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Meredith 🏁

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motorsport nerd, racing history enthusiast, run @touringcararchive.com
also sometimes things that don't involve cars!
chronically ill and doing my best #MECFS
links to things: https://nightmere.carrd.co/

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Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

long dogs

photo of Astra the black greyhound curled up on the sofa and leaning against a cushion. she's looking away off into the middle distance

photo of Badger the black and white greyhound roaching on the sofa, with his teeth on show and his eyes mostly shut

November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

also quite fond of this Spa 24h one

the programme cover for the 1953 24 Hours of Spa. I'm not quite sure how to explain everything that's going on. the cover is drawn in a very charming and of its era cartoon style. there's a man on the left of the page wearing a striped red and black bobble hat and a red scarf, and what I can only describe as the sort of long sleeve black shirt you'd expect a burglar to wear. he also has a white moustache, and has one eye closed. he's leaning up against a red and yellow sign post which reads '24 Heures de Spa Francorchamps' that splits the cover roughly down the middle. behind him in the background is a race track under the night sky. with his open eye he is looking over at the other side of the cover, at a woman who is holding a pair of binoculars and looks mildly shocked by something off the edge of the page. she has shoulder length black hair and is wearing a striped red and white top and a black skirt. behind her there is more of the race track, this time in the daytime. there's also a little black dog at the bottom of the page between the two people. and also the sun in the top right corner has half a face. there's a lot to take in.

November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

the IMSA Monzas are cool as hell

photo of a dark blue and yellow Chevrolet Monza and a white Porsche 934.5 racing at Sears Point

November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

devastating to have confirmation I definitely wasn't the first person to think of this joke

screenshot of two discord messages which read:

robyn (Yesterday at 20:35)
damn the steam machine seems kinda cool

shei (Yesterday at 20:39)
people in the 18th century:

November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

you can use that name, but you'll never be her smh

photo of a blue and yellow Renault R26 F1 car, taken from above.

November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

'which is why we picked roughly the same colour scheme that everyone and their dog runs in this sport'

The colour palette features titanium, carbon black and Audi red, while the livery incorporates the company's iconic four rings. Their goal is to have "the most striking car on the race track" when they line up on the grid in 2026.

November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

feels appropriate for Audi as a brand to have picked the least interesting colour palette possible

November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Meredith 🏁

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I played a lot of rally games as a kid, and while I liked plenty of them none of them left as much of an impression as this one

typing this makes me feel ancient but I vividly remember renting it from Blockbuster at least half a dozen times, because child me could never find a copy for sale

photo of my disembodied hand holding a copy of WRC Rally Evolved for the PS2

November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

apparently there's discourse happening over this, and like come on

a member of another team doing an exaggerated thumbs down to the crowd to try and get them to boo is quite funny, it's really not that deep

November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

is ebay telling me to get back in the closet

screenshot of an email from ebay, with the subject "Your wardrobe is calling, Meredith"

November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

how I wish every country's national touring car scene had a series of yearbooks this helpful at any point 🫠

yearbooks/season reviews are a lost art in modern motorsport as a whole tbh

photo of two books placed side-by-side on a dark blue bedsheet. on the left is 'Tourenwagen Story 2001' and on the right 'Tourenwagen Story 2002', which are yearbooks focused on reviewing their respective seasons in German touring car racing

November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

so I'm a big fan of Forza - Motorsport especially - and I'm going to bitch about something for a while here

FM23 is, uh, a mixed bag. some things are excellent (physics), others are awful (ok lots of things aren't great)

but there's one specific flaw that has annoyed me so much since launch...

a collage of 180 photos of different cars taken in various Forza titles, arranged in a 15 by 12 grid. there are far too many to list them all individually. this section covers from Abarth to Fiat, and the start of Ford

a collage of 159 photos of different cars taken in various Forza titles, arranged in a 15 by 10 grid with the remaining 9 photos forming an incomplete row added at the bottom. there are far too many to list them all individually. this section covers from Mini to Zenvo

November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

a very exciting arrival today: the first of Spark's 2025 BTCC model releases 👀

photo of a black and yellow Spark 1/43 scale model Ford Focus ST Mk4 BTCC car. it's Ash Sutton's #116 NAPA 100th Anniversary livery, as used for most of the 2025 season

November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani campaign slogan font meme, which reads:

Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us ‘take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.’ Thirty years later, Sebastian told us ‘I had to start my car like a computer, it’s very complicated.’ And Nico Rosberg said that during the race – I don’t remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula 1 driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?

November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM

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@nightmere.bsky.social

I love this sport so much

Dani Juncadella in his Corvette sticking the middle finger out the window at Augusto Farfus in his BMW M4, during the 2025 WEC round at Bahrain

November 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Meredith 🏁

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screenshot of the stream coverage of the 2025 WEC round in Bahrain, showing the #20 BMW M Hybrid V8 on track with a cat (no typo) visible wandering around the run-off area in the background

November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

the track's the other way guys!

screenshot of the TV coverage of the 2025 Brazilian GP at Interlagos, showing a couple of fans spectating from a balcony with the circuit in the background. they're facing the opposite way

November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

can we just call the GP result here and save everyone some time pls

November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

some insight from an anonymous employee who's still there:

post from anonymous employee, which reads:

Hey everyone, R* Employee of many years here!

