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a guy who is probably a consensus top 3 active racecar driver if you polled the drivers themselves, is gonna chase another series big event for fun and glory... and she complaining that it's not marketable enough and her child hasn't heard of him like for gently caress sake who gives a poo poo how many hamburgers the guy might sell, it's loving cool as hell regardless of the driver or event
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Fernando Alonso got the shot instead of one of her close, personal friends. She's a walking ethics violation, but it's racing so who cares?
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Muddy Burphy posted:Fernando Alonso got the shot instead of one of her close, personal friends. Racinggate: It's about ethics in motorsport journalism.
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Wow that was an extraordinarily bad article.
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Apr 18, 2017 14:53
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Feels good when all the racing threads come together to collectively call something poo poo
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Norns posted:Feels good when all the racing threads come together to collectively call something poo poo It does. Also, speaking of the major three threads, I do have something planned for the Monaco/Indy/Coke600 day as well.
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iospace posted:It does. I like the sound of that 
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iospace posted:It does. All hail iospace, best mod. 
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Merge all the threads into one please
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Merge all the threads into one please "And that's how SA finally died."
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wicka posted:"And that's how SA finally died." Insha'Alonso
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LASTCAR posted:NASCAR's YouTube channel has uploaded the 1991 and 1992 spring Bristol races. Wild to see a non-coliseum'd Bristol
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mactheknife posted:Wild to see a non-coliseum'd Bristol Hell I have 3 hours to burn. Gunna watch this.
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I've made it through the first 100 laps or so of 91, all seven cautions of it. Including an umbrella caution!
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mactheknife posted:I've made it through the first 100 laps or so of 91, all seven cautions of it. Including an umbrella caution! It's good to know that ridiculous cautions have always been a mainstay of auto racing
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Cygni posted:a guy who is probably a consensus top 3 active racecar driver if you polled the drivers themselves, is gonna chase another series big event for fun and glory... and she complaining that it's not marketable enough and her child hasn't heard of him When I heard about this during the F1 race coverage last weekend my first thought was, does he instantly become the best driver in the field even if he hasn't actually raced an Indy car? I stopped following Indy a few years ago so I don't have a good idea of who would compare to Alonso but from what I can tell the way things go is you get drummed out of F1 because of a lack of competitiveness and end up in Indy/sportscars/NASCAR/etc. It will be interesting to see how he does on an oval. That article was loving dumb. It just sounded like, eh I looked up Alonso on Wikipedia, and the results for this year's F1 races and I now know everything about Alonso, F1, Indy, Honda and McLaren. Alonso really has done an amazing job with that car this year. He was good last year too but clearly the reliability this year is poo poo. He's at least been fighting for points when the car is actually running and on track. To me it is kind of similar to when Kurt Busch was driving for Finch in the #51 and every once in a while that car would be hovering around the top 15, top 10 and that would basically be like winning for that team who normally would be lucky to sniff the top 25. It just proves that a good driver can actually make a difference and similarly to when Kurt attempted the double it will be interesting to see a good driver get in an Indy car and see what he can do. E: Is there any way somebody could try to get Alonso to do the double? Just like throw David Ragan out of the #38 or something at let Alonso have at it? Can't finish any worse. bigbillystyle fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Landon Cassill's Twitter is really really good. I want to say it's better than Jr's.
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keevo posted:Landon Cassill's Twitter is really really good. I want to say it's better than Jr's. Championship caliber test driver and tweeter.
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bigbillystyle posted:E: Is there any way somebody could try to get Alonso to do the double? Just like throw David Ragan out of the #38 or something at let Alonso have at it? Can't finish any worse. Lewis Hamilton wants to maybe try the Daytona 500 someday and I can't wait until he can't do it in a decent car because NASCAR has the dumbassed team cap and HMS, SHR, and JGR are all at four cars (unless NASCAR would allow something like HMS putting him in the 25 as a rookie or something). Penske might be his only decent shot otherwise.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Lewis Hamilton wants to maybe try the Daytona 500 someday and I can't wait until he can't do it in a decent car because NASCAR has the dumbassed team cap and HMS, SHR, and JGR are all at four cars (unless NASCAR would allow something like HMS putting him in the 25 as a rookie or something). Penske might be his only decent shot otherwise. Put him in Truck at Eldora.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Lewis Hamilton wants to maybe try the Daytona 500 someday and I can't wait until he can't do it in a decent car because NASCAR has the dumbassed team cap and HMS, SHR, and JGR are all at four cars (unless NASCAR would allow something like HMS putting him in the 25 as a rookie or something). Penske might be his only decent shot otherwise. I really believe he was just saying that because Alonso's doing Indy. I know he likes the cars but I can't actually see him doing Daytona.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Lewis Hamilton wants to maybe try the Daytona 500 someday and I can't wait until he can't do it in a decent car because NASCAR has the dumbassed team cap and HMS, SHR, and JGR are all at four cars (unless NASCAR would allow something like HMS putting him in the 25 as a rookie or something). Penske might be his only decent shot otherwise. Only way the 4 car teams can do it is take over a team for the 500 and use it as a faux 5th team. It's like the Joe Falk team that was being used by RCR for Ty Dillon to run races. Otherwise Lewis would have problems finding a competitive ride, if he ever decides to try the 500.
