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track day bro! posted:I'll watch formula E when it isn't spec everything and they don't have to jump into a second car to finish the race. Or is it no longer a spec series yet? Spec aero, motor, battery and chassis, everything else about the drivetrain is open and I believe motors are going to become open soon.
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njsykora posted:Spec aero, motor, battery and chassis, everything else about the drivetrain is open and I believe motors are going to become open soon. What exactly is that rest of the drivetrain? Gearbox?
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track day bro! posted:What exactly is that rest of the drivetrain? Gearbox? Yeah, different gearboxes. Next season they're saying no car switching.
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track day bro! posted:What exactly is that rest of the drivetrain? Gearbox? I looked it up and I actually got this slightly wrong, the motor is open for development as well. So the 3 big components open to development are the motor, the gearbox (so some teams have a normal 6-speed gearbox, some teams only have 1) and rear suspension. The video they put out for season 2 explaining those changes termed it as everything behind the battery is open.
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The first 10 stages of WRC Rally Finland have gone quite well for the home teams (Finland & Toyota): http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/livecenter/page/4175----.html
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IMSA going back to Mid-Ohio and ditching COTA: https://t.co/vE6c3kLlGe Not a huge surprise cause Honda is moving into DPi, but still good news.
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Yeah Dieselgate effectively took 6-8 P1-H's with it. Such is the price of being duplicitious shitheels.
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Hopefully it just means Toyota and Peugeot figure out a new series to stick on top of it all and draw in some more oddballs two years later only to have it die again. Welcome to prototypes
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Aw poo poo, COTA is my nearest track and we were planning on hitting the IMSA weekend next year.
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Cygni posted:IMSA going back to Mid-Ohio and ditching COTA: https://t.co/vE6c3kLlGe Good, COTA's poo poo.
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WEC Statement posted:However, the ACO and the FIA, guardians of the existence and quality of the FIA World Endurance championship, have immediately set to work to put forward to everyone involved in endurance racing the outline of the 2018 season – a season which promises to be quite exceptional thanks to the introduction of new innovations lol, theyve been watching too many comicbook movies. GUARDIANS OF THE EXISTENCE of series that we inevitably gently caress up and run into the ground.
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DoLittle posted:The first 10 stages of WRC Rally Finland have gone quite well for the home teams (Finland & Toyota): That is great. Would love for Lappi to get his first win. Ogier has crashed out on one of the first stages, and Neuville is far behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5uzwpLJrdM
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That the ACO unironically called themselves the loving guardians of the WEC is hilarious.
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The ACO got the job because they run Le Mans, no more, no less, and any FIA sanctioned endurance series has to have Le Mans.
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Humbug posted:That is great. Would love for Lappi to get his first win. Ogier has crashed out on one of the first stages, and Neuville is far behind. Today Lappi has road position advantage over Latvala. That will even out tomorrow, which may give the edge to Latvala. Not to mention possibility of team orders. Considering where Neuville is and what happened to Ogier, a win here would put Latvala back in to the hunt for the championship.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Yeah Dieselgate effectively took 6-8 P1-H's with it. Such is the price of being duplicitious shitheels. Yeah, this is a day after the German transport minister announced a forced recall on 22,000 Cayennes, making it the 2nd time the Cayenne has ended a Porsche LMP program.
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njsykora posted:Spec aero, motor, battery and chassis, everything else about the drivetrain is open and I believe motors are going to become open soon. This is incorrect. For one, the cars have no appreciable aero, the wings are for show. Chassis and batteries are spec, motor/gearbox/control electronics/software is all free. The series hasn't been completely spec since season 1.
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Red Bull TV has free coverage of WRC rallies, including the ongoing Neste Rally Finland: https://www.redbull.tv/live/AP-1Q84GRYX11W11/fia-world-rally-championship
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JDC-Miller gonna run a 2nd Oreca in Proto next year: http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/142677-jdc-miller-expanding-to-two-cars-for-2018 Not sure what VFR/PR1 are planning, but looks to be a pretty drat big field next year.
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I wondered what IMSA dropped or if Mid-Ohio was an additional event. Good to see it back on the schedule.mactheknife posted:Aw poo poo, COTA is my nearest track and we were planning on hitting the IMSA weekend next year. You'll still have the frontstretch at Laguna Seca to remind you of COTA.
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iospace posted:Yeah, different gearboxes. Next season they're saying no car switching. Season after.
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Nooo. Latvala in trouble. Also lol at Hanninen crushing all the usual top drivers. Flying Finns indeed.
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TWENTY FOUR HOURS OF SPA starts in about 20 minutes and SRO are doing a shitload of onboards and streams alongside the usual good poo poo from NISMO. Main race livestream from NISMO with onboards NISMO garage cam McLaren #58 onboard Mercedes #85 onboard BMW #98 onboard Porsche #117 onboard
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Thanks for the heads up forgot about Spa!
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For the record, the Bentley GT3s sound amazing.
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Pretty fun Supercars stuff today. I've been down on the series but after a pretty dire 2015 season, the last two years have seen some very good on-track action imo. Also as far as ominously good young drivers go, I like Scotty Mac a shitload more than Whincup.
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Norns posted:The entire GT3 class makes lovely noises Sad the SLS AMG is slowly disappearing, it has the most gorgeous sounding low speed noise (as in, in pitlanes). Aston Martin's wins the at-speed sound championship though.
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Humbug posted:Nooo. Latvala in trouble. Also lol at Hanninen crushing all the usual top drivers. Flying Finns indeed. Apparently ECU failed without warning. I believe they had new engines for this rally with Ilmor developed software. I wonder if they use Ilmor ECUs or Ilmor just writes/tunes the software. TMG still makes the mechanical parts of the engine, I think. Shame for Latvala. Winning here seemed almost certain and it would have given him a chance to compete for the championship. Now it is highly unlikely. On the other hand it is likely that Lappi will win a WRC rally with his 4th attempt. It think no one else has done that at least since early eighties, depending on how you count them. DoLittle fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Why does the Pirelli World Challenge kick so much rear end? Seriously. I got to get an up close look at a Lambo today, and got to witness the Italians running one of the Ferrari team cheering on their team in Spa today.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Why does the Pirelli World Challenge kick so much rear end? Except for GTS race starts. I'm just glad they DQ'ed the car that caused the crash at the start of the race
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Kilonum posted:That is a lot of smoke Ferrari starts off with negative points, still Ferrari's fault. Wouldn't have happened if the Ferrari wasn't there obviously
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COTA is a garbage track and I wouldn't be surprised to see it file bankruptcy within the next few years
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