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Really good race. Lots of Things Were Happening. Many sausage curbs were hit, sending cars flying. Audi getting pushed by the Toyotas, Astons killing it in GTE Pro and Am. The Am-Astons finished within 2 seconds of each other.
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Good race indeed, and attendance looked way up from last year
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Sep 21, 2014 05:13
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Too bad the TV coverage for the first half in the US was loving
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Sep 21, 2014 05:48
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Per sportscar365, last year's total attendance for WEC at COTA was less than 8k. This year, it's over 50k. Good signs for sportscar racing in the States 
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Sep 21, 2014 22:07
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Probably helped that WEC was double billed with TUSC (whereas last year's race was just WEC and some smaller support series)
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Sep 21, 2014 22:36
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Kilonum posted:Probably helped that WEC was double billed with TUSC (whereas last year's race was just WEC and some smaller support series) Day before was the ALMS race and a lot of people went. Kind of failed in promoting to people to stay around an extra day to watch more sportscars last year.
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It was a very good event. Yesterday was a bloody long day though. I put up some photos from Thursday-Saturday morning here: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/09/lone-star-le-mans-ars-goes-racing-in-texas/
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Wear your seat belts, kids, and make sure they work: http://youtu.be/93JhLRicARw
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I went to the Trans-Am race at Lime Rock over the weekend. It was fun but the race was too short (67 laps, 100.5 miles) and by the time we decided to move from the esses it was over. There were also Spec Miatas and some sort of time attack thing running. Plus I got to sit in a Challenger Hellcat.            Album
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I'm going to my first NHRA race tomorrow (St. Louis) and I'm PUMPED. I've seen alcohol nostalgia drags and go to around 8 big truck/tractor pulls a year...but I've never seen nitro before! My father in law, an old super stock racer, is going with me. He's been legally blind for around 15 years now and hasn't been to a track in 20 years. He is 65 years old and is acting like a little kid he is so excited. His eyesight is so bad that everything is just "smeary blobs" (his words) but he wants to go to just "breathe the nitro and get my bones shook" (also his words). Any tips for a first timer like me? We are sitting pit side and I'll be shooting pics at the event (I'm an ok amateur motorsports photographer). I've heard from everyone to definitely go check out the pits to see the top fuel crews perform wizard like engine work. Any other tricks? And yeah, I've got ear plugs
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Pits and ear plugs are a must so you have that covered. Other than that, just have a blast and enjoy the experience. One thing I try to do is watch passes from as many spots as you can. Seeing a race from the line, mid-track, and at the traps are completely different experiences. Personally I enjoy the traps, because there's nothing like watching this tiny car get big as hell super quick as it comes closer to you. The speed down there is amazing to be a few yards from, and the doppler effect is wild to hear. Get there early and hit the pits straight away. If you get in early enough and the crowd isn't too heavy, you can most likely get tons of autographed stuff if that's your thing. Also, if you see a nitro car getting ready to be warmed up, because the swap from alcohol to nitro is amazing in person.  That's what I got from Kenny Bernstein at Englishtown years ago, and Angelle Savoie let me sit on her Pro Stock bike. Have a blast man, it's a life changing thing to see live. e- Oh poo poo, you work(ed/s) for Bigfoot right? How's that been going for you? Feel free to post any of that poo poo in this thread, we love every kind of racing. Haha we post in the same threads a lot but I always forget that. e2- I almost forgot, watch one run with no ear plugs. It won't kill you to do it once, it's something everyone should try. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Thanks for the advice. I'll be sure and post some pics here. We have reserved seats right by the starting line, but I plan on moving around to take it in from all angles. I no longer work full time for Bigfoot but still do sidework for them and hang out at the shop (we just started racing r/c monsters up there in the shop every two weeks). I'm going to an event with them in two weeks so I'll post pics in this thread if people would like to see it. So yeah, despite working in a race shop for 7 years I've never seen a Top Fuel run. It's a bit embarrassing. That changes today! I'm really excited to hear and feel the cars and see how it compares with tractor pulling. As I mentioned earlier, I travel around the midwest during the summer and shoot pics at a few national tractor pulls so I'm used to hearing rails with up to 6 blown hemis mounted.....but those aren't nitro engines 
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Sep 27, 2014 14:59
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Holy loving poo poo that nitro warm-up video had me wanting to grab earplugs and I was just watching on my phone. I never had the chance to take the quick trip to Seattle with my dad to see NHRA but I kinda want to go once just to say I did. Sizing up going to WEC at Fuji, if I do I'll post the pics. Another friend wants to go so I might cave and head out there.
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Big thing about Top Fuel is you feel it in your chest even if you're on top of the grandstands.
