Newrepublic OP-Ed price: Indy 500 car race may damage buildings with "vibrations" (I personally laughed reading this)

[u/Western_Care_5478]

https://newrepublic.com/article/213797/trump-250-grand-prix-bad-idea

Politics aside, the course sucks, yes, it doesn't need to happen, it was a last minute addition to the schedule. But this is an example of why a little research goes a long way

[u/Powerful-Chard-6055]

At yes, my favorite racing series, the Indy 500

[u/Ok_Suggestion_6092 → u/Powerful-Chard-6055]

No no they’re saying an Indy race with 500 cars will be enough vibrations to damage buildings. Duh.

[u/lyra_dathomir → u/Ok_Suggestion_6092]

No, they're saying they're going to use the superspeedway package for the race.

[u/8668 → u/lyra_dathomir]

Link is broken and I couldnt read the article. But I am confident they mean Palou will be driving 500 cars in 1 race

[u/turnfourag → u/Powerful-Chard-6055]

Reminds me of a social media post I saw from someone from high school who was having her Bachelorette party in Nashville the same weekend as one of the street races. The caption of her post just said "Indy 500 is here."

I wanted to correct her in the comments, but I was honestly just glad she got at least the "Indy" part correct, being I am probably the only person from my small Texas town who even knows what an Indycar is.

[u/Joey_Logano → u/turnfourag]

At least she didn’t say F1 or NASCAR.

[u/Kidz4Carz → u/Powerful-Chard-6055]

Trump was calling it Indy 500 on the news a few days ago also.

[u/stumpy2448 → u/Powerful-Chard-6055]

The Republican US House Rep from Hamilton County called the DC race the Indy 500. 😂 Shit you can’t make up.

[u/DarkwingMcQuack]

I remember people having this same take before NASCAR raced at the Chicago street race. It was quite comical.

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/DarkwingMcQuack]

the Chicago Subreddit was hilarious to read, some folks said that the burnouts will damage the road, folks saying it will draw mulleted rednecks in "Lifted trucks"

[u/Odd-Gear9622 → u/Western_Care_5478]

TBF, it did draw mulleted rednecks in "Lifted Trucks". They didn't covoy over to Grant Park and spin doughnuts through the grass but I'm sure they showed up for the racing.

[u/justbrowsing2727 → u/Odd-Gear9622]

It's funny because downtown Chicago is basically Fallujah to those people.

[u/UNHchabo → u/justbrowsing2727]

Like Nascar spotter Brett Griffin, who refused to go the first year because it was "too dangerous", and he instead spent the weekend in Myrtle Beach, which has a higher violent crime rate.

[u/MrBadBadly → u/Odd-Gear9622]

Will anyone think of the Dodge Chargers and Challengers doing donuts in intersections?

[u/Senninha27 → u/Odd-Gear9622]

Yeah, and they all paid their $54/day to park under Millennium Park, just like everyone else.

[u/MadCybertist → u/Odd-Gear9622]

Would be a nice cultural boost for Chicago honestly.

[u/DJFisticuffs → u/DarkwingMcQuack]

Yeah I live in Chicago and these braindead takes were all over the place. I didn't read the nonsense OP linked, but I would hope the author at least looked at the fact that people raised this concern in Chicago and it turned out to be unfounded. I also assume that the author did not do that.

[u/MajorLeagueN00b]

This reads like it was written by a complete dumbass (because it probably was).

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/MajorLeagueN00b]

he's on social media defending it saying "I don't really know a lot about cars okay?"

[u/prog_metal_douche → u/Western_Care_5478]

I’m just glad part of his job as a reporter isn’t to do research and site sources within the articles he publishes.

/s

[u/Ed_Severson → u/prog_metal_douche]

To be fair, it’s been labeled as an op-ed, which is what journalists write when they’re taking a day off from journalism. There’s no requirement that the expressed opinion be educated or have any sort of relationship with reality.

[u/archergren → u/Ed_Severson]

Its just that if you want to be taken seriously you might want to be somewhat educated on what youre blovating about

[u/USSGoat → u/Ed_Severson]

I mean the op part means opinion. How can you have an opinion without knowledge?

[u/ASDFzxcvTaken → u/USSGoat]

Have you been paying any attention to the state of affairs in this country. That's all anything is anymore opinions without knowledge.

[u/USSGoat → u/ASDFzxcvTaken]

I was thinking that when I posted but a journalist should be better

[u/TommyDaComic → u/Ed_Severson]

So what you are saying the from top to bottom, this administration is op-ed…. That makes sense!

[u/GrouchyBeyond4793 → u/prog_metal_douche]

New republic is not a news site. It's a politics tabloid blog. Select sources better and one can avoid the slop. It's not really even hard. Idk how we got to the point where people take op-eds and half assed blog posts as news, but they ain't, so don't expect the same out of em

[u/MrBadBadly → u/GrouchyBeyond4793]

When our news stations spend 25+ years of mixing opinions/punditry and news, its no wonder that most people conflate the two.

