#Karthikeyan

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This collection of sketches was already really absurd and silly -- and I accidentally posted it on my LoZ comic blog.

I welcome you death.

[tejasvkris]

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Ex F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan, or Nasweat Karthikeyan as George Russell would call him.

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Ragamalika Karthikeyan, an editor at The News Minute who identifies as a genderfluid person and is a Brahmin, talks about how her upper-caste location has allowed her greater social access. “The fact that I came out late in my life, combined with the fact that I am a privileged person by caste, means the opportunities that I have with regards to work are much better than the opportunities that a trans non-binary person would have if they are from a marginalized caste,” she said. “I’m not seen as a threat on multiple layers in a workplace,” she added. Further, Ragamalika also mentioned that her authority is not questioned as often because of her privileged caste location. “I know that even cisgender and heterosexual Dalit people in leadership positions face much more questioning when compared with a queer or non-binary person with caste privilege in a similar position,” she said.

Sayantan Datta, ‘Does an Indian transgender person’s caste change their experience of being trans?’, LGBTQ Nation

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Dr. Karthikeyan Damodharan is one of the best interventional radiologist Doctor in chennai,Tamilnadu,India

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Sir Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Bruno Senna and Narain Karthikeyan (2012)

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@ koushalya-karthikeyan

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Panama City Beach, Florida. Photo by Koushalya Karthikeyan.

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Various art and sketches from the past month! The unifying factor is wanting to avoid inking anything.

Also can we talk about how the 1990s mid-part, long fringe hairstyle is kinda coming back a bit for dudes? It's a somewhat cursed style. Making it perfect for a sulky teen werewolf.

[forelsketparadise]

Talking about karun chandok i just remembered when Narain Karthikeyan made it to F1 it was all over the place so much that it was a question in our general knowledge exam in school but nobody knew karun even existed in f1

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Okay SO i have my coffee, I went off about celtic mythology already, apparently I'm in the mood to write today, and I remembered your post last night. LETS GO

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE LIKE IF LEWIS HAMILTON HAD DECIDED NOT TO RACE

- shit. it would be shit, definitely

- nico would have more than one championship

- seb would have at least one more wdc with ferrari

- fernando would be a bit more normal because he wouldnt be holding a grudge about being beaten by a rookie 20 yrs ago

- i think val and nico would be teammates and i honestly have no idea how that would look; however, nico would be a fundamentally different person bcs lewis was legit his only friend, and i somehow think he would be both worse and better

- f1 would be even more unapproachable to anyone who wasnt a rich white guy, bcs lewis came in and fucking owned them all, and is the most successful driver of all times, so i shudder to think what it would be like if he werent there

- we'd probably still think some of the rich white men were decent people bcs they wouldnt be outing themselves as racists left and right

- ferrari would still be a disaster 💔

- who wouldve driven for mclaren tho? it was lewis and heidfeld i think during rbr domination era

- barichello? massa? ngl i think barichello shouldve won in 2009 (sorry jense), so how would that have played out, with jenson to mclaren

- god i dont know so many possibilities!!!

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Okay so. First of all you're so absolutely right the world and F1 would have been way worse overall.

I made a spreadsheet of all the drivers who have ranked in the WDC standings since Lewis' arrival in F1 in 2007 and where they ended up in the standings each year because I can't be a normal person about this. Then I tucked away all those who were clearly irrelevant to the subject (and that's most of them lol).

Here's what I think. It's long, because I think too much.

In 2007, Raikkonen won. Lewis not being there would not have changed a thing apart from the permanent alteration of Alonso's brain function. I don't remember the context exactly, would he have left McLaren so soon if it wasn't for Lewis' arrival?

If not, could he have won in 2008? The McLaren wasn't excessively dominant that year, Kovalainen finished 7th. But if Lewis was able to extract that kind of performance out of the car anyway, could Alonso have done the same? The less uncertain choice is Massa. He was so close to that title. What would have happened if it had been Alonso in Lewis' position? It's difficult to say.

In 2009, Lewis finished 5th. I don't think it would have made much of a difference had he not been there. So Jenson keeps that one, obvi. (Can you explain why you think Barrichello would have gotten it?) Same goes for 2010-2013, doesn't change a thing for Seb's domination era. The McLaren wasn't good enough for the title in those years, no matter who would have been driving it if it wasn't him, and then the Mercedes wasn't good enough either yet.

The big question is : who would have taken Michael's Mercedes seat if it hadn't been him? Let's not forget that at the end of 2012, it was considered a risky move from him to join them, as the team wasn't doing very well. I'm looking at the drivers who got a seat, lost their seat or moved teams at that time : Perez, Hülkenberg, Gutiérrez, Sutil, Grosjean, Kobayashi, Maldonado, Pic, van der Garde, Kovalainen, Petrov, Glock, Chilton, de la Rosa, Karthikeyan... Would they have chosen Valtteri already? He'd only been a reserve driver so far... Of all these, weirdly, the only one who finished above Nico in 2012 was Grosjean.

It all depends on that really because without a competitive teammate, Nico would have won more than once yeah. At least in 2014 and 2015, on top of 2016. However...

