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Reminder that Stadium Super Trucks is still a thing and it's still an bad-rear end awesome thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbS7zMY2M3o This year they're staying with support events with Indycar in the States and Supercars in Australia, bookended by small headliner events. They found a stadium to race in, even! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7pgJL6iheE If there's a race weekend happening that is near you and SST is there, but you do not go, you are dumb.
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Peanut President posted:people should watch drag racing People should go to drag racing. The reason why it's boring to watch on TV is because you're missing the experience of witnessing the ripping apart of time and dimensional space that only comes with seeing nitro dragsters in person
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Jan 24, 2018 16:14
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jammyozzy posted:I was at Daytona this time last year and am having to settle for watching on TV this time around. You watch races on TV to watch the race. You go to a race to do anything but watch the race.
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Jan 26, 2018 19:44
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drgitlin posted:No, they wouldn’t. There’s a great feature in this month’s Racecar Engineering about Formula E aerodynamics. The cars are actually very low drag. Right. The car is all about function first, then form second. Like the Delta Wing, only less ambiguously gay.
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Jan 30, 2018 21:49
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wicka posted:There's no way you can look at that full size Hot Wheels car Why is that a bad thing?!?
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Jan 30, 2018 23:42
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You Am I posted:Or it is the case you are both horribly bad posters and therefore any opinion from you two jerks can be politely ignored.
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Jan 31, 2018 00:51
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njsykora posted:Where are the Supercars lads. https://twitter.com/Team_Penske/status/964537893380415488
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Seeing Junior in South Korea at the Olympics made me want to see what kind of racing circuits they have in South Korea, besides the F1 track. There are three others, and they look pretty cool. Everland Speedway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA1iYcwRy7k Inje Speedium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_H0qJavyTY Taebaek Racing Park (Kind of like a mini-oldFuji?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6WFS35SQk I wouldn't mind a day out at any one of them.
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Feb 25, 2018 03:02
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Cygni posted:i think im gonna try to go next year too, the idea of another endurance race STARTING as the couches are still burning in the infield sounds... incredible. Anyone who immediately thought the idea of two back-to-back 12 hour endurance races at Sebring was a dumb idea; is they themselves, dumb. Yes, it's going to be a clusterfuck and a logistical nightmare. But it will be a glorious clusterfuck and a logistical nightmare.
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Mar 18, 2018 20:28
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I'm sure this back-to-back thing is going to happen, but I would be flabbergasted if they stuck to the "two hours between races" deal. The paddock will be jam-packed an the track is going to be a war zone that will need to be cleaned up a fair bit to get it in fair condition for the start of a race. If you're going to Sebring for it, I'd start planning for a 30 hour party.
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Mar 19, 2018 05:40
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Next year's Sebring WEC/IMSA double-header looks like it will be less of a shitshow. http://www.racer.com/wec-le-mans/item/148447-wec-sebring-race-moved-ahead-of-12-hours
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Apr 4, 2018 18:26
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Basticle posted:Where do you see that? Racer article I linked. quote:Under the previously announced schedule, the start of the FIA WEC's 1,000-mile race was meant to follow two hours after IMSA's 12-hour event, or approximately 12:40 a.m. Sunday; in the new agreement with IMSA and the fabled 3.7-mile circuit it owns, the European series will shift its race to Friday. A cap of eight hours has also been placed on the WEC round.
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https://twitter.com/A_S12/status/986233138895564800?s=19 https://twitter.com/Adam_Fenwick/status/986255578610716673?s=19 Uh oh
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Cygni posted:IMSA joining IndyCar/NASCAR on NBC on a 6 year deal: Daaaaaaaaaaaamn. Everything on NBCSN, plus 9 hours on NBC. IMSA says it wants to spread that out over three races. All streaming moves to the NBC platform. Consider the possibilities of IMSA (race) and Indycar (qualifying) coverage happening on the same day, especially at Long Beach or Detroit.
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Apr 30, 2018 19:30
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Holy poo poo holy poo poo holy poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5bPgU1n4yI
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May 9, 2018 22:43
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Misc Racing 2018: mainly concerned that the guys start to drink the beer of her team, leaving nothing to her
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May 12, 2018 20:38
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Powershift posted:HAH! they loving are! Jesus loving christ lol
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May 13, 2018 00:06
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Some dirt on the track inside on a high-speed kink, went by a TCR car and went through it. Around he went.
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May 13, 2018 00:38
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Holy poo poo, 919 Evo was running in anger yesterday at the Nordschliefe. Trackside spectators timed the best lap at 6:30. Laps after that were reported to be faster, but were lifted on the Dottinger Hohe or aborted into the pits. Some youtuber was near a marshal post and overheard radio calls when it passed certain posts, he extrapolated that out to a 5:09 if they had kept it up Video games are leaking into the real world
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Jun 5, 2018 23:39
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Cygni posted:use illegal streams ya idjits
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Jun 13, 2018 00:53
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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: Live Also, it seems as if Velocity/Motor Trend Network is aiming to be Speedvision 2.0. Before Motor Trend tookover the streaming website, Torque.tv at the time, they specifically stated this was their aim. So if you're wondering why Velocity has the rights to Le Mans, this is why.
