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the WEC stuff is more like the old power/weight rules back in the day where stuff like your minimum weight and tire size was dependent on your engine displacement, which is different than making sure that the lovely rear end BMWs can beat the Ford GTs because BMW is spending a shitload of money to be in the series
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iwentdoodie posted:BoP should go away, and would if the P2 cars were split off. If you un-BoP'd them the DPi class would fall apart overnight. The only requirement to build a DPi is to be at least as fast as the Oreca P2, but there's no maximum limit. Uncapped 1 (maybe 2) of them will almost certainly be faster than the rest, all the manufacturers signed up under the idea of the class being balanced and if that's taken away either the guys in last will just bail or you'll get a development war that will destroy the class through rising costs. I would love to see a class based around a strict set of tech regs with no BoP but the second someone comes along (probably BMW) and says "we'll show up if you give us a waiver in exchange for this cash" IMSA (or the ACO, SRO or whoever) would cave instantly and it'd be back to BoP.
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# ? May 11, 2018 00:05 |
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I mean, I fully agree with banning BMW from racing.
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# ? May 11, 2018 00:06 |
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iwentdoodie posted:BoP should go away, and would if the P2 cars were split off. No, it wouldn’t. IMSA would still want to make sure the OEMs had a chance and would peg back one make if it had too much of an advantage.
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# ? May 11, 2018 00:16 |
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drgitlin posted:No, it wouldn’t. IMSA would still want to make sure the OEMs had a chance and would peg back one make if it had too much of an advantage. They should probably already look at pegging back Caddie...
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# ? May 11, 2018 01:55 |
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http://sportscar365.com/other-series/n24/rast-on-triple-duty-its-my-busiest-weekend-ever/quote:Rene Rast says this weekend’s Nürburgring event has been his busiest yet, as the German takes part in four races with three different teams and in two significantly different Audis.
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# ? May 11, 2018 19:55 |
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Basticle posted:http://sportscar365.com/other-series/n24/rast-on-triple-duty-its-my-busiest-weekend-ever/ God drat
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# ? May 11, 2018 22:20 |
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I got my battlestation ready boys F1 quali, the 24, Indy GP, F1 race
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# ? May 12, 2018 13:36 |
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Vanthoor's pole lap onboard, its just 9+ minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwbRTXN45E
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# ? May 12, 2018 13:49 |
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Basticle posted:I got my battlestation ready boys All this plus also FIA WRX in Blegium.
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# ? May 12, 2018 13:57 |
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There were also two WTCR races today, and ELMS qualifying and LeMans cup today, and Blancpain Asia. What a time to be alive
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# ? May 12, 2018 14:04 |
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We're live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxOzJPBhlVY And the Fox Tail is flapping
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# ? May 12, 2018 14:25 |
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iospace posted:We're live! Awesome, know what ive got on my TV for the next 24 hours
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# ? May 12, 2018 14:49 |
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imagine going to this race and then paying to sit at the GP track
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# ? May 12, 2018 16:30 |
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Basticle posted:http://sportscar365.com/other-series/n24/rast-on-triple-duty-its-my-busiest-weekend-ever/ Rast is an awesome racing machine. I'm visiting the DTM races since about eight years, and seeing him in Porsche Super Cup was awesome (also Phillip Eng). Then watching him race in WEC was super cool, and allthough - I admit it - I hate Audi, I cheered and yelled for him at last years DTM finisher race in Hockenheim, and had such a big loving smile on my face when he actually won the championship. He is an awesome guy, I once met him back when he was driving in the Porsche Cup and talked a couple of seconds to im in the pits, and he was so open and warm and approachable. I'm a big Rast fan since then, and hope he wins a lot more races and championships. He's a very, very cool dude.
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# ? May 12, 2018 17:26 |
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Basticle posted:imagine going to this race and then paying to sit at the GP track I used to be at Hatzenbach. Rather quiet in comparission to other parts ofthe track (I like that, not really a party animal). Somehow completely hosed up my work schedule this year, thus forgetting when the 24 hour race was....so I'm sitting here, and feeling a lot of grief :/
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# ? May 12, 2018 17:29 |
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Go wheel, be freeeeeeeeeee!
