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CactusWeasle posted:This. Even with the aeroscreen I'm still nervous watching races at Texas. MazeOfTzeentch posted:Was it the best race? Nah. Cygni posted:Race wasn't great but tbh thats probably what Texas races should look like if we are gonna keep running there. Running side by side at these speeds is an invitation for disaster. perhaps we should ask our selves why we are still watching when the definition of a "good race" is no one being maimed/killed wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Cause I like the vroomvrooms
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# ? Jun 10, 2020 00:16 |
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watching the end of the race and just noticed that Penske teams are having one pit crew member dress in a different colored fire suit -- the right-front tire man. JoNew's pit crew was in black and his right-front guy was in white, for Pagenaud his right-front guy was in a red suit. Doesn't happen without a reason, so wondering if Perfect Penske has found another little life-hack for pit stops.
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# ? Jun 10, 2020 12:26 |
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Why is the next race a month away? Super odd.
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 05:29 |
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It was originally a three week stretch from Texas to Richmond anyway. With the cancellation of that and bumping the Indy GP to July 4th, it's a slightly longer stretch.
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 02:23 |
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harperdc posted:watching the end of the race and just noticed that Penske teams are having one pit crew member dress in a different colored fire suit -- the right-front tire man. JoNew's pit crew was in black and his right-front guy was in white, for Pagenaud his right-front guy was in a red suit. That's the crew chief, I believe. I think the other teams do something similar?
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# ? Jun 14, 2020 05:15 |
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Zanardi's new gig looks p sweet: https://twitter.com/CBS4Mark/status/1272378355145457670
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 06:18 |
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I went and saw this today
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 12:30 |
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96i correct?
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 14:48 |
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Such a good looking car.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 14:55 |
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An Interesting thing that I heard was that the Lola T96/00 was actually the better chassis - however the only team running the superior Honda/Firestone combo with the Lola was Tasman who were a relatively small operation.
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 14:55 |
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Frond posted:96i correct? Yep. At Honda’s museum at Twin Ring. [edit] vvvvvv no on-board starter harperdc fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jun 16, 2020 |
# ? Jun 16, 2020 01:29 |
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harperdc posted:I went and saw this today Why did you not try to steal it and drive it out of the museum ala Driven
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 01:33 |
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I'd love to see Toyota come back if only for races at Fuji. I guess Suzuka could happen now since nobody in F1 cares about Bernie anymore.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 02:26 |
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Minto Took posted:I'd love to see Toyota come back if only for races at Fuji. Suzuka would be the better circuit, but I think the current cars would be racy at the Motegi road course. And the oval is still standing, just would need a little work. The facility is pretty nice all told, just a little ways from Tokyo -- both it and Fuji are cases where you take the highway out and then have to follow two-lane roads for a long while, with Fuji being a bit more populated and a little bit closer to the highway.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 03:15 |
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I must be one of only a few people who enjoyed the twin ring.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 13:37 |
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harperdc posted:Yep. At Honda’s museum at Twin Ring. But if it's in Honda's collection, they keep everything needed to run the car. So somewhere in that museum is the starter, along with some vintage laptops.
