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Just had my final autocross in the Macan . Finished 8th on PAX (time adjusted by class) in a field of 42 cars! Easily my best finish. It helped that it was cold and rainy so the GT3 and RS cars on semi-slicks were having grip issues. Weather conditions are part of racing though so I make no apologies for finishing ahead of all but one of the GT3 drivers. There was another older gentleman in his 80s driving a '21 Macan as well who smoked me and finished 3rd on PAX (missed first by 0.2s!). He was 2.5 seconds faster on about a 60 second course, so the gap was substantial. I was able to ride along with the guy and he was an amazing driver. You learn so much riding right seat when a good driver is behind the wheel. Funny thing is, he left traction/ESC control full on! He just was incredibly smooth with pedal inputs and knew how much force he could put on the steering wheel without understeering. Assuming all goes to plan, I will soon be trading the Macan in for the Boxster. She has been an amazing car, but the Boxster should be a lot more suited to the kinds of driving I want to do! I've never owned a convertible before so open top motoring should also be interesting to live with. I feel like I am going to have a lot of bad habits to un-learn after 10 years of driving AWD cars, but should be fun. 718 platform with the mid engine seems to be about as forgiving as a sports car that fast gets.

For those who haven't watched it, OJ: Made in America is my favorite documentary I've ever watched. Just a masterful piece of documentary filmmaking.

It was kind of weird for readers of the books as well. A lot of story threads that happen in the second and third books got brought forward in to this first season.

Happy birthday, Mr. S!

Carl "Blue Suede Shoes" Perkins is in the studio to record "Matchbox," his other great hit. Arriving early to the studio to watch him record is the man in black, Johnny Cash. Also around is "the killer," Jerry Lee Lewis, Sun records' new piano player who hasn't had any of his hits released yet. Driving past, 21 year old Elvis sees the armada of Cadillacs parked at Sun records and stops in to see what is going on. A lot of this is just noodling around and the recording isn't great, but this one of the most impressive collaborations of early rock superstars that we have. The "Million Dollar Quartet," indeed. "Don't be Cruel" and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" are real highlights. Sad that by the time they started to get back together Elvis had already passed on.

Just finished this. Gonna be very curious what other people think about it.

Happy birthday, Al! Ditto what everyone else is saying and hope your ear feels better.

Same here. My grandpa was a navigator on a B-17. I told my dad he needs to watch it.

Finished Masters of the Air. Lovely show. I’m glad they made it. A most worthy successor to Band of Brothers.

Loos great, HS! See you at the track/autocross?

Happy birthday, CS!

Happy birthday, Nate.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Hope this isn't another clean sweep by Verstappen.

Took another break from packing to watch this. A+ effort from the lads, as usual. They do such an amazing job with these.

I always underestimate how stressful and emotionally draining packing is. Even more so as I'm slightly downsizing this time around. Movers come Thusday!

Grahame, remind me never to get on your bad side! With friends like these!

Get to de choppa! Oh wait, I meant to say “happy birthday.”

Drive to Survive, Season 6 Another absolutely fabulous season from these guys. It is not hyperbole to say that this show has changed the landscape of professional sports documentary (if not professional sports themselves). The access DTS's crew gets is unparalleled. I cannot believe the intimate moments they are able to capture on audio and video. These people are not professional actors. The only way you get those types of moments is to be in as many places as often as you can. The production budget must be truly insane. I devoured the 10 episodes in two days when I should have been packing up my apartment. I think this show is an amazing complement to watching the races, as there is just no other way to get this kind of insider access. I can't wait for the next season of races (and eventually the next season of DTS).

Happy birthday, Dan!

Agreed. The setting was the real star.

I thought this started strong, but by the end I hated it. Less up its own ass than season 2, but only just.

Grahame hit the nail on the head. Happy birthday, Colin!

Happy birthday, Tice-Man!

Drive to survive, but NASCAR? Yeah, I enjoyed this. Only 5 episodes so short and sweet. Sadly this does almost nothing to educate race-curious people like me on their sport. I know there is strategy, skill, and cool engineering that goes in to oval track racing but you get none of it here. The difference between NASCAR and F1 also couldn't be more stark. Still, this was fun and I recommend it.

Pre-gamed the Super Bowl by doing the San Francisco grand tour with a buddy. She really is a magnificent city!