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Formula E in Valencia was the most Formula E race.
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I did not expect Valencia to provide anything close to entertainment but that sure was indeed a something
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njsykora posted:Formula E in Valencia was the most Formula E race. Yesterday or today? I can see both of them being absolute clown shoes. also that chicane they added in after the final corner is heinous.
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Apr 25, 2021 14:23
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harperdc posted:Yesterday or today? I can see both of them being absolute clown shoes. Yesterday, the one where half the field got disqualified. Today was apparently much more standard but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
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Apr 25, 2021 14:28
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https://racer.com/2021/04/25/bill-whittington-1949-2021/quote:The tumultuous life of Bill Whittington came to a fiery end Friday afternoon in a private airplane crash outside Winslow, Ariz. Whittington raced in Indy and IMSA/sports cars in the 1980s, but that is not what he’ll be remembered for. quote:Best known for his exploits in sports car racing, Whittington was one of IMSA’s most famous marijuana-smuggling drivers who financed his participation in the sport from profits earned in the drug trade. The story of the Whittington brothers having a couple hundred thousand dollars, cash, on-hand at Le Mans is pretty amazing. So are the legends about what’s still buried around Road Atlanta.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:04
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Hey y'all the 2021 World Endurance Championship season is starting this week! Monday through Wednesday are the official Prologue, the testing sessions ahead of the season start this weekend. (Usually the Prologue is a non-race circuit and non-race weekend, but COVID being what it is, they've rolled this together to save costs and travel). They're down a few cars on the official Spa 6 Hours entry list - Glickenhaus is still out back sharpening its blade before official deployment - but it's still a high-quality grid and should be an interesting World Championship season.
Looking forward to another year of the world championship. Fingers crossed I can actually get to Fuji this year.
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That's a great rear end field and makes me hype for Le Mans.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:23
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harperdc posted:https://racer.com/2021/04/25/bill-whittington-1949-2021/ Holy poo poo he owned World Jet, too. Finding out that FBO was probably complicit in drug smuggling is like, not even a little bit surprising. 
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Apr 26, 2021 14:13
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So far the p2s are faster than the Alpine that's faster than the Hypercar  I'm sure it will shake out but this owns. Chaos reigns.
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Apr 26, 2021 23:45
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anything that makes the ACO/FIA look bad is good so thats pretty good!
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Apr 27, 2021 01:21
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Ogier did the Ogier thing in Croatia, but Adrien Fourmaux had a promising WRC-RC1 debut for Ford, and they definitely need some spark on their team, so that's good.
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Apr 27, 2021 01:46
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algebra testes posted:So far the p2s are faster than the Alpine that's faster than the Hypercar The Rebellion was faster than faster LMP2 cars last year so they've royally hosed something.
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Dudley posted:The Rebellion was faster than faster LMP2 cars last year so they've royally hosed something. I think they have to be running heavier and with less power than last year if they’re also this slow in testing: quote:Paddock sources confirmed to DSC today that, in addition to the test we reported on at Paul Ricard with a Toyota GR010 testing back-to-back with a full 2021 spec LMP2 (the Racing Team Nederland car) there was another test, prior to the ELMS ‘Prologue’ test at Barcelona which saw the Alpine A480 ‘Hypercar’ tested at the same time as at least one 2020 spec LMP2 (with 2020 power and weight), drivers unknown, as was the spec to which the Alpine was running. The LMP2 car was quicker by well over a second per lap.
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Apr 27, 2021 11:27
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Pretty good SF race at Suzuka. Nojiri looks really on it this year. If I was Makino I'd be fairly worried about how well Sasahara is doing in his seat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWZdrVPZWE
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Jehde posted:Ogier did the Ogier thing in Croatia, but Adrien Fourmaux had a promising WRC-RC1 debut for Ford, and they definitely need some spark on their team, so that's good. Man, you left out the best part where Ogier got swiped by another car on a public road section before he even started racing on Sunday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62Gh-9j6fE And he still managed to win the race. There are some clips of his co-driver wearing goggles because dust was just pouring in through the passenger's side.
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Ooh, we get some news about Audi’s LMDh effort on the eve of the WEC season https://twitter.com/dsceditor/status/1387705751607693314?s=21 Targeting a first race at the 2023 Rolex 24, confirmed shared platform with Porsche and customer teams from the start.
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Apr 29, 2021 11:09
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86 bins it on the warm up lap to the grid 
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May 1, 2021 12:09
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Here I am, like an idiot, watching the extremely cool and good VLN series forgetting that the SPA race started 30 min ago. Anyway lol I love this poo poo.
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May 1, 2021 13:01
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Good race Buemi. good job hypercars, in this, the start of the hypercar era.
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May 1, 2021 18:31
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I had the Spa 6 Hours on while packing up my apartment last night, so I saw precious little except that for much of the first half of the race the three LMHs were out front. Funny, that.
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May 2, 2021 04:47
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And since Alpine were beaten by a whole minute in 6 hours by one of the two Toyotas they've already ejected their toys. https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/alpine-bop-changes-fuel-mileage-concerns/6502404/ gently caress sake.
