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Welcome to the Miscellaneous Auto Racing Megathread of 2018. This is the place to discuss racing that isn’t NASCAR, F1, Indycar, and Formula E. Mainly it’s been WeatherTech Championship Series or the World Endurance Championship or British Touring Car Championship. Other stuff is welcome like all the GT3 championships in the world (Pirelli World Challenge, Blancpain, regional GT3 championships), WTCC, Formula E, what have you. Racing Series’  This is the premier that  IRL suspensions in modern prototype cars. Oreca is made they were allowed no update because they stomped every series they were in against P2 cars, and probably closest to beat Cadillac in IMSA. DPi's are not allowed at Le Mans or any WEC race which are based on LMP2 cars. GTE=Pro and Am is business as usual with many teams and a couple manufactures having their big dogs running for the championship and hey Aston Martin has a weird new GTLM car Schedule 2018 May 5th: 6 Hours of Spa June 16th/17th: 24 Hours of Le Mans August 19th: 6 Hours of Silverstone October 21st: 6 Hours of Fuji November 18th 6 Hours of Shanghai 2019 March 16th: 1,500 Miles of Sebring May 4th: 6 Hours of Spa June 15th/16th: 24 Hours of Le Mans  The European Le Mans Series has a new logo. Nothing much is changing except Silverstone and Paul Ricard switching dates due to WEC moving Silverstone to after Le Mans. Schedule April 15th: Le Castellet May 13th: Monza July 22nd