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Butt Wizard posted:Mardenborough is a legit racer in his own right now, this really has very little to do with the GT academy Everyone who has come through the Academy is. But if the public in any way tie it to "LOL Playstation" then that program goes away.
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I think this incident comes down a really unfortunate set of circumstances. No one could say this was an accident waiting to happen, which is why the general reaction is "  "
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Mar 28, 2015 19:42
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Dudley posted:Everyone who has come through the Academy is. Maybe we''ll get lucky and they'll tie it to him being part of the Red Bull Junior program instead.
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Mar 28, 2015 19:46
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Horrible scary incident, and tragic that it's led to spectator death. That's pretty loving awful all around 
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Mar 29, 2015 00:22
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Logged in, saw thirty posts in Misc. Auto Racing, Apparently according to the pictures, some of the spectators had also figured out how to get their chairs on the other side of the catch fences. There are several chairs on the wrong side of the secondary fence. They put the big catch fence up that is supposed to stop cars from leaving track, and then put up a lower spectator fence that also marks out the maximum possible extension of the catch fencing. Sitting inside that secondary barrier is really pretty much negating the whole benefit of a catch fence. orange juche fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Mar 29, 2015 01:26
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Yeah, racing spectators in general are often loving idiots.
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Mar 29, 2015 02:44
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SP7, SP8, SP9, SP10 and SPX class cars suspended from racing at the Ring until further notice. That's 911 Cup cars, cars with non-standard engines up to 6.25ltr or 4.0ltr turbo, FIA GT3 cars, FIA GT4 cars and weirdo stuff like the Glickenhaus respectively.
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Mar 29, 2015 15:28
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There was a 2nd shot of the wreck on motorsport.com from at the crest and looked like the GTR was taking off before the crest of the hill it seems. The 3 other Porsches in the video seem to keep the front nose down but the Nissan was already taking off. He couldn't do a drat thing.
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Mar 29, 2015 15:41
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Even before you can see the car start to lift all of the weight from the front wheels will have disappeared and there would have been no steering well before that. I have a feeling some modifications of the track will be in the near future.
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Mar 29, 2015 15:57
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Pirelli World Challenge is clownshoes; two cars piled into a crash maybe 20 seconds after it happened
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Mar 29, 2015 16:13
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CactusWeasle posted:Pirelli World Challenge is clownshoes; two cars piled into a crash maybe 20 seconds after it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2j2lGNiItE Honestly, I could've done better than that.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:29
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dsriggs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2j2lGNiItE Is Vadim Kogay in this series doing standing starts?
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Mar 29, 2015 16:43
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dsriggs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2j2lGNiItE That was yesterdays race. I was referring to a similar clownshoeical event in todays.
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Mar 29, 2015 16:52
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dsriggs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2j2lGNiItE That gap went from wide open to "oh poo poo Lambo outta nowhere" pretty quick. It would probably have been better if Udell had just stopped before that point, though.
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Mar 30, 2015 02:07
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Good news, everyone! Live WEC coverage via Fox, Fox Sports 1 and 2 and FS Go confirmed for the United States. Includes live coverage and a 52-minute highlights package later on. Full race will be on their streaming site, too. Assuming this'll be the world feed with the Radio Le Mans coverage. Exciting! Great for Americans who have the right cable package.
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Apr 1, 2015 12:27
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Awesome, it's been awhile since we've had proper TV coverage of Le Mans.
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Apr 1, 2015 12:38
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgQGPbj2XE So someone got a very clear shot of what happened and nearly got their heads taken off. 
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BMB5150 posted:
It took me until the second watch to realize the car ended up on the other side of him than where it entered the stands.
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BMB5150 posted:
it almost seems like you're supposed to sit behind that second catch fence
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BMB5150 posted:
This angle makes it a lot more Final Destination than the others. I didnt realise how far the car traveled over and out of the track. It's amazing there werent more deaths.
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Apr 1, 2015 18:31
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I'm not going to click on that link.
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Apr 1, 2015 19:27
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track day bro! posted:I'm not going to click on that link. It just looks like people are trying to frantically pull smooshed raincoats out from the car, no blood.
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Quantrill posted:it almost seems like you're supposed to sit behind that second catch fence You are. Idiots.
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Apr 1, 2015 20:03
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Dudley posted:You are. Yep, the fence that actually stopped the car, too. I guess the main one took most of the forward momentum out of it. But hey, at least these shitheads have ruined GT3 at the Ring for everyone!
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Apr 1, 2015 21:09
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VikingSkull posted:Awesome, it's been awhile since we've had proper TV coverage of Le Mans. I believe Fox/Speed has had Le Mans for a while, this is live coverage of the entire season. Last year was there any WEC COTA coverage at all? I'm not sure.
