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Lilou Wadoux has been selected for the Hypercar rookie test. Would be quite something if that turned into an actual drive. Doriane Pin gets and LMP2 test.
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Homie Alan Reinhart(cool dude just don't interrupt him while he's working) showing how much humanity we packed in to see cars zoom zoom. https://twitter.com/NHRAReinhart/status/1571196243610685441 I just hope they didn't expect to see the Jet Car today. That was last night. poo poo was wild. coconono fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 17, 2022 |
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The first lap of the Aragon MotoGP today was goddamn frightening. Luckily it seems nobody was badly hurt.
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https://twitter.com/JFR_Racing/status/1571520652590387202 big zooms. I wish they could capture the audio better. It rattles your chestplate.
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SlowBloke posted:Full fuji 6hrs recording from wec is up coconono posted:https://twitter.com/JFR_Racing/status/1571520652590387202 BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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Track record still stands. This was scary as poo poo: https://youtu.be/7QS3HnHZHpw The safari dudes are the best. Buy them food/booze/hookers if you meet them.
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Discord context: I think the Ukrainian military was able to capture one of Russia’s highest tech tanks fully in-tact, and that one can indeed shift into H. https://youtu.be/cXGAd-mMAKo At least the 15-minute highlights are still up for Fuji 6 Hours, honestly that might be all you need unless you really want a background noise race.
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harperdc posted:Discord context: I think the Ukrainian military was able to capture one of Russia’s highest tech tanks fully in-tact, and that one can indeed shift into H. I wonder what's up with fuji, they were supposed to do the 2022 fuji race live and they didn't and now they made the video private in less than a single day. Monza 2022 have the full race up since months.
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SlowBloke posted:I wonder what's up with fuji, they were supposed to do the 2022 fuji race live and they didn't and now they made the video private in less than a single day. Monza 2022 have the full race up since months. they...absolutely did the race live on the app? I think the US coverage was the first hour and the last 1.5 hours, which is weird but that's how it goes. Monza wasn't up right away either, I still think the Fuji 2022 round will come up on YouTube eventually but probably was just marked 'public' early.
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The full Monza video was uploaded 2 weeks after the race.
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harperdc posted:they...absolutely did the race live on the app? I think the US coverage was the first hour and the last 1.5 hours, which is weird but that's how it goes. I meant on youtube, they put up a live event that went private a few hours afterwards.
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WEC is making this thumbnail do the work https://youtu.be/xmDVjIHBxCU Getting tired of posting it
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This weekend is the finale of the IMSA championships, in the form of Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTa8bZAfjPQ Enjoy some highlights of the 1998 race, where the Le Mans-winning Porsche 911 GT1 '98 took to the skies. Notably this year is the 25th edition of the race, first sanctioned as IMSA, essentially the proof of concept for and the start of the American Le Mans Series, and continuing now after reconciliation with Grand-Am and formation of the current iteration of IMSA. With a major hurricane set to hit west Florida and possibly move through Georgia and the southeastern US this week and Saturday, there's even a chance the race is delayed to Sunday, which could be interesting as on-track action is apparently banned at the track during church hours (10-noon Sundays). Most importantly, the week after the race has a major publicized group test for the upcoming GTP class in IMSA, aka the Hypercars. Apparently all of the cars due to run in IMSA next year are going to appear, except for Porsche -- so that means Acura, BMW, and Cadillac.
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I'd missed that Frits Van Eerd had joined the hallowed ranks of motor racers doing crimes to fund their racing. https://www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/racing-team-nederland-withdraws-petit/10375091/ RTN car not running at Petit but given they just pay TDS and he's been chucked out of the sponsor, I suspect that's them done even if this doesn't go full Scott Tucker.
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Dudley posted:I'd missed that Frits Van Eerd had joined the hallowed ranks of motor racers doing crimes to fund their racing. quote:Van Eerd was reportedly arrested in connection with the case, only to be released days later, but he remains a suspect and has stepped down from his position as CEO of supermarket chain Jumbo, which sponsors RTN. ah, stepping down as CEO, that's ballgame. So this would've been the end of their season anyways - don't think they were in ELMS or coming to one-offs in the WEC this year, focusing just on the U.S. And the IMSA season is coming to a close with Petit this weekend. It's not exactly pulling the plug mid-way through a season, but it leaves big questions about if RTN is coming back next year (they probably won't if FvE has to spend his own money to do it I'm guessing). Sports car racing, got to love it.
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Yeah, it's a badge engineering entry anyway much like G-Drive was, so maybe TDS will just have a different name on the same program with at least one different driver somewhere next year in the same was as Algarve Pro did run the 45 in WEC this year even though it was less orange.
