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I watched most of the overnight yesterday because time zone differences and lazy Sundays are a good mix, the midnight GTLM train was loving fantastic. Loved the midnight crew after the 100 BMW wrecked and Hindy was saying "I swear there used to be a tire barrier there between 1/2" and the camera starts bobbing up and down, Rooftop Ray confirming that Hindaugh doesn't have THAT poor a memory! Also the battles for lead in P was great too - I saw the moment when Fittipaldi in the 5 just ran out of tires, and the 2 and 10 went by. Heroic work by Jordan Taylor too, to come from feeling sick as a dog to a car that was trying to kill it's drivers is impressive. Good start to big-league racing for the year.
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Feb 1, 2016 07:52
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Because we have such a shortage of white, red and black LMP1 factory cars right now. Porsche better run in red this year.
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Feb 4, 2016 05:33
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H13 posted:That was a bloody good race. GT3 itself is a rules package, so companies build cars and an organizing body or two help balance them out - it's how such different cars as the GT-R and Audi R8 can be competitive and run similar laptimes. Those above mentioned are series where GT3 is the top class (or only class), and there are others where they'll be a lower-tier class - GTD in IMSA in the US is one such example. GT300 in Japanese SuperGT is another. GT3 is a really great move and it's become a really interesting and successful formulae.
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Feb 7, 2016 12:38
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Dudley posted:Certainly LeMans is going to be fairly mental. The Corvettes, 911s and Fords from the US meet the Aston Martins, Ferraris and er... Fords from the WEC. LM-spec Am cars are going to be 2015 spec this year but that may still allow them to be dangerous in the 24. But for the sprint races, yeah, forget it.
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Feb 7, 2016 23:54
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I for one enjoy the little grenade of snark being thrown by the works Vettes this year - American flag design around the front wheel ducting that also says "Made in the USA". Because the Ford GT is from north of the Maple Curtain, natch. I also like the "Am = last year's car" rules, but it wasn't that case last year and I don't think much changed. It's a good cost-savings and way to get use from the cars though.
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Feb 8, 2016 11:12
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And then there are some states without emissions at all - college roommate had a new Suburban from Colorado he didn't have to smog check at all. It was weird. I agree there's largely bigger fish to go after (the biggest of them all are ships, really, those things pollute like crazy) and I'm sure in time this will be clarified. Probably means the end of straight pipes on street cars, or for BETTER things that still remain emissions legal.
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Feb 10, 2016 23:09
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be nice wicka posted:hey guys It was a team/branding started with Nurburgring 24 and other more "grassroots" racing, kind of away from an old classic works team. But they've decided they want all of their motorsports (WEC, WRC next year, Nürburgring 24, Super GT, Super Formula, etc) under the one banner, and chose to go with that. I think it's also a pet project of Akio Toyoda who is the current president and has started to re-emphasize motorsports and the "fun to drive" factor. They changed the name of the WEC team last year but only from this year is it getting the new paint job.
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Feb 16, 2016 14:18
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be nice wicka posted:so they literally just picked the word "gazoo" because Japan There ya go
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Feb 16, 2016 14:29
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VikingSkull posted:please keep in mind these are both ostensibly VAG cars ...with the exact same engine, and quite possibly the same chassis.
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Feb 23, 2016 22:13
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Geez and the hits keep on coming for the drag racing community - Bob Vandergriff Jr. just announced he is retiring immediately, fired his whole staff and pulled his two top fuel cars from competition. What an incredibly lovely thing to do only a few races into the season (one in which they've had success!). I know there's a lot of real life there to deal with (people losing livelihoods mostly) but that has to have an interesting story behind it.
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Apr 12, 2016 10:38
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https://twitter.com/AUTOSPORT_web/status/726283350957133826 Autopolis is still closed until May 16th, and have shown more of the damage from the earthquakes. There was supposed to be Super Formula there this weekend, and I believe Super GT has been delayed as well.
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Apr 30, 2016 07:29
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Cygni posted:That's still a better surface than like 99% of tracks in the rest of the world Was announced this week that the Autopolis Super GT round has been canceled for this year, and a two-heat makeup race has been scheduled for later in the year at Fuji Speedway. Speaking of which, I need to go sort a boatload of photos from Super GT this week...Fuji Speedway is kind of a pain to get out to, but the facility itself is pretty amazing.
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May 6, 2016 05:16
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That Spa 6 hours was absolutely bananas. Such a shame the #5 Toyota went poof late.