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# ? May 12, 2018 17:36 |
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"I'm not sure I knew there was an Opel GTR car" "And that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the Opel GTR car"
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# ? May 12, 2018 17:37 |
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A driver getting out of his car to clean his radiator is the most endurance racing poo poo.
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# ? May 12, 2018 17:59 |
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iospace posted:A driver getting out of his car to clean his radiator is the most endurance racing poo poo.
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# ? May 12, 2018 18:57 |
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iospace posted:A driver getting out of his car to clean his radiator is the most endurance racing poo poo. And a driver going out on the public roads and through the town to get back to the pits because they wouldn't let him back on the course.. And now an on-the-grass pass for the lead.
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# ? May 12, 2018 19:42 |
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Listening to Dirk Adorf (in the M4 GT4) on TV during a 24h hotlap is awesome....I really like this guy also goddamn that audi crash
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:09 |
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Dries Vanthoor has toasted that car. e: the slowing Merc was unsighted and he hit the car on his right
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:09 |
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oooof
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:10 |
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If anything its a miracle he didnt nail the Mercedes, bad as that crash was it could have gone a lot worse
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:13 |
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Misc Auto Racing 2018: A driver getting out of his car to clean his radiator is the most endurance racing poo poo
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:17 |
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CactusWeasle posted:If anything its a miracle he didnt nail the Mercedes, bad as that crash was it could have gone a lot worse Yeah, that could've been like Gidley's wreck at Daytona a few years ago.
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:19 |
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argh, there goes Rast and Frijns as well....tough luck, that's endurance racing, but wondering why that wasn't a code 60....did the merc slow down so recently?
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:21 |
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tuo posted:argh, there goes Rast and Frijns as well....tough luck, that's endurance racing, but wondering why that wasn't a code 60....did the merc slow down so recently? Rast is also entered in the Land Audi I think.
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:25 |
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The Merc was shown a couple of minute previously going slowly around with what appears to be a puncture. He was just trying to get back to the pits at a safe pace and to the side of the track. Just really bad luck that he was in an awkard place for Dries to see him, AS he was alongside another car and he couldnt move further over, and just clipped it lovely luck, is all
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:26 |
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Xisticide posted:Rast is also entered in the Land Audi I think. oh yeah, of course! thanks!
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:27 |
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Goddamn, Sabine Schmitz is just co-comenting on german tv and explained why she doesn't drive: she has/had cancer and is still in late chemo but already back racing and somehow made a helicopter license during chemo....what a lady e: she's mainly concerned that the guys from the Opel Manta start to drink the beer of her team, leaving nothing to her tuo fucked around with this message at 20:34 on May 12, 2018 |
# ? May 12, 2018 20:30 |
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Misc Racing 2018: mainly concerned that the guys start to drink the beer of her team, leaving nothing to her
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:38 |
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tuo posted:Goddamn, Sabine Schmitz is just co-comenting on german tv and explained why she doesn't drive: she has/had cancer and is still in late chemo but already back racing and somehow made a helicopter license during chemo....what a lady gently caress
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:40 |
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The nurb 24 kind of reminds me of the times I've driven across Germany. Stretches where you go really fast with intermittent slow zones (road works) and lots of traffic since you are bound to hit rush hour at some point during the trip.
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:47 |
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Hello Darkness my old
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:47 |
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"Sabine Schmitz" posted:Normally, you think you are overdriving the car and yourself during the night, but overall, you are maybe twenty or thirty seconds slower than during the day.....apart - of course - from those brain damaged ones with a nail in their head, they only loose maybe five or six seconds....but I'm too old for that loving lol
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# ? May 12, 2018 20:51 |
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Ferrari catches fire? Ehhh gently caress, send it anyway
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# ? May 12, 2018 21:49 |
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"the fire extinguisher is on fire"MrChips posted:Ferrari catches fire? Ehhh gently caress, send it anyway The one single ferrari in the race and it catches fire because of course it does.
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# ? May 12, 2018 21:49 |
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The WTCC is less of a dumpster fire this year.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fy_8-fsjPY
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