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It's amazing just how loud the transition from alcohol to nitro is, and though that video is excellent in showing the tonal differences, it falls right back into the "I can't describe it, you have to see it" category. From the loud idle of a blown, alcohol fed, unmuffled Hemi sound to the POW POWPOW POW POWPOW POW POWPOW of nitro, goddamn it gets me hard just thinking about it. Just watch where the zoomies are aimed when they swap it over, because no poo poo getting a face full of nitro vapor is exactly like getting pepper sprayed, and I've had experience with both. Also on the Bigfoot angle, of course we want updates! If you're interested in watching some racing with us scum in SAS, you might get a kick out of this. Keep an eye out if this thread gets updated. It's a thread we use to coordinate viewing times on Cytube, a site that lets people in a chat room synch up the videos they are watching. A lot of times it's me who gets the videos picked, and in the past I've had monster trucks, tractor pulling from the old Silverdome era of popularity, hell I've even put swamp buggies on in there. Peanut President posted:Big thing about Top Fuel is you feel it in your chest even if you're on top of the grandstands. This isn't an exaggeration, either. You will become acutely aware that you have internal organs inside you that are free to move around. You feel it in your chest at the top of the grandstand while the car is in the burnout box and you are at the traps. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Peanut President posted:Big thing about Top Fuel is you feel it in your chest even if you're on top of the grandstands. Funny car did that to me a few years ago. It was a run with Ron Capps and someone else and as they charged by my eye balls shook out of vision and just saw a blur of light. It's a thing to see... and feel... and smell... and hear.
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Having never seen one to verify for myself, I've heard numerous people say the only thing louder that you can experience is a shuttle launch. I guess Motörhead would be similar, too. e- oh yeah, on your way to the track play this song on repeat
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or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
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That was loving incredible. The first time I was hit by the blast wave of a top fuel I nearly dropped my camera due to the force. It felt like all the air was sucked out of the atmosphere. I got goosebumps due to the adrenaline. It's really crazy. Nitro is amazing. I actually felt the freaking pavement shake (along with my internal organs)! There is simply nothing else like it in motorsports. What they say is true; you can't really describe what it feels like and if you haven't seen it you MUST see it live at least once. Going on advice from friends and people in this thread I got to: - Watch multiple crews rebuild and then warm up their nitro engines in the pits. - Catch sessions both at the start and finish lines. The explosion/concussion blast from the start feels way different than the Doppler effect near the finish. - Catch a few runs while standing on the retaining fence. - See an engine explode. - Watch John Force nab a TQ in person. - Stand in the staging area and see everyone do last minute prep. I think I accomplished everything I wanted to for my first NHRA race. I can't wait to go back next year! Here are a couple pics I took:      
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Yikes, Rob Collard airlifted to hospital after a huge crash in race 2 at Silverstone. He's "ok" apparently. Clipped Jack Clarke and rolled violently.
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I am a retard
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Sep 28, 2014 18:16
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Great Beer posted:Tim Bell just lost brakes on what looks like the back stretch of COTA and hit the wall at over 100 mph. The safety barrier worked perfectly and he was able to walk into the ambulance but drat that looked bad. Just last week??
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dsriggs posted:Just last week?? Hurf. This is a rerun. Ignore me. 
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CactusWeasle posted:Yikes, Rob Collard airlifted to hospital after a huge crash in race 2 at Silverstone. He's "ok" apparently. Clipped Jack Clarke and rolled violently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vos2KZjAG4g Also on Midweek Motorsports, reason why we haven't seen a whole lot of David Brabham, he's been trying to revive the Brabham Team and fighting a guy who took the name and now will be doing a crowdfunded opensource team. It's so wacky I love it. Here is there indiegogo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/project-brabham
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BMB5150 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vos2KZjAG4g The output of the funding goal is a website, right? The team is a 8 mil pound stretch goal. Its so rich boy racing it kind of hurts somehow, its great.
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Uncle Jam posted:The output of the funding goal is a website, right? The team is a 8 mil pound stretch goal. honestly I think the crowd funding campaign is just to prove they have a captured market for sponsors (Brabham mentions specifically even on their IGG page that they're into negotiations with suppliers, sponsors, etc.) and to specifically quantify how many eyeballs they'll have for your sponsor dollars. Not only is the campaign pretty low compared with the total needed to fully fund the racing team, but even if things come together quickly, surely they'd be close to finishing sponsorship, facility and supplier deals in order to make the WEC grid next spring.
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RLM back to IMSA in 2015 http://www.imsa.com/articles/putting-band-back-together-creamer-hindhaugh-shaw-lead-imsa-radio
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tupacalypse posted:RLM back to IMSA in 2015 gently caress yes
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tupacalypse posted:RLM back to IMSA in 2015 These guys are awesome, but can you understand a word of John Hindaugh's accent?
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Helicon One posted:These guys are awesome, but can you understand a word of John Hindaugh's accent? ...yes? Quite clearly?
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harperdc posted:...yes? Quite clearly? These days I'd rather he commentated on F1 too, he's better than any of the usual crew on NBC or Sky or BBC.  (apologies it's so blurry)
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drgitlin posted:These days I'd rather he commentated on F1 too, he's better than any of the usual crew on NBC or Sky or BBC. Just thought of it now, he looks like an older Jeff Gerstmann.
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so wich race has had a higher ratio of laps under caution: Petit Le Mans so far today or ARCA Kansas last night?
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