Understandably I want to remain anonymous due to retaliation from the Company, but I may be willing to verify I'm an employee with @Spider-Vice via DM (if required). I am also a member of the Union.

I've been reading a lot of the discussion on here and elsewhere about the firing of more than 34 of my colleagues last week (31 in the UK + 3 in Canada) and have seen a lot of disinformation and lies that are really concerning. Particularly concerning how so many folk are willing to believe the Company's excuses.

Last week, my colleagues who were in the studio were each individually messaged by HR for a short friendly meeting, under the friendly guise of "Hey, are you free for a quick chat?"

Upon attending this meeting they were handed an envelope with a short letter stating that their employment had been terminated for "gross misconduct" regarding posts made in Discord.

They failed to provide any evidence when asked, nor was any stated in the letter. And did not divulge any other information or reasoning - "and no other reason"

They refused their right to Union representation in the disciplinary meeting (which is against UK employment law) and were frogmarched out of the studio with the meeting lasting less than 5 minutes.

For colleagues who were not in the Studio that day, they received a phone call from HR that lasted less than 2 minutes telling them they were fired and that they'd receive the same letter as above. I am aware of one employee who had a panic attack at this moment, and HR hung up on them during this panic attack not caring at all about their wellbeing.

These colleagues of mine were hard workers who have spent many many years at R* in critical roles. With colleagues who have been at R* for more that 18 years and none of them have ever had a disciplinary in that time. They are not easily replaced and will certainly affect us in making our project deadlines.

the post continues:

These are very senior artists, animators, QA testers, designers, programmers and producers. Including Leads. All super talented people who were proud of their work over multiple R* titles, and all they wanted was the best for R* and their fellow colleagues.

Some of these members were off sick, recovering from surgery or on paternity leave. Fired without pay, losing their careers and putting them into hardship in the lead up to Christmas, and even potentially losing their VISAs to work in the UK.

Let me make this clear! I never saw any discussion/leaking of Rockstar projects in the Union Discord. The only ever discussion was around unionisation efforts and the working conditions at R*. The Discord wasn't public. It was a private Discord group that only contained R* employees and the IWGB Union officials.

This was Union Busting and nothing else! Everyone fired was a Union Member, they were also predominantly from those who were on the Union Organising Committees of each UK studio.

Just one week before, the Union had reached ~200 members taking us over the 10% threshold required to seek recognition and begin engaging in collective bargaining. Allowing us to negotiate directly with management on the key issues that affect us: worsening crunch, inadequate pay and inflexible working arrangements.

They have fired over 34 of us now. There were over 250 of us in that Union/Employee Discord group. There is the fear that if they get away with this, they'll have nothing stopping them from doing this again and again.

the final part of the post reads:

Those of us who are lucky and remain for now work in fear! Fearful when talking to each other at the tea prep, fearful that we're next in line and are easily got rid of, too scared to go outside the studio and talk to (or even acknowledge) our colleagues outside protesting in fear of reprisals. Morale in the studio is at rock bottom. When we should be excited about what's to come over the next year we are now totally deflated and our trust and confidence in others is totally shot.

Which is the truly heartbreaking part, as for us in the Union, all of our ambition was to make R* a happier, fairer, safer and more equitable place. That's all. What has happened clearly shows that we care more about the wellbeing of our colleagues at Rockstar than the Company does.

The union remains unbowed and is fighting to win the reinstatement of every dismissed member of staff at Rockstar through legal means and campaigning.

This fight is critical, if Rockstar can get away with this, they will keep treating their workers with disdain, disrespect, and subjecting them to continued illegal treatment.

Thanks for your time, and I hope this is some truth that helps you all understand what's going on here at the moment.

I you would be so kind, you can contribute to the fundraiser to support those fighting their dismissal here: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-rockstar-workers-fighting-unfair-dismissals/

It would be really appreciated if you could also share the above link. I won’t be cross posting this to other forums, but please feel free to share.

Cheers x

November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

trying not to get too excited, but if this comes to fruition it would be so damn cool

Facebook post by Aberdeen City Council, posted on 06/11/2025. it reads:

A step in a joint bid by several partners including Aberdeen City Council to host the prestigious World Rally Championships in the North East has been agreed.
The FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) is a globally recognised motorsport series and Motorsport UK, in partnership with EventScotland and the WRC Promoter, has identified the North East of Scotland as a preferred host location for a UK round of the WRC for an initial three-year period (2027–2029). The event would be headquartered at P&J Live in Aberdeen, with stages across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, and Moray.
Aberdeen City Council’s Finance and Resources committee today (6 November 2025) approved that the Council would enter a Memorandum of Understanding with Motorsport UK which will allow it to submit an application to host the World Rally Championships in the city and wider region.
More information 👉 https://orlo.uk/fcUsS

November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Meredith 🏁

@nightmere.bsky.social

til that André Lotterer's social media is largely him posting about his film photography, and I am now fully invested in him and Genesis for next season