Troy
@troylonerism
A delightfully gay enjoyer of motor racing of all kinds, sim racing, vexillology, music, aviation and unreliable Subaru WRXs. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺
Just woke up to find out that Silverstone is a sprint race weekend? Lol I guess. I still remember the hype (cough, memes) about the first sprint in 2021, when Alonso blocked *everybody* 😅
I visited the Adelaide Parklands on a cross-country road trip in 2021, and even with no racing material set up, it was a very pretty place to be literally right on the CBD's doorstep. It just seems all a bit greedy and unnecessary on Liberty Media and the South Australian government's parts
Tell me you're a tortured racing fan without telling me you're a tortured racing fan: any time I see a thick fog in the morning, I only think of one thing - Foggy Petronas
Today marks five years since I came out for the first time - at age 27, to my best friend who I'd known for years at that point and having been in denial about it probably since I was 12. Continually coming out never gets any easier, but it was the best decision I will ever make. Love y'all 🏳️🌈
My sim racing motivational whiteboard, inspired by Jimmy Broadbent and full of random stickers collected along life's journey. Pride of place is my Respect The Meatball sticker from @brendanhyperstar.bsky.social, finally found somewhere to put it after all those years of hoarding it lol
The IMSA commentators talking about how tough a street circuit can be never fails to remind me of this piece of advice from the original goat:
Me, if I was employed at McLaren making the decision to put inters on Norris and Piastri on a dry track at the start of yesterday's race:
We need more wagon racecars, because omg this thing in its new livery slaps 🔥 📸: bmwmmotorsport/Instagram
The WRX got broken into last night, and the alarm didn't go off because it has an electrical gremlin and was getting fixed on *checks calendar* this Thursday. 🥴 Luckily they didn't take anything, but like, just why though? So fkn annoying 😤 Also mind the bird shit on the roof rail 😂
Hmmm, why do I suddenly have the urge to visit the Canary Islands? Holy shit it looks so pretty, particularly with rally cars in the foreground! 📸: @jonarmstrongrally on Instagram
I beat Broc Feeney in an iRacing F4 race at St Petersburg earlier tonight on pure pace and skill alone (we both crashed out)
It's Oscar Piastri's birthday today. Heres the very rare Bluesky doxxing of my face as a gift lol
So I assume it's gonna vibrate like crazy and then break down after 25 minutes? 😜
Reddit users are blaming the MotoGP riders for the track being prepared inadequately and breaking up in Goiania on the weekend. That's an insane take on things to say that the riders were at fault for the weekend's events 😳
I had to really think about who my driver of the day vote was for. Bearman great once again, potential points for Sainz, but I think Hadjar spinning on lap one and hauling that fuck-ass Red Bull-Ford back into the points does it for me!
I forgot to post my (not so) quiet track picture after the Australian Grand Prix, so here it is; cc: @jeff-gluck.bsky.social Btw, the kerbs were actually just jagged concrete, idk why but I expected them to be some form of special composite material?
A Toyota Supra Supercar can't hurt you ... The Toyota Supra Supercar in question:
I can attest to this - with ten laps to go, the queue to get onto the track was about 100 people deep on the outside of turn two. 45 minutes after the race was over, the front straight was still blocked and it felt like cattle being led on the death march
Don't forget Cadillac trying to sell the behemoth that is the Lyriq SUV to race fans like me 😂
The McLaren LMDh hypercar looks incredible, particularly when painted in a faux Marlboro red and white livery 🔥. Unfortunately you need to be in a much higher tax bracket to get any closer to it than this lol