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Alain Post posted:I hate 888, but Van Gisbergen owns and has been the best driver in the series for a while, I'm glad he's exposed Whincup to be a fraud Van Gisbergen is amazingly talented. He's had the odd episode of red mist in the past but they seem to be diminishing over time. His performance yesterday was just outstanding after the Winterbottom incident. It was also hilarious to see Todd Kelly run himself into the wall on one of the rare days when his car was competitive.
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I see they haven't backed down from the no-plat rule. Now to see if Billy Johnson gets the bump to Plat, if so he's gonna be out of a job, unless someone in WTSCC or elsewhere picks him up.
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It's a very weird sport where you lose your job for being judged too good.
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Dudley posted:It's a very weird sport where you lose your job for being judged too good. I see you heard about Porsche replacing most of their LMP drivers already.
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Hah. Although they did replace them with 3 former LeMans winners.
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Have some Gibson noises (and some ligier visuals) Looks like they're testing their high-downforce package at sebring. I'm curious to see the high DF package of the Mazda and Caddy, as it looks like both of them showed off their daytona aero package. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orp_VeOE_Yo those liftoff crackles 
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Pretty big field for next week's pre-pre-roar group IMSA test. Should be our first performance comparison between Cadillac/Mazda, and the first look at the Multimatic-Riley P2. http://www.racer.com/images/2016/December_1/IMSA/2017_WeatherTech_Championship_December_Test_Provisional_Pre-Event_Entry_List.pdf
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First batch of Dinner with Racers. Johnny O'Connell being smug that he's faster than everyone, John Eversley's time with John Paul Sr's team being paid min wage and then paid in small envelope in cash and Sr threatening and firing a mechanic for stealing money and almost putting a gun in said mechanics mouth in just the first 2 episodes.
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https://youtu.be/q1VM1yyjyVY Here's a live 12 hour GT3 race at Sepang in the middle of December.
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BMB5150 posted:https://youtu.be/q1VM1yyjyVY  Rain is forecasted to begin halfway through the race
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I turned on the Sepang 12 Hour and within 2 minutes saw a Lamborghini divebombing a Honda Civic. Track is slippery as gently caress after the rain and it's just fuckup after fuckup after hilarious gentleman driver incident.
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CactusWeasle posted:The car count isnt great this year either but its still entertaining racing is racing, and if this is the only racing on today, it's automatically good
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And the new Riley https://twitter.com/racermag/status/808020885860847616
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I mean I know it hasn't done anything yet but I feel like that looks like a car that will be in video games for the next 25 years
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Aggressive looking, like it.
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Couple more caddy DPis: https://twitter.com/AX_Racing/status/808373991689908225 https://twitter.com/GearboxGirl/status/808373181153234945
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iospace posted:Couple more caddy DPis: I like this a lot.
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Those two really highlight how much the styling of a car makes all the difference. Very plain liveries look boring on the old DPs, but because the car looks so much better they can get away with the same scheme looking a lot better overall.
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Imo those AXR Caddies dont look good in the white liveries. WTR one looks amazing though. Also interesting to see all the prototypes sporting either their mid or high downforce package at Daytona though, as it's usually a no-dive-plane, super low drag circuit like Le Mans. I suppose it's test day and they're trying to suss out a lot of stuff with these brand new cars. Wonder if we'll see trap speeds or lap times from the test.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Also interesting to see all the prototypes sporting either their mid or high downforce package at Daytona though, as it's usually a no-dive-plane, super low drag circuit like Le Mans. I suppose it's test day and they're trying to suss out a lot of stuff with these brand new cars. I expect every team there this week is going to be hardcore sandbagging so no-one really knows what they can do.
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Real glad to see the Cadillac branding/design on the front behind the wheels and on the fin maintained. That's really a smart idea to bring their works teams together and manage their brand. Hope the final livery for the Mazda looks just as good too.
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Best Prototype trap speeds from today: 10 WTR Cadillac DPi - 198.0 mph 31 AXR Cadillac DPi - 195.7 mph 5 AXR Cadillac DPi - 194.7 mph 90 VFR Riley LMP2 - 188.0 mph 55 Mazda DPi - 185.9 mph  1:38.766-1:41.715 separates the protos from that session http://results.imsa.com/ e: for reference, best race lap was 1:39.192 in the Honda-Ligier LMP2 last year, quali was wet so the times are useless. MazeOfTzeentch fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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I'm not shocked there gonna be close if not at GTP speeds. They were talking how at Le Mans, P2 cars are going P1 08-09 speeds let alone the DPi's being a little bit faster than stock P2s.
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BMB5150 posted:I'm not shocked there gonna be close if not at GTP speeds. They were talking how at Le Mans, P2 cars are going P1 08-09 speeds let alone the DPi's being a little bit faster than stock P2s. They may have been talking about it but it's not close to true. Pole at LeMans in 2008 was 3:18. LMP2 pole this year was a 3:36. Hell, LMP2 pole was a couple of seconds quicker in 2008 than 2016 thanks to the Porsche Spyder Evos. The arse end of the LMP1 field in 2008 was doing those times but those were ancient Courage and Creation cars.
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iospace posted:Also depends on how much they were sandbagging too. Sounds like Marshall Pruitt is going to take more note of the IMSA data recording tools, but they seem to have some robust software taking its own data during testing. They're trying to eliminate the sandbags.
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https://twitter.com/marshallpruett/status/809027758819069952 e: either Porsche is babying the RSRs or they're sandbagging (likely both) as two GT3s outpaced the RSRs. iospace fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/autosport/status/809063288923455488 Yeah, good luck with that. Meanwhile... https://twitter.com/Motorbase/status/808944758328528896
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