i'm tired of FIA giving advantage to everyone but ferrari, first they ignored mclarens wings for months two years ago, now everybody know mercedes engine is illegal and yet they can use it. but the moment ferrari had advantage (A LEGAL ONE) at starts, they changed the procedure
JUSTICE FOR GUILLERMO VILAS, DEMANDS MATS WILANDER.
"Every day that passes without correcting this is a greater injustice, especially considering his health. Tennis owes a great deal to Vilas."
A @NachoEncabo interview.
https://t.co/lU2owaPINO
Guillermo Vilas is not “the world No.1 who was stripped of his title”.
He is the player who was never recognised because the APT chose not to fully confront its own data.
The story begins in the 1970s, when the ATP ranking was not weekly, not transparent and, above all, was never designed as a historical record. Rankings were published irregularly and the system was based on an average of results that penalised players who competed frequently. Vilas played all the time.
In 2013, Argentine journalist Eduardo Puppo decided to check a basic question. If all the missing weeks were recalculated using the official ATP rules of the time, what would the rankings actually show.
To do that, he involved Marian Ciulpan, a mathematician specialised in statistical models. Not a fan, not a former player, a mathematician.
The work was massive. Minor tournaments, forgotten results, weeks that were never officially published. Years of reconstruction, fully documented. The conclusion was clear. Vilas emerged as world No.1 for several weeks between 1975 and 1976. Not by opinion, by calculation.
The ATP received the study.
It did not dismantle it.
It did not challenge the methodology.
It did not publish alternative calculations.
It simply said no.
The official justification was bureaucratic. Retroactive recognition would set a precedent. Translation: the archive matters more than the truth.
From that moment on, the issue stopped being sporting. It became institutional.
Meanwhile Guillermo Vilas fell ill. A neurodegenerative disease, progressive and irreversible. The person who should be at the centre of this story is no longer able to defend it himself.
That is where Mats Wilander steps in. In a recent interview with CLAY @_claymagazine , he said explicitly:
“Every day that passes is an additional injustice, especially considering his state of health. Tennis owes him a lot.”
This is not rhetoric. It is an indictment.
Because at this point the ATP is not protecting history, it is protecting itself. It is choosing not to correct a mistake while time makes that choice increasingly indefensible.
The Vilas case is not about the past.
It is about what kind of institution the ATP is today.
And as long as it hides behind its paperwork, the message is clear. In tennis, the official record matters more than people.
It matters to do it now, before Guillermo Vilas himself forgets.
#ATP #VILAS #WILANDER @ATPMediaInfo @GuilleVilasOK
Coincido completamente con esta nota.
ADEFA tiene, literalmente, la sangre de unos 500-800 argentinos en las manos, gente muerta en nuestras rutas porque ellos hicieron lobby para postergar el ESP.
Y ahora dicen que los estándares de seguridad de EEUU no son suficientes 😂
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
BREAKING: Both McLaren cars of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix
This is because the thickness of the rearmost skid of both cars was less than the required thickness
#F1#LasVegasGP
J'ai prévenu déjà depuis des mois que la seule chose que je voulais pas qu'on touche ce sont les pilotes, c'était certain que le top management allait tenter détourner l'attention du vrai problème : ceux qui font la voiture. Mais pas grave, ici ça va pas lâcher, tel un pitbull.
Les ingénieurs sont médiocres et ne progressent pas, ils construisent toujours une voiture schizophrène : rapide un jour, perdue le lendemain.
Et au-dessus d’eux ? Une direction qui ne comprend ni la course, ni la mentalité Ferrari.
Elkann, c’est un héritier plus qu’un leader. Il a coulé la Juve, il étouffe Ferrari. Il parle comme un PDG de produit de luxe, pas comme un patron d’écurie. Résultat : décisions incohérentes, instabilité permanente, zéro vision sportive. Ferrari est gérée comme si l’émotion, la passion et la course étaient des chiffres dans un tableau Excel.
Leclerc et Hamilton, sont les seuls à maintenir un semblant de respect envers Ferrari. Ils donnent tout malgré des opérations lunaires et une voiture horrible. Mais au lieu de les protéger, Elkann les pointe du doigt. La honte absolue. Ferrari ne perd pas à cause de ses pilotes.
Ferrari perd à cause d’un système malade, dirigé par un président qui n’a rien compris à la F1.
Tant qu’Elkann restera en place, on devra s’habituer à applaudir les arrêts au stand…parce que c’est la seule chose qui fonctionne. Restons focus sur le vrai problème qui est ceux qui font la voiture et commençons à durcir le ton. #ElkannOUT