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# ? Jun 16, 2020 20:41 |
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Custard Undies posted:I must be one of only a few people who enjoyed the twin ring. the oval was alright, and I don't hate the road course as much as others (although it's way way better for motorcycles than cars) I loving despise Fuji, though
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 01:23 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:But if it's in Honda's collection, they keep everything needed to run the car. So somewhere in that museum is the starter, along with some vintage laptops. That’s just a Grand Theft Auto mission waiting to happen. Twin Ring and Fuji both have a lot more elevation change than you’d think, and Motegi road course looks like it’s easier to get access around the circuit. Some of the banks around the downhill back straight at Motegi give you a view of almost the entire road course. Might not be the most exciting layout for cars, but I’m much more curious about seeing a race there now.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 02:26 |
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Fuji would be a great circuit if it wasn’t for that lovely final section.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 03:03 |
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I’d like them to go to Sugo which is massively underrated.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 03:04 |
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Frond posted:I’d like them to go to Sugo which is massively underrated. It’s like the dreams of international series going to Road America.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 03:37 |
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fuji and motegi are the two worst road courses on the planet
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 04:36 |
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Sugo is terrific fun
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 05:05 |
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I could see the motegi road course being awesome for bikes but for cars it's all just second gear hairpins and it's boring af
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 06:31 |
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:fuji and motegi are the two worst road courses on the planet Sochi is worse.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 15:00 |
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Isnt Sochi a street circuit
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 17:37 |
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Basticle posted:Isnt Sochi a street circuit Car park circuit.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 18:20 |
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Basticle posted:Isnt Sochi a street circuit Sochi doesn't count at all ever anywhere
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 18:44 |
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The Croc posted:Car park circuit. Long Beach is technically a parking lot circuit.
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 22:54 |
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https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1274025365531504648
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# ? Jun 19, 2020 18:07 |
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:fuji and motegi are the two worst road courses on the planet Homestead Kansas Phoenix COTA Indy
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# ? Jun 19, 2020 18:11 |
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COTA is by no stretch of the imagination a bad circuit. It’s better than Motegi and modern Fuji.
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# ? Jun 19, 2020 18:20 |
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iwentdoodie posted:Phoenix I'd ask "F1, roval, or Champ Car" but the first two no longer exist and the third never happened, thankfully.
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# ? Jun 19, 2020 18:51 |
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iwentdoodie posted:Homestead i mean rovals have constraints to them, and much like street tracks, i place them in a different category altogether than road courses. also i don't think the homestead roval is that bad, and i love kansas because of how blatantly obvious it is that the track designer gave less than zero fucks about a roval layout for it. and i hate cota and all but it doesn't belong anywhere in a conversation of worst tracks in the world. it's real bad but i can name a dozen worse road tracks just off the top of my head.
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# ? Jun 20, 2020 01:02 |
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COTA is just as bad as like a dozen other tracks built in the last twenty years which itself is a travesty
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# ? Jun 20, 2020 15:02 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:COTA is just as bad as like a dozen other tracks built in the last twenty years which itself is a travesty yeah that's why i can't necessarily count it as one of the worst. it's bad but not uniquely bad. if we wanted to go that route regarding modern gp tracks, yas marina is the indisputable worst of those. buddh is also real terrible.
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# ? Jun 21, 2020 02:43 |
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I kinda dug Buddh, but yeah Yas Marina is indisputably the worst. Like you have a blank check to build a giant motorsports palace and that is what you come up with? That Valencia street course was also terrible. Sepang and Istanbul were the best of the tracks that popped up over the last 20 years.
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# ? Jun 21, 2020 03:22 |
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Compared with some of the tracks that have popped up in the US in recent times -- Miller in Utah, VIR (re-opening) and Barber -- some of the international ones also have the stress of being The Major International Circuit For This Country which means they're designing for the whims of Formula 1 and/or MotoGP. Barber and Miller don't have to worry about that, which is nice. Still doesn't excuse things like Yas Marina, especially when also part of why I was impressed with Motegi was as a spectator, it looks pretty easy to get around. Fuji is similar -- you can walk to almost every corner pretty easily, and there's plenty of hills and interesting places to walk from. Motegi has the bonus that some of the hills would give you a sightline to almost the entire circuit. This is separate from the in-car experience (but even then, I've grown to enjoy Fuji in GT Sport, last section and all).
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hunnert car pileup posted:I kinda dug Buddh, but yeah Yas Marina is indisputably the worst. Like you have a blank check to build a giant motorsports palace and that is what you come up with? the thing that really seals the deal for yas marina is how they gave so little of a poo poo when designing it that they forgot about where they were putting a parking lot when making the track layout, so when it came time to build it they just put a kink on the main straightaway to accommodate it they just gave. no. fucks.
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