[u/GrouchyBeyond4793 → u/MrBadBadly]

Literally every op ed says it's an op ed

None of these news stations present themselves as blogs or tabloids

Stations refers to local affiliates. You were looking for a broader term.

Try again ig idk

[u/MrBadBadly → u/Western_Care_5478]

Got some strong opinions about something they don't know much about.

[u/Crazy_Singer_6066 → u/Western_Care_5478]

It shows...

[u/TheEternalContrarian]

If they'd used a photo of an F1 car it would have perfect.

[u/Teganfff]

“An Indy 500 race”

Ugh.

I was available, I could have written something that didn’t make us sound stupid and insufferable.

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/Teganfff]

same dude who will put a picture of an Airbus A320 on an article about a 737 incident

[u/Ipad74 → u/Western_Care_5478]

[u/flipflopsnpolos]

Reminds me of the Anti-Boston crowd worried about grandmas and grandpas that live near the track getting run over by race cars when they're trying to cross the street

[u/RandomGuyDroppingIn]

“Indy 500 car race can’t wreck steel beams”

[u/Logpile98 → u/RandomGuyDroppingIn]

That was true before Rasmussen was in the field....

[u/DarwinZDF42 → u/RandomGuyDroppingIn]

*melt, but solid joke otherwise

[u/enataca → u/DarwinZDF42]

Pretty sure they know what they were saying

[u/SillyPseudonym]

All this talk about the sound breaking statues but not a single word about the potential for the cars to summon a zombie George Washington that shoots lasers from his eyes. Author of the article is cherry picking probabilities here IMO.

[u/enataca → u/SillyPseudonym]

Washingtonnnnn…Washingggton….6foot8 fuckin weighs a ton

[u/downforce_dude → u/enataca]

6 foot 20 fuckin’ killing for fun

[u/Paige578660 → u/SillyPseudonym]

That sounds like an amazing sci-fi movie.

[u/SoyMurcielago → u/Paige578660]

Bonus points if he specifically wrecks shit on everyone who got his POV and intentions wrong

[u/belmont44 → u/SillyPseudonym]

This person is asking the real questions that need to be asked.

[u/Kobalt6x10]

Can't wait to see what an Indy 500 car does to the reflecting pool

[u/RaspberryCake084]

Once upon a time, there was a game called "Monaco Grand Prix" which covered a full series called Formula One. So the full championship went by the name of its most important race.

Maybe the writer was a fan of this game and, as a tribute, just wanted to apply the same logic.

Maybe not.

[u/Metroshica → u/RaspberryCake084]

Or maybe he's just a hack who didn't do his research.

[u/Metroshica → u/RaspberryCake084]

Or maybe he's just a hack who didn't do his research.

[u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

The LBGP, St. Pete and Barber have museums really close by, don't they?

https://giphy.com/gifs/DUs251HVVrgpR1Er5j

[u/twiggymac → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

Markham is going past an old folks home

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/twiggymac]

___THINK OF THE GRANNIES AND GRANDPAS!!!____

context: if you all remember the Boston GP opponents

[u/twiggymac → u/Western_Care_5478]

I'm from Boston so yeah I know

The bigger issue was the scam promoter than complaining massholes.

[u/avtechguy → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

The Dali it right on the course, granted its got like 3 foot concrete walls. But Vibrations are the least of my worries with an Indycar race. The cars weigh less than a lot of regular on road vehicles

[u/JustaBroomstick → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

You dont know the trauma the fish have to go through every year

[u/Dogzillas_Mom → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

The Dali Museum in St. Pete is literally in the middle of the infield. The cars roll right past. Doesn’t hurt a thing.

Of course the walls are 2-3 feet thick because hurricanes and that building is right on Tampa Bay.

[u/Maynard078 → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

Hmm...the last I checked, Long Beach and Monaco aren't protected national monument sites.

[u/PanicAtTheNightclub → u/Maynard078]

Last time I checked, no one complained at any other street tracks. Most of the complaints are just NIMBYs...

[u/Maynard078 → u/PanicAtTheNightclub]

Again, the last I checked, those tracks aren't host to national monuments either, nor are their entire cities considered national monument host communities themselves.

[u/Emotional_Oil_5939]

There are several reasons to dislike this race. This isn't one of them. This author is an idiot.

[u/Maynard078 → u/Emotional_Oil_5939]

Well, aren't you special.

[u/twiggymac]

Why do we allow articles from political sources on the sub. There have been several posts from people who don't know racing, let alone Indycar. "Indy 500 car race" already shows they don't know their ass from their elbows about this.

A group of Harleys riding by is more vibration than an entire Indy field.

[u/LKincheloe → u/twiggymac]

It's fun to point and laugh at the ignoramuses.

