Misc Racing Thread 2019: I woke up to a smoking hulk

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njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

net work error posted:

There's a Subaru in BTCC?

The Levorg, aside from the BMW I think it's the only other RWD car in the series. It's Jason Plato's pet project if memory serves.

# ? Mar 26, 2019 23:27

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# ? May 29, 2024 21:57

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

It was setup as a Plato pet project but over the three years he was shown up first by The Turk and then Ash Sutton. 2 wins to Turk+Sutton's 17 wins. Last year he scored 26pts to Sutton's 256. He's lost a bit of his media shine, mostly due to how he's responded to the drop on performance.

He's now switched to an Astra with Rob Collard as his team mate.

# ? Mar 26, 2019 23:40

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

njsykora posted:

The Levorg, aside from the BMW I think it's the only other RWD car in the series. It's Jason Plato's pet project if memory serves.

They made the Levorg RWD for the BTCC? Huh. Okay. Guess they don�t want AWD cars.

# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:40

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

It was part of Plato constantly bitching that he'd have won every btcc title in the last ten years if he had a RWD car which is why him driving like poo poo in it is hilarious

# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:49

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

harperdc posted:

They made the Levorg RWD for the BTCC? Huh. Okay. Guess they don’t want AWD cars.

For me its more the WTF a Subaru chassis actually works as a RWD. Usually they become twitchy snap oversteer nasty pricks with evil chassis balance when you convert to rear drive only.

Levorg is based on a 5th gen Liberty... do you need to retain much of the stick suspenion in BTCC these days or is it fairly free?

# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:14

track day bro!: Feb 17, 2005; #essereFerrari; Grimey Drawer

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

For me its more the WTF a Subaru chassis actually works as a RWD. Usually they become twitchy snap oversteer nasty pricks with evil chassis balance when you convert to rear drive only.

Levorg is based on a 5th gen Liberty... do you need to retain much of the stick suspenion in BTCC these days or is it fairly free?

The whole front and rear subframes are spec and made by RML.

Seeing as bmw are running a 3 series now, maybe we could just go back to saloons again. Get a C-Class, jag XE, alfa giulia etc. I might actually follow the series then

# ? Mar 27, 2019 09:14

an oddly awful oud: May 1, 2008; all my friends are pieces of shit

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

For me its more the WTF a Subaru chassis actually works as a RWD. Usually they become twitchy snap oversteer nasty pricks with evil chassis balance when you convert to rear drive only.

Levorg is based on a 5th gen Liberty... do you need to retain much of the stick suspenion in BTCC these days or is it fairly free?

I'm trying to imagine driving a Subaru/Audi with the front driveshafts removed and yeah, that sounds about right

# ? Mar 27, 2019 11:51

Sneaks McDevious: Jul 29, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

track day bro! posted:

Seeing as bmw are running a 3 series now, maybe we could just go back to saloons again. Get a C-Class, jag XE, alfa giulia etc. I might actually follow the series then

They must also be forced to use the liveries from the ITC days.

# ? Mar 28, 2019 14:56

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

track day bro! posted:

The whole front and rear subframes are spec and made by RML.

So that would also mean customised mounts to the shell and tower changes and the required geometry movements. Okay yeah I see how it can work now. Thanks

# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:24

iwentdoodie: Apr 29, 2005; 🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

https://www.imsa.com/news/042019/imsa51-imsa-celebration-takes-new-name-after-1968-race-discovery

Wonder if they'll stop selling all the merch now also

# ? Apr 1, 2019 17:29

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

april fools day is loving stupid

e: ok this is good at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf3BmxHcSYY

Cygni fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Apr 1, 2019

# ? Apr 1, 2019 17:39

CactusWeasle: Aug 1, 2006; It's not a party until the bomb squad says it is

iwentdoodie posted:

https://www.imsa.com/news/042019/imsa51-imsa-celebration-takes-new-name-after-1968-race-discovery

Wonder if they'll stop selling all the merch now also

There's a few years that shouldnt count anyway

You know the ones I mean

# ? Apr 1, 2019 21:15

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

iwentdoodie posted:

https://www.imsa.com/news/042019/imsa51-imsa-celebration-takes-new-name-after-1968-race-discovery

Wonder if they'll stop selling all the merch now also

what date was that posted

# ? Apr 2, 2019 13:46

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

More chatter about what Ford is gonna do in GT racing. Racer seems to think that the GTs may keep rolling until 2022 if Ford decides against the Multimatic DPi for 2020-2021.

https://racer.com/2019/04/02/insight-what-next-for-fords-imsa-program/

# ? Apr 2, 2019 20:20

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

Cygni posted:

More chatter about what Ford is gonna do in GT racing. Racer seems to think that the GTs may keep rolling until 2022 if Ford decides against the Multimatic DPi for 2020-2021.

https://racer.com/2019/04/02/insight-what-next-for-fords-imsa-program/

It also sounds like DPi choice is �Go now or go into DPi 2.0 with a hybrid system,� too. Continuing with the GTs would help them keep the program going until the.

