#Group 4

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BMW M1 Turbo (the extraordinary case of the BMW M1 with 1000 hp)

Ignore the livery. Or don’t ignore it. Like with every other Jägermeister racing car, it might be hard to actually walk past this orange beast without giving the standout paint job at least one glance. It was designed to attract attention, just how Günter Mast — the man that gave his OK to race cars with the famous stag on the bonnet — intended. The truth of the matter is, however, that this particular car’s convoluted history is as complicated as the story of the BMW M1 itself. Therefore this car is not what it seems to be, as the orange Jägermeister livery stems from the imagination of the man that rebuilt the car, the legendary M1 whisperer Fritz Wagner. And if you ask anyone at Jägermeister headquarters about the car, they will potentially reply with a polite letter from their legal department. To paraphrase Samuel Beckett: there’s nothing funnier than tragedy. And so, the story of the BMW M1 could be perceived as one of the automotive world’s funniest. The car was originally designed with the ambition to create the greatest, mid-engined racing car of all time. One that would beat Porsche’s dominating 935 in the all-important Group 5. A masterpiece made of speed and German reliability which, in reality, became a car that had to be reverse engineered to be sold for the road. All because of changes in racing rules and homologation, which stipulated how many cars had to be produced before a particular model was allowed to hit the track. The production number of 400 cars — which seems so minuscule by today’s standards — turned out to be the first problem on a long list of unfolding disasters.

In essence, the life of this beautiful, light, well-made machine that had been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, who reworked Paul Bracq’s original prototype, was plagued by bad luck and bad decisions. The fact that Lamborghini — who were supposed to produce it at their factory — went bust because of copyright fraud and embezzlement of funds didn’t help. However, it was the rushed solution to disperse production all over Europe that was the final nail in the coffin. Marchese built the car's tube frame, TIR molded the fiberglass, Italdesign mated the two and installed the interior, then the M1 was shipped from Italy to Stuttgart, where Baur would in­stall the BMW hardware, after which in Munich BMW Motor­sports would do the final touches and quality control. It made the M1 almost a quarter more expensive than any equivalent Ferrari or Lambo sold at the time. Case closed.

British generals in the second world war would often joke that Germans were not very good when it came to Plan B. This might be true. In the end, even if BMW’s head of Motorsport Jochen Neerpasch, the brilliant man that he is, thought of a way to market the M1 with the Procar series, in which F1 drivers like Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, and Nelson Piquet would race the cars against privateers, as a prelude to the weekend's Formula 1 race, too few examples were made for the car to ever officially leave Group 4 as was originally intended. Later on, those teams who managed to finally race in Group 5, years after BMW abandoned the programme in order to enter to F1, found the M1 simply uncompetitive. Even the twin-turbocharged models built by Schnitzer, which developed 800 hp and more from their straight six engines, were plagued by problems. his finally brings us to this particular, rather unusual example. It was allegedly built for the famous Walter Brun racing team, who later on won the Group C World Championship with a Jägermeister-liveried Porsche 956. Brun’s friendship with Paul Rosche, the man who turbocharged the BMW 2002, gave rise to the idea of installing the M88 turbo engine originally planned for the March Group-5 car into a modified M1 Procar chassis wrapped into Group 5 bodywork. However, the car was never raced. Why? Even at BMW no one knows. Particularly good news considering that back in the day, when this 1090 kg machine was put on a dyno, it put out 1000 hp and 930 NM of Torque. A reading obtained just before the machine broke while the car apparently still wanted to keep going. Now in the hands of a new owner who intends to race it regularly, it will have plenty of opportunity to shine. And so a new chapter unfolds…

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Updated bracket for Group 4!

Remember to click through to OG post for updated versions of the brackets!

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Shuri vs. Samantha "Sam" Carter

Remember: don't vote on "who would win in a fight", but on "who, when given a task that fits her skillset and talents, would do that task better: more comprehensively, faster, with more pizzazz, with less collateral, etc."

Endorsements! "What is she good at?"

Shuri, Marvel: She's an amazing inventor: creative, unafraid, enthusiastic about science. Her devices and gadgets save the day all the time!

