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Oh god, I had no idea Brundle wrote columns http://www.news.com.au/sport/motors...0ea86ff99dbfef6 (I see this appears on Sky Sports but I don't ever have a reason to go to Sky's site so welp this was news to me)
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It's happening. WEC is basically considering bringing back a GT1 styled class, racing cars that look road relevant but top endurance racing class. https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/factory-lmp1-breed-high-performance-cars-978750/
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Nov 14, 2017 22:51
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Cool. I give it 5 years before collapsing once again.
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Nov 14, 2017 22:52
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Cool that's 5 years of cool cars so whatever
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Nov 14, 2017 22:55
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Human Grand Prix posted:Cool. I give it 5 years before collapsing once again. The cycle continues.
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Nov 14, 2017 22:57
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VikingSkull got a massive boner and he doesn't know why (he's a big closed wheel fan).
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Norns posted:Cool that's 5 years of cool cars so whatever
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Nov 14, 2017 23:01
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lmbo, should have worn more power bracelets.
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Nov 14, 2017 23:07
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iospace posted:VikingSkull got a massive boner and he doesn't know why (he's a big closed wheel fan). Nah because they said they weren't going to require homologation.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Nah because they said they weren't going to require homologation. This is the one big drawback. Give us some loving bad rear end, race related road cars please.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Nah because they said they weren't going to require homologation. Fair enough. GramCracker posted:This is the one big drawback. Give us some loving bad rear end, race related road cars please. I'm neutral on homologation when it comes to "oh, build X examples and we're good". The Ford GT is a love letter to the GT1 days, sure, but at least they're going to build more than the minimum it seems.
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Oh hey that reminds me I saw the coolest loving car of all time on the weekend. Was on the back of a flatbed and had clearly taken a bit of a whomping somewhere but it was a fully white Marlboro liveried 4x4 Ford Sierra cosworth.
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iospace posted:Fair enough. The reason I love it is because it gave us some crazy rear end road cars, albeit very limited production for the most part. It basically forces the manufacturer to make something they’d never ordinarily make for the road if they want to go racing, which is awesome for enthusiasts.
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GramCracker posted:The reason I love it is because it gave us some crazy rear end road cars, albeit very limited production for the most part. It basically forces the manufacturer to make something they’d never ordinarily make for the road if they want to go racing, which is awesome for Fixed that for you. Unfortunately 
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iospace posted:Fixed that for you. I can’t even complain about that fix 
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Nov 15, 2017 01:06
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It’s gonna own when Stroll is beaten by a man with one arm.
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Nov 15, 2017 03:27
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keevo posted:It’s gonna own when Stroll is beaten by a man with one arm. It's gonna own when Kubica has no idea how to lift the trophy over his head on the top step of the podium.
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Nov 15, 2017 03:38
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Stroll is gonna make Kubica look like the fraud he is
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Speaking of exotics, I saw a GTC4Lusso today. I thought it was a Corvette C7 at first.
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:Stroll is gonna make Kubica look like the fraud he is Neither are frauds, they're going to compete so fiercely that they will elevate the grid to a new level that fraud drivers such as Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Stoffel Vandorne will be unable to match.
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Nov 15, 2017 04:34
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Current LMP1 cars look cool as poo poo imo rip
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Current LMP1 cars look cool as poo poo imo rip Agreed. They're prototypes. Who cares if they look like street cars. We have GT for that.
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Nov 15, 2017 04:44
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Bring back homologation rules for WRC.
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Agreed because I'm a firm believer that the decline of WRC started with the withdrawal of the Group A Lancer Evo and also the dominance of the lovely-rear end Peugeot 206.
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Dude, Gronholm in that 206 forever
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9rTCLjK1k8
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Gronholm owned but christ was the road version of the 206 a boring-rear end car. I actually liked the weird looking 307 better even though it sucked and basically ended Peugeot's WRC run because it sucked too much. 
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By the way, check out this dumb fucker of a car that never raced because Group B got banned. 
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Lol Ferrari
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But naw that thing is dumb in the right ways
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650bhp in a rally car, and I wonder why Group B was banned
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Toivonen's death is still pretty drat awful reading about it over and over.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:By the way, check out this dumb fucker of a car that never raced because Group B got banned. They would have buttfucked every other manufacturer in the Group B series 9 ways to Sunday with the 288 Evo
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The fact that car never got to race is a sin to motorsport
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It's really too bad the R32 Skyline was too heavy to be an effective Group A rally car because I would have loved to see that thing as a tarmac special car like the Group A M3 and the Sierra Cosworth were. Apparently someone actually entered one in Corsica one year and it was uncompetitive. 
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Remember when Mikko Hirvonen was being hyped up as the next big thing to take the fight to Loeb and as a worthy successor of Gronholm? lmao
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I love all the Ferraris that were built that never actually raced. Like that Ferrari Indy
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Wirth1000 posted:Remember when Mikko Hirvonen was being hyped up as the next big thing to take the fight to Loeb and as a worthy successor of Gronholm? lmao Ott Tanak is like the first teammate Ogier has ever had who actually looks respectable in the same car lol
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Feels Villeneuve posted:By the way, check out this dumb fucker of a car that never raced because Group B got banned. I’ve always thought that this car’s ideas were later transferred to the F40.
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