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FuzzySkinner posted:Adrian Fernandez come back in this bitch. Put a street race in Naples, where randomly old tourists find themselves driving the wrong way down the middle of the track.
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May 30, 2017 18:07
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Lotta indiana retirees in fort myers naples.
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May 30, 2017 18:14
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Yeah, but retirees are very much anti-race cars in my city.
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May 30, 2017 18:17
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RLL to enter Oriol at Detroit as well. https://twitter.com/RLLracing/status/869601113452023808
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May 30, 2017 18:17
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FuzzySkinner posted:Adrian Fernandez come back in this bitch. If only there was somewhere in Milwaukee or Portland where cars can race. Still.. China, eh?
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May 30, 2017 18:35
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KingShibby posted:RA is my next race of the season, you'll have a great time over 2 days there. I can't do my usual camp-all-weekend thing this year, but I'm a little tempted to just get a Sunday ticket. Have you heard if the ticket sales are through the roof again this year?
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Lord Crapulus posted:I can't do my usual camp-all-weekend thing this year, but I'm a little tempted to just get a Sunday ticket. Have you heard if the ticket sales are through the roof again this year? Haven't heard any news, but I'm willing to bet they'll be about the same or more than last year. This is RA's premier race of the season with the entire ladder + PWC over 4 days from Thu-Sun KingShibby fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 30, 2017 |
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May 30, 2017 18:48
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dsriggs posted:If only there was somewhere in Milwaukee or Portland where cars can race. Still.. China, eh? they would run both in a heartbeat if a promoter could pay. its not an either/or thing.
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May 30, 2017 18:54
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KingShibby posted:Haven't heard any news, but I'm willing to be they'll be about the same or more than last year. This is RA's premier race of the season with the entire ladder + PWC over 4 days from Thu-Sun I liked all the ladder races last year (well, maybe not PM since lol 10 car field), but PWC did nothing for me. I think I couldn't keep their eighty classes straight, so I just had no idea what I was watching. I think ALMS/TUSCC spoiled me.
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May 30, 2017 18:58
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FuzzySkinner posted:Adrian Fernandez come back in this bitch. That's nuts that Albuquerque was on there. Then again, everyone I knew was watching the race, so maybe it's not so crazy.
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May 30, 2017 19:01
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Lord Crapulus posted:I liked all the ladder races last year (well, maybe not PM since lol 10 car field), but PWC did nothing for me. I think I couldn't keep their eighty classes straight, so I just had no idea what I was watching. I think ALMS/TUSCC spoiled me. Well PM was up to 14 at IMS a couple weeks ago, so that one should be better. But yeah I'm not big on PWC either, I'd rather watch IMSA
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May 30, 2017 19:03
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I view PWC as sort of the class below IMSA. They're not bad, but you're also not getting the big boy GTLM and GT3 cars you get with IMSA.
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May 30, 2017 19:13
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Yeah but IMSA already has CTSCC as its minor league. And GTLM is awesome just by itself. The IMSA weekend at RA is overall better I think (plus you can bike the track!), but I feel like I should be supporting Indycar, dammit. Next year I want to try make Phoenix and Iowa, hopefully the new short oval package isn't a dud.
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May 30, 2017 19:18
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FartingBedpost posted:That's nuts that Albuquerque was on there. The Unsers grew up and live in Albuquerque.
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May 30, 2017 20:32
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Hell Little Al knows all the Albuquerque cops
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May 30, 2017 21:30
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Not sure if it's been posted, but this really puts IMS into perspective http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=19464029
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May 30, 2017 21:41
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iospace posted:I view PWC as sort of the class below IMSA. They're not bad, but you're also not getting the big boy GTLM and GT3 cars you get with IMSA. The only fun way to watch PWC is to make it a drinking game. Every time there's a wreck, if the driver is/was a CEO then take a shot. You won't even remember your watching a race after 30 minutes.
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May 30, 2017 22:31
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I like the PWC challenge race at Long Beach a lot. Its a 'lower' level series, but still has good teams/drivers, and great cars now with the GT3 regs in the top classes. I cant say i watch too many of the other races (i used to watch it a good deal more when it was on Speedvision RIP), but its fun for what it is. Not everything needs to be ultra cut throat best of the best trillion dollar budgets to be fun.
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Cygni posted:Not everything needs to be ultra cut throat best of the best trillion dollar budgets to be fun. Banger racing and short track gimmicks are fun as poo poo. Also: Not everything that is ultra cut throat best of the best trillion dollar budgets is fun.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Hell Little Al knows all the Albuquerque cops  Also, as is tradition, a curated image dump of the best Indy 500 drunk fans: http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/drunk-indianapolis-500-fans-are-the-gift-that-keeps-on-1795668155
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May 30, 2017 23:19
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Alonso's banquet speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s69XiUdzbWg
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May 30, 2017 23:20
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iospace posted:I view PWC as sort of the class below IMSA. They're not bad, but you're also not getting the big boy GTLM and GT3 cars you get with IMSA. it's mentioned but the top cars in PWC are GT3 spec, but besides "PWC X" longer races, most are the sprint 40/45-minute length, which is a different beast from the diversity in race lengths in IMSA. and yeah Portland still has a track, it needs some work, but before they pull a race together they need somebody there interested in and with the cash to get a race going.
