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1500quidporsche posted:American street circuits are great in the same way 80s action movies staring stallion or schwarzenegger are great. They are awesome, got it.
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Since Long Beach the US street circuits have been terrible. Everyone laughs about Vegas but Dallas and Phoenix were just as embarrassing. Detroit was the only one that stuck even for a little while, and the drivers hated it. The races were just first lap crashes and then waiting to see whose brakes would explode.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Smooth, I bet. (I miss my FC My buddy has a black FC 13B Turbo and a RX-8 R3 edition. They're always a pleasure to drive.
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Jamsque posted:Since Long Beach the US street circuits have been terrible. Everyone laughs about Vegas but Dallas and Phoenix were just as embarrassing. Detroit was the only one that stuck even for a little while, and the drivers hated it. The races were just first lap crashes and then waiting to see whose brakes would explode. Drivers hated Detroit because you couldn't drive 5 feet without hitting a pothole.
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Jamsque posted:Since Long Beach the US street circuits have been terrible. Everyone laughs about Vegas but Dallas and Phoenix were just as embarrassing. Detroit was the only one that stuck even for a little while, and the drivers hated it. The races were just first lap crashes and then waiting to see whose brakes would explode. 1500quidporsche posted:American street circuits are great in the same way 80s action movies staring stallion or schwarzenegger are great. Edit: The 1984 Dallas Grand Prix was the Tango and Cash of races. You knew what you are watching is technically bad and you shouldn't like it but you're still smiling, laughing at it and saying "what the gently caress" at the scenes. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Mar 14, 2017 03:41
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I saw one of the Phoenix races on Youtube, it looked like driving through a Tetris block. No spectators that I could see, no turns other than 90 degree ones. Made Tilkes all look inspired.
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Mar 14, 2017 03:45
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My favorite street circuit was Baltimore which included a little hump over a railroad crossing which just annihilated suspensions.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I saw one of the Phoenix races on Youtube, it looked like driving through a Tetris block. No spectators that I could see, no turns other than 90 degree ones. Made Tilkes all look inspired. Phoenix was probably the worst of the lot and didn't produce any interesting races. You can bitch about the other ones but they usually shook things up and produced unique results more often than the European circuits did.
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Phoenix 1990 wasn't bad.
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I always thought that was in spite of the circuit not because of it, it was the first race of a season that had a lot of particularly interesting technical developments.
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Alain Post posted:Phoenix 1990 wasn't bad. Yeah the grid was insane.
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1500quidporsche posted:I always thought that was in spite of the circuit not because of it, it was the first race of a season that had a lot of particularly interesting technical developments. Aside from Long Beach all the US races were gongshows on Mickey Mouse circuits but they produced good races. Dallas 1984 owns.
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Can someone explain to me why Kvyat is still at STR? Usuaully Red Bull doesn't waste time getting rid of their incubation babies when they don't turn out as well as they'd hope. Unless this is indicative that the rest of Red Bull's horrible puppy mill of drivers are somehow way worse than Kvyat and there's no real prospects ready to go? Yo, gently caress Red Bull. Straight from da undaground.
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Experience is the only conceivable thing I can think of. Some others say the same. He absolutely does not deserve to be there and should probably driving Formula Nippon instead of Gasly.
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Wirth1000 posted:Can someone explain to me why Kvyat is still at STR? Usuaully Red Bull doesn't waste time getting rid of their incubation babies when they don't turn out as well as they'd hope. Russian money? Kvyat was always a pay to play driver.
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EoRaptor posted:Russian money? Kvyat was always a pay to play driver. There are guys who bring a budget who are arguably better just less experienced.
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TurboDrizzle posted:Cleveland is both the most half-assed road course of all time, (even las vegas parking lot took more effort) and one that somehow... works. Seems very considerate of them to give the drivers so much runoff area.
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Wirth1000 posted:Can someone explain to me why Kvyat is still at STR? Usuaully Red Bull doesn't waste time getting rid of their incubation babies when they don't turn out as well as they'd hope. Pierre Gasly either isn't ready yet, or he's being punished by Marco for telling the press he was taking over from Kvyat after last year's summer break.
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Wirth1000 posted:Can someone explain to me why Kvyat is still at STR? Usuaully Red Bull doesn't waste time getting rid of their incubation babies when they don't turn out as well as they'd hope. I never really got why they dumped him so quickly. He scored more (3 more) points than Ricciardo in his first year at Red Bull and had scored a podium (at China) like two weeks before he got demoted. I'm not saying they should have got rid of Are Dan, just that I'm not 100% sure they dumped Kvyat out of disappointment or frustration, but that it might have been more of a "we need to move Max up" and a "Kvyat could be the no.1 driver at TR" thing. Having said that, he did cause a drumline of bad news for Red Bull. Schlesische fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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F1 2017:poty posted:This is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.
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There is only one street circuit worth talking about. Well done Baku.
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enri posted:There is only one street circuit worth talking about. For theirs truly is the kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
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Human Grand Prix posted:GP3 and F3 are merging, reportedly. Makes sense. Or more specifically the slightly struggling European series. I imagine Euro F3 will essentially just die in an attempt to get the car count up in GP3.
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15 years ago Ralf Schumacher foretold how Lance Stroll will open the 2017 Australian Grand Prix in a Williams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg46LCV5IkI
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Hopefully the new helmet designs have tiaras on them now hopefully mclaren can fix their garbage paint job and then maybe aero, engine, and chassis.
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Doc Morbid posted:Meanwhile, Force India switches to a pretty princess pink livery: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128499/force-india-reveals-pink-livery-for-2017 I actually applaud the move, let's have some crazy poo poo up in here
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That's actually less Ugly than the last livery, even if it does look like a Barbie accessory.
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Pink dildo nose. Noice.
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simplefish posted:I actually applaud the move, let's have some crazy poo poo up in here gently caress it, let's go full retard this F1 season. What do we have to lose?
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Theophany posted:Pink dildo nose. Noice. They just wanted your mom to have something familiar on screen so she adjusts to watching F1 faster.
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quote:RED and YELLOW and PINK and GREEN! All thats missing is green.
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GramCracker posted:They just wanted your mom to have something familiar on screen so she adjusts to watching F1 faster. Should've stayed with the previous livery then. 
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gently caress you Taki haters. This man is a gift https://twitter.com/takiinoue/status/841632607104319488
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Someone buy Taki OwnYou an account immediately. TIA
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That force india...  Fair play, got a sponsor... mix it up a bit. Definitely makes a nice change to the usual white green and orange they rock.
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wicka posted:https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/841351932992184320 "Go gently caress yourself, man."
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How can you be anything but excited about a pink formula 1 car? Are you a grey and silver fetishist or something? On a side note, i got a notice in my youtube subscriber feed about "F1 driver lineup 2017 confirmed (1 hour ago)" and thought "huh? I thought this was locked down months ago. Turned out to be a cool little well produced intro for all the drivers, almost like a network sitcom. Might be a fun thing for you to send to new people to the sport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7G6bdrGnS0 Makes me imagine f1 having an "intro video" like just another f1 show.
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