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Huh that's weird, it's not blocked in the UK which seems like where it'd be blocked given the TV deal. E: Massive oil leak on the grid 
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Billy Monger, the 17 year old who was in that horrific British F4 crash at the weekend is losing both his legs. His team has set up a donation page to help fund his rehab. I figured he wasn't gonna have full leg ability after that but straight up losing them is horrible.
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Apr 19, 2017 17:17
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There's a lot of big motorsport names popping up on the fundraising page. F1 drivers, Indycar drivers, series and team chiefs. They've doubled their goal within a day. Kid's gonna be alright hopefully.
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Apr 20, 2017 14:38
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Ah I see Monza turn 1 happened.
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Apr 23, 2017 13:53
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Oh wow I saw the Bentley going to the middle and figured it was gonna just be a bad attempt at 3 wide into the first chicane not straight up turning the Lambo into the entire field.
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Apr 23, 2017 13:57
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Blancpain GT Sprint Series at Brands Hatch - not sure about streaming for this one I'm assuming this'll be streamed on the GT World Youtube channel along with the GT4 European Series race at Brands as well. They don't have any of the Blancpain sessions scheduled as livestreams though which is weird.
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May 5, 2017 21:34
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ERC this weekend proving those metal guardrails are stronger than they look. That dudes pants probably not so much.
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May 7, 2017 20:08
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See your problem there is you expected WTCC to fix something. Also international livestream for the Nurburgring 24h (I'd assume with RLM commentary) is here. I believe it goes live in about 2 hours if I have my timezones right.
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May 27, 2017 11:00
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So some drivers went off at Yokohama over the WTCC tire failures, Yokohama responded basically saying what tire companies always say after stuff like this. If you'd actually follow the pressure guidelines we give you this might not keep happening, and also saying they can't make a Nordschleife-specific tire because WTCC won't let them. Also British GT at Snetterton is today if for some ungodly reason you need more racing to watch today.
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May 28, 2017 11:37
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HAIL SATAN
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May 28, 2017 14:12
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julian assflange posted:Turn on your monitor 
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May 29, 2017 19:37
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Norns posted:I usually just mix radio Le Mans with in cars at night Commentary-free stream, RLM commentary running in another window/on my phone is the one true way of doing Le Mans.
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May 31, 2017 01:30
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Today in "Aussie Supercars gives no fucks about your grassroots motorsport", they're launching a Super5000 series as direct competiton with the Formula Thunder 5000 series because apparently they own the rights to the Formula 5000 series name. At least the car looks alright despite the comically huge airbox.
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Jun 2, 2017 12:05
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I've kept my Eurosport Player sub active for 3 months longer than necessary just to stretch it to Le Mans.
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Jun 7, 2017 03:00
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Kilonum posted:I like this poster Which you can buy here before anyone asks. I want to buy it and get it properly framed because it kicks rear end.
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Jun 10, 2017 15:06
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Brainwrong posted:I'm using a really stable Eurosport HD stream If you have a Eurosport Player sub they throw up instant highlight clips as well as having a commentary-free stream.
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Jun 17, 2017 15:54
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There is effectively one LMP1 car left running.
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Jun 18, 2017 00:16
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Somewhere in Japan, Honda's executives are pissing themselves laughing at this.
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Jun 18, 2017 00:19
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Yeah but isn't the appeal of GT that they at least sort of look like road cars? I think you kinda lose that when "GT" cars end up looking like this. Unless they state in the rules that the road car also has to look like that which makes it a loving win-win.
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Jun 18, 2017 22:15
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dentist toy box posted:Australia forever the lamest country. "Anti-hooning legislation" Is hooning one of those terms that was around for ages but only became popular after Ken Block took it on?
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Jun 19, 2017 12:41
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Rebellion got stripped of their podium because of that hole they were using to restart the engine.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:00
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Robby Gordon got banned from racing in Austrailia for his SST stunt. So either there's no SST races in Austrailia next year or Robby just doesn't drive in them. I do find it quite funny that the only guys he asked for permission were a pair of nightclub bouncers though.
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Jun 20, 2017 11:30
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I would find it pretty funny if Toyota just added another car every time they failed to win. Might be the only way you get the LMP1 field into double digits.
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Jun 20, 2017 22:50
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Honda are struggling right now to make racecar engines that last 2 hours let alone 6 or 24.
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dentist toy box posted:I didn't know iracing gt3 raced in real life now. My immediate thought when I saw that wreck was this video.
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6 Hours of the Glen was supposed to be on FS1 but because Fox hates racing it's been shoved to FS2 instead.