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May 9, 2016 00:10
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Say what you will about IMS, but they at least run events better than COTA does. They know how to do sportscars, and I think if they moved the September double-header up to Indy, it would probably draw better and better. The actual circuit might be better at COTA, but they're proving themselves unable to sell an event. MotoGP ran the 2.6 mile version of the circuit, so it would be a short and fast track compared to a lot of the ones run on the WEC.
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May 31, 2016 23:30
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Cubey posted:I'd rather see WEC go to like Road Atlanta or VIR or a track that's actually legitimately good. The Indy road course is still a step up from COTA though so whatever. We've been through this, but besides Le Mans they won't go to a track that isn't F1/MotoGP grade. I know that the grading isn't purely for safety but instead is also a deposit to their favorite charity (the FIA), but in most cases the grading is a good basic guide to follow. I'm not mad at it. COTA is a shitshow organizer with an okay track in a tough place to host races, while IMS is a worse roval at the American cathedral of speed with a tradition of racing events drawing incredibly well backed by people with money. It's easy math.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:16
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Xisticide posted:It won't, they haven't been using the radio feed at all for a couple of years now and Graham and John are too busy doing that to do the usual dedicated stream comms. from what I remember (posted by Eve in the MWM collective on Facebook): Le Mans chooses a different set of people to commentate Le Mans. I have zero clue why they do this, but they do. Therefore, while all the 6-hour WEC races have Hindy and Goodwin, the official stream does not for Le Mans - they will be on RLM instead. Kinda sucks, but at least we now have the option to align streams and cobble together the best coverage. I remember the dark old days when all we had was Speed TV coverage in the U.S. (after the great years where Speedvision had full coverage save the Canadian GP).
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Jun 8, 2016 23:45
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Kilonum posted:Thankfully this year they are separate weekends the European GP at Baku is set to be the same weekend as Le Mans. that's like 9 days away and I'm not sure that GP will actually happen. at least we know Le Mans will!
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Jun 9, 2016 12:58
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wicka posted:if FOM had to be dicks and schedule a race on the same day as le mans, i'm really glad they picked the one no one cares about and one most likely to be canceled (because holy jesus that circuit  ) buuuut too late for anybody to pull a Hulkenberg and make the Le Mans attempt alongside F1 commitments.Ah well, at least they're not trying to torpedo the entire championship like Bernie did in the early '90s.
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Jun 9, 2016 13:25
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uwaeve posted:I think I bought it last year, but refresh my memory: is the official stream purchased through the app (I have one called 24H Le Mans on the phone)? I don't see any purchase option in the app, but it may need to be closer to the weekend, idk. If you do it on the app, you can only access through the app. If you buy it on the WEC site, you can also watch live on PC. They finally added the ability to watch afterwards but that's also only on the app as well. tl;dr sign up on the site and connect to the app.
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Jun 13, 2016 23:17
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Xisticide posted:You can do it the other way and it should work automatically but I had to email them before Spa to get it to detect the purchase on the PC. not in years past. glad your case worked out this year though. Also, this article from Marshall Pruett interviewing drivers about the experience of driving some of the monstrous 1,000 hp plus prototypes is a pretty good read. It's worth it just for Mark Blundell's final lines regarding that old Nissan he set a record in.
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Jun 14, 2016 15:03
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VikingSkull posted:To be fair, it's all a bit clinical in the modern cars. Blundell and those guys did it the hard way, straight up, 1,000 on the ground with lag and all that poo poo. Big balls. From what the modern drivers have said in that article and elsewhere, though, it sounds like the electric motor power still hits like a ton of bricks. And I'm guessing they're doing all that with fewer megajoules of total energy (IC/hybrid combined) than cars like the Nissan R90 or even the late '90s ones.
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Jun 15, 2016 09:22
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Bentai posted:Tempting, Vue has all the channels I want for auto racing and soccer. I just wish there was a Windows/OSX app. I have heard that a Vue login works just like Comcast/etc for logging into *those* respective streaming apps. Food for thought as well.
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Jun 16, 2016 00:09
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VikingSkull posted:I'm sure they do hit like a ton of bricks, but it's the same controlled hit lap after lap. Drivers can adjust to it. Mechanical turbo cars were far more influenced by weather conditions and throttle position, plus they didn't have traction control to act as a filter. Blundell's description of the stuck-wastegate Nissan is fantastic - spinning them up in 4th. Those cars were definitely brutal, turbo lag is definitely a hell of a thing.