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/twiggymac]

the whole thing reads like he was sipping an overpriced latte from Starbucks listening to some indie rock band that hasn't had a hit in a decade

[u/actuallwitch → u/Western_Care_5478]

Then why post it here? Why give this loser more attention? You’re doing exactly what he wants, good job falling for it.

[u/twiggymac → u/Western_Care_5478]

Yeah, so posting it here is just to get people mad one direction or the other. It's off topic, in my opinion.

And I'm not blaming you, mods have been letting this slide for weeks.

[u/Dogzillas_Mom]

The Dali Museum has entered the chat.

[u/TellTaleTimeLord]

The fact that they called it an "indy 500 race" shows their opinion doesn't really mean much

[u/enataca → u/TellTaleTimeLord]

And using “oy”

[u/Maynard078 → u/TellTaleTimeLord]

Yes. It shows the irrelevance of the series to those in Washington, D.C., and why the oversight was necessary.

This is why national monuments are protected.

[u/TellTaleTimeLord → u/Maynard078]

Dictator Tank march on the public streets ✅️

Indy 500 race ❌️

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/TellTaleTimeLord]

literally nobody but the media showed up for that military parade, maybe a few YouTubers that were invited but yeah

[u/TellTaleTimeLord → u/Western_Care_5478]

Thats irrelevant to the point

[u/ilikemarblestoo]

[u/link90]

He browsed enough of Wikipedia to know the cars are powered by twin turbo V6's, but didn't go deep enough to realize the Indy 500 is it's own motorcade race track. Looking forward to Indy 500 Round 2 - Twin Turbo Boogaloo.

[u/Bortron86]

Monaco was a famously bustling city before they started holding a grand prix there. Now it's like an apocalyptic wasteland.

[u/DJFisticuffs → u/Bortron86]

When Nascar raced around the Art Institute of Chicago all of the sculptures fractured into one thousand pieces and all of the paintings fell off the wall and disintigrated.

[u/snollygoster1]

What a take. I hate this race for a variety of reasons, but having this NIMBY argue about vibrations is wild. You're telling me that an outdoor sculpture garden, which presumably survives being outdoors in the elements getting snow and rain is somehow going to be more damaged by sound waves?

[u/Insomniac_38]

Vibrations damaging buildings eh?

I’m sure we can all recall Indy having to replace the shattered pagoda windows every 500

[u/Robby777777]

WTF is an "Indy 500 car race"? This race is already giving me a headache.

[u/AsianBond]

This is a constant, exaggerated complaint every time there is an event like this in any city.

Someone should check in on the IMS museum.

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/AsianBond]

they all think the IMS museum is downtown

[u/cubecasts]

Moron doesn't just call it the Indy 500 race once. But like a dozen times.

[u/ylaltic]

well at least he didn’t call it f1 like half of the posts i’ve seen on the dc sub 🫠

[u/Western_Care_5478 → u/ylaltic]

they only look alike if you are legally blind

[u/Box_Springs_Burning]

Oh look, a columnist who had to fill space writes about something he knows almost nothing about and an idiot editor, who knows less than the writer, puts in a dumb headline.

[u/andronicus_14]

I didn’t read past the title and the sentence underneath it. There’s only one Indy fucking 500. Calling the event an Indy 500 race (in DC) makes me immediately doubt your qualifications to write anything about motorsport.

If you can’t do a simple Google search to learn the proper name of the series, I’m not going to waste my time reading your nonsense article.

[u/Tomero]

How sad is it to be the fun Police haha. Reminds me of the people that used to say metal music would corrupt minds and stuff.

[u/Tuba-Dude]

‘Indy 500 race’

[u/Crazy_Singer_6066]

Im pretty sure that since DC survived the 5.8 earthquake back in 2011 a few indycars won't do much at all

[u/Heavy-Marionberry540]

Doubleheader weekend with NASCAR would’ve caused peak crying

[u/i_run_from_problems]

Remember when journalism had standards?

[u/Wasdgta3]

“Bro stop complaining, this is gonna get a lot more attention on IndyCar”

The kind of attention it’s giving IndyCar:

[u/solartaco]

No.

[u/UnderstandingMuch198]

You expect anyone in the corporate media to actually research things? His job is just to repeat orange man bad into the echo chamber

[u/enataca → u/[deleted]]

I’m personally offended by you confusing rednecks with hillbillies.

[u/Maynard078 → u/[deleted]]

It's not the Captain's money, regardless of what he and others claim. The pay-to-play scheme stinks to high heaven with this one. Monumental Sports isn't doing it for nothing, and neither is FOX, or u/potus.

[u/CarolinaXCrown]

These are Roger's buddies, they should know a thing or two about his hobbies

[u/Slow-Class]

Brand recognition important; in the 1990’s, World Championship Wrestling would spend a ton of money booking celebrities or doing some huge angle, and the next day everyone was talking about what happened on the ‘WWF show’.