Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Loving this. I wish #RBR had a separate night stage time trial rating.

And here's a Tanak commercial.

Driving on a sleek for a couple of kilometers, getting the rally lead. I really hope that #MSport and #Ford will give him a car to compete for the world championship.

Here's a commercial for #Pirelli.

Ott: "ask pirelly, f**king hell".

Fair enough.

He has two new tires and seems like #Pirelli delaminated on a straight... With two new tires... What.

Ott saved it so well!

Is this where it happens? Ott shows insane pace. Let's see what Craig has in store.

I'm rooting for Tanak, obviously, but I hope that Craig won't crumble under pressure and will always keep it on the road. We watch racing for racing, not for "drama"!

Oh #Pirelli, what the fuck, holy shit. Poor #EP.

If this was an isolated incident *or* if we had many different tire manufacturers in #WRC, I wouldn't make a stench. But drivers and teams have no agency over what they put on their cars and sure, there is tire saving and stuff, but again, cars aren't stock. Drivers have to push...

Stuff like this makes me sad and not because of the personalities involved. EP is a fun guy, but I'm not his fan or anything. It's just very very very annoying, especially given that two drivers suffered the same issue with delamination on the straight.

Also the fact that there's no sensor between the stubbed outer layer and the wall of the tire is a joke.

Improved the time by three seconds in a 2018 #Toyota. Top-150-ish from among 500+ nerds!

Above me only modern cars, granted, some R5s are faster, but I think that I can get to top-100...

...Which means that it's time to move on to a different stage :)

The splits were a yo-yo. Ah, what a rally!

Most likely, Craig will retain first, assuming he'll keep up with Ott's blazing last section.

It ain't much, but it's honest work. +0.0 from my previous best time! Nice little session, now let's watch #WRC.

Time to test my new notes for #Torsby shakedown... Maybe I'll stream to make people feel better about their driving in #SimRally? 🤣

https://behold.memorici.de

Can't watch stage 11 for some reason but ok.

Gah, should've woken up with the alarm, it seemed to have been interesting, given that Tänak won back 2.7 seconds there!

So you know how it seems like #Ford has a shitty top speed compared to the other two manufacturers?

Watching stage 9. The stage is snow-powder gravel with ruts in most of places, getting worse and worse and worse with every car. Harder and harder to drive the later you are in the car order.

But guess what...

When I hear stuff like "that's why we moved further to the north to have snow" from #WRC commentators I get very upset. Truth hurts, but there's nothing joyful about it. We need to always remember why. #ClimateChange.

And you know what's really sad?.. Intelligence can be perfect, and still politicians are often scared to do the right thing, on the account of them being weasels and optimising for the most local future.

I sometimes think about how the West seems to have learned its #WW2 lesson with their reasonable, albeit slow, help to #Ukraine.

But what is our reaction to #China arming and increasing military capability? What's our reaction to #Turkey, a dictatorship in #NATO?

Could it be that our children and grandchildren will read about how indecisive we were in declaring war on #russia, how we slept through Turkish sabotage of our military alliance and the second Pearl Harbor, the Chinese version?..

I wouldn't bet lunch money against it.