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wicka posted:I think one of the FCA brands or Mercedes are most likely. Maybe in a fantasy land where FCA actually has cash on hand.
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COTA is good because it's going to be the last ever new full service road course to open in the US.
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It's really hard to understate how special Ford was as a company. It was truly the first global company. Before the war the majority of private cars in Germany and Japan were Fords, they had large scale factories in both countries. They got supremely hosed over by WWII taking away their factories and it's really no coincidence that Germany and Japan emerged as strong passenger vehicle manufacturers. Americans think of Ford as a domestic make but Ford = car worldwide for a long time.
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Jan 23, 2017 16:45
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Fuzzys schedules are like that voice-over in the Twisted Metal 2 intro. Even.... Antarctica.
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Jan 25, 2017 16:50
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I used to watch sub-par programming 'because it was on', but now there is so much stuff to do; presenting itself through social networks or feeds or whatever I can't remember the last time I just veg'd out like that.
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Mar 1, 2017 03:25
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njsykora posted:1 oval isn't gonna cut it if you listen to some fans. You could throw in the PantsRing, but being perfectly round I'm not sure if that counts as an oval.
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Mar 14, 2017 02:18
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Cygni posted:also important to remember that for most of the teams, those dudes you see on pit lane are the same dudes repairing the car in the paddock, and the same dudes in the shop getting the car ready for the next race. assembling bodies, preparing tubs, doing shock packages, rebuilding gearboxes, everything. even the truck drivers are often the 'jack of all trades', setting up the pit box, fetching tires, etc. everybodies got 6 jobs, which means those back-to-backs mean fly out thurs morning, 12 hour days at the track, pray you mechanical out early so you can catch a sunday night flight home, get 1 day off if youre lucky, then back at the shop as soon as the truck shows up for 16 hour days tues+wed to turn the car around, then back out to the next race thurs morning. Sounds like any prod engineering job ever, tbh.
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Mar 16, 2017 13:29
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The golden time to get a 3rd OEM was like a year and a half ago, too bad they were too busy with aero kits then. Right now the market has a pretty negative outlook. I don't think Lambo is going to go, why would they care about racing against Chevy & Honda? Toyota is mashing money into facilities and restructuring now, plus this seems like it'd have to be a rebadge for time sake which isn't their style. I think it would work for Alfa but who knows the political dynamic between them and FCA-US. Also the negative market is really bad for them. I don't really understand the necessity of a 3rd OEM is honestly, series is pretty good as is and IndyCar seems sensitive to parity arguments anyway.
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Apr 14, 2017 00:26
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Was drinking beer today with mugs and some guy who doesn't even have racing on his radar brought up Alonso coming to the 500.
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Apr 23, 2017 02:35
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Cygni posted:Uncle probably knows better than me (i think he works in this world), but it sure seems like Hybrids are dying unless your name is Toyota or youre making a hyper car. Pretty much every new non-truck I see these days is an I4 turbo or V6 turbo. 2017 Lexus NX, Merc GLC, Lincoln Continental, Volvo S90, etc. Unless you are reusing an older engine, really seems like everything new is I4 or V6 with a snail. Pretty much local regulations drive what OEMs offer in that region, EV, hybrid, turbo, diesel whatever. Every company has development programs for each powertrain but due to patents and profits in reality it becomes a messy tech share orgy. Motorsports are a showcase and marketing effort primarily so the world racing series like F1 and WEC have to appeal to wide range of markets. Hybrid is perfect for that. Hybrid powertrains aren't some clearly separate and unique thing from other powertrains, but are basically a EV coupled to an ICE with a motor generator in between. So, with a single effort you can cover all markets. I think overall hybrids are in ok shape, they've really moved from specialized chassis to higher trim levels in most fleets and you probably don't even notice them driving around anymore. They actually help the most in SUVs, and while gas prices now don't help I'm sure they'll come back. If standard high throughput charging becomes better then EVs will probably supplant them. For small, affordable cars it is hard to see batteries coming in for a while - for these cars sometimes absolute profit margins become smaller than smartphones. Which is ridiculous when you compare supply chains. So reducing displacement with turbos makes sense in that class as long as the turbo is robust. Honestly a lot of the passenger car secret sauce resides in ECUs and instrumentation which is controlled strictly in every racing series. I wish there was a series which took out aero and let them try to get traction back through electronic controls. I think these days aero development costs more than these electronic solutions - its not 1994 anymore and everyone KNOWS how to do it. Then you also get back custom engine control and monitoring... If they can make the engine do more, and expose it a little so you could see that poo poo on TV, that'd be good.
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harperdc posted:All of this is excellent but wanted to add - to wicka's question about batteries, they can be recycled within their lifespan (you know Tesla's power wall? Daimler/Mercedes is working on the same, both for home and commercial use) and the tech continues to be developed to, hopefully, do more and be much cleaner in the supply chain. You probably know but companies in Japan already sell battery bank, panels, and car as a package. But I think the issue is that cars give such economic potential to their owners so you're going to get more money selling a run down ev versus repurposing the pack to some storage bank. I think team battery development is very difficult because batteries store energy and are dangerous done improperly. I'd like to see small tracks downtown running evs but again for a low cost series it's difficult. You wad up an ev, immediately the battery pack is forever suspect and it costs more than the rest of the car.
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May 6, 2017 15:48
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I remember the Andrettis chasing each other and no pit limit because the cars would bounce around like crazy. I kinda miss the days without the grass in the turns.
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May 19, 2017 05:37
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Man if Pippa beats Sarah's qual record I'm gonna be sad cause Fischer is a billion times cooler than Pippa.
