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   John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 16:41:26 JST John Bull

   My chief engineer last night, getting all over the live practice data for Monaco as it comes in.

   I think his main concern was the signs of wear on Lando Norris' gearbox. #cats #f1

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 17:14:50 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford aye.

     i'm doing a twitch/youtube run of rebuilding mclaren and winning the championship with a female driver

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     Matt Crawford (thecrawford@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 17:14:51 JST Matt Crawford

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     @garius is this the new one, 23?

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     Matt Crawford (thecrawford@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 19:02:43 JST Matt Crawford

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     @garius I tried doing that in the first game with a woman driver, but the generated ones are all too young to go into F1 so I've got to play forward like 5 seasons first.

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 19:02:43 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford yeah, there was a mod that replaced a few of the starting drivers with real female drivers for the first one, which speed up that process a bit.

     For this one, I was pleased to see we finally started with a real female driver in the game: If you look closely in the scouting you can find Sophia Forsch having her first F3 season.

     So my plan is:

     YR 1: Start McLaren getting better
     YR2: Sign Forsch as reserve and push her training
     YR3/4: Make her Car 2
     YR5: Title push (hopefully)

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:21:29 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford yeah, the temptation may be to leave her in F3 for another year - and may have to anyway if this counts as only her first season.

     In terms of streams: This campaign will be my monday evening (UK time) stream, with that going up on youtube on fridays. Then youtube exclusive updates between streams as and when.

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     Matt Crawford (thecrawford@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:21:30 JST Matt Crawford

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     @garius I found that mod but now I'm three seasons in and it needs a restart 😭

     It's a good plan, will have to tune in to see how it goes, although iirc in 22 they develop faster in F3/F2 than in your team, even with every FP1 runs, but the risk is someone else picking her up.

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:23:06 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford first episode was last night, which was mostly an episode in watching Piastri crash. A lot.

     And a rant about the rain graph STILL not having Y axis values.😆

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:29:58 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford so you can kinda work it out (as i do on stream) by waiting for the damp to get to a level (let's say 0.25mm) during the race and then quickly looking at it to guestimate. But it's pretty ridiculous.

     As I think i said on stream: If i'm paying multiple millions for a fucking weather centre, i'm gonna employ people who know what a fucking y-axis label is. 😆

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     Matt Crawford (thecrawford@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:29:59 JST Matt Crawford

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     @garius oh that rain graph is total nonsense, I'm playing as Williams and lost our first podium going onto wets because the rain line shot right up, and then it only went to 3.99mm and we ended up out of the points!

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     John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 20:31:48 JST John Bull

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     • Matt Crawford

     @thecrawford indeed i've told viewers that being screwed by the rain graph or Norris catastrophically are our only two 'justified reload' scenarios this season.

     Just because i'm having to min/max around Norris in S1 much more than i'd like to give the run a solid start and keep it fun.