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Speaking of LeMans, entry list is out: http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/24h-le-mans-entry-list-revealed/ P1 is sad, and P2 is Oreca vs the world. 15 Oreca, 6 Ligier, 3 Dallara, 1 Riley.
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Cygni posted:Speaking of LeMans, entry list is out: quote:23 – Panis Barthez Competition – Ligier JS P217 – Fabien Barthez ...the loving goalkeeper?
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wicka posted:...the loving goalkeeper? Yeah he has been into motorsports for a while.
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Cygni posted:Speaking of LeMans, entry list is out: The new P2 regulations working exactly as intended then
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Seems to be a post retirement activity for many French athletes. Le Mans (8, one podium) and Dakar (10, one win and two second places ) regular Luc Alphand was France's top alpine skier before he chucked it in and went into cars
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Cygni posted:Speaking of LeMans, entry list is out: quote:50 – Larbre Competition – Corvette C7.R – Ricky Taylor  Also holy hell all the 488s in GTE-AM.
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Xisticide posted:The new P2 regulations working exactly as intended then The WEC P2 grid is all ORECA. Not a single entry from another brand. And there is already talk that Riley may pull the plug. The FIA/ACO are bad.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:13
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Is that the same Larbre from Project Indy(old US Indycar team)?
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Also is the P1 that certainly will be a failure actually backed by Nissan or no?
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Human Grand Prix posted:Is that the same Larbre from Project Indy(old US Indycar team)? Nope, French sports car only team
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Cygni posted:The WEC P2 grid is all ORECA. Not a single entry from another brand. And there is already talk that Riley may pull the plug. The FIA/ACO are bad. so how did ORECA manage to get so many cars, better pricing, better performance? Both?
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Human Grand Prix posted:Also is the P1 that certainly will be a failure actually backed by Nissan or no? Customer engine deal only, the chassis is essentially an enhanced bootleg version of the Lotus P2 car (the ones that had their steering wheels reposesed the day before the race a couple of years ago) built by the people who ran the team but without any involvement from Adess who designed it originally.
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Bathurst is the one that starts at night locally right? I watched last year's and remember the start being bonkers
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iospace posted:so how did ORECA manage to get so many cars, better pricing, better performance? Both? Timing and politics. Basically Ligier, HPD and SMP/BR Engineering built new P2 cars to the "old" closed top regs first, then ORECA freaked at the idea a single team (SMP specifically) could essentially build a car for themselves with unlimited budget and undermine the cost cap rules. The ACO agreed and decided that they would limit the class to 4 chassis only and they had to have the same maximum width as the new P1s. They awarded the contracts to Ligier, who had just built and sold a lot of cars that were going to be too wide and would need replacing, Dallara and Riley, who had no recent experience in P2 or a customer base to build on, and ORECA, who then built a P2 car that could be upgraded to the new spec this year.
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mactheknife posted:Bathurst is the one that starts at night locally right? I watched last year's and remember the start being bonkers 5.30 am and the sun isn't coming up till about 6.30 so the first hour is in the dark. There was plenty of trashed cars by the end of it last year
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Cygni posted:The WEC P2 grid is all ORECA. Not a single entry from another brand. And there is already talk that Riley may pull the plug. The FIA/ACO are bad. One way that everyone flocked to Oreca is the older P2 car, the 05, monocoque and other parts as I've heard can be upgraded to the 07 which why buy a new car rather just buy a cheap 05 and upgrade it for cheaper. It'll be cathartic when P1 and P2 collapse and DPi is the top class in world sports car racing.
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Cygni posted:Speaking of LeMans, entry list is out: quote:4 – Team ByKolles – ENSO CLM P1/01 NISMO – Robert Kubica* I am so conflicted right now
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Cygni posted:The WEC P2 grid is all ORECA. Not a single entry from another brand. And there is already talk that Riley may pull the plug. The FIA/ACO are bad. Too bad there isn't a cool class of prototypes representing different manufacturers that could be in the race.
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dentist toy box posted:Too bad there isn't a cool class of prototypes representing different manufacturers that could be in the race.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:I am so conflicted right now Blessed be Bobby K.
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Bathurst support races are on, qualifying and shootout also being streamed by Nismo later on.
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Feb 3, 2017 21:26
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 that rude gesture on passing only in australia
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Race ends under caution, slow pan out from a single kangaroo with a single tear in its eye.
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RIP both Nismo GT-Rs.
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Chiyo will come back like in 2015 e: still cant believe how much this event has expanded in the last few years; the driver lineups/teams/cars are spectacular e2: he did a god drat fine job not stuffing that car into the wall on the left CactusWeasle fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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gret posted:RIP both Nismo GT-Rs. What?
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This little red Civic is just loving amazing.
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Kilonum posted:Wait has the 12 hour already started? Just qualifying. When is the start in American timezones?
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BMB5150 posted:When is the start in American timezones? 1:45pm Eastern, 10:45am Pacific e: 
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The civic is back out cocking it's wheels in the air once again. Top 10 shootout will be on shortly
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Ferrari on pole at Bathurst
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I'm sure whincup will manage to gently caress it up for them towards the end of the day anyway. Last year the ferrari died halfway through the day and the team had the garage packed up by the time the race finished
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dsriggs posted:Ferrari on pole at Bathurst I look forward to fire and or crash...
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They're rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLdnnjC0q4
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Soulet in the Bentley being an impatient idiot and 10 mins in he's stuffed it, let me just say "lol" e: wow he got away with just a puncture and a Porsche has lost a wheel CactusWeasle fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Fuuuuuuuck, that was a couple of scary moments.
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#23 Nissan in the garage gently caress everything.
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