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http://www.indycar.com/News/2017/05/05-30-Voices-Olsonquote:INDIANAPOLIS – Once upon a time, when reaction in Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s media center to what was happening on track became overly exuberant, the legendary Bill York would take to the microphone to remind us we were in a working press room.
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May 31, 2017 00:57
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I don't think Taku's "AAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" will ever get old. That's instantly right up there with "You don't know what Indy means".
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May 31, 2017 01:04
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If this was 1993? Sato san would be getting his own Sega Genesis game right now. ... Can I ask a stupid question? Would there be a way to prevent cars from flipping in the air or is this just (sadly) par for the course in racing? Just curious because this seems to be the criticism from a lot of people re: IRL/VICS-era IndyCar.
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May 31, 2017 01:31
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Watched those last couple laps on YouTube recap and ESPN coverage was Joe Buck levels bad circlejerking around Castroneves.
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May 31, 2017 01:36
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FuzzySkinner posted:Can I ask a stupid question? Would there be a way to prevent cars from flipping in the air or is this just (sadly) par for the course in racing? Just curious because this seems to be the criticism from a lot of people re: IRL/VICS-era IndyCar. You can lower the chances, but you'll never prevent it. Downforce assumes a car will be pointed in one direction at all times. Once the car spins or gets airborne after a collision, the same wings that are designed to keep a car on the ground will keep a car in the air. Even with no downforce, a car moving at speed will act as its own wing once enough air gets under it. Things like roof flaps/arrestor flaps have been great advances in safety, but when a car moving at 200 mph hits a slow or stationary car, no amount of engineering will overcome physics. tl;dr - The answer is magnetic adhesion.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Can I ask a stupid question? Would there be a way to prevent cars from flipping in the air or is this just (sadly) par for the course in racing? Just curious because this seems to be the criticism from a lot of people re: IRL/VICS-era IndyCar. Cars have flaps on that come up to effectively act as emergency downforce/airbrakes if a car's in a situation (ie, moving backwards fast) where it could take off, you see those more in Nascar than Indy though. In terms of loving ramping off another car like Dixon did there's not much you can do about that.
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njsykora posted:Cars have flaps on that come up to effectively act as emergency downforce/airbrakes if a car's in a situation (ie, moving backwards fast) where it could take off, you see those more in Nascar than Indy though. In terms of loving ramping off another car like Dixon did there's not much you can do about that. Yeah I'm just kinda confused by the criticsm. I seem to recall the same thing happening in CART and I've even seen it happen in F1, IMSA and WEC. ... Also Esteban could be in the Coyne ride. This is cool and good. Adrian Fernandez is his an Perez's manager fww. https://twitter.com/indy44/status/869713165075963905
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Yeah, just the physical momentum alone in the Dixon crash launched him way high in the air. Then the aero just sorta tumbles him to the ground. You can see the flaps deploy as the car is tumbling, but thats not gonna do much when you are already flying in the air with a shitload of momentum. Honestly I'm pretty happy the car didn't do much of its scary drifting fly-away routine like Helio had 10 or so years ago (that I cant find). The holes in the floor and flaps on the tray sort of awkwardly tumbled the car down, but thats better than literally flying up and away like Renna/the 2015 cars etc.
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May 31, 2017 02:07
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You can't find it because it was Dario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u80Y9A5P4E
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Unless you meant this incredibly stupid looking Sam Hornish crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ha5fWCHfw
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you're both wrong, it was Dario, but it was at Michigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2A7jnqWz0 as usual, I have an encyclopedic knowledge of auto racing crashes
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I was actually thinking of the Hornish one but gently caress sake I didn't remember Dario dealing with that poo poo twice, too. Plus the Conway crash, and all the others flipping in the air. Good loving riddance to that car.
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May 31, 2017 02:18
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Yeah the IR-05 was a poo poo car.
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For me the most amazing thing was Bourdais's crash. The fact is he hit the wall in the same place in almost the same way that Gordon Smiley did. Traveling faster too. Smiley's body was liquified and Bourdais will race again. If that isn't a testament to something. They still need to do halos or canopies to protect drivers heads.
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May 31, 2017 02:22
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https://twitter.com/HondaJP/status/869720323452788736 https://twitter.com/HondaJP Honda Japan seems happy as hell about powering Sato-san to the win.
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God I expect to see Toyota execs spitting blood in anger if they can't get Le Mans this year.
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rear end struggle posted:They still need to do halos or canopies to protect drivers heads. At this point I'm amazed that no one is saying anything concrete about how better head protection will factor into the 2018 car design. This isn't something they should be waiting until the next-next gen Indycar chassis for.
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