to their second car, the #42, which was Lee Petty's number.

Why did Lee Petty pick the #42? Legend has it was the first two numbers in his license plate.

So, Lee Petty ran the #42, his son Richard ran the #43, Richard's son Kyle would eventually run the #44, and Kyle's son Adam would run the #45. Each generation building on the last. When Adam died, Kyle took over the #45 in his memory.

Thad Moffitt in the Truck series is a grandson of Richard Petty through Petty's youngest daughter Rebecca, and he continues this trend by running the #46.

In any case, when Petty GMS bought a second car in 2022, they chose to run the #42 - recently vacated by Chip Ganassi - reuniting the original two Petty numbers.

This arrangement continued as Petty became Legacy and eventually switched to Toyota for 2024. Currently the #43 is driven by Erik Jones, who won Darlington in it in 2022, and the #42 by John Hunter Nemechek.

Also, fun fact, Kyle Petty drove the #42 at Team SABCO (which would eventually become Chip Ganassi Racing) from 1989 to 1996, so it was a Petty number even when it wasn't.

And now JTG Daugherty Racing. It started in 2007, running a second car (#47) in alliance with the Wood Brothers. I cannot find any specific reason for the #47, only that Tad Geschickter ran a #47 Busch car ever since 1996, so maybe it was an availability thing. In any case, they ran the #47 and made their Cup debut in 2007, with Ken Schrader and Jon Wood each trying and failing to qualify for a race.

The #47 managed a few starts in 2008 with Marcos Ambrose, finishing third at the Glen, which prompted JTG to split with the Wood Brothers to try and go full time for the 2009 season with Ambrose in a #47 Toyota. This lasted two years before Mabrose moved to the aforementioned Richard Petty Motorsports, with JTG instead drafting in Bobby Labonte.

They would sign AJ Allmendinger in 2013 as Labonte began scaling back his races, and with AJ full time in 2014, they'd win at Watkins Glen. Allmendinger would last until 2018, when Ryan Preece was hired for that car, but then Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was chosen for 2020. Ricky would win the 2023 Daytona 500 with the team.

JTG Daugherty also briefly has a second car, the #37 - ten less than #47, also apparently Tad used this number in college sports - the #37 ran with Chris Buescher for 2017, 2018, and 2019, before running with Ryan Preece for 2020 and 2021.

This brings up another interesting aspect of JTG Daugherty Racing - despite the fact that they're a Chevy team, they kinda have this unique relationship with RFK Racing. First of all, Chris Buescher was a Roush development driver. Second of all, that #37 car for Buescher was run on the charter for Roush's #16.

Third, was that when Roush took Chris Buescher back for the 2020 season, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. then went the other way, going from the Roush #17 to the JTG Daugherty #47.

Oh, and as recently as 2023, JTG Daugherty's pit crew was on loan from Roush. Yeah, odd.

So yeah, that is all 36 chartered teams for the 2024 NASCAR Cup series and the story of a couple other numbers that are relevant to the story. I hope you guys enjoyed all that, but I think I'm gonna write about some other motorsports for a little while. The blog has been a bit NASCAR heavy lately and this week added a whole five extra blogposts to it.

I do enjoy blabbing on about NASCAR, but I also enjoy blabbing on about MotoGP and Indycar. Formula One is also a sport that exists.

[sucede-es]

2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta

Cuando el modelo LaFerrari debutó en 2013, se presentó como el Ferrari definitivo.

El automóvil estaba impulsado por el primer tren motriz híbrido de Maranello, directamente derivado del programa de Fórmula 1 de Ferrari.

Durante los cinco años de producción del LaFerrari, se fabricaron 500 cupés y 210 Apertas descapotables, siendo esta última una de las últimas. Una llamativa carrocería exterior en Nero Daytona con acentos rojos sobre un interior en Nero ofrece un cambio bienvenido respecto al estándar Rosso, el automóvil apenas ha sido disfrutado.

2011 Ferrari 599 SA Aperta

2015 Ferrari 458 Especial Aperta