Samantha "Sam" Carter, Stargate: #but sam blew up a sun#and punched ba'al#and (as i said up there) got between ronon and teal'c sparring#she beat the crap out of a warlord who saw women as property (we know the ep aged like milk but character building)#she built a particle accelerator!#she wouldn't stop until all her team got home#(ok shipper in me is like 'also cause she loved him' but roll with it)#she went up against her universe's version of a terminator and survived thank you tumblr user @tinknevertalks

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[drowinginmyownabyss]

Charlie Spring is the one of the protagonists of the graphic novel Heartstopper. He is gay and dating Nick Nelson throughout the novel. Charlie tends to overthink and is very emphatic. He plays the drum and loves to read. He is shown to struggle with OCD and anorexia during Heartstopper.

Bliss Lai is the eventual friend of Angel Rahimi during the novel I Was Born For This. She is bisexual and dates Rowan Omondi for a portion of the novel.

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Tfw you're the only one in your group who is entirely human.

“Stop staring at us.” 

“No, I’m not talking to you, Karma. I’m talking to the ones we can’t see.” 

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Group 4 Round 1: Sculk VS Poppy

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Fun Group 4 mental image I forgot to share a while ago:

One of the other students was looking for them for whatever reason and found all six chilling in the same room.

Karma's just casually discussing the best spices to use for torture purposes to whoever's listening.

Nagisa's just nodding along while he inspects one of his knives (snek boi with a knife collection is a headcanon I won't be dropping any time soon).

Okuda's adding her own comments to the conversation while also casually experimenting with chemicals that she definitely didn't enter the room with.

Sugino's tossing baseballs at Kayano, who is throwing them back with her tentacles (in an AU where it would be safe for her to keep them).

Kayano is also researching pudding recipes while they're doing this.

And Kanzaki is just smiling in the background while absolutely wrecking people in some online game.

The person who came to look for them just wordlessly backs out the door.

[voiceactormarchmadness]

Patrick Warburton is known for voicing Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove), Joe Swanson (Family Guy), Sheriff Stone (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated) and Mr. Barkin (Kim Possible)

Kevin Michael Richardson- Notable roles: Gantu (Lilo & Stitch), Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012), Trigon (Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!), Skulker (Danny Phantom) and Cleveland Jr. (Family Guy, The Cleveland Show)

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[sunnyrinka]

🪀📝for group 4 if you don't mind

i'd love to! group 4 are a joy. although i have to note that aside from okuda, i'm not the biggest expert on their characters, so i apologize in advance.

group 4 silly hcs and misc thoughts

they love buying matching socks with funky designs. i really have no explanation for this i just love the idea of them picking out the craziest ones together.

i think it's no surprise that they go to cafes and bakeries together a lot, but sometimes they'd visit the pricier ones to gaze upon the incredibly well made and beautiful sweets but never actually buys them.

but sometimes they do cave .

MISC THOUGHTS : i personally see group 4 as the most close knitted friend group aside from tgang within their class, at least within the duration of the series. there's just something about them that speaks of comfort and feeling like you belong, yk? i definitely can see that they would come to one another whenever they need anything.

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a chibi conrad!

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Claudia Donovan vs. Samantha "Sam" Carter

Remember: don't vote on "who would win in a fight", but on "who, when given a task that fits her skillset and talents, would do that task better: more comprehensively, faster, with more pizzazz, with less collateral, etc."

Endorsements! "What is she good at?"

Claudia Donovan, Warehouse 13: She’s young and knows more/has invented more stuff than people 3x her age. She has an intuitive understanding of stuff. Like she will have her own warehouse aisle one day. Genius is insufficient.

Samantha "Sam" Carter, Stargate: She runs the Atlantis base in another galaxy and has to deal with Rodney McKay being a div and Ronon Dex and Teal'c wanting the ultimate show down. She actually got between the two of them to stop the fight (and they both tower over her 5 foot nine height) and when she had to, she could lead them into battle. (If anything, she got a bit nerfed after SG1 because the writers had McKay to be the brains but Sam is 100% better.)

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