a hater. a lover. a fool

Sara Curtis is the first Black athlete of any gender to set a World Record in any swimming competition in an Olympic-sized pool (50 m)

'They're throwing long term health over short term successes'

And yeah thats true and worrying. Especially with their willingness to just lie about injuries and get back on the bike injured.

And Pedro is in a career where damn near the only thing guaranteed is injury

there's not going to be a racing till you're 40, you stupid slut, basically

in the fantasy scenario they're envisioning where all pedro's dominoes fall exactly right for the next 18 years, yeah he would, but we probably won't see the cals or dovis of the world getting the chance to try ever again.

Beyond everything that's been said about the physical toll of medical and safety technology allowing riders to repeatedly bounce back from what would once have been career (or life) ending crashes and the increasing professionalization and obsession with physical optimization in sport from an early age, it just sucks to watch guys who are barely 30 get shoveled off en masse because terminal gambling brain has everybody trying to buy early on the Next One before their competitors can. It's not a new thing--and certainly not unique to motogp--but it feels like every time there's an organic freak prodigy, the cycle of Newer Younger Now accelerates faster.

Truly humiliating to be posting like a boomer but nothing brings it out like podcasters eulogizing mavericks's career out one side of their mouth while complaining about the backlog of talent in moto2 getting held up with the other. I wonder a lot about what the psychological toll will be on kids who might not have classic evil sports dad trauma like jorge lorenzo, but have also been On from a career and networking perspective since like age 8 in a much different way than previous generations.

Anyway what I really want to talk about is everyone dunking on pecco and aprilia for the 4 year contract, when I think he's got a good eye for where the sport is heading from a business and marketing perspective and is trying to set up an exit on his own terms :)

From their own story highlight background

ColorKit identifies it as Lime and for similar colors and shades it gives me green, however it does seem to me that on the color wheel on Ibispaint go more towards green.

This was taken from Diggia's bike (top part just below partamina logo) also i just now noticed 46 behind the rider number help???

Here it is very clear that it leans towards bright yellow both on ColorKit and Ibis.

This is taken from the background of the photo

Here it seems consistent with the background of story highlight in sense that both are Lime Zest, but on Ibis this one looks like it leans toward yellow.

Also you can see right here that the color they use for marketing/on their instagram is different than the bike color which is more yellow (at least to me)

Next up we have - shirts

Franky with Fans taken from somewhere under kappa logo

I kid you not first replacement color for this one is Lime Zest. And this one on the site has replacements/variations put as green but color wheel leans more towards yellow

From a reel featuring both Diggia and Franky Diggia's taken on the middle of the shirt Franky's just above Diggias elbow

I primarily took these because I wanted to see where different lighting would put the colors.

And Diggia's shirt which is in the shadow leans more towards yellow on the color wheel but again the site shows it as green and green variations.

Franky's shirt shows up again as green and green variations and leans towards green on the colorwheel.

Team pic with Ducati - colors taken from just under Kappa logo on Uccio and the table a bit on the right where light light hits directly

Peridot shows up for team shirts and it is definitely yellow on the wheel and on site it is identified as yello and its variations are yellow

Pac-Man shows up for the table color in the, I assume, hospitality. Again the same thing for the site and the wheel

So in conclusion: It's neon for sure!

2026 WIM Wins:

- Mercedes Junior Luna Fluxa podium on debut at the Spanish F4 winter series.

- Doriane tested the W12 at Silverstone. Pin also returned to her roots in LMP2 with back to back podiums in ELMS winning herself the Good Year Wingfoot award in Barcelona. There was also heartbreak at the 24 hours of Le Mans after leading the LMP2 category the duqueine car DNF'd at around 21 hours.

- Also at Le Mans Jamie Chadwick, Genesis Reserve driver and Genesis associated IDEC sport driver in ELMS, made history as the first woman to drive a hypercar at Le Mans when she tested the GMR-001 at the circuit.

- The 'In Her Corner' initiative, celebrating women in engineering highlighted Hannah Schmitz and Laura Müller for international women's day at the Australian grand prix.

- Lia Block is currently leading the ARA championship, becoming the first woman ever to do so.

- Celia Martin made history as the first woman to win a GT2 Europe race. thanks to @meondawebs for letting me know Celia was DSQ'd - I had believed that was a different race apologies WIM lovers!

- So did Abbi Pulling becoming the first female winner of a GB3 race.

- Chiara Bättig, the red bull junior currently in British F4 became the youngest ever pole sitter in F1 Academy history, and was the first wild card to podium in the series history.

- Alisha Palmowski broke her own record of the largest winning margin 48 hours after setting it with a time of 10.995 seconds in the Montreal feature race.

- Lilou Waddox became the first IMSA pole sitter since Katherine Legge in 2018.

- Alba Larsen, Ferrari junior, secured her first podium in British F4.

- Anina Urlaß made history as the first female winner of a Moto 4 Northern Cup race, the first female winner of a moto pathway race since Maria Herrera in 2014. She is currently 2nd in the championship after a series of spectacular performances including going from 22nd to 2nd in BRNO.

- Kayla Yaakov has been on excellent form in Moto America, becoming the first woman to set a supersport lap record, the first woman to stand on the podium at the Daytona 200, and the first female Moto America race winner. She also tested Marc Marquez's Desmosedici GP 26 Moto GP race bike in July.

- Enni Mälkönen, the only woman who win any WRC title, returned to the top flight with Esapekka Lappi on part-time duty for Hyundai World Rally Team in the WRC.

- Chloe Chambers in her debut season in sports car racing has won both her first podium and maiden win in Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America.

F1 Academy Graduates: Where Are They Now?

Forgive Me My Salt // Nothing New // If— // The Summer Day // Class of 2013 // I Know the End // The Second Coming // I Dreamed A Dream // The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

a small rant below :)