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Dudley posted:I don't believe the conspiracy theories but they've made it REALLY easy to do so. It takes the sting out of the this year's Le Mans for me since Nando is clearly capable of winning it, and yet that is not his ultimate goal alone. He will have to 100% earn an Indy 500 victory, which it seems he is also capable of. Watching him go for that is going to be way more exciting in any event.
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Jun 17, 2018 21:16
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They are, but Corvettes and China aren't a new thing. The Vettes (non-factory) in the GT1 World Championship were heavily backed by Chinese money.
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Jun 23, 2018 00:04
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njsykora posted:Ah Villa Real, the track that is inexplicably still on that schedule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjeYT8PtlTY
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Jun 23, 2018 16:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpqoQPuN5w This is amazing. One of the drivers in the Vila Real pileup had a handheld camera and took it around to survey the aftermath from the moment he got out of his car.
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Jun 24, 2018 06:59
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This is how I think I can race the track in a video game but in real life
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Jun 29, 2018 18:32
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drgitlin posted:People keep saying 1990s-era GT1 is the goal *Smart, beautiful, and correct people
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Remember ESPN2 Thursday/Saturday Night Thunder? One of my favorite race series from that show was the oval kart races they held at a cycling velodrome. I found out that Danica Patrick raced in that series, and that there's a photo of her doing it. She's the red #10 kart in the back (lol of course lol). I'd love to find video of this series. I remember loving to death watching it.
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https://youtu.be/h485P3QNDSk WC at Watkins Glen today.
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CactusWeasle posted:Dominican Republic : "Hold my beer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkbRnG97xI I didn't know what the issue was until the last 5 seconds of the video. I will describe it because it's hard to make out (and also you may not want to watch it). Two cars caught each other going down the front stretch and slid into the infield area of the track, where one of them sideswiped a fully exposed tree. His car disintegrated and basically kept going through the tree. The driver (his body) hit the tree full-on, bouncing off of it, after which point it rag-dolled over the other car onto the grass. 
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dsriggs posted:So the list of ridiculous safety hazards stands at: The driver survived, at least there's that level of safety???
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 gently caress the haters. Anyone that has the balls to do something batshit crazy deserves to be celebrated, like the batshit crazy innovators of old. RIP Don Panoz. (Dan Gurney, too  )
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The American Le Mans Series was a great series. Imagine that, a US sportscar organization adopting the ACO/Le Mans rulebook and keeping consistency between classes so European teams could race at tracks like Sebring or Road Atlanta and US teams could get invites to the Le Mans 24 without having to worry about different specs. No wonder it failed
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Fauxhawk Express posted:did ALMS have a crapwagon equivalent? In the literal sense, yes. 
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Frond posted:Crapwagon is extremely strange because, to this day, I'm not really sure what exactly they wanted. Indycar has basically been CART II since the dawn of the DW12 era. I think they want what CART could have been had it not collapsed, the world's premier form of open wheel motorsport. At the trajectory it was going in the early 90s there might have been a chance of it reaching or even suprassing Formula 1 levels of global prominence, with The 500 becoming the loving race in the world. Mansell jumping ship from F1 to CART could have been the start of that, but a few years later we got the beginning of the end instead. Indycar today is definitely in a fantastic place, even back to courting F1 world champions. But it will never, ever, be in a position that it was in the CART heyday, let alone to the place those bitter old crapwagon fools believe it should have been.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:Even if the split doesn't happen, I'm pretty sure the loss of tobacco sponsorship and the economy crashing would've done a huge number on CART. Sure. The point about CW holds, though. They probably lament over never getting the fantastical/ideal U.S. open wheel series that they've convinced themselves would have happened if it weren't for that mean old Tony George!!!
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Bathurst this weekend. Some blessed soul out there is streaming the Fox Sports Bathurst Channel, if you want to plug this into VLC (open network stream). There's 24 hour programming with practice/qualifying sessions in the afternoon and evening U.S. time. http://motorsport-eu.cf:8080/
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You didn't miss too much if you didn't see Bathurst this year. It was an OK race with various incidents and happenings that had the threat of rain and some brief showers (one of which caused the track to steam up, which was cool) and a battle for the lead in the penultimate stint. Then the leader and last year's winner, Reynolds, started cramping up in his left leg and slowed to allow Lowndes to pass him and pull away. They doped his drinks bottle with gatorade and (sugar) pills for his last pit stop but then copped a penalty and had to serve a drivethrough. It was academic after that.
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Cygni posted:long road course races are cool
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