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1500quidporsche posted:Every race pick one random person on the podium and instead of champagne give them a bucket of chicken nuggets and they have to throw handfuls of them into the crowd. That's already spicing up the podium celebrations. Only if they're buffalo sauced nuggets. 
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Sulman posted:This has to be one of the weirder complaints I've read on this forum. When you start on pole and win, all you actually did was not screw up too much for an hour or so 
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iospace posted:let's see... they think over 350,000 were there last year (it was a sell out, either way). So yeah, it's huge.  They literally have a edm conceter going on at the same time as the race. Pretty much to hone in on the drunken debauchery that has occured there since that track opened back up in the 40's.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I'm sure if the winner of the Bathurst 1000 didn't eat a poisonous spider people would be chucking shoes at him. No, if the driver doesn't call the crowd a pack of arseholes he gets booed
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poo poo I forgot to add "bathurst" to the list of races I need to go see.... drat that place rules.
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http://autoweek.com/article/indy-500/heres-how-f1-great-fernando-alonsos-indy-500-came-together A story on the how the whole 500 ride came together.
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Norns posted:Tony your posts are bad 1500quidporsche posted:LC parachute account spotted. Lmbo
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FuzzySkinner posted:poo poo I forgot to add "bathurst" to the list of races I need to go see.... Have you seen Jense setting the lap record in the shiny silver McLaren? Pretty drat cool, I think they put in Lowndes in the McLaren after. It was 'untimed' and therefore Jensen's time is 'unofficial' but it's still the fastest anything has been around that track.
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FuzzySkinner posted:poo poo I forgot to add "bathurst" to the list of races I need to go see.... Camp up on the mountain, but remember it's only 1 slab of booze (24 cans) per person, per day. Yes, that is actually a thing they need to enforce and people still try and get around it 
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freeranger posted:Camp up on the mountain, but remember it's only 1 slab of booze (24 cans) per person, per day. I'm sorry...what? One "slab" of booze per person?  I'm all for beer but holy gently caress you guys are nuts.
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Pfft. Tourist. 
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GramCracker posted:I'm sorry...what? One "slab" of booze per person? I see you haven't read the GBS Aussie thread. Edit: I will say it's annoying you bogans don't embrace the oil can because it's hilarious to break out at inappropriate social situations. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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GramCracker posted:I'm sorry...what? One "slab" of booze per person? What the gently caress do you think bogans are gonna drink to stay hydrated?
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Theophany posted:What the gently caress do you think bogans are gonna drink to stay hydrated? Champagne out of a shoe
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Paging HJB. Paging HJB to the worst thread.
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Didn't Emmo skip the milk because he wanted to advertise the orange juice he had a stake in? I mean, that's some bonus level commercialism.
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All this Fernando hype has me way too excited about the 500 and I'm going to be really bummed when he ends up finishing 15th
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I think it is cool no matter where he finishes because, assuming they stream practices somewhere, I get to watch him learn how to drive an Indy car over a couple weeks
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keevo posted:All this Fernando hype has me way too excited about the 500 and I'm going to be really bummed when he ends up finishing 15th I am still loving creaming my jeans at the thought of Nando hoisting the Borg-Warner. I will not let reality harsh my buzz until May.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I think it is cool no matter where he finishes because, assuming they stream practices somewhere, I get to watch him learn how to drive an Indy car over a couple weeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcMeRtWCZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsankAPmIaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ5brGO2bjc& Here have some videos of Mansell doing that 24 years a go. Honestly I do hope we get to see more F1 guys do it someday. I guess Vettel was open to doing it one day (odd considering his idol Schumi said "lol NOPE! That's some scary poo poo!"). Always felt there was in an "in" with Alonso, but expected it to only happen when he was done with McLaren. Kimi is my dream, but I think he'll just gently caress around in NASCAR when he's done. Same with Hamilton and Ricciardo (Both seem really interested in that)
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FuzzySkinner posted:Honestly I do hope we get to see more F1 guys do it someday. I guess Vettel was open to doing it one day (odd considering his idol Schumi said "lol NOPE! That's some scary poo poo!"). Always felt there was in an "in" with Alonso, but expected it to only happen when he was done with McLaren. Kimi is my dream, but I think he'll just gently caress around in NASCAR when he's done. Same with Hamilton and Ricciardo (Both seem really interested in that) Yeah, the fastest qualifying lap at Monza ever was ~161 mph average speed. Last year's fastest qualifying lap at Indy 500 was just a hair short of 231 mph.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Here have some videos of Mansell doing that 24 years a go. Okay maybe you'd be the best to ask, there's a video from Mansell's Indy car stint where he takes a female reporter in a Ford Taurus and is driving it around some oval and at some point he spins it. I seriously need to find this video.