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harperdc posted:I believe Fox/Speed has had Le Mans for a while, this is live coverage of the entire season. Last year was there any WEC COTA coverage at all? I'm not sure. COTA was the only race they covered besides Le Mans.
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harperdc posted:I believe Fox/Speed has had Le Mans for a while, this is live coverage of the entire season. Last year was there any WEC COTA coverage at all? I'm not sure. They did, but not every year, and nothing on the network.
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Apparently the LMP1s are up to four seconds faster year on year around Paul Ricard 
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Apr 3, 2015 13:34
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Can't believe I'm actually looking forward to WEC.
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Apr 3, 2015 14:01
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Apparently grid girls are no more in WEC. Cue outrage from dumb nerds who are seemingly still unaware of Internet porn.
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julian assflange posted:Apparently the LMP1s are up to four seconds faster year on year around Paul Ricard Helps having a year of to figure out the aero stuff but also helps Porsche jumped to 8 mj and Audi to 4. They'll probably keep going faster still next season and so on. Puts in perspective hearing NIssan was 2 sec behind Audi in which if it was last year, they would be on target with Audi. George Zimmer posted:Apparently grid girls are no more in WEC. Cue outrage from dumb nerds who are seemingly still unaware of Internet porn. Let's take a dive shall we.... Wow. For those of you saying this is all long over due, and anything else PC that suits your narrow minded needs, why don’t you all go live in a dictatorship somewhere, as enjoyment and happiness are also banned there too. The girls totally love their work. It’s a big deal to them, apart from the money. It’s a leg up, as you were, in their professional modeling career, not to mention a thrill at being on the grid of a race. No one is forcing them there. But a load of miserable PC bureaucrats have decided they know whats best for us, the mere trolls, on whose backs they sit and take money from. Soon, we will not only see a ban on ANY female in advertising, but looking at someone, in a perfectly natural way, will be illegal too. We would not want to “offend” the Muslims, whose countries we race in now, would we?. Where does all THEIR money come from? Oh right. From ripping off the world for decades, that’s where. So lighten up, ACO. TRY and stay in touch with the REAL world and keep your miserable humorless grey dull and boring world to yourself. Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders beware. A load of grumpy narrow minded PC idiots will try and eliminate your jobs too. They won’t be happy until we are all wearing green or grey Mao suits, and we all look the same. No one will have any advantage over anyone else. Well except for them that makes up all this BS. They will be living large, of course. Bring back the Grid Girls. Long live freedom of expression. Down with dictators at every level of society. Well done FIA on destroying tradition. Bloody joke. I guess advertising must now remove all female models and all other model work must be banned. Heck, we didn’t even see grid girls on the screen. These extreme feminists are doing a great job… that and/or expansion into the middle east is forcing this move, in that case, we must ask is it really worth it? And the best for last... 1000 jobs will be lost. Now many of them will consider taking up the oldest job in the world. I don’t think this is a good idea. White, males in their 40s can't believe they won't see 20 year old scantily clad women in their racing... oh what will we ever do. BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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BMB5150 posted:Helps having a year of to figure out the aero stuff but also helps Porsche jumped to 8 mj and Audi to 4. They'll probably keep going faster still next season and so on. Puts in perspective hearing NIssan was 2 sec behind Audi in which if it was last year, they would be on target with Audi. To be fair, I am dissapointed they're gone, but I'm not really upset. Nice to look at but I'm really there for the racing (and the crashing).
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I like grid girls/race queens too but whatever. Not a big deal, and also a bonus if it pisses off some human being Fedoralord.
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Human Grand Prix posted:I like grid girls/race queens too but whatever. Not a big deal, and also a bonus if it pisses off some human being Fedoralord. I like good-looking girls as much as anyone but they take it waaaaaaaaaaay too far in Japan. Every time I turned the corner at Tokyo Auto Salon, whenever there was a big gaggle of photographers, they were all huddled around the models...not the cars.
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I didn't know grid girls we're a thing outside of F1 podiums.
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Grid girls seems like a practice from the old days thats been taken to a gross and un-fun extreme in modern times. If you look at the pictures of old timey races, it seems somehow less exploitative and gross. And thats during the fuckin Don Draper days.
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Cygni posted:Grid girls seems like a practice from the old days thats been taken to a gross and un-fun extreme in modern times. If you look at the pictures of old timey races, it seems somehow less exploitative and gross. And thats during the fuckin Don Draper days. Probably because most of them have had a lot of plastic surgery and wear clothes that zero people would ever wear on a normal day or even a crazy day.
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One year the Aus GP organisers dressed their grid girls in formal business skirts and blouses and there was a full page of complaints in The Age about it.
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Butt Wizard posted:One year the Aus GP organisers dressed their grid girls in formal business skirts and blouses and there was a full page of complaints in The Age about it. oi these sluts need to be proper tarted up mate i'll never watch formula one again ya tosser
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I like how that guy also implies that they will all become prostitutes.
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