È morto Jean Pierre Jabouille È stato il primo pilota a vincere un GP con una monoposto con motore turbo a Digione nel 1979, ha corso in F1 dal 1974 al 1981 con i team Frank Williams, Surtees, Tyrrel Renault e Ligier. Se ne va con lui un altro pezzo di quella F1 che tanto ci fece sognare. #lotusf1 #originalraceofficial #f1 #ayrtonsennadobrasil #honda #ompracing #BarMotorsport #ayrtonsenna #mclaren #thomasbiagi #live #barmotorsport #lunedi #ore21 #F12022 #originalraceofficial #energreensm #motorworks #thomasbiagi #merchandising #barmotorsport #originalraceofficial #cotoneorganico #madeinitaly https://www.instagram.com/p/CoQXWOHNQDP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Has any transformer ever become President of the United States? Some of them WERE technically born in the US
Dear Presidentially Persistent,
In one universe, it was Laser Cycle who made history by becoming the first Cybertronian ever to run for president. Like most Cybertronians of the era, she was born on Earth, part of the “second generation” of post-war Cybertronians constructed through a fusion of Human, Nebulan, and Cybertronian technology. And like many other Cybertronians on the East Coast, she owed her existence to the Powell Motorworks Quantum Laboratories Cyberfactory in Pittsburgh, the third-largest facility of its kind in the nation. When a wave of factionalism threatened to rekindle the Great War on Terran soil, she was one of the many Transformers who chose to side with the Autobots.
With the end of the Machine Wars and the ratification of the Pax Cybertronia in the year 2013, Earth and Cybertron prepared to enter an unprecedented era of peace, prosperity, and alliance-building. However, after decades of geopolitical chaos, not all humans regarded the Autobots as benevolent protectors. Many humans came to regard the Cyberfactories as symbols of “alien oppression”—complexes that stole Earth’s own resources to build an army of resource-gobbling aliens. Power-hungry politicians such as Megan Guiglione’s Earth First party rode to power on a wave of populist rhetoric, while the Terran Coalition, which advocated peaceful cooperation between humans and aliens, struggled to rebound from a string of political losses.
When not working her day job as a food courier, Laser Cycle leveraged her take-charge personality and oratory skills to become a community organizer. In the year 2048, she made history when she ran for office and became the representative for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district; in doing so, she became the first Earth-born Cybertronian to hold office. In 2062, Senator Cycle announced, to much fanfare, that she would run for President as a member of the Terran Coalition—if she won, she would become the first non-human leader of the United States. After a particularly heated convention, Laser Cycle emerged as the frontrunner and entered the 2064 presidential primaries against Earth First representative Terence Berger.
During the primaries, Laser Cycle promised that she would work to build alliances with Nebulos and Cybertron, while taking conciliatory stances on a number of controversial political issues—these included offering amnesty and rehabilitation programs for captured members of Jhiaxus’s clone army, increased access to mental health services for ex-Headmasters, and de-escalating tensions between the United States and the Sino-Soviet Alliance. But after a strong start, factors beyond her control threatened to stymie the Cycle campaign.
In January 2064, a long-range EDC patrol reported an encounter with a rogue Decepticon ship that had somehow slipped past Earthen sensors—while the “ship” was little more than an old scow, crewed by three Decepticons who hadn’t yet heard the war had ended, the incident nevertheless alarmed many constituents, who found themselves gravitating to Berger’s pro-rearmament proposal.
The second threat came from Cybertron itself. In the post-war years, Cybertron had undergone something of a religious revival; in particular, many Transformers were attracted to the teachings of Heretech, a repentant ex-Decepticon who had rededicated his life to preaching Reversionism. However, his theology espoused that the only “real” Cybertronians were those who’d been constructed from the sacred metals of the homeworld—those constructed on worlds like Nebulos or Earth were pale imitations of “true” Cybertronians, who had never basked in the warming glow of Vector Sigma. Laser Cycle’s campaign, he decreed, was a direct affront to Cybertron itself, an attempt to dilute the inherent purity of their race. While many Cybertronians wrote these words off as mere bigotry, some were swayed by his rhetoric. Even some Autobots held a kind of vague resentment towards the second generation—after all, they’d spent years fighting the Decepticons in deep space, while their successors lived the peaceful, comfortable lives they’d never known.
Finally, on November 4, 2064, the election was held. While Laser Cycle secured the majority of the Cybertronian vote, as the polls foretold, low voter turnout meant that she ultimately didn’t clinch the final tally required to win the race. Graceful in defeat as well as victory, she offered a congratulatory telephone call to her opponent. Berger governed for three years, until a scandal involving the sordid history of his great-grandfather Shawn led to him resigning in disgrace. Still, Laser Cycle was the first to seriously introduce the American people to the idea of a Cybertronian in office—and by the year 2109, many felt that only an Autobot would be able to save Earth from the impending threat of the Swarm… but that’s a story for another time, I think.
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Katsu Motorworks Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 Custom
Katsu Motorworks Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 Custom
The Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 custom motorcycle you see here was built by the master Kenji “Katsu” Katsumoto of Katsu Motorworks.
The bike is based on a 2006 Moto Guzzi model but there’s little left of the stock bike to indicate that. The engine is the telltale sign.
Let’s take a closer look at this interesting machine.
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🐻 “la rubrica di Yoghi “ Gran premio del Portogallo 24 settembre 1989 Nigel Mansell tra genio e follia. Quella domenica verrà ricordata per la grinta con cui l’inglese disputò la gara sin dal via e per la sua bandiera nera 🏴 Tutto comincia al cambio gomme, il pilota inglese arrivò lungo, mancando la postazione dei suoi meccanici: invece di uscire dalla corsia dei box per ripetere l'operazione nel giro seguente, Mansell decise di inserire la retromarcia cosa che gli costò un'immediata bandiera nera. Nonostante la squalifica, Mansell, scivolato in terza posizione, proseguì imperterrito, ignorando sia gli avvisi via radio della Ferrari sia la bandiera nera che gli veniva esposta ad ogni passaggio sul rettilineo principale. Al 48 giro, giunto alle spalle di Senna, l'inglese tentò un sorpasso improbabile, mettendo fuori gara entrambi. Vincerà il gran premio Gerhard Berger seguito da Prost e Johansson sulla Onyx ( unico podio per il team inglese) #barmotorsport #originalraceofficial #motorworks #nigelmansell #ayrtonsenna #mclaren #ferrari #formula1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHduWGNHzf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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