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Race of Champions is happening this weekend in Miami. There's no crossover bridge this year, which is weird. IndyCar's Facebook page has some videos and livestreams, which currently has Hinch on his phone interviewing and doing what Hinch does best.
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CactusWeasle posted:There's a crossover? I said there was no crossover bridge. There's still a crossover.
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Jan 21, 2017 21:18
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CactusWeasle posted:JFC thats the scariest RoC crash ive seen since it went indoors This was as the cars were finishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRlvfk5gJmA ed- lol Sebastian is eliminated 
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Jan 21, 2017 21:59
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Juan gonna win dis
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Jan 21, 2017 23:21
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Poor Tom Kristensen. At his age he'll never win anything in his career. 
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Jan 21, 2017 23:30
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I'd watch more WRC and rally in general if it were as easily available like it is through the Red Bull TV link. So I think I'll do that this year.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:32
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harperdc posted:Bring Safari Rally back to WRC please. This this this
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Jan 23, 2017 16:31
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Anyone want to buy a DeltaWing? https://www.motorsportauctions.com/category/314/Historic-Race-Cars/listings/37424/2013-Panoz-DeltaWing-Coupe.html
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Feb 14, 2017 21:50
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The truck I'm driving at the moment doesn't have power steering. When I hop into a car with working power steering I feel like I'm going to rip the steering wheel off. You can't possibly expect anyone to drive at the limit when the steering feel and fine control you are accustomed to in a car with working power steering fails on you. They could still drive the car fast, but they're going to lose time.
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Feb 20, 2017 01:39
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Spaced God posted:Please don't post and drive! It's no problem, it's really easy to type on my phone while dri
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Feb 20, 2017 02:08
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This may be it. https://twitter.com/mdezthejoker13/status/833520285445918720
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Feb 20, 2017 06:04
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http://www.racer.com/scca-home/item/138504-trans-am-kicks-off-2017-championship-with-75-car-field Also this weekend is the first race in Trans Am at Sebring. There are 75 (!!!) cars in four classes. I think this might be a good year to follow the series? Coverage is on CBSSN and race replays are uploaded to YouTube.
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Mar 3, 2017 02:11
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I heard something about Stadium Super Trucks today that I hadn't before today. I don't know how accurate it is because someone on Reddit mentioned it in passing, but it does make a lot of sense in retrospect. Remember the first season of SST? When it raced in actual stadiums and did things they way that Mickey Thompson used to do them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ocW0PE050U Halfway through that first season, SST abruptly changed course, cancelled events in other stadiums, and stuck to smaller venues and Indycar support races. At the time I had thought the financial expenditure was just too much and Robby put the series into survival mode. But if a Random Internet Commenter That Seems to Know What He is Talking About is to be believed, what really happened is that Feld, they of Supercross and Monster Jam, saw SST as a threat to their stadium shows and pressured stadiums that had booked SST and Feld events to pick us or them. That was a pretty easy choice, one that screwed Robby and robbed us of a proper revival of stadium truck racing. I wonder why Feld wouldn't have seen an opportunity with this, as stadium racing pairs splendidly with monster trucks. (Robby had monster trucks in some of his first stadium SST races.) Monster Jam x SST crossover events would have made a killing. SST as it is now is still fun as hell. But seeing that first season stadium race in San Diego, and now learning that Feld may have done something like this, really makes me sad. Oh, what could have been.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:48
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The start of the Can-Am race.  https://youtu.be/0nHP0UtTJis
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Apr 8, 2017 21:06
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Dalziel got screwed in lap traffic after he got passed for the lead. Too bad, I wanted to see that proto dogfight to the end. Also LOL Garcia. Last turn leading, 5th place after. Terrible start to the race, last 20 min made up for it.
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Apr 8, 2017 22:55
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Getting back from the track today after another fun one. It was a lot less crowded for a Saturday than it was in recent years' past. Still tons of people but noticeably obviously less crowded. I'm chalking that up to losing thr Pro-Celeb race, which I imagine was a huge draw for casuals. I really want to see the replay of the IMSA race, seeing as I slept through the middle hour and missed live most of the crazy stuff at the end.
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Apr 9, 2017 04:45
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Doc Morbid posted:Rally legend Timo Mäkinen (no relation to Tommi), one of the original Flying Finns and a guy who once drove half the Ouninpohja stage of Rally Finland with his windscreen blocked, has died at the age of 79: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/129324/timo-makinen-19382017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV6fUR3OeU
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May 5, 2017 08:15
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May 8, 2017 03:00
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I'm just going to start posting all of the SST replays. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b6eeKEeMNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-liW4ALNNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YHDGTQ6bx4
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May 16, 2017 03:09
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Overnight coverage is better when it's sparse. Nighttime on-board shots, CCTV cameras, hours-long front straight and pit road shots. It just feels right.
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May 31, 2017 01:13
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wicka posted:It was annoying when Rockenfeller crashed a few years ago and no one had a drat idea what happened. The marshals at the corner post knew what happened immediately. Race control knew what happened immediately. It's OK that that the media and television audience didn't know what happened immediately.
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May 31, 2017 01:26
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Getting 24 hours of camera coverage is easy for Daytona, but complete overnight coverage of a place like Le Mans or the Nurburgring is asking a lot. It's not a matter of if they could do it, but whether or not it's worth it to do. They don't think it's worth it. And if you don't like their coverage, stop watching!
