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Was isst Du denn so? Ich mag Thai, aber die Kambodschanische Küche ist leider nicht so gut. @Tsubasa you can send it to me by post together with Lars' KöPi

Es ist wirklich nicht schlecht (wenn auch nicht wirklich super hehe), ich bin ja froh mal was deutsches zu essen...

Na ja, der Besitzer kommt eben aus Bayern... Serviert wird alles mögliche Currywurst, sämtliche Schnitzelvarianten, Kartoffelsalat, Spätzle, Schweinshaxe, Strammer Max, Steaks, Hamburger, irgendwelche Schweizer Kacke usw. Alles ganz schön durcheinander, haha.

A real one, haha. Or at least closer to Ruhrpott style, anyway, as it's a Bavarian restaurant

Oh we've got it here, pretty good too!

I've missed it a lot! We've got quite a few German/Turkish/European places here, some good some gash, but none had döner on their menu until now. Can't compare it to a proper one in D, but it's still pretty good. Now the only things missing are mett and fischbrötchen, and I'd be well covered in terms of food

It's rainy season here, so we're supposed to have loads of rain, but it's much less than in previous years so far - at least in my town. I guess it will hit us late this time, maybe September-October. Temperatures are lower than 30 in general, cloudy and quite windy, so it's very comfortable, can't complain. Have a bit of work to do this weekend, so no plans... some beer and football/Moto GP. Good news is I recently stumbled upon a new German cafe that makes a lovely döner

Sainteloc-Audi R8 (Christopher Haase, Jules Gounon and Markus Winkelhock) have just won 24 hours of Spa. Bentley Continental GT finished 2nd, Mercedes AMG GT3 (Team Akka ASP) 3rd. Timo Bernhard team's Porsche 911 GT3 had all the chances to win the race, great performance, but due to getting 3 minute stop & go + a drivetrough penalty early into the race they only finished 4th. Pretty exciting race altogether.

Yeah not intentional, but still 100% his fault. Ricciardo left him enough place, he locked up and lost control of his car.

Looked like it was Verstappen who pushed Ricciardo out...

Ah ok, I get it now. You're right of course, and that was really an unnecessary death which could have been easily avoided if it weren't for incompetence - or rather negligence - of organisers. As for Ford, I think they still have only delivered 50 of those road-going models of GT, haha. I think they've got a waiver to enter the race as a PR event to that 50 years anniversary of winning Le Mans the last time. That of course doesn't make it fair at all though.

Haha, that new Ford GT was indeed a bit of a cheater car, but to be fair, they are not the first ones to produce limited road-going versions of their new racing cars solely to meet homologation rules; the governing bodies of most series have always been very lenient about it. As for dangers of motorsports - it's always going to be there, that's the very nature and the main source of excitement. I'm not sure what does it have to do with my post, though.

How thorough is the security nowadays? My last attended match in Bremen was in 2010, and even then we were searched quite thoroughly...

Haha, saw you complaining on FB

You're going to Fortuna match on Monday?

Stay strong I'll do the opposite. I intend to spend the next few days under my rock, ordering food delivery and not getting out of bed.

Makes sense, but I can't really see Ferrari being McLaren's engine supplier at any case, and if Mercedes were to, they wouldn't provide the same spec to McLaren either way. What are their other options? Sticking with Honda, hoping they'd solve their issues? Renault?

So I suppose McClaren could now hope for Mercedes deal and ditch Honda too, haha.

With the whole automotive industry moving towards 100% electrification, it's easy to understand why Formula E is suddenly gaining more and more attention from manufacturers in favour of other series,; it's surely a good part of marketing for them in order to test new improvements and, in the end, to sell more electric cars. However, even with the ongoing technology advances, it will take at least 20-30 years for Formula E to even get close to challenging F1, in my opinion. I'm not much of a fan of prototype racing altogether, but I think LMP1 could have continued to play an important role in racing if ACO had realised lack of competitiveness issues early on and opened up the regs a bit to allow more manufacturers as well as privateers in. As it stands now, the cars are too complex and expensive to be run by anyone other than factory teams. At any case, I don't think it's fair to compare Le Mans Prototypes with F1; one is built for endurance the other for sprint, it's two completely different racing cultures serving different purposes, in my opinion. Technically, LMP cars are not even single-seaters. I personally prefer GT endurance racing due to more competitiveness and parity, more action, more varied grids and differences between the cars in general, more diverse engineering solutions and the fact that technology used is of much more relevance to road cars. Still enjoy F1 though. I just wonder what happens with motorsports in general once ICEs get completely banned, as we're definitely moving towards it?...

Porsche now consider exiting Le Mans too...We need rule simplification and cost-cutting to attract more manufacturers and teams to LMP1, the current hybrid technology is too expensive, too unreliable, and too pointless. I personally prefer GTE class anyway, but without LMP1, Le Mans will surely lose a lot of appeal and prestige. Everyone seems to be switching to stupid Formula E

24 hours of Spa taking place 27-30th July, free HD stream of pre-qualifying, qualifying and the race available here: https://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/blancpain-gt-series-live-stream

Sauber have just officially announced the termination of the planned 2018 Honda deal, will announce new engine suppliers shortly.

He got married

But of course! You missed all the fun And yes, that was Joel sporting that motto.

It was a revolution