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Jul 2, 2017 15:32
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I was gonna ask how the hell you nearly lose it through the Esses in a prototype but then I saw the traffic. E: DTM was at the Norisring this weekend, always good for some carnage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBR7A2phYZI njsykora fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Jul 3, 2017 08:26
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The triple crown as I understand it is overall (so LMP1) victory but it's not an official thing so I'd be behind Montoya if he went in a Penske LMP2 for his Le Mans win.
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Jul 7, 2017 10:51
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She got fined €20k for posting that video for making the ADAC look bad.
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CactusWeasle posted:The first story I read on autosport said 5k, dunno where the 20k figure is from She said on her Twitter the fine was €20k. Apparently you can see red lights flashing 2-3 seconds before the truck comes into frame but I don't see it, even if they were flashing at that point it's way too late notice with the truck already going onto the track. https://twitter.com/SophiaFloersch/status/883622491490582528 njsykora fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Jul 9, 2017 10:22
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Anyway speaking of Oscherleben shenanigans, there's going to be a TCR turn 1 happening in a few minutes. Looks like the first time in ages there's been a decent size grid for TCR International, 23 cars. E: Oh man TCR are using the old turn 1 instead of the one that causes massive wrecks. They finally figured it out. njsykora fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Jul 9, 2017 11:29
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Penske in with Honda. https://twitter.com/Team_Penske/status/884774305577521153
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Jul 11, 2017 15:13
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Most Formula E drivers also have endurance drives, it's not impossible to see someone doing both but I also can't see many of them choosing to go to IMSA over WEC or Blancpain.
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Jul 12, 2017 21:00
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Sort of sad news, the Lausitzring is closing for public and racing use to become a test track for autonomous vehicles. Sucks pretty hard for DTM since that forces the 2018 season to either be a race shorter or forces them to scramble to find a track for a 9th race.
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Jul 17, 2017 12:57
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Big news for Formula E (maybe, season 6 would be 2020), DTM might be in trouble. https://twitter.com/LukeSmithF1/status/889554687246118912
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iospace posted:The car-swapping is probably the biggest drawback at this point (though if I remember right they're ending that next season). The tracks are a bit of a sticky point because they want to setup tracks with minimal impact to the surrounding area's traffic, which means A. tracks at airports, B. purpose built road courses, or C. support another series (Monaco/Long Beach). The real problem I feel right now is what tracks they do are really short compared to the tracks other series use (they use a neutered version of Monaco). They're also hanging their identity a lot on being entirely on street tracks, which runs very hollow sometimes, especially when they go to Mexico and its just a straight up normal racetrack. The track length is definitely a problem, as the series speeds up they're outgrowing a lot of older track designs that are becoming sub-minute tracks. That they haven't officially adopted the Formulino E car design as an official feeder series yet is disappointing though because that car looks pretty nice. 
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Jul 24, 2017 20:38
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Schlesische posted:Formula E budgets are going to skyrocket in 5 years; the only reason they were so cheap up to now is because everything but the actual powertrain was spec (and the powertrain was heavily regulated). If Merc is coming in (with BMW following if rumours and my memory for them serve) then the spec element of the series is about to die a painful death. The powertrain isn't fully spec, much of that other than the motor is open hence why there's a fairly large difference between the gearing setup of many cars (some still running standard 5 gear setups and others just using 1). Batteries also aren't going to be an area for development for teams any time soon as production of those is on a long term contract for McLaren. The question regarding ending car swapping has mostly been do you eliminate the need for a pitstop completely, allow hotswapping batteries or use some kind of quick charging system. All 3 have advantages regarding electric car development and it's going to be interesting which one they go with.
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Kilonum posted:Or it would be like F1 where they only pit for tires This won't happen as long as the sustainability angle of the series promotion exists. The current tires are thinner and grooved supposedly because they use less rubber to make (that skinny grooved tires mean less grip and less grip means more crashes and fun youtube highlights is a total coincidence I'm sure) and I think teams only get 3-4 sets for a weekend. The other major thing I think needs changing is the need of drivers to conserve power, if this is truly going to lead to people liking electric cars more they need to be able to go balls out maximum attack for the full 45 minutes.
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Jul 25, 2017 07:44
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If making the cars faster means moving tracks I'd rather they move tracks to be honest. Right now the street tracks aren't exactly inspiring and putting the races on an actual racetrack would send the message that electric cars belong on a racetrack. It's also extremely limiting to building any kind of support bill.
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And you can't limit the car's speeds forever, eventually that becomes the story that electric cars just can't go faster because you're the big poster child for the whole industry. Basically if you're gonna race around a British park gently caress Battersea and make it Donington Park where all racecars should be.
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