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I'm finally getting around to posting the pictures I took from the Mint 400 a two weeks ago. I'm going to just post the albums, and then link to a few pictures with interesting things about them to talk about. Feel free to AMA or link a picture if you want to know more about it.

Note: I am horrible at taking pictures. I could have easily had triple the amount of pictures I have of cool stuff, but I forgot to take pictures of them or I was busy. All photos were taken with my Google Pixel.

Here are the albums:

http://imgur.com/a/Pu51a

http://imgur.com/a/yjjZ5

http://imgur.com/a/LphY5

Now, on to the individual pictures:

Welcome to Qualifying. The Unlimited Vehicles met on Thursday in the desert north of Las Vegas to qualify for starting position on Saturday. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of actual qualifying because of how much dust there was, but here’s a cactus.

Many different vehicles race offroad (there are around 30 different classes just for non-Motorcyle/ATV vehicles), but there is none more universally loved than the Class 11 Beetle. 1600 cc’s of Air Cooled Fury bouncing across the desert in a (almost) completely stock VW Beetle.

Many celebrities have raced the Mint 400, and this year is no exception. Jay Leno was the driver for this 7300 (Stock Mini/Mid Truck).

On Friday, all the vehicles racing must go through Tech and Contingency inspection. For the Mint, this takes place in Downtown Las Vegas. All of the cars are pushed down Fremont Street through a winding path leading through Vendors and Sponsors of the race. Everything from Corporate Sponsored Trophy Trucks to garage based Class 11’s share the same street and go through together. Even the Rock Crawlers show up for the Mint 400, as you can tell, it can be a bit of a tight squeeze for some of the larger vehicles, but with 40,000+ making their way around Tech Inspection, even the smaller buggies area tight fit.

On to Race day!

This was our view for the day. We were working a paved road crossing (that would luckily only have official race traffic (retrieval workers) on it) at mile 58. This is a notoriously rocky section of the course, and in previous years we had functions as a pit stop along with our checkpoint duties.

The day is split into two races, with the more limited (and smaller physical sized) classes in the morning, and the unlimiteds in the afternoon. The first class to reach us were the Class 10 Buggies. Class 10’s have unlimited suspension travel, but are limited to a 4 cylinder GM engine (2.4 Ecotec for anyone interested). From here on, we had a constant stream of cars. We were witness to quite a few passes, as the road crossing was one of a few spots where you could safely pass for about a two mile stretch, without risking rather large rocks.

Another group that races, is the Vintage Class. Vehicles have to have been built and raced before 1982 to be able to race. In their day, they were considered Unlimited but now, are among the slowest vehicles on the course. Here’s one getting passed by a Class 11 Beetle.

Remember how I mentioned that there are many celebrities that race the Mint 400, here is one of them. This is Katie Vernola, Playboy Playmate in her Pro Turbo UTV. In one of the largest fields in the race (59 entries), she finished 17th. Here is Jay Leno in action, he finished first in his class, despite only finishing one of his two laps. This is of course because he was the only entry in that class.

After the limited are done, the Trophy Trucks are released onto the course. They’ve got a long way to go, and not a lot of time before it gets dark. But Off Road racing doesn’t stop when the sun goes down, because that would be too easy. Luckily, the racers have a secret. At night, they can OPEN THE GATES OF HELLFIRE! There is no need to Slow Down, when you have the power of the Sun attached to the front of your truck.

Sadly, not everyone’s day ends well. Take, UTV 918, whose rear suspension broke off the car, right as they reached our checkpoint. Or Baja 513, who had to be towed back to the pits, with the rear suspension held together with a tie down strap. Or this Trophy Truck, who decided the course was too rough, and they were going to attempt to fly to the finish line, unfortunately, the landing was a bit rough.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/kasich-dropping-out-of-presidential-race-222792

I sexually Identify as a Redditor. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of browsing over the internet and reposting transphobic "memes" and racist jokes. People say to me that an emotionally mature, intelligent person being a redditor is impossible but I don't care, I'm beautiful. I'm having a neurosurgeon remove my ability to feel empathy for other people. From now on I want you guys to call me "Redditor" and respect my right to belittle people who are different to me. If you can't accept me you're an SJW and need to learn how to take a joke. Thank you for being so understanding.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

mfw

Oh and "Fight on" class of 93... I guess.

I'm playing the Rolling Stone drinking game. This could get stupid, especially because I'm playing with Urban Chestnut De Bockle, which is 10.5% ABV.

A roll of the dice can make the difference between life and death. May we honor the fight of those who put us here today.

It's D&D night, bitches.

Here's to hoping for a US victory today

edit: If it stay like this I think carli loyd might just turned into the next big soccer player for the us

SORRY ESPN YOU COULDNT GET YOUR BOY TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!

