EV's and NASCAR (Page 1/3)
Hank is Here FEB 22, 11:57 PM
...don't judge me.

Just having a few drinks and watching Days of Thunder and wondering WTF happened to the world of automobiles. I'll return with Petuxanny Phil for the rest of winter.
maryjane FEB 23, 03:07 AM
Winter is over.
1985 Fiero GT FEB 24, 04:05 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Winter is over.




Not for everybody, that snow is what's left after a week of melting! Next week gets cold again!
blackrams FEB 24, 07:51 AM
Winter did provide me with a break in mowing. The last mowing of 2023 was in mid-December, mowing started again the first week of February. Was a longer and cooler winter than we normally experience. Now, just waiting for the pollen to start floating in the air. I really hate "Pollen Season" but mowing beats the hell out of shoveling snow.

Rams
Raydar FEB 24, 04:22 PM
I didn't realize that Hattiesburg was "warmer"(?) than west-central GA.
Our bermuda grass is starting to show little bits of green. Enough to give the yard, as a whole, a bit of a yellow-green tint. The areas with fescue are going nuts.
The purple dead-nettle and other weeds are, of course, running rampant. Needed mowed two days ago. Probably this week.

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maryjane FEB 24, 11:06 PM

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Originally posted by Raydar:

I didn't realize that Hattiesburg was "warmer"(?) than west-central GA.
Our bermuda grass is starting to show little bits of green. Enough to give the yard, as a whole, a bit of a yellow-green tint. The areas with fescue are going nuts.
The purple dead-nettle and other weeds are, of course, running rampant. Needed mowed two days ago. Probably this week.




If you have nettle, you probably have a lot of dock and henbit too. (like curly dock) Dock are weeds that resemble nettle.
Pretty easy to control kill if you use the right stuff and do it before they bolt. (bolt happens when a plant gets too warm suddenly and prematurely begins the reproductive stage--blooms and seeds) The henbit will die off if you mow it but will be back like gangbusters next fall and spring. It annoys me some ...but not as much as it hates me. where Don goes, nothin grows..
Otherwise, use a pre-emergent...now!

Something with Quinclorac works pretty good without harming most grasses.

Fescue. Beware of fescue toxicity if you have livestock or dogs. Do not allow it to go to seed! Fungal endophytes-ergot alkaloids.

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82-T/A [At Work] FEB 24, 11:36 PM
I'll keep my mouth shut about the perfect 60-70 degree weather we've had the past 2 months with sunshine down here in Florida... I mean, I'll try my best to not talk about the fact that I also don't have to mow my lawn but once a month in the Winter, and it still looks green. But just ignore all of that...

Yeah... I like EVs, but I've been less and less enthused about things like Formula-1 and stuff since the engines keep getting smaller. Every time I go back and look at the early to mid 2000s when they still had V10s... the sound was just unbelievable. I went to two F1 races when they were in Indianapolis... and "feeling" the car is as much a part of the race as the win.

My opinion... the "tech" required to make a gas powered car go fast is much more sophisticated than the "tech" required to make an electric-motor car go fast.

Perhaps it's a lot like comparing a mechanical watch movement to a Quartz watch movement. Sure... the quartz watch is probably better at telling time (let's be honest), but there's just something about the mechanical watch that's intrinsically more sophisticated. Haha...
maryjane FEB 25, 08:54 AM
Remember the uproar over Granatelli's Indy 500 turbine car ("whooshmobile") Parnelli Jones drove? 'Almost won' .
You may be too young to remember it.
Patrick FEB 26, 01:05 AM
Raydar FEB 26, 04:46 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Remember the uproar over Granatelli's Indy 500 turbine car ("whooshmobile") Parnelli Jones drove?



I seem to remember that everyone was chapped about it. Didn't run too many races before it was outlawed. Or "classed" out of existence.