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Did they finally start hothouse cloning racers in Europe?
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He takes after his dad, who always drove like a kid in a candy store.
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SlowBloke posted:Iron lynx new merc cars are doing kinda bad, dames on the old Porsches are doing average. Akkodis seems to have tuned the Lexus right up, doing wonders. Iron Lynx and Mercedes had the equivalent of a shotgun wedding for this program, it’s gonna take time to gel. The Porsches appear to have been hit hard by the BoP hammer, and Akodis looked like a combo of gentler BoP and a year of experience with the cars. I tapped out about 1/3 of the way through the WEC race (what, it started at 8:00 pm my time) but it was absolutely delivering through then. Need to catch up this coming week.
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Stealing drag racing news from coconono but Brittney Force apparently broke 302mph on the 1/8th mile in Gainesville and honestly most of my questions are just different variations of "how" Put the drivers in a big foam capsule and go back to the full quarter mile. I want to see how fast we can go  Honestly though this makes me want to try and see nhra when they come through Gateway it sounds like a ton of fun Spaced God fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Mar 6, 2025 |
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I'd love to see full mile drag racing but the nitro engines practically fall apart at 1000ft
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It's time we put Neom to good use
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"what's the worst that could happen if they add an extra 300 feet back" I ask before googling why the nhra went to 1000 feet in the first place
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Gods I missed sleeping in my car while dragsters burn nitro
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man i can't get into wec anymore, and the announcers still being paid every time they say "golden age" has not gotten any less annoying feel like poo poo just want lmp1 back
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Kemono-san posted:man i can't get into wec anymore, and the announcers still being paid every time they say "golden age" has not gotten any less annoying While I don't like hearing Italian commentary on sports, I think the team used by Eurosport/Discovery here in Italy is a shitload better than what goes on the English web streams, be it rlm or the wec staff.
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Kemono-san posted:man i can't get into wec anymore, and the announcers still being paid every time they say "golden age" has not gotten any less annoying Gonna need some logic here, because there’s not much to hate about having an F1 grid’s worth of proper prototypes, all but two being factory efforts. I honestly don’t miss the P2s, they’re good at Le Mans and perfect for ELMS/AsLMS, but Formula Oreca had outlived its use in the WEC.
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harperdc posted:Gonna need some logic here, because there’s not much to hate about having an F1 grid’s worth of proper prototypes, all but two being factory efforts. i don't really consider putting Porsche stickers on a Multimatic a factory effort, but the real issue is that I have zero takeaways from the race. like i have no idea if Ferrari got a 1-2-3 because they built a good car, or if it's just a BOP thing. it's not as bad as DTM/WTCC where you'd straight up see cars go from nowhere to getting a 1-2-3-4 sweep the next week, but there's still very little context to what goes on also i remember other series that did the "cheap, performance-equalized manufacturer involvement" thing in the past, like DTM, WTCC, World Rally Car-era WRC, and Supertouring, and they all had very similar problems and causes of death
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idk i dont want to poo poo on anyone's excitement but i saw the news of Ford making a LMDH and people were like, bringing up Ford v. Ferrari quotes and i'm like, what are you guys talking about. they're going to slap some blue ovals on an Oreca and make the front end vaguely look like a mach-e or something. this is not exactly the GT40
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I agree with you, I'm kinda happy for BoP to be everywhere EXCEPT the top class of "Prototypes" and F1. I don't even like F1 and LMPwhatever have spec tyres, that's not prototypes. But the world has changed and we're now old men yelling at clouds. True "prototype racing" is essentially dead and we can either complain we don't get to see the purity of 3 Toyotas racing themselves or we can try to suspend disbelief and enjoy what we do have.
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i mean i was fine with prototypes being inherently boom-bust, like my first le mans was 2004 and that didn't even have factory teams in it, just semi-works audis destroying everyone i think this is just me entering my old-man phase because the last two le mans depressed me far more than any of the Toyota ones, which at least had some fun GT action e) anyway in 2031 le mans will introduce an unlimited zero-emissions class for completely insane hydrogen and full-EV cars to do completely bullshit unsafe lap times, and i will watch until they send another car into the stands and ban racing forever Kemono-san fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Mar 7, 2025 |
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announcers gotta be semi-pro stand up comedians for them to really work well. Especially for long events. Otherwise you're best off with using generative AI to read off all the sponsor names and ad copy.
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sorry for the doublepost but the NHRA announcers have been throwing digs at Indycar all night. "189mph cars that sound like minivans"
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coconono posted:announcers gotta be semi-pro stand up comedians for them to really work well. Especially for long events. Otherwise you're best off with using generative AI to read off all the sponsor names and ad copy. No, commentators need to learn the art of Silence, they don't have to keep talking for every second
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:No, commentators need to learn the art of Silence, they don't have to keep talking for every second Pretty sure Hindaugh will explode if he can't talk.
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isnt hindaugh doing radio commentary, you can't really do dead air in that
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Yeah the IMSA one is a simulcast with both radio and often, the track so it's a different thing. Crofty should try shutting up though. I'd suggest between the start of the warmup lap and the heat death of the sun.
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coconono posted:announcers gotta be semi-pro stand up comedians for them to really work well. Especially for long events. Otherwise you're best off with using generative AI to read off all the sponsor names and ad copy. I really enjoyed radio le mans which seemed like it was hours of interviews interspersed with some commentary
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IMSA providing some goods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZuPvjoKtmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4awjJZy44
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It’s time to Respect the Bumps Sebring 12 Hours is about to get started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfleSEUdHI harperdc fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Mar 15, 2025 |
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Please don't die, Aston
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bumps ftw
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Dries Vanthoor at it again
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Gonna go see monster jam later. Yeehaw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOZGFETh2c
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everyone in that video got skin cancer
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If you follow the Australian Rally Championship, watch for car 22, which is a AWD BRZ this weekend. If it decides to run at all. The car is not playing nice
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Probably full of spiders
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The electricals are pure spiders
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Bathurst 6 hr at Easter is expected to have 72 cars
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT57VlHCw8g 12H of Mugello just started for the Creventic 24H Series https://www.24hseries.com/gfx/2025/michelin-12h-mugello-2025/2025%20Spottersguide%20Mugello.pdf Spotter's guide, looks like 32 cars in the field
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when is super gt starting. want everyone to know that i am a huge Stanley Team Kunimitsu fan
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Kemono-san posted:when is super gt starting. want everyone to know that i am a huge Stanley Team Kunimitsu fan April 13 is the first race at Okayama. Might as well drop the calendar here so I can edit it to the OP later:
2. Fuji Speedway - May 4 3. Sepang - June 28 4. Fuji Speedway - August 3 5. Suzuka - August 24 6. Sugo - September 21 7. Autopolis - October 19 8. Motegi - November 2
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I wish I had poo poo in order like Ron Capps https://youtu.be/K-sD2-vD_so?si=fE8yzMDyoAlkUBRm
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you follow the Australian Rally Championship, watch for car 22, which is a AWD BRZ this weekend.  AWD BRZ ran. It broke a lot. The joys of a true prototype rally car.
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In Pomona for this week’s NHRA. There are no spiders.
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