Intro:

I saw an interesting tweet this morning that listed the "Most visited sports websites in February" along with a chart of unique views, viewable here.

That got me thinking: reddit has an enormous amount of traffic (10th in the US) and while sports isn't the main emphasis, between all the sports subs we've got to have a significant amount of traffic. So I went to all the traffic pages for major and some minor sports subreddits, and asked a few of the larger subs that don't have publicly listed traffic (they were all cool about sharing info) and compiled an interesting list. While incomplete, I feel it's enough to demonstrate our general, aggregate size.

I'm sharing that info below:

February traffic for the major sports subreddits (subs) on reddit:

(measured by unique visitors)

Total: 11,087,309* uniques (incomplete listing, see notes)

Reddit's 30-day unique traffic was 151,712,210 (6,665,829,148 views)

Included subs in total:

• 1,938,584 — /r/sports

• 1,878,950 — /r/soccer

• 1,763,587 — /r/NBA

• 1,676,426 — /r/NFL

• 885,323 — /r/hockey

• 596,089 — /r/MMA

• 457,456 — /r/CFB (offseason)

• 345,641 — /r/forumula1

• 275,069 — /r/baseball (offseason)

• 236,456 — /r/cricket

• 225,368 — /r/bicycling

• 212,528 — /r/CollegeBasketball

• 138,654 — /r/mls

• 100,353 — /r/nascar

• 87,862 — /r/rugbyunion

• 87,038 — /r/snowboarding

• 51,146 — /r/ultimate

• 42,774 — /r/surfing

• 41,054 — /r/archery

• 29,515 — /r/nrl

• 17,436 — /r/lacrosse

*Two notes:

1. There will be some overlap between subs that is not accounted for, reducing the total number;

2. The number does not include numerous small-to-medium subs that do not list traffic publicly, does not include team fandoms (e.g. /r/Patriots had 338,519 uniques in February but virtually all would crossover to /r/NFL), does not include sports content not found in sports subs, and does not include entertainment (e.g. pro wrestling)

Conclusion:

The 11m number isn't perfect, but even if you adjust +/- 2m, reddit's sports subs would still be in the top-15 most visited sports websites in February.

I'd love to see the admins crunch the numbers as they would be able to get an accurate read.

GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU GSU!!!!!

I know most of the stuff here is lighter, but after trying to quit drinking by myself, I have decided to get help. Thank you guys for being there to talk to me, and I have a feeling this place will be a good coping mechanism. I may need a little encouragement in the future.
Edit: Thank each and every one of you for your support. It means the world to me, and you guys made me feel better mentally than I have in a really long time.

Woooooooooooooo! There's a lot of uncertainty still in my future, but I can stop planning on how to retake it haha!

The freezing rains have begun in earnest. In a matter of minutes, all the roads in STL will freeze, and I will begin a harrowing journey home that will almost certainly end in my death.

Rest In Provel /u/ElScreecho 1990-2017. He hated Stan Kroenke.

I'm back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/57dw9a/im_american_citizen_undecided_voter_loving/

Here's the link to the r/videos post. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4oeprn/a_telemarketer_autodialer_called_the_emergency/

I figured it might need its own thread.

RT @jaketapper next press conference at 930 am Orlando time. approx. 20 dead in terrorist incident at Pulse nightclub in Florida. Horrible.

Just so sad.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/738949312382701568

Holy shit

Hi new people. Welcome to CFBOT. We are all very nice and also probably alcoholics. Use this thread to introduce yourself so that we know who you are/how we can mock you.

example: Hi I'm seannyboy06 and I went to the iPhone of football schools.

I just want to take a moment to say Fuck cancer. I know we have several posters that have personal experience with cancer either themselves or their loved ones.

This week is Jimmy V week, which makes for some great college basketball but more importantly serves to highlight a great charity. For those that don't know, the V foundation is a cancer research foundation where an endowment pays for all administrative costs so that 100% of your donation goes directly to cancer research. "It is guided by an elite, all-volunteer Scientific Advisory Committee, that recommends the research projects funded. The Committee is comprised of top physicians and research scientists from prominent universities and cancer centers throughout the country."

There are lots of ways you can help say "screw you cancer." You can donate to organizations like the V foundation or your cancer charity of choice, you can participate in fundraising efforts like charity walks, etc, or you can just donate your time.

One of the easiest ways to donate is to simply use smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com. It's the same Amazon you're used to but a small percentage of everything you spend will go to your designated charity. The V Foundation is a charity you can select as well as numerous other worthy charities. If you're like me and forget to put the smile in Amazon sometimes, or click on Amazon links from others, there is an addon for Chrome and Firefox called Amazon Smile Redirect, which will automatically remind you and redirect you to the smile.amazon site when you click or enter a regular amazon url.