Mexglx

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[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@TheHoopCentral @CGBBURNER It would be funny to see LeBron trying to block Shaq’s shots because he didn’t make it. Or LeBron trying crying because Steph drained a tre instead of passing it.

[Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes]

I agree with your point and find this entire episode deeply concerning. But I'm not sure I'm w/you that Pirro sacrificed "a lot of credibility"

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@KitMaherCNN @abdallahcnn Generic Box wine. 🍷. lol

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@honjamesmoore @gtconway3d https://t.co/37WhADPHcN

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@honjamesmoore @gtconway3d Dear leader vibes.

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@fred_guttenberg @NYCMayor Blocked

[Brian Rosenworcel @bowl_of_worcel]

@fred_guttenberg @NYCMayor Sorry for your loss

And sorry you’ve become a racist asshole

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@PicturesFoIder Please don’t. You lost to #Feloninchief. You aren’t the one.

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@cutelipssx Nope.

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

“Do you ever miss being on the pit wall?”

I’ve been asked that question more times than I can count.

My answer has always been:

Yes… but no.

This weekend, Formula 1, F1 TV, AWS and Globant gave me a pit wall seat I never saw coming.

It made me reflect on the biggest career decision I’ve ever made.

People often ask whether I’d ever go back to a Formula 1 team.

The truth is, I never left because I’d stopped loving strategy. I left because I wanted the opportunity to fight for race wins and World Championships. After years of waiting for that chance, I realised I couldn’t spend my life hoping someone else would eventually give me that opportunity. So I stopped waiting and chose a different path.

The moment I stepped off the pit wall in 2023, I made peace with the trade off.

That was the cost of moving forwards.

I thought I was giving up the chance to ever sit on a Formula 1 pit wall again.

What I couldn’t possibly have imagined was everything I’d gain instead.

I never imagined I’d get to call strategy at the Indianapolis 500, losing it once by two corners before winning it back to back.

Or spend 24 hours fighting for every second in endurance racing, feeling completely awake at 3am, experiencing the highest highs and the lowest lows, and losing by just 1.9 seconds after an entire day of racing.

I never imagined I’d work across IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, WEC and iRacing, chasing what I jokingly call the Strategy Triple Crown.

I never imagined I’d work on the F1 movie alongside Brad Pitt and be at a Premiere, through Strategy!

Or speak on keynote stages across six continents, sharing ideas about strategy with audiences from the Olympic movement to Wall Street.

And I certainly never imagined I’d get the privilege of bringing Formula 1 strategy to millions of fans around the world through F1 TV.

Most importantly, I never imagined the extraordinary people I’d meet. People from motorsport, technology, finance and so many other worlds who completely changed the way I think about strategy, leadership and high performance.

Professionally, I’m happier than I ever imagined.

Personally, I’m happier too.

I’d made peace with the trade off long before I knew how extraordinary the upside would become.

Then Sunday happened.

For a few hours I found myself doing exactly what I’d always loved.

Not watching Kimi Antonelli’s race.

Looking for ways he could win it.

Every projection kept bringing me back to the same answer.

If Mercedes wanted to win, they had to commit to the one stop.

When they did, instead of protecting the safe result, I felt exactly the same rush I used to feel sitting on a Formula 1 pit wall.

Then the Virtual Safety Car came.

A championship contender rolled past me in the pit lane.

A familiar double gut punch.

And in that moment, as I gathered myself to calmly give the next race situation update on the other end of my radio panel, I realised something.

It felt like coming home.

Just as a better version of myself.

Ironically, if I ever did go back to Formula 1, I’d go back a better strategist than when I left. Not because I forgot what Formula 1 taught me, but because of everything it allowed me to learn afterwards, in other championships, with AI, with technology, and with people outside motorsport.

If you’ve made it this far, I guess the point I’m trying to make is this.

The dream you have at 22 doesn’t have to be the same dream you have at 36.

Sometimes it grows.

Sometimes it changes.

Sometimes the thing you think you’re giving up leads you somewhere you could never have imagined.

Three years ago, if you’d asked whether I’d give all of this up for another shot at a championship winning Formula 1 pit wall, I’d have answered immediately.

Today…

I’m not so sure.

And I think that’s a pretty wonderful place to be.

Thank you to everyone at Formula 1, @F1 TV, @awscloud and @Globant for making this happen.

And, Dear Pitwall, I will see you soon after a little Shutdown. 😉

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

My #DodgeHornet is number 2. But I like it!

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

CONGRATULATIONS ELON MUSK

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@TheTechnician44 Well two of those are for car 3, obviously any violations need to be recalled , the steward will also be beaten for even considering any pit lane violation less than twice the “max” pit lane speed.

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@FSUmollz

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@Logically_JC Funny how re-Thuglicans that are lame ducks suddenly feel the need to protect our civil liberties.

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@LewisHamilton Only you can bear these trials and tribulations. Any other racer would bow their head in defeat. Not you #44. You RISE. Here comes the Champ! The Champ is here!

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@SpannersReady Funny how they say they should have penalized LeClerc Vs saying they shouldn’t have penalized Hamilton. It’s a tell. They should have penalized Russell if anyone. Don’t the #Crashtappen rules state the car on the inside can push the other off the track if they are in front ?

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@KellDAChicago I wish he would have hired nothing but MAGA businesses then stiffed them all. Just like #Feloninchief did. When they come crawling, crying, looking for payment he could have handed them the Art of the deal book, and paid pennies on the dollar.

[Radu Hossu 🇹🇩🇺🇦 @RaduHossu]

No, this isn’t a photo of the Wildberries warehouse in Moscow from last week. It’s a photo of the Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar from today.

To the question, “But why are the Ukrainians attacking civilian targets?” the answer is as follows:

Wildberries is a kind of Amazon. It has massive warehouses where goods from China arrive and are resold by russian merchants. Those goods are also dual-use goods. “Dual-use” is the term for civilian products that can be used for military purposes.

DJI drones, for example, are dual-use products because they can be used to film a wedding or to surveil enemy trench positions. Wildberries’ warehouses serve as the gateway for dual-use products worth billions of dollars used by the russian military. From thermal cameras to controllers, 3D printers, components, or entire drones, and much, much more. This is the main reason.

The secondary reason, publicly stated by the operations coordinator Robert Magyar himself, is to send the message that the war has returned home to russia.

“Well then, in Ukraine too, the Nova Poshta or Epicenter warehouses—or others—are legitimate targets for the russians, aren’t they?”

No. Nothing in Ukraine is a legitimate target for the russians. Ukraine is attacking these warehouses, just as it attacks russia’s commercial ships in the Shadow Fleet, and just as it attacks military targets—because it has been attacked. Ukraine’s strikes are acts of self-defense. russia’s strikes are violations of all international norms, as this is an illegitimate, unprovoked, illegal, and immoral war.

Slava Ukraini!

[Mexglx @AlbertoAlcal8]

@lurkinglately1 @lukeisamazing @lilydsmith lol. He’s from Chi-town like me so he’s definitely coming in through the backyard to the cookout.