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May 4, 2021 16:59
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No real surprise but officially announced: Penske and Porsche are teaming back up for LMDh in both the WEC and IMSA
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Dudley posted:And since Alpine were beaten by a whole minute in 6 hours by one of the two Toyotas they've already ejected their toys. Lol maybe they should bring an actual hypercar instead of a rules lawyered lmp1 an oddly awful oud posted:No real surprise but officially announced: Penske and Porsche are teaming back up for LMDh in both the WEC and IMSA Time to brush off the yellow penske spyder liveries I see
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Alongside that news of Alpine truly joining the top class of sports car racing after bitching about BOP, some more details on who could be signing up for LMH/LMDH as per a couple days ago.
(I'm guessing the BMW stuff is going to some form of top board meeting for final approval based on the wording) McLaren is still rumored, and at least one or two are apparently still interested as well. Interesting times.
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orange juche posted:Lol maybe they should bring an actual hypercar instead of a rules lawyered lmp1 It's just how these are going to be won now, it's not going to get any better when the real manufacturers arrive.
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May 7, 2021 12:30
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Even then Toyotas hypercar looks barely different from the previous LMP1H? Like is it massively different under the skin.
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May 7, 2021 12:35
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Well it's slower.
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May 7, 2021 12:43
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track day bro! posted:Even then Toyotas hypercar looks barely different from the previous LMP1H? Like is it massively different under the skin. They really don't look much alike at all other than the high nose and general prototype shape. It's significantly bigger, pretty much all the features are smoothed out a bit, the wing is lower. The one thing that really does make it look alike is the livery because corporate livery makers are loving uncreative as hell. Red white and black. Groundbreaking.
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May 7, 2021 15:08
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It’s also that it’s basically the same design and it’s busy enough to mask some of the body lines. Not like telling old Marlboro-sponsored McLaren F1 cars apart, for example. That the cars are this heavy and slow is Aston Martin’s fault, because they were insisting on not using a purebred racing chassis but the road car that still hasn’t officially launched to my knowledge. Cool. Way to ruin that.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:They really don't look much alike at all other than the high nose and general prototype shape. It's significantly bigger, pretty much all the features are smoothed out a bit, the wing is lower. toyota should go back to the blue scheme they used to have imo, it was much nicer than this audi knockoff scheme
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Oh hey an update on Glickenhaus - they've homologated the aero, will do a 30-hour test at Aragon in Spain soon with one chassis, and the second will race at Portimao before both join the WEC for Monza and Le Mans. Can't lie, I would be frustrated if they don't send those to Fuji this year.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:toyota should go back to the blue scheme they used to have imo, it was much nicer than this audi knockoff scheme 
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harperdc posted:Oh hey an update on Glickenhaus - they've homologated the aero, will do a 30-hour test at Aragon in Spain soon with one chassis, and the second will race at Portimao before both join the WEC for Monza and Le Mans. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure Jim doesn't plan on doing the flyaways this year.
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harperdc posted:Oh hey an update on Glickenhaus - they've homologated the aero, will do a 30-hour test at Aragon in Spain soon with one chassis, and the second will race at Portimao before both join the WEC for Monza and Le Mans. Tbh I'll believe them when I see them. I've just seen one too many company say "This round, not THIS round, no THIS ROUND" and then never/rarely show. eg - Nissan, Kolles, Ginetta....
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Dudley posted:Tbh I'll believe them when I see them. I've just seen one too many company say "This round, not THIS round, no THIS ROUND" and then never/rarely show. eg - Nissan, Kolles, Ginetta.... That’s understandable - note how we haven’t heard about ByKolles’ supposed LMH project at all. But from that link, part of the news is they’ve homologated the aerodynamics for this car with the FIA, so…that suggests it’s sooner than later. But yeah, sports car racing: a grand tradition of vapor ware. Also looks like the full WEC broadcasts are going on YouTube soon after the race this year. Here’s Spa up already: https://youtu.be/sUCYqjtIAR0
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:toyota should go back to the blue scheme they used to have imo, it was much nicer than this audi knockoff scheme They need to go back to the white-yellow-red of the ‘80s and ‘90s. I’m not kidding, it would be extremely distinct and give the car a different identity in 2021
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an oddly awful oud posted:They need to go back to the white-yellow-red of the ‘80s and ‘90s. I’m not kidding, it would be extremely distinct and give the car a different identity in 2021 Didn't they do that as a throwback livery one year?
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an oddly awful oud posted:They need to go back to the white-yellow-red of the ‘80s and ‘90s. I’m not kidding, it would be extremely distinct and give the car a different identity in 2021 You mean like these ones?   Problem is, those were only the North American team paint schemes, so there’s basically zero chance Toyota in Japan would adopt that look. Even in-period, when Gurney’s AAR ran the exact same car that was being used in Japan’s JSPC, the Japanese cars carried the Denso/Toyota, Taka-Q, and Minolta colors domestically or at Le Mans.
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May 9, 2021 00:05
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3 Hours left in the Nurburgring 24h qualifying race. Always good to watch cars fang it around even if it isn't the full 24hr edition.
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So Toyota are going ahead with a road car after all: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/toyota-crown-gr-line-986bhp-gr-super-sport
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