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May 31, 2017 01:55
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I'm still amazed at the general attitude around deaths in the TT or moto road racing in general. It's tragic through and through, but it's always the same line from the family and loved ones. "He died doing what he loved." And the race goes on, almost as if it has to. I guess it's just the general sensibility about personal responsibility in extreme sport. The TT is one of the most dangerous events in the world, with almost two deaths per year on the average. The simple thing to do would be to ban the race, but they just carry on with it under the guise that individuals in the race know the risks and must be prepared to face the ultimate consequences.
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Jun 7, 2017 06:07
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iospace posted:Night in-cars? I remember the first time they had HD cameras in the cars. I must have watched hours of on-board night video.
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Jun 7, 2017 16:37
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Norns posted:Dirt 4 is really good btw I got Dirt 3 for legit-free a while back and now I'm tempted to get Dirt Rally or Dirt 4 at some point, however I'm cheap so I'll just wait until they're eventually $5 or something. I don't have the time to play terrestrial racing games anyhow. I've been playing a lot of this lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0rfeZ5qcM (AG racing is Misc. Racing)
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Jun 9, 2017 16:37
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Codemasters games have long been really fun racing games. Not so good as driving games, but they always knew how to replicate the sensation of battling against/forcing your way through a field full of cars. Newer games are starting to nail the driving experience, though.
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Jun 10, 2017 00:15
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iospace posted:The new LMP1 regs are a double edged sword: 1. for the consumer, it's great when that trickles down, 2. the makers may not like them and pull out. It's pretty risky when you have just the two P1 manufacturers in on new regulations. If the ACO solicited no input from manufacturers with a potential interest in coming on board in the next five years, then the new regs may have just as well completely deterred someone new from coming in. Plus, corporate interests may shift and a Le Mans program might all of a sudden not exist anymore. Audi was one of the big players, until suddenly it wasn't. Imagine if that had happened if it was only one of two LMP1 programs. But yeah, there's the other side to it. I remember a lot of worries that the current P1 regulations were ridiculous, but here we are some years later and a hybrid has just crushed the outright Le Mans track record, chicanes be damned. Just goes to show the amazing things that can be achieved when you present engineers with a set of restrictions and basically dare them that they can't go fast within them.
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Jun 16, 2017 17:12
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Missed all but an hour of the race. Was too busy this weekend to have chance to get to sit down and enjoy it. I might need to watch the whole thing from start to finish from the sound of it.
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Jun 19, 2017 02:38
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Remember when ESPN showed racing that was cool and awesome? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2si4h06ZrE Aside: Remember when Marty Reid was competent?
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Jun 23, 2017 20:03
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Anime Reference posted:What on earth happened? I didn't see any tire smoke from brake lockup, did his whole braking system fail somehow? I want to know why the runoff area at the end of a fast straightaway consisted of a street curb and an ambulance to try and slow down cars in an out-of-control situation.
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Jun 24, 2017 16:55
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Huge crash in the 911 GT3 Cup race, it's a combined race with the GT3 Cup US and Canada drivers all running together. There's at least 10 cars involved in the esses. Haven't seen the replay as I tuned in late, but the race is red flagged and time reset as the top of the esses are turned into a gravel trap of oil dry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gb-KkDDHNA First good replay at 4:44 of that video.
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Jul 1, 2017 00:01
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Proud Christian Mom posted:I like how they're sitll wrecking like 20 seconds after it first started. Peak ARCA. I thought peak ARCA was Days of Thunder. https://youtu.be/HOldh4ePgnA
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Jul 1, 2017 06:19
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Massive save? Dude you're about spin ou—
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Jul 9, 2017 21:45
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is it one or two cars? Robin Miller was hinting during Iowa it could be JPM in one and Helio in the other. It would be a little odd to see Helio and JPM in the same car, come to mention it. If Penske goes for two cars it'd be much better to spread the wealth.
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Jul 11, 2017 21:02
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iospace posted:Annnnnd Porsche admits that they're debating pulling out of LMP1, but haven't officially decided yet: https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/porsche-admits-decision-imminent-amid-lmp1-exit-speculation-931260/ Porsche exits LMP1, Lexus announces entry into LMP1 to compete with Toyota
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Jul 15, 2017 19:54
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IMSA is going to be insane next year. I'd have to think this also would help accelerate the impending irrelevance of LMP1. Joest was a proven P1 team, and now they're not available to be picked up by a potential interested P1 manufacturer. It doesn't seem like Joest would "settle" for a DPi campaign unless to them, it's not really settling at all.
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Jul 18, 2017 17:32
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If Porsche is out of LMP1, that only leaves Toyota in the HY class. They're not going to stick around if there's no competition. Joest is right about that. But this is exactly what I was saying earlier. If Joest sees the writing on the wall in LMP1, then it's only a question of when everyone else does at this point.
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If people haven't already realized it, Formula E is a legit series. Best to start following it now if you haven't already.
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orange juche posted:People have been saying it's legit since the first season, the first race even had intense battles through the entire thing, right down to the finish line. Yeah, but there are still a lot of people that complain about the series being second rate for lots of different reasons. Kind of hard for those views to be justified when top manufacturers are tripping over each other to get into it.
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