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Yeah, hoping TDS can just swap a new customer in for IMSA or ELMS next year, that would be the worst fallout from the whole ordeal. Van Erd can face whatever consequences the Dutch government deem fit and can prove in a court of law, but hopefully it doesn’t sink their P2 team operator. Still curious and waiting to see what the WEC class structure will be next year, I know for sure GTE Pro is gone (part of the reason I went to Fuji this year) but not sure if there’s been final decisions on the future of P2.
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For people that live across the world, is it a possibility that a hurricane cancels the race?
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algebra testes posted:For people that live across the world, is it a possibility that a hurricane cancels the race? For Petit Le Mans? I think it has a chance to make Friday (and possibly Saturday) rainy, but I don’t think it’s going to cause a cancellation as of now.  Worth watching for the next couple days, and hoping goons in Florida are alright and stay safe.
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algebra testes posted:For people that live across the world, is it a possibility that a hurricane cancels the race? They will have some form of racing, I was there when they had torrential rain that washed out a whole section of the track and the cars were hydroplaning over standing water on their aero undertrays. Granted they called the race as soon as they hit the 50% mark and I think it was GT cars 1-2-3 on the podium overall because the protos couldn't do any sort of pace in the weather.
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algebra testes posted:For people that live across the world, is it a possibility that a hurricane cancels the race? Some more on that: https://twitter.com/racermag/status/1575201244456833024 Oh if you click through to the hurricane-specific article it’s just John Doonan saying “we’re monitoring it and will behave accordingly,” plus the note that they can push the race all the way to Wednesday if needed thanks to the GTP test that was booked for after Petit.
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harperdc posted:This weekend is the finale of the IMSA championships, in the form of Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Also this video rules. Hodge podge 90s American Sports cars are so funny but also rule.
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harperdc posted:Yeah, hoping TDS can just swap a new customer in for IMSA or ELMS next year, that would be the worst fallout from the whole ordeal. Van Erd can face whatever consequences the Dutch government deem fit and can prove in a court of law, but hopefully it doesn’t sink their P2 team operator. Think P2 stays the same for one more year.
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https://twitter.com/fiawec/status/1575448798465253377 We’ve got a calendar for 2023, think the only addition is Portimao early in the season, which isn’t bad IMO. Hoping that from 2024 something like Kyalami or a race in Australia can join the calendar to boost the whole ‘world championship’ thing…Portimao, Spa and Monza are great, but that means as many non-Le Mans rounds in Europe as not.
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I'm not sure how the Hypercar/LMP2 cars would handle the course, but make the Bathurst 12 hr into a WEC event!
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I'm gonna need to try that in a sim but I think the answer is "Everyone is dead before the end of lap 1". Of practice.
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Bathurst 12hr is part of the international gt comp and is currently run by the same people who do the V8 super cars. Having attended multiple times pre Covid it’s a good event that attracts plenty of locals as well as a decent handful of international teams. Given we don’t really do prototype racing in aus it would cut the field quite a bit
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Does the the track need to be Catagory 1? If so Australia doesn't have any permanent Cat 1 tracks. Edit: I guess The Bend is Cat 2?
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WEC definitely doesn't require grade 1, as Sebring is grade 2. That said, Bathurst would be a terrible idea. The Bend, however, has proven itself decent for multiclass racing with the Asian Le Mans Series and I'd love to see it get a major world championship round.
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The plus of these new Hyperishcars I guess, if a circuit was ok for the old LMP2, it's going to be fine.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:WEC definitely doesn't require grade 1, as Sebring is grade 2. That said, Bathurst would be a terrible idea. The Bend, however, has proven itself decent for multiclass racing with the Asian Le Mans Series and I'd love to see it get a major world championship round. Yeah, it's a shame the AsLMS race there was overshadowed by the eastern half of Australia being on fire, and COVID looming. It's the one real option they have now that's relevant for WEC, Bathurst isn't suitable at all and none of the other permanent circuits are at that "grade 2 but probably 1 if they paid the F1 tax" level. I think the WEC is also trying to stick with Grade 1 circuits outside of Sebring and Le Mans which are kind of grandfathered in, every other circuit they've run through the history of the series has been Grade 1 (from memory - Spa, Fuji, Bahrain, COTA, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Silverstone, Nurburgring, Mexico City, Portimao...).
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They were looking hard at Kayalami as well, which is definitely "could be grade 1" build
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I wish WEC would come to CotA, but I have always wanted to go to Sebring.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:They were looking hard at Kayalami as well, which is definitely "could be grade 1" build Yeah I can’t remember if that was rumored or on a pre-pandemic list, but it’s definitely there. And the idea of F1 also going there means it’d obviously be grade 1 as well.
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F1 apparently gave Kyalami a list of changes, which given that practically the entire track was renovated not that long ago probably means F1 is not going there regardless of how much Hamilton desperately wants it.
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Arcella posted:I wish WEC would come to CotA, but I have always wanted to go to Sebring. They used to, up until... 2016 I think. When IMSA and them decided to do separate events it kinda killed it, because no one shows up to COTA except for F1 and MotoGP
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