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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I swear as a kid it used to start earlier in the day and take far longer to finish. I still prefer the 12 hr race but that’s not on till the start of next year so I’ll have to keep an eye on tickets It did start earlier, but with the Supercars being faster than their earlier Group A and C versions, means they can shorten the race time. Also gently caress Jamie Whingecup.
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You Am I posted:It did start earlier, but with the Supercars being faster than their earlier Group A and C versions, means they can shorten the race time. Whingecup is a dick in the 12hr race as well but I like heading out to it cause with the smaller crowd things tend to be more access all areas like there’s no extra price ticket option unless you want to sit in the grandstands. I used to enjoy the all day 1000k effort whereas these days it all done and dusted a little too quickly with a lack of big shunts
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CactusWeasle posted:Whincup fastest in qualifying, I guess top ten shootout still to go but that's disappointing. Hopefully he manages to screw up yet another Bathurst 1000 or we could be in for a runaway win with him and Dumbrell 
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Yes! Suck it Whingecup!
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Nice work Lowndesy
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You didn't miss too much if you didn't see Bathurst this year. It was an OK race with various incidents and happenings that had the threat of rain and some brief showers (one of which caused the track to steam up, which was cool) and a battle for the lead in the penultimate stint. Then the leader and last year's winner, Reynolds, started cramping up in his left leg and slowed to allow Lowndes to pass him and pull away. They doped his drinks bottle with gatorade and (sugar) pills for his last pit stop but then copped a penalty and had to serve a drivethrough. It was academic after that.
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Yeah it was pretty boring tbh. Reynolds looked pretty shook. I felt sorry for him when the interviewer just gave him a hug. I’m sad I missed whincups wheel incident 
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I'm okay with Lowndesy winning. He's been a legend of V8s for time and this is his last race as a full time driver. I also think having the Bathurst 1000 be the final event, like what the ACO is trying to pull with Le Mans the season after the SuperSeason(TM) would be a good idea.
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That was EPIC and pure drama, and holy crap that is awesome for Lowndes I'm sorry there werent enough crashes for some of you 
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Schlesische posted:I also think having the Bathurst 1000 be the final event, like what the ACO is trying to pull with Le Mans the season after the SuperSeason(TM) would be a good idea.
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CactusWeasle posted:That was EPIC and pure drama, and holy crap that is awesome for Lowndes Epic? Pure Drama? Hardly. It was just a fairly stock standard race at best and mostly completely forgettable. And I'm NOT one who watches Bathurst for crashes. And GG someone please tell Neil Crompton you don't have to talk every goddamn second - sometimes silence really is a good commentary.
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Wait. Doping in Australian Motorsport is giving drivers sweets during a race? Are wine gums considered performance enhancing by our antipodean cousins?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Epic? Pure Drama? Hardly. It was just a fairly stock standard race at best and mostly completely forgettable. And I'm NOT one who watches Bathurst for crashes. The last hour was, but every "best race ever" has its poo poo parts. Pick your favourite race ever and chances are you are only remembering the good parts. The situation with Reynolds and what they were doing to do with him, and a horror week for Lowdnes in his final full time season, with a car that was junk through 6 practice sessions with steering issues, maybe winning it? Well I enjoyed it. and Crompton is awesome, so im straight up saying screw you for that 
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Okay so this is awesome https://twitter.com/PorscheRaces/status/1049260653276516353 Porsche painting the factory 911 RSRs in the 1998 911 GT1 colors for Petit Le Mans. Looks great.
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Fuuuuuuck yes that owns
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harperdc posted:Okay so this is awesome nice It'll be nice trying to keep track of a race in my own time zone for once. It starts Saturday at 10:55AM eastern / 2:55PM GMT fyi. Basticle fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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Annoyingly I'm gonna miss the first few hours of the race, so I'll be stuck with DVR'd Fox one last time
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this is cool af https://racer.com/2018/10/08/panoz-gtr-1-and-deltawing-return-to-the-track-at-petit-le-mans/
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CactusWeasle posted:The last hour was, but every "best race ever" has its poo poo parts. Pick your favourite race ever and chances are you are only remembering the good parts. Wrong. Most people making GBS threads on this race dont do that at all. quote:and Crompton is awesome, so im straight up saying screw you for that Annnnd now I know you are trolling. Only a red headed step child would say that with a straight face
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CactusWeasle posted:The last hour was, but every "best race ever" has its poo poo parts. Pick your favourite race ever and chances are you are only remembering the good parts. Le Mans 2017 begs to differ. That race was great from start to finish, and I watched every glorious minute of it
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CactusWeasle posted:The last hour was, but every "best race ever" has its poo poo parts. Pick your favourite race ever and chances are you are only remembering the good parts. This is why shorter races are objectively better and rallycross is the one true racing format NASCAR introduced stages already haha
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Zaphod42 posted:This is why shorter races are objectively better and rallycross is the one true racing format Totally agree. I dig either the "one super short race after another" thing from WRX, or one hour sprint races with a couple of them over the weekend. I really like the series where there is a saturday and a sunday race, because it's always refreshing to see the "payback" from the day before. Two hour races are often simply half an hour too long. Either go short, or go 12/24 hour, but I'm all for shorter races, and then more of them.
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Long races are fine. The problem is that with the currently highly spec V8SC formula, the long races feature very little performance differentiation or attrition, so instead of endurance races, they just seem like really long regular races and are very frequently boring.
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Cygni posted:long road course races are cool
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Petit Le Mans is FOX's final IMSA broadcast. Have they said who's going to do races for them on NBC next year? I'm down as hell with Diffey and Hobbo (at least for the 24, if nothing else) being reunited with sports cars if that's an option.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Petit Le Mans is FOX's final IMSA broadcast. I dont think NBC has said for sure yet, same for the NASCAR and IndyCar sides. lots of lasts at Petit. last race on continental rubber for the protos, last race for the Patron sponsorship (and potentially the team as a whole), etc.
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They're going to need a sportscar crew so I vote to bring back Varsha. Most likely they just take Creamer and same guys and just continue on.
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we need more open engine development, all these BOP'd engines are way overbuilt and dont blow up nearly enough. Make Endurance Racing Endurance Again
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:we need more open engine development, all these BOP'd engines are way overbuilt and dont blow up nearly enough. last year's Le Mans made it fairly clear that builders will still build cars to the limit and break them down if they have actual competition for development
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:we need more open engine development, all these BOP'd engines are way overbuilt and dont blow up nearly enough. Mazda got your fix, man. They need to just stick a blackthumb under the engine cover of that car mad max style.
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Spec series, but everything designed by ByKolles
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:we need more open engine development, all these BOP'd engines are way overbuilt and dont blow up nearly enough. The Cadillac V8s were melting down at Daytona, the Nissans couldn't run at ambient temps above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and the Mazdas were always two steps away from turning into a fireball What more do you want, man
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