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Jun 16, 2016 11:20
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Did they even have any IMSA P teams there? If they didn't have any then it's pointless, but yeah I guess if you want to kill off your P2 bracket, that's the way to do it. None of the IMSA teams are going to buy new cars for 1 race if they have no plans of running full time in the WEC. ESM run in some of the IMSA rounds, Schank came over for this year's Le Mans and rumor had the current DP Visit Florida team visiting this year in advance of running next year. As well, it's a major slap against any of the manufacturers who wanted to run P2s in IMSA and try to jump over to Le Mans with them (Mazda, Cadillac, potentially Bentley or others) because while they could run the same chassis, it wouldn't be with their bodywork or engine.
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Jun 17, 2016 11:15
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91 Porsche 911 just went kablammo in "the most comprehensive way possible"
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Jun 18, 2016 23:58
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Cubey posted:That was a proper engine failure on the 91 car. not quite as long a tail of smoke as an LMP1 or F1 car, but a pretty tremendous puff while it lasted, call that a 7/10 on the engine-going-boom scale. Safety car coming back in this lap.
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Jun 19, 2016 00:24
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GramCracker posted:What actually went wrong with the Porsche 919 they pulled into the garage and basically completely disassembled? I had to run out for dinner and missed the rest. Unsure what cost them the first hour-plus, RLM speculated battery issues, but the most recent time in the pits was apparently the water pump. Also good lord the official feed commentary is loving dire. I'm sticking with RLM.
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Jun 19, 2016 01:34
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Cubey posted:The current WEC team is not great. The other team they have is really good though. Radio Le Mans are on all the other races so it's fine, but ugh I listened to about 15 minutes and that was plenty.
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Jun 19, 2016 01:44
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Love seeing people catch a case of the dawn stupidity at Le Mans. At least Dalla Lana didn't hit the wall this time. I think Toyota's still in with a shout as they have two cars on the lead lap. Still think we have more LMP1 troubles to come.
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Jun 19, 2016 05:43
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68 Ford finally got through to first in GTE-Pro, the gold driver of the Risi Ferrari crew got reigned in and passed by. And now, looks like the 5 and 2 put another lap on the #6 Toyota. Razzle Dazzle noooooo #Edit the #8 Audi looks slow on the Mulsanne too. Audi just completely hosed the dog this year didn't they?
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Jun 19, 2016 09:38
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Kamui gon' Kamui
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Jun 19, 2016 10:19
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looks for the most part like it'll be #5 Toyota vs. #2 Porsche to the end. Toyota currently has an ~1 min lead, and the #6 was pulled into the pits for a short while to 2:30 left. Still a lot to play for.
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Jun 19, 2016 11:30
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Basticle posted:I finnally passed out with sbout 6 hours left, trying to catch up....dosent look like much changed other than the ford passing the ferrari....what happened to the audi its like 14 laps down, it was catching up before if memory serves, a long time in the pits fixing the brake/wheel hub. both Audis have had those issues throughout, and spent lots of time in the garage.
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Jun 19, 2016 11:42
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Jun 19, 2016 14:00
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Xisticide posted:It's only happened to them once, Toyota went through this in 1999 too. 1994 too. and bad luck in other races as well. unreal. absolutely unreal.
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Jun 19, 2016 14:16
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George Zimmer posted:I'm wondering if Toyota will continue with the program. This might be too cruel. of course they will. a couple other times they've been incredibly close; this one just happened with 5 minutes on the clock. They'll be absolutely gutted, heartbroken, and so frustrated once more, but they'll be back. And you have to imagine they've still got a great chance to take the WEC title too, but without scoring points at Le Mans...gonna be tough.
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Jun 19, 2016 14:35
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Xisticide posted:Boost pressure control system failure according to a 2nd hand translation of a Japanese blog. Fits the loss of turbo with no smoke description. god drat, that's horrible luck to have that fail at that time.
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Jun 20, 2016 23:20
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Dudley posted:To be fair, Bernie was a little unlucky that it all went south at LeMans as the F1s were on their formation lap. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that more of the press could easily get visas for France than for Azerbaijan. But the WEC has been on the way up the last few years, so it's not a massive shock.
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Norns posted:Also Baku started right as Le Mans finished. That's a pretty big "only thing," and especially when it seemed like other drivers are/were interested in doing Le Mans alongside a full-time F1 drive. It prevents someone like Hulkenberg from defending his title.
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