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keevo posted:All this Fernando hype has me way too excited about the 500 and I'm going to be really bummed when he ends up finishing 15th Finishing?
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keevo posted:All this Fernando hype has me way too excited about the 500 and I'm going to be really bummed when he ends up finishing 15th Alonso crashes and dies for real in the 500, followed by Button winning Monaco in the McLaren
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iospace posted:Yeah, the fastest qualifying lap at Monza ever was ~161 mph average speed. Set by former Greatest American Big Juan, iirc?
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:Alonso crashes and dies for real in the 500, followed by Button winning Monaco in the McLaren MOOOOOODS
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McGuinty posted:Set by former Greatest American Big Juan, iirc? Nah, Rubens did it. Big Juan set the fastest unofficial lap though! 1500quidporsche posted:MOOOOOODS I see nothing wrong here.
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Alonso's engine blows in the indy 500, he tries the daytona 500, does it for dale. e: also grows a mustache for dale.
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iospace posted:Yeah, the fastest qualifying lap at Monza ever was ~161 mph average speed. nono. I know you're the police or whatever, but if you really want to set me off just keep going this way. Average speed doesn't mean poo poo when the cars literally don't brake and can only turn in one direction. What is scary about it is it's retarded, and that's it. Whats scary about it is a track specifically designed so a crash results in the cars coming back ONTO the track, where everyone is constantly lapping at 300kph because lol brakes and corners. What is scary about it is putting 30+ cars onto a track a fraction of the size of an F1 track. What is scary about it is Zinardi lost his legs because of the idiocy I just detailed. What is scary about it learnt today is rookies may have just as much pace because of the series racing but without the experience. All going constantly at 300kph. With no run offs. It's got nothing to do with being tough or something. Mansell did it because nobody else would give him the drive he wanted, and Frank is a stingy oval office that turned around to his newly crowned WDC and told him to stick his pay rise up his rear end. dear Americans, I love you and this forum. But holy poo poo oval racing is the loving devil and the sooner you all realize it the sooner you can come and be awesome in F1.
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They can turn any direction they want, but turning right would really harm their average speed.
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Tony Montana posted:nono. I know you're the police or whatever, but if you really want to set me off just keep going this way. I love road courses as much as the next guy (my favorite course is Road America, for what it's worth), but something about the 500 is awesome. Also regarding crashes on oval tracks: they've put in new barriers on all of them, especially in the turns, that A. reduces injury and car damage by absorbing the energy, and B. prevents the car from going out into the middle of traffic. It's also been used at Watkins Glen and Circuit de la Sarthe. Regarding everything else? That's your opinion on racing, and you're more than welcome to express it. I won't hand out punishments for that ever.
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Tony Montana posted:nono. I know you're the police or whatever, but if you really want to set me off just keep going this way. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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tupacalypse posted:I think your the one who's retarded mate This, however, is not constructive.
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iospace posted:I love road courses as much as the next guy (my favorite course is Road America, for what it's worth), but something about the 500 is awesome. I think something about the 500 is awesome too. I used to play Indy 500 (the predecessor to NASCAR which was the predecessor to iRacing) in Australia on my Amiga wondering who the gently caress Lola was. I'll have to check out the new barriers. edit: oh he's not my loving mate, that's for sure
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Apart from the 27 cautions (someone farted, we better throw a caution). Do they have competition yellows in Indycar as well? The road courses are moderately interesting and I will occasionally watch it, if I happen to turn the TV on, but ovals are just plain boring. Yeah, I'm vaguely aware of the skill set required, but it's still boring.
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your wheel to wheel constant passing racing entirely visible from almost any point in the grandstands is dumb. If you were smarter, you would appreciate being able to see one turn of a parade of cars ordered by the amount spent by it's owner I don't know where i was going with this. It might be sarcasm I haven't slept in 3 days, so i'm not entirely sure.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Apart from the 27 cautions (someone farted, we better throw a caution). No competition yellows in Indy, thank gods. There's one thing in Indy that I really wish F1 (and WEC) would implement:  The seven-segment display on the airbox. It allows for an easy way to tell what position a car is in (also used for pit stop timing and Push to Pass usage on road courses). Also, fittingly enough, that's Honda's car right there at Indy, so if you want a good idea what 'Nando's car will look like in body shape, there you go.
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iospace posted:Also, fittingly enough, that's Honda's car right there at Indy, so if you want a good idea what 'Nando's car will look like in body shape, there you go. Or more accurately(artists impression) 
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Powershift posted:Or more accurately(artists impression) Nah, needs an empty fuel gauge and a checkered flag. That is Rossi there. Though going by what happened last Sunday, you aren't wrong!
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