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drgitlin posted:Put together a WEC preseason post for Ars since the LMP1s have all been unveiled now: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/03/2016s-wec-hybrids-this-years-coolest-racing-cars-take-to-the-track/ The changes to the R18 sound really interesting with them switching to a battery system. I need to put some effort into watching WEC this year.
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Pretty much everyone runs a standard funny car chassis now just to be safe. Don't get me wrong, I see some deathtraps, but most everyone starts with a funny car chassis.
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the_worm_ posted:Pretty much everyone runs a standard funny car chassis now just to be safe. Don't get me wrong, I see some deathtraps, but most everyone starts with a funny car chassis. I was more referring to the guys in Nanook or the Winged Express who grumble to each other at the March Meet lol e- even the Winged Express has a funny car cage nowadays
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http://www.racer.com/latest-stories/item/127723-modern-formula-5000-tasman-series-planned This looks fun.
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Ridiculous that in Australia of all places, nobody thought of this years ago.
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I'm pretty sure I suggested it years ago and everyone got mad at me
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Seems similar to that spec Can-Am series from a few years ago. Did they ever start racing, im too lazy to google. Also now you gone and done it. You gave me an excuse to post some of my dads F-5000 pictures. 1969, he ran this rad McLaren M10B for Lothar Motchenbacher out of the Traco Engineering engine shop that provided the Chevy engines. He's the doof in the car, look for the floppy hair and mustache in the rest of the pics to find em:  1970, he was worked on this pair of Chevy powered Lotus 70's for Dick Smothers (who was a TV comedian. Seriously) and George Wintersteen:  Love the WW2 ammo cans:  71-72 we went back to work for Lothar and ran various McLaren F-5000 and Can Am cars for him. I prolly have some pics somewhere 73, he went to work for Hogan as the chief mechanic on David Hobb's car. Here he is in the Lola factory looking at their new T-330 Chevy getting assembled. Look at how its a goddamn mess in the background. Don't think chassis constructor buildings look like that now:  At the track (Road America?) Look at Hobbs in the background with the amazing mustache. This is what a PROFESSIONAL racing operation looked like at the time, ha. Grass paddock and all.  And 75-77, he worked for Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing as chief mechanic for Al Unser, Mario Andretti, and Danny Ongais at various times in F-5000, IndyCar, and F1. Heres my dad and Big Al with their names on the car. Pic rules:  They spent a couple years as one of the superteams in US racing. Here's a cool front row lockout at Laguna, ready to roll off with matching Lola T332s: 
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Cygni, that's cool as gently caress. Thanks for posting those.
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VikingSkull posted:I'm pretty sure I suggested it years ago and everyone got mad at me We talked about this in IRC once and it was, and is, a good idea.
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We have some cool dads in this thread.
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Um yikes...  http://www.imsa.com/articles/statement-crawford-family
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Just about every touring car series kicks off this weekend, BTCC at Brands Hatch, ETCC and WTCC at Paul Ricard and TCR at Bahrain.
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TCR looks intriguing but Bahrain is not a very inspiring track to kick off a season. I guess being an F1 support series is kinda cool though.
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As if there wasnt enough racing this weekend, the 24H series Silverstone race is about to start and video is on radiolemans.com Only 40-something cars though and no GT cars
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CactusWeasle posted:As if there wasnt enough racing this weekend, the 24H series Silverstone race is about to start and video is on radiolemans.com Only 40-something cars though and no GT cars Yeah I was reading about this, apparently the race organisers run a touring car endurance series and made this race touring car only to promote that series. No doubt this effectively being touring car weekend had something to do with it as well. E: Speaking of touring cars, TCR is streaming their races live. njsykora fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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That's not good. Did she and Andy Wallace divorce? I am positive they were married but the article says her husband is called Russ.
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It's almost over, but Formula E from Long Beach is live now on FS1.
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Phoenix stands still looking a bit Fontana-like.
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Nice to see the highly intelligent British marshalls back in action at Brands https://twitter.com/123pnz/status/716576544441942016 https://twitter.com/JackPearson93/status/716576583658516480 CactusWeasle fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Second V8SC race at Symmons Plains was good stuff, worth seeking out.
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First WTCC race at Paul Ricard was also pretty good in the midpack, should be an interesting second race later. BTCC is another level though.
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That Ginetta race was ace, the Red Menace Cam Roberts a highlight.
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HJB posted:That Ginetta race was ace, the Red Menace Cam Roberts a highlight. Yeah seriously that was awesome. The racing is god drat non-stop this weekend, TCR race 2 just started.
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So much racing to watch once I get home! The drought is over!
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Norns posted:So much racing to watch once I get home! The drought is over! Except in California, where we have an actual and literal drought
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njsykora posted:First WTCC race at Paul Ricard was also pretty good in the midpack, should be an interesting second race later. BTCC is another level though. WTCC being good?
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Yeah it's weird. Apparently the second race was also pretty decent but I haven't seen it yet. The only real issue I had is that Paul Ricard isn't much of a spectator's track.
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BTCC in the US starts next week at 9:00PM Eastern on CBSSN with the condensed Brands Hatch broadcast. Expect the rest of the broadcasts to be in the same time slots 9-10 days after the race runs.
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I hope they show the Ginetta Jr. races. That was some incredibly entertaining racing.
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It always is. Ginetta Jrs is basically any given karting championship but someone thought to give 14 year olds a 3 figure number of horsepower. It's glorious.
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Blancpain Sports Club qualifying race is starting under safety car on a wet track. Good start to the season.
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link http://www.blancpainsportsclub.com/gt/live/
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njsykora posted:Blancpain Sports Club qualifying race is starting under safety car on a wet track. Good start to the season. Pretty excited for this. Been sim racing a lot of GT3 cars recently and someone recommended this series. Sadly I'm currently at work...
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Sports Club race was pretty good, was fun watching the pole guys completely lose all their pace once the dry line started to appear. The Sprint series qualifying race should be starting in about 40 minutes.
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Ferrari, Merc and Audi going to loving war for 2nd. This race owns.
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It's awesome stuff. So. Many. Audi's.
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Full course yellow right as the pit window was closing, the Bentley team just went from the 20s to 1st.
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