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Cygni posted:Its built on the land of the old Kaiser steel mill, that made the steel for the liberty ships in WW2. The land was basically considered unusable because of the decades of dumping slag and chemicals all over the place. Part of the deal with the EPA to build the track was that they would essentially plastic over the entire yard to prevent all the horrible poo poo in the ground from leeching up, then dump a comical amount of dirt on top of it all. I was going to say freeing up all that land to sell would net them probably as much as they invest on the project, but realizing the use-cases may be limited would impact that. Still might happen, though, the article suggests commercial usage: quote:There have long been questions about the Fontana track’s future, particularly as the land around the property skyrocketed in value as it shifted from crumbling steel mills to distribution warehouses. When NASCAR announced a partnership with real estate developer Hillwood in March, ACS became an obvious target for sale rumors. saw it posted on Twitter and almost thought it was a prank, but thinking more, if it takes the California race from a snoozer and a Michigan clone to something unique, that would be worth it. Solidly closes the book on them bringing IndyCar back ever again, but it sounds like the old regime weren't going to ever consider it at all anyway (no clue if Roger Penske would hold by the "we're not hosting it in October at sunset like you want" stance but oh well). as mentioned here's Gil de Ferran's record lap, nothing like hitting 250 mph on the straights to wake you up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8GTL0_rMA
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harperdc posted:I was going to say freeing up all that land to sell would net them probably as much as they invest on the project, but realizing the use-cases may be limited would impact that. Still might happen, though, the article suggests commercial usage: I know THIS IS NOT THE INDYCAR THREAD, but I've wondered if IndyCar was hesitant to return to California after the last race there after Ryan Briscoe lawn darted into the infield coming to the white flag. That race was one of the best races I've ever seen, but was also very pucker-worthy in case ^that^ happened, and I've wondered if it wouldn't end up looking like Texas (both NASCAR and Indy) if they went back. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Prior to this, my idea for California would have been take a measuring tape from the outside walls, measure 30-40 feet, bulldoze the rest of the racing surface, that is grass now. "THEY'RE ELEVENTY-BILLION WIDE' was never fun, you have a narrow as gently caress track now make your own room.
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Bubba Wallace is leaving RPM at the end of this season
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driving the #48 ally chevrolet, Darrell Wallace Jr
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Peanut President posted:driving the #48 ally chevrolet, Darrell Wallace Jr Give Jimmie the 48 to take to CGR, resurrect the 5 or 25 in its place.
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Excited to see what he can do with top tier equipment
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https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/stat...134621034999808 Nice.
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https://twitter.com/RACERmag/status/1304181177557766144 nm was already talked about in the discord and i just forgot to scroll down, gently caress!!! Cygni fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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they just can't help themselves, they need to post these things
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harperdc posted:as mentioned here's Gil de Ferran's record lap, nothing like hitting 250 mph on the straights to wake you up. Dario tells a story (he did it in an interview with Motorsport Magazine where he talked about crashing a DTM car with airbags lol) that the engines were allocated at the track and were all completely different and Gil pulled out on the track and as soon as he was accelerating knew straight away that some was very very right and he was going to go extremely fast lol.
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NR2003 to the rescue https://twitter.com/lefty_designs/s...127973856026630 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALzrZVEpbU
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austin dillon is the dominant car tonight, what even the gently caress yo
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kidcoelacanth posted:austin dillon is the dominant car tonight, what even the gently caress yo The Jimmie Johnson strat: win early, then tool on the car and finds what works and unleash it in the playoffs.
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Suarez leaving Gaunt Brothers. Alright, whatever.
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maffew buildings posted:Suarez leaving Gaunt Brothers. Alright, whatever. Because it's being bought by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan and Bubba is gonna be the driver.
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 this is what we call a big yikes kidcoelacanth fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Sep 19, 2020 |
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kidcoelacanth posted:
does fbw mean something racist?
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guessing the bw stands for bubba wallace.
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ohhhh. i haven't thought about that whole fiasco in a while. it's weird to still be holding that grudge. on a side note how great must it be to have a whole huge section at bristol to yourselves, in any circumstance other than this.
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bubba got a stage top 10, rough night for those adult kyle busch fans
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LOL, get hosed, Liberty University #24
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in all fairness watching from the sidelines while others power through to completion is the liberty way
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legit great finish. poo poo bird drove his rear end off but turd had the motor/tires.
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Are we sure ol' Jimmie should be planning to drive an open-wheel car? Those things don't tend to last quite as long as a stock car when you run around crashing into other cars every week...
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stealie72 posted:LOL, get hosed, Liberty University #24 this bothers me less and less now that i know that jerry falwell jr got fired on for taking sexy pics on rick hendrick's yacht
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A Good Race.maffew buildings posted:in all fairness watching from the sidelines while others power through to completion is the liberty way 
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Ross Chastain to the 42 in 2021.
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texas is absolutely one of my least favorite tracks on the schedule so that tweet was a roller coaster of emotions.
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I'm okay with the all-star race just wandering the schedule every year. Texas sucks though by any metric.
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in case you were feeling optimistic about hailie deegan for any reason still, here's her and her dad calling covid a hoax. good times! https://twitter.com/TheHestercution...141702138474496
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Let's take the All-Star Race from Charlotte and put it on a track that's basically the exact same track while moving a point paying Cup race to COTA. Eddie Gossage probably isn't going to like this, but fans might.
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the all-star race at texas is basically non-news, it's a race no one cares about at a track no one likes nascar @ cota is new and fun and cool
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