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May 19, 2017 17:59
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Wow Bourdais' steering wheel. Not the steering wheel, wtf is that thing? It keeps bouncing off his head then hangs out of the car at the end.
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iospace posted:? Pic?  Its the thing against the wall in the pic attached with a cord, and the cord comes out of the cockpit.
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May 21, 2017 00:11
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FuzzySkinner posted:I kept seeing those comments on various YT videos of Alonso's run. Any time spent worrying about YT comments is a waste of human time spent in this universe and all sentient beings in the galaxy are stupider for it, including this post.
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May 21, 2017 19:09
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So Bourdais is out of the race. But what if they asked YOU to take his place? Try to do so with Indianapolis 500: The Simulation  Will Ed lead off into turn 1? I have no idea but it's called a simulation so... I modded the old game with the grid and performance of this year's cars. Hondas will be faster in the straights and slower in the corners. I took off 4mph from the qual speed because I can't boost player car performance and while ~232-231 is possible in qualifying its really unfun to achieve. If everything is too easy I can return the numbers. Get dosbox and extract the files from the zip and use runme.bat (otherwise you'll get PC speaker sound which is terrible) within Dosbox. If you're not familiar with DOS the commands will be Z:\> mount c c:\directoryUnzippedTo Z:\> c:\ C:\> runme Filez: http://dropcanvas.com/4hgm8
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May 22, 2017 03:30
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What the gently caress Daly https://puppiesmakemehappy.com/collections/mens-best-sellers/products/puppercut-mens-tee
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Really good but a little disappointed with no bumper on the speedway car.
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May 24, 2017 21:51
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Latest forecast is 50% all day until 7pm, usually means scattered tstorms.
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May 27, 2017 18:28
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My fear its going to be 5 laps green, 15 laps yellow, 45 min red, ad infinium until we lurch across the halfway point and the race is called.
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May 27, 2017 20:12
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I had a trip but finally watched the race and it was a good one. Would watch again (please change the booth crew)
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May 30, 2017 18:03
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Motorsport is always going to have people who missed rides they deserved and people who got rides undeserved. The money spent per hour of practice is absolutely insane among sports, and that's always going to cause poo poo to be weird.
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Jun 1, 2017 01:28
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That was some pro marshalling there though, that one dude put out a giant fire with a portable extinguisher.
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Boy howdy I love that all of the garbage tweets and youtube comments and trackforum posts I specifically avoid get reposted here like its some sort of link aggregator of garbage. Also yeah Belle Isle gets a lot of visitors in the summer, its quite nice. I mean, I've gone in March and they've already setup the jersey barriers and fencing for the race which is pretty uggo, so I can understand some of the gnashing of teeth. Uncle Jam fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:you're a miserable gently caress aren't you? Am I more, or less miserable than Jenna Fryer's twitter account?
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FuzzySkinner posted:It's like here's the thing. I dunno about the worst thread, you post a ton more there than I do. It'd be cool though to have posting to be better than slightly-less-poo poo-than-the-poo poo and actually have content and not just a bunch of cp twitter.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Well give me an example of what you want then? Dude I'm not gonna list out some 12 step process for improved posting. But just reposting some randoms' opinion where the only thing anyone can do about it is get angry and stamp feet is pointless and checking twitter it is a veritable firehose of garbage (Maybe I'm old but I don't understand how people who actual put worthwhile stuff there deal with that). Every second of the day there will be something showing up there that will make you angry and you can spend the rest of your life mounting this empty anger against an infinite sea of never-ending dumb tweets but why would you want to do that? Just actual facts, histories, any discussion of the future based in reality about IndyCar is a billion times better.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:For reference, the biggest cheers around me for the driver intros at the 500 were for TK, Helio, Alonso, and Rossi Today was Hinch, Helio, Sato, and Rahal in increasing order.
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Lord Crapulus posted:Wow, why were the Penskes (minus Newgarden) so garbage? I get they were on the wrong strategy, but that doesn't get you lapped Even when Power was running alone he was going really slow. Other than Penske, TK was dog slow as well. I dunno man. It is going to be warm today with scattered showers all day.
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Human Grand Prix posted:He's good here. Too bad they messed up his strat in race 1! Also if there is ever a disaster and a whole bunch of people need to be evacuated by bus I hope they have the people for the Belle Isle busses do it.
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WindyMan posted:But… Well they need to get approval not only from Detroit but also the state of Michigan DNR which took over the park operations recently. The race is definitely not about the profit, most of the people I see there are on tickets provided by their employer etc. This year I had a work meeting there for example. They'll re-up but there is going to be a more restricted set-up time. Whenever Penske bites the big one and pushes off the mortal coil the race isn't going to be in good shape though.
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CactusWeasle posted:That was a thriller, but god drat races like that scare the poo poo out of me. It's very uncomfortable to watch tbh I DVR'd it and watched it later after confirming everything was OK.
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IOwnCalculus posted:3.65-3.70 GHz, according to their FCC license. Which unfortunately seems to be outside the range of most cheap software defined radios. P P P P Powerbridge https://www.streakwave.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=PBM-365 Relevant wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio#3.3_-_3.8_GHz
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Just thinking about trying to decode some proprietary TDMA radio stream just to get access to a bewildering bit-stream makes me want to die though.
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Outdated electronics provided by the series is a universal headache. Even a garbage econobox is a super computer compared to any racing series. I understand why it's done but it basically forever prevents any close alignment of tech development ever again.
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I understand the pointless endeavor China is from a fan perspective but I'm 95% sure its about attracting another manufacturer that wants reach beyond a limited NA market.
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Yeah the whole model is dependent on negotiated supply. You'd have to roll back winners circle program, team's swapping manufacturers etc. Probably in the future the engine is going to have to align with some other series.
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