# ? Apr 3, 2019 06:06

an oddly awful oud: May 1, 2008; all my friends are pieces of shit

IMSA just gave the Acura DPis a considerable weight break and increased boost for Long Beach even though they took pole and tied for second at Sebring qualifying

well ok then

# ? Apr 4, 2019 04:09

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

The madness that is the BTCC returns this weekend.

# ? Apr 5, 2019 09:29

Dudley: Feb 24, 2003; Tasty

JingleBells posted:

After some BTCC chat on Discord I looked at some of the cars & drivers we have this year, there are a few interesting things I spotted. Reigning champion Colin Turkington will be in a proper BMW this year:

Tom Ingram will be racing a Toyota Corolla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjNLNISWrvQ

There are two rookie drivers to look out for in the Jack Sears trophy (eligible for drivers who have finished on the a podium in BTCC), first is Lewis Hamilton's younger brother Nicolas with his specially modified Ford Focus to help him race with his Cerebal Palsy while more excitingly second we have former British Formula Ford champion Mark Blundell.

And neither of them are getting anywhere near the podium. It's more likely neither will score a point.

# ? Apr 6, 2019 14:11

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Blundell put it in the gravel in qualifying so will start from the back. The first race might be delayed due to thick fog.

# ? Apr 7, 2019 10:34

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Hamilton tried his best to take out the leader!

# ? Apr 7, 2019 13:13

Dudley: Feb 24, 2003; Tasty

Pablo Bluth posted:

Blundell put it in the gravel in qualifying so will start from the back. The first race might be delayed due to thick fog.

And somehow already ruined my prediction he wouldn't score.

# ? Apr 7, 2019 13:56

CactusWeasle: Aug 1, 2006; It's not a party until the bomb squad says it is

It feels so weird seing Mark Blundell in BTCC in 2019

# ? Apr 7, 2019 14:15

Dudley: Feb 24, 2003; Tasty

It's only a couple of seasons since we had Donnely to be fair.

And not so far before that for Herbert.

# ? Apr 7, 2019 22:36

njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

If you're in the UK all the BTCC races are up on the ITV site. Watching the first race right now and the tire shenanigans are quite funny.

# ? Apr 9, 2019 03:57

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

im shocked (SHOCKED) that World Challenge already wants to go back to sharing dates with Indycar

https://racer.com/2019/04/09/world-challenge-looking-to-rekindle-indycar-ties/

# ? Apr 9, 2019 20:00

George Zimmer: Jun 28, 2008

How much of the old World Challenge remains in the current series? I like SRO, their series have done well IMO.

# ? Apr 9, 2019 21:52

gret: Dec 12, 2005; goggle-eyed freak

Apparently there will be no livestreams of SuperGT this season.

https://twitter.com/NickCassidy_/status/1116827280804761600

# ? Apr 13, 2019 01:22

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

gret posted:

Apparently there will be no livestreams of SuperGT this season.

https://twitter.com/NickCassidy_/status/1116827280804761600

In tyool 2019

# ? Apr 13, 2019 01:36

marshalljim: Mar 6, 2013; yospos

booooooo

# ? Apr 13, 2019 01:40

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

Yeah, Nissan got so far out of the game they've apparently nuked the NISMO.tv YouTube channel from orbit.

But that's been running for four or five years. Surely -- SURELY -- Nissan would've told the GTA how popular this was getting? That it was actually getting some traction overseas? That it meant people weren't just running to the pirate site to download an upload of the J Sports broadcast...

This is the most head-in-the-sand old Japanese man thing I've seen in a while. I shouldn't be so shocked, but here we are.

# ? Apr 13, 2019 01:46

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

harperdc posted:

Yeah, Nissan got so far out of the game they've apparently nuked the NISMO.tv YouTube channel from orbit.

But that's been running for four or five years. Surely -- SURELY -- Nissan would've told the GTA how popular this was getting? That it was actually getting some traction overseas? That it meant people weren't just running to the pirate site to download an upload of the J Sports broadcast...

This is the most head-in-the-sand old Japanese man thing I've seen in a while. I shouldn't be so shocked, but here we are.

Yeah pretty much, the guys running GTA have no loving clue how popular SuperGT is outside Japan, and are going to wind up killing interest in the series outside of Japan because of this.

# ? Apr 13, 2019 01:58

net work error: Feb 26, 2011

What I liked about the Nismo broadcasts was that I could watch it the next day because catching it live is pretty much impossible for me so even a reddit stream link won't be worth it. It's a bummer because Okayama races are always good too.

# ? Apr 13, 2019 02:09