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LOL if you think SHR is going to have 4 drivers next year.
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A Twitter post about swapping the locations of sponsor logos and car numbers took me to Reddit for like the second time in my life and somebody from JTG said this:quote:Room for more sponsor logos? Yes please! Here's what he's talking about. https://twitter.com/MattWeaverAW/status/855236647520264192 It looks awful, yet NASCAR will probably encourage it in the future because IT'LL MAKE THINGS AWESOME.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Lewis Hamilton wants to maybe try the Daytona 500 someday and I can't wait until he can't do it in a decent car because NASCAR has the dumbassed team cap and HMS, SHR, and JGR are all at four cars (unless NASCAR would allow something like HMS putting him in the 25 as a rookie or something). Penske might be his only decent shot otherwise. forgive me if I shed no tears that a guy from a series with A cars and B cars and team orders doesn't have the stars align for him in NASCAR
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CBJSprague24 posted:A Twitter post about swapping the locations of sponsor logos and car numbers took me to Reddit for like the second time in my life and somebody from JTG said this: When I was watching a thing about Suarez at the beginning of the season I noticed the NASCAR Mexico cars were set up in a similar way. It's not my preferred look but it wouldn't bother me too much I don't think.
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they divided the race into segments, made that lovely charter system, and gave a championship to a dude that missed half the season. where they put the numbers on the cars is sorta the least of my concerns when it comes to tradition, honestly.
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CBJSprague24 posted:A Twitter post about swapping the locations of sponsor logos and car numbers took me to Reddit for like the second time in my life and somebody from JTG said this: It doesn't look great, but now sponsors will be happy with the number thrown to the fender and have more accessible space for sponsors. Probably someone could get a good scheme put together probably.
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When the sport is starved for sponsors like it is I have no problem offering up that space, really. It looks goofy but ultimately doesn't really matter, and I'm sure artists can make it work. I'd enjoy the design challenge, personally. This won't stop people from complaining about change, of course.
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 This is Harrison Burton's K&N car, which was the first one like it that I saw around. They made it work pretty well I think. edit: a Ryan Truex K&N, as well: 
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VikingSkull posted:forgive me if I shed no tears that a guy from a series with A cars and B cars and team orders doesn't have the stars align for him in NASCAR My point was I'd figure it'd be likely he'd be looking for a competitive car to run the race if he did it and most of those belong to teams which are maxxed out unless somebody does what RCR did with Falk last year, which I'd forgotten about until BMB mentioned it. kidcoelacanth posted:When the sport is starved for sponsors like it is I have no problem offering up that space, really. It looks goofy but ultimately doesn't really matter, and I'm sure artists can make it work. I'd enjoy the design challenge, personally. The business argument as to why makes total sense. I guess it's something I/we'd eventually get used to, but the number on the door just looks "right".
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CBJSprague24 posted:The business argument as to why makes total sense. I guess it's something I/we'd eventually get used to, but the number on the door just looks "right". I think that's just what we're used to and it's dead center so it catches our attention. As what kidc posted, yeah those are some good designs having that space more open to play with.
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You might as well just put the number on the window to give even more room for sponsors like the Aussies and BTCC do.
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I'm at Bristol for the first time and it's instantly my favorite track, why aren't they all this cool dammit
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kidcoelacanth posted:I'm at Bristol for the first time and it's instantly my favorite track, why aren't they all this cool dammit Because 1.5 mile ovals with doglegs provide best spectator experience hth.
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algebra testes posted:Because 1.5 mile ovals with doglegs provide best spectator experience hth. Burton Smith parachute account spotted.
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tater_salad posted:Burton Smith parachute account spotted. 
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I know he owns Bristol too but isn't he part of the reason for 1.5 mile tri-ovals. Didn't he ruin Bristol then say oh I didn't know what the contractors were doing? And then spend more money to fix it?
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