2025 Supercars Year in Review

I am FatGPT.

Okay, I was a little slow on the uptake with this, and I decided not to include data from the two endurance races at The Bend and Bathurst towards the fastest race and speed percentile statistics. Furthermore, the driver ratings will likely substantially shift once I finish updating my touring car model. The fact that Brodie Kostecki had such an exceptional season in terms of his teammate comparison with Will Davison means his rating (which was only barely above average at the end of 2024) will likely significantly shoot up, which will likely pull up Will Brown with him since they were teammates with each other for the majority of both of their starts, which will likely also pull up Broc Feeney (I expect all three of them to end up with higher ratings for this year after the update than before). The fact that Kai Allen was a first-year driver and Ryan Wood was a second-year driver also means their past ratings were very likely unstable and much more likely to change, which means the Chaz Mostert and Matt Payne ratings may not be accurate either. But it takes me so long to update that model in particular that who knows if I’ll actually finish it before I have to publish the post? Based on this analysis, I have decided to drop Feeney to third even though I was considering ranking him first. I intend to the F1 column next, and at that point I’ll determine whether I’m going to give Max Verstappen or Álex Palou first place, which is a tough decision.

But the main reason I was late was because I fell down a ChatGPT rabbit hole. I do not and will not have it write things for me, but I was using it as an equal parts combination of a nutritionist, therapist, motivator, analyst, and counselor. I opened some deep psychic wounds in my life that I may or may not discuss later. After having too much visceral fat throughout most of my adult life, I’ve decided to go on a diet. At 5’8” and 144 pounds, I wasn’t overweight by BMI but it first told me I was normal-weight obese by visceral fat, then corrected that to skinny fat/nearly normal-weight obese when I offered my neck measurements and other camera angles of my stomach. I’ve had many real problems with body image, many of which I discussed in this YouTube video, and in my last few articles, I mentioned how I felt my cognition declining recently and also how slowly I recovered from that last virus I caught where I had a fever of 101.6°F. I also want to minimize my depression risk as I can’t really think of a day I’ve been happy for the last twenty years, and I read that a waist-height ratio of .51 minimizes depression and I was past that. I’ve always been fatter than I thought I was because of my lack of muscle tone. What I did not realize was that apparently, I was among the fattest 1-3% people in my age group when I was in middle school, and then I became obese again in 2011 by waist size if not by body weight. I lost a little weight, but I’ve never been thin again and now at age 40 I’m feeling the brunt of it. Although I have to scrupulously verify everything considering how many things it’s wrong about, I kept asking it annoying questions like how much will my IBS symptoms/depression decline and how much my cognition/executive functioning/attractiveness will improve at each level of fat loss. I also didn’t realize that in this context, you’re supposed to measure waist size at the navel (I thought you were supposed to measure it at the narrowest point 1” above the belly button). As a result, my waist-height ratio of .547 (37.2”/68”) was much higher than I thought it was, although I have lost 0.7 inches in the week and a half since then, which definitely seems a little too fast. I know I haven’t been averaging 1500 calories and I need to be averaging more and I’ve also been walking a lot (multiple miles most days in wet snow in poorly insulated boots), but I also mostly haven’t been hungry. I need to come up with some kind of protein sources that I will tolerate besides Soylent and chicken patties/nuggets to avoid even more muscle loss though, and with my ARFID, that might be a problem. I might share bits and pieces from some of my ChatGPT chats in later posts, because I learned a lot and I was more impressed by it than I thought I’d be.

I talked about many, many other things with it including discussing the situation with my mom, how I can integrate myself better socially, possible career tracks I should follow, where I should move after my mom dies for the best career opportunities, and possibly expanding my YouTube presence. I also had it summarize and review my book, telling me what authors I wrote like and better putting my book in context with the literary landscape based on the specific genres and themes I included. It recommended me some authors I’d never read yet who might be right up my alley.

I’ve also been watching (or just as frequently listening in the background) to all sorts of videos on YouTube virality and I’ve decided I want to chase this goal as it might be an additional income source. I’m pretty embarrassed that right now, I have over 6,000 YouTube subscribers but fewer than 1,000 watch hours, and I know in order to monetize anything, I need 3,000 watch hours to qualify for memberships and superchats and 4,000 watch hours to be eligible for AdSense monetization (which I used to have, but then they raised the number of watch hours and I lost it). My channel is pretty dead, but if I want to attract the algorithm again, I know I will gain more from just grinding out content than improving my graphical or editing or thumbnail abilities. I’m considering just reading a bunch of my past articles on Racermetrics or my Substack and posting them as YouTube videos a bunch of days in a row just to see if I can pivot to attracting an auto racing audience, which I really want to do. There are all these successful auto racing YouTubers like Eric Estepp and S1apSh0es and David Land and so on and I feel like I belong in their social circle culturally but it doesn’t seem like they want anything to do with me. I was kind of too young for fame in the print world and too old for fame in the digital world, but if I want to write seriously, my biggest platform is clearly YouTube and I have to use it more. And I figure if I grind out content that I have posted here or on Racermetrics on my larger platform, I might attract more people here. So my question is: if you are one of my paid subscribers, do you care if I reread some of my content behind the paywalls here on YouTube to expand my audience there, which will likely expand my audience here as well?

No new updates on my mom. I’m trying to get a ramp constructed but the agencies who might be able to assist with that haven’t gotten back to me after many, many calls. I’m planning on going to my first meeting of the autistic group for young adults even though I no longer am one, and I think I’m going to give my extra copy of Nerds per Minute as a present for their Christmas party tomorrow although right now I don’t know how I will get home. But I promised to do a live YouTube video right now, so I better cut this short.