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Feels Villeneuve posted:Paul Ricard was designed in the 1960s and the only way it's layout is "modern" is that it has a really long straight, which has the decency to end in a really fast challenging corner and not a hairpin like most other recent tracks. It’s a proper old-style power circuit. Which I will always go to bat for. This is also why I love RA, Mosport (my home track, I’ve driven it several times) and Watkins Glen.
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Dijon is my favorite French track tbh, I love extremely fast but short tracks like that. Magny Cours would be last except for how bad Le Mans Bugatti is
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Frond posted:Ah yes, Suzuka and Interlagos are exactly the same. neither of those are what I meant by "modern" f1 circuits. also yes I know paul ricard originally opened in 1770 or whatever but that doesnt change that it is absolutely a modern F1 track to me. its got big lovely runoffs and boring rear end flatness and is way too smooth and wide and is utterly soulless and seems like it was designed by a robot trying to add "a little bit of everything". i straight up would rather watch a race at Barber any day. gently caress, I would rather watch a race at Lime Rock or Portland.
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Dijon is super underrated. Also it’s the last track to hold a Swiss GP IIRC. Old Kyalami also kicked a lot of rear end.
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Unfortunately a lot of the runoff stuff is for the benefit of motorcycle racers since they don't really like falling into gravel and breaking their necks because they keep bouncing in the air at 150mph. The solution is to ban MotoGP and Spanish twinks.
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Paul Ricard is flat because it was built in the middle of sand dunes in southern France.
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Frond posted:So, essentially Paul Ricard is bad because it is in France where FIA is based, has weird runoff, and F1 races on it. Thanks everyone. speaking of france maybe you should go back there and stop posting
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re: Buenos, people always bring up the O-Ring or Fuji as butchered race circuits but for some reason Buenos Aires never gets mentioned, and I don't know why, because my gently caress 
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"Better than Magny Cours" is perhaps the lowest possible bar
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I hope IndyCar does go to Argentina like is rumored and i hope its just a total shitshow so we can reminisce about it in a few years
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I remember the ‘80 Argentine GP where the ground effect F1 cars carved huge ruts in the pavement.
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Cygni posted:I hope IndyCar does go to Argentina like is rumored and i hope its just a total shitshow so we can reminisce about it in a few years Indycar can put on shows even on crappy circuits.
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tbh the worst flat F1 circuit ever was Rio, it's one of those circuits where I can watch an entire race and not be able to discern the track layout except it was raced in the 80s because of how insanely dangerous the old Interlagos layout was
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Frond posted:Indycar can put on shows even on crappy circuits. is that badass Argentine circuit built on a mountain that FIA GT used for like a year still open
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Feels Villeneuve posted:tbh the worst flat F1 circuit ever was Rio, it's one of those circuits where I can watch an entire race and not be able to discern the track layout except it was raced in the 80s because of how insanely dangerous the old Interlagos layout was It’s an overblown Super Mario Kart track. Like I’m not kidding it’s the same as the SNES Mario Raceway. It was a horrendously boring piece of poo poo.
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The weird oval they made was interesting in a way. I mean it was still Mickey Mouse but interesting.
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Frond posted:The weird oval they made was interesting in a way. I mean it was still Mickey Mouse but interesting. Rio 1996 for CART was a really good race. Actually I think all the Rio races CART went to were good, I always liked when CART went to an oval that actually required the use of the brake pedal. The main problem was that the really tight radius meant that you'd hit the wall at a really bad angle if you crashed, which Mark Blundell found out.
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Yeah Ribiero winning in the Tasman was good poo poo. I wonder why he left racing.
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Frond posted:What happened with NOLA exactly? It flooded really bad the one time they went there, turns out Lousiana is low lying. edit speaking of Mickey Mouse f1 should race WDW
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IIRC didn’t Dracone smoke one of the pit crew and Coletti spin going on a straight line? Good times.
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Also for dead Indycar circuits I really miss Sao Paulo. It had good racing even though it was a pretty dead atmosphere as far as a street race went.
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gently caress road tracks indycar needs to go back to fontana. the 2013 race there was the greatest automobile race in history.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:The main problem was that the really tight radius meant that you'd hit the wall at a really bad angle if you crashed, which Mark Blundell found out. God that was a nasty hit. IIRC he even said he was aiming to torpedo his own teammate to avoid the wall.
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The other thing that killed NOLA was fuckery between the track owners and the promoter that got to the point where they were both suing each other.
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The guy who owns NOLA fuckin sucks, I was happy to see a race coming to my area but he doesn't deserve it frankly
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Also the 1995 layout of Buenos Aries is literally the worst F1 circuit of all time, except for the morbid curiosity of racing F1 on a circuit that would still have been a bit too twisty for touring cars. Feels Villeneuve posted:tbh the worst flat F1 circuit ever was Rio, it's one of those circuits where I can watch an entire race and not be able to discern the track layout except it was raced in the 80s because of how insanely dangerous the old Interlagos layout was Bold statements for a timeline that includes the Phoenix street circuit.
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Phoenix doesn’t really count, being a temp course. However it did put on some very entertaining races.
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Peanut President posted:It flooded really bad the one time they went there, turns out Lousiana is low lying. The Disney world track has been bulldozed. Shame, because it was an actual, legit, interesting little track
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i wanna see indycars on the 1 mile flat oval at autodromo hermanos rodriguez
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CactusWeasle posted:The Disney world track has been bulldozed. Shame, because it was an actual, legit, interesting little track Yeah I figured it would be. No racing/Need more parking/that guy getting killed kind of seals it.
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CactusWeasle posted:The Disney world track has been bulldozed. Shame, because it was an actual, legit, interesting little track https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F3r6-ELiSy0
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CactusWeasle posted:The Disney world track has been bulldozed. Shame, because it was an actual, legit, interesting little track Reminds me of this interesting thing on Twitter. https://twitter.com/wyndiman/status/1029126319018102784
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Feels Villeneuve posted:The one country which hates spicy food more than America is Argentina. Hello friend let me introduce you to Japan. Portland is a good track, new Fuji is a very good track to spectate, and if NTT coming on board means the Motegi oval gets fixed then I’ll be extremely happy and make a trip all the way up there for that race.
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I took some photos from the weekend. The IndyLights races had some great moments. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmb6kZp4    
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Feels Villeneuve posted:The one country which hates spicy food more than America is Argentina. The Philippines absolutely takes that crown. Pandesal might as well be baked with sugar instead of flour for how it tastes.
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can we add this to the OP ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2IAZSp5UM tia
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https://twitter.com/jimayello/status/1110935146583212036 I think Marcus is gonna fit in just fine with Indycar. 
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I can't believe it's taken this long for somebody to point out that the actual worst circuit was F1's Valencia street circuit from a few years back.
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