What if Mercedes had gotten a driver for 1 year in 2013? And then who could have gotten that seat in 2014? Massa and Raikkonen were on the market. They were both very very good drivers. Massa was then driving with Ferrari and finished 7th and 8th in the two previous years. Raikkonen was 3rd and 5th with Lotus. Would Nico have won against them? Maybe...

What if Mercedes had gotten a driver for 2 years in 2012? Who would have gotten the seat in 2015? Alonso left Ferrari at the end of 2014, and of course Seb left RBR... Would Nico have won against them? I don't think so. Although either of these pairings would have been highly entertaining lol.

There were no such interesting moves in 2016. So yeah, by the end of that season, either Nico with 2 more titles OR Massa or Raikkonen with 1 or 2 more (rather unlikely imho) OR Alonso or Seb with 1 more (actually very likely if either had gotten the seat in 2015 imho).

Of course then the rest depends on that seat as well and becomes pretty much impossible to predict. So for the sake of the thought exercise let's leave that seat aside and imagine what would have happened if things just went as they actually went except no Lewis.

So Nico wins in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Does Nico retire if he's not exhausted by his fight against Lewis? I guess not? Does he win against Seb in 2017 then? Lewis ended up 46 points ahead of him in reality, could Nico have done the same had it been him? How about 2018, when it was 88 points? I think two questions to consider are how good of a driver Nico really is and how good would he have been without his rivalry with Lewis. In your ask you said he would have been both worse and better. As a person or as a driver or both? What do you think?

What if Valtteri was there then. Who's the best driver between Nico and Val? Because Val is indeed very good. Would he have won in 2019, in 2020? What about Max? Would he have won his first title earlier, later, in 2021 still?

How do their rivalries shape the drivers' performance? Did everybody do better or worse because Lewis was so unattainable? Did it light a fire under all their asses or did it discourage them?

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Chess Kings MBTI

Here are a few top thinking type men chess players by MBTI

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ENTJ Viswanathan Anand, Vladislav Artemiev, Laurent Fressinet, Daniel Naroditsky, David Navara, Nihal Sarin

INTJ David Anton Guijarro, Bai Jinshi, Leinier Dominguez, Robert Hungaski, Mircea Parligras, Kenneth Rogoff, Adam Tukhaev

ENTP Nodirbek Abdusattorov,  Benjamin Bok, Daniil Dubov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Anish Giri, GN Gopal, Nils Grandelius, Vladimir Kramnik, Le Quang Liem, Peter Leko, Leon Luke Mendonca, Elshan Moradiabadi, Parimarjan Negi, Ni Hua, Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov, Kirill Shevchenko, Loek Van Wely, Nikita Vitiugov

INTP Michael Adams, Ferenc Berkes, Gillian Bwalya, Fabiano Caruana, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Kamil Dragun, Brewington Hardaway, Brandon Jacobson, Denis Lazavik, Marc’Andria Maurizzi, Jergus Pechac, Vahap Sanal, Samuel Sevian, Dariusz Swiercz, Veselin Topalov

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ESTJ Dmitry Andreikin, Maurice Ashley, Magnus Carlsen, Cristian Chirila, Jan Gustafsson, Aleksandar Indjic, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Karthikeyan Murali, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Sam Shankland, Amin Tabatabaei

ISTJ Cemil Can (JJ) Ali Marandi, Sandipan Chanda, Lance Henderson de La Fuente, David Silva, Wesley So, Lucas Van Foreest

ESTP Bobby Fischer, Baadur Jobava, Garry Kasparov, Viktor Korchnoi, Igor-Alexandre Nataf, Hans Niemann, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Boris Spassky, Eugene Torre

ISTP Kirill Alekseenko, Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez, Bobby Cheng, Gukesh Dommaraju, Alexander Grischuk, Andrew Hong, Anatoly Karpov, Javokhir Sindarov, Andrew Tang, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jorden Van Foreest, Wei Yi

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Dr. Karthikeyan Damodharan is one of the best interventional radiologist Doctor in chennai,Tamilnadu,India

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I have vague memories of last year during silly season when people kept wanting daniel to indycar and nascar and daniel saying he wasn’t gonna go near ovals that people were saying that he could just do the normal tracks and that they could get another driver to do the ovals, I don’t go there so idk the names and like I get part time elite athlete is weird on the surface but like if it’s a thing that actually already happens in other motorsports why not f1 🤷‍♀️ and midseason driver swaps and reserve drivers needing to fill in happen regularly anyways like it’s not any different to that except there’s like actual planning behind it and would play to a drivers strengths (the downside would be the tracks daniel would probably have to compromise because he’s very good at street races like monaco and singapore), I also feel like marketing would kind of love it because they could give it the whole spin of it being an unconventional thing the other teams aren’t doing and puts the drivers well-being first for triple headers and stuff and then also can make a big deal every other weekend or so being like “guess who’s back!” every time they swap

also like I’m a hoe for the narrative and how Narain Karthikeyan only drove the hrt in 2011 for half the season because daniel stole his seat and his home GP happened to be happening towards the end of the season but hrt still let him race it

nothing to add except i'm mailing this directly to milton keynes as we speak, cause if they haven't thought of this already, they should probably at least consider it!!

[cherrynika]

ama with ex f1 driver narain karthikeyan coming up on 13 april

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