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MazeOfTzeentch posted:The race for the overall is won, if Toyota are reliable. Toyota have only run 2 trouble free cars at Le Mans, out of the 13 they've brought. There's still a race to be had here. I'm not saying there's no way to gently caress it up but a lot of the unreliability (particularly in last year's race) came from the manufacturer teams battling each other.
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Jun 14, 2018 15:30
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Both Toyota's exploding would be hilarious but specifically Alonso's. Bonus points if he's in the car when it goes.
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I need a shot of Sad Alonso in the ferris wheel
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Norman Nato had a pants filling spin through the Porsche curves and now the 94 Porsche has crashed at Indianapolis and it might be raining e: and Tracy Krohne has lost a wheel 
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CactusWeasle posted:Norman Nato had a pants filling spin through the Porsche curves Everything going just fine for tracy krohn then
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Jun 14, 2018 18:16
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Well this has been a shitshow so far.
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#47 Cetilar Villorba Corse car is in pieces at the first chicane, ambulance heading to the scene but the cctv picked up the driver getting out of the car himself.
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Ack! The Ford GT is hosed.
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WindyMan posted:As we know (or don't, probably) Le Mans will be live on the Velocity network in the U.S. this year. Turns out that later this year, the network will get rebranded to the Motor Trend Network. When I found this out I hopped over to the Motor Trend On Demand website and discovered something quite nice: Thanks for this. At a glance it looks like the subscription is really easy to cancel
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Thanks for this. At a glance it looks like the subscription is really easy to cancel Honestly, Motor Trend On Demand is not a bad service. It's not super expensive and they have enough racing that I think it's worth the $5 they want. And yes, it's easy to cancel.
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lol, Nakajima 2 seconds a lap faster than the sister car. Amazing how much Toyota is gimping the other car in order to orchestrate an Alonso win.
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Wirth1000 posted:lol, Nakajima 2 seconds a lap faster than the sister car. Amazing how much Toyota is gimping the other car in order to orchestrate an Alonso win. Coulthard had a good point which was more or less "There's no legitimate reason in an era with no other manufacturers to have Alonso in that car unless you want pictures of Alonso winning with your car on all your marketing materials from the event"
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So the best case scenario is that both Toyotas blow up and Button gets the win.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:So the best case scenario is that both Toyotas blow up and ByKolles gets the win.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:So the best case scenario is that both Toyotas blow up and ByKolles
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I wouldn't describe a money laundering operation by the dirtiest man in motorsport to be plucky.
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Cygni posted:the whole reason the team and cars exist in the first place is marketing so Not for Toyota. For some bizarroworld reason they draw the LMP1's funding from car R&D as well as marketing.
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Schlesische posted:Not for Toyota. Toyota is really big on hybrid tech in road cars.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:So the best case scenario is that both Toyotas blow up and Button gets the win. All the LMP1s blow up and Montoya wins and completes the triple crown.
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gret posted:All the LMP1s blow up and Montoya wins and completes the triple crown. AKA quite easily the greatest thing that could ever happen in motor racing
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Wirth1000 posted:I wouldn't describe a money laundering operation by the dirtiest man in motorsport to be plucky. Thought that Scott Tucker is rotting in jail 
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I'm pretty sure Colin Kolles is dirtier than anyone truly realizes. Like "take us to Jimmy Hoffa's grave" dirty
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How the gently caress do I watch this in North America without cable? I paid for the WEC stream last year and synced it up with Radio Le Mans but now they won't even let me do that?
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Not sure if the free trial package for PS Vue had velocity, but the upper packages do. Or just go to r/motorsportsstreams and pick a YouTube rebreoadcast
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Ive never used it but this philo streaming doesnt look too bad and it has velocity included in the base packages. Theres a 7 day free trial. https://try.philo.com/?utm_source=cj&utm_campaign=Salco&utm_term=13269137 E: sort of review but down at the bottom they talk about the trial. Basically you give them your phone number and itll be two days before they even contact you for payment info ao it looks like for this you wont even need to give them credit card info. https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/philo-tv-channels-pricing-features/ DogonCrook fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Shumagorath posted:How the gently caress do I watch this in North America without cable? I paid for the WEC stream last year and synced it up with Radio Le Mans but now they won't even let me do that? WEC stream and a VPN is going to be my route.
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I've got Velocity in my basic cable package, so I'm not super worried. If it turns into some bullshit where they cut away every 5 mins for a commercial break I'll look for other sources, but right now I'm more impressed that they blocked out 25 hours for the race.
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Yeah worst case I'll keep velocity up on my laptop or something so they get the ratings and watch over VPN to the WEC stream if it manages to stay up, or a pirate stream.
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WEC stream, possibly with Radio Le Mans audio if I’m at home, or just the WEC app if I’m out during the race. Thankfully I have the data to burn on watching a race while on the subway.
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ACO's 2020 regs: https://racer.com/2018/06/15/2020-lmp1-proposed-regulations-presented-at-le-mans/ So its DPi but more expensive for no performance gain and probably not compatible with IMSA's regs cause the targeted budgets are 3x the size.
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Cygni posted:ACO's 2020 regs: It's not DPi. It's GT1 reborn into a garbage new era where McLaren and Aston Martin are the best the ACO can hope for.
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It is indeed very similar to DPi, the biggest difference being that they're not based on standard prototype models.
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The Kimoa Kid posted:It is indeed very similar to DPi, the biggest difference being that they're not based on standard prototype models. Yeah that was my take away too. I don't think you can really get to the budgets IMSA wants without cost sharing the chassis, so I dunno how (or if) they are gonna solve this.
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Doesnt sound too good that IMSA will re-adopt the top class:Scott Atherton posted:“The [ACO/FIA] know exactly where we stand in what we believe is a sustainable budget,” he said. “And it really comes down to that. We could talk for hours about hybrid technology, the cockpit greenhouse dimensions, and all the technical details, but what it really boils down to is this: will the budget to develop these cars, and then to race these cars, fall within the range of sustainability we know applies to North America?
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Wirth1000 posted:I wouldn't describe a money laundering operation by the dirtiest man in motorsport to be plucky. I remember someone talking about how scummy ByKolles was last year but please elaborate?
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https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a28205/drug-smuggling-ponzi-schemes-and-fraud-racings-legacy-of-scandal/ I think this is the dude, Scott Tucker. *edit* Nope. Different guy, but still an awful person.
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Cygni posted:Doesnt sound too good that IMSA will re-adopt the top class: The WEC is more expensive on a support/logistics side than IMSA since they travel much further, but even throwing that out with the exception of going to Le Mans once per year, it'll still probably be too much for half the teams. Cadillac is probably willing to spend big, and if they build something suitable to race in the WEC, then why not race there instead? Their primary market is Asia anyway so winning big in places like Shanghai and Bahrain suits them well. Acura is in a weird place where they exist pretty much everywhere but Europe, but they'd probably be willing to spend money to go into the WEC as well if they're going to have to spend that much more for North America alone. Mazda almost certainly can't afford to spend even more money on their prototype program unless Joest starts winning races and raising their profile enough to get Hiroshima directly involved, and Nissan Motorsports is nearly an oxymoron at this point and they'd probably make ESM pick up the tab for a more expensive program. IMSA really has nothing to gain right by now adopting this proposed LMP1 regulation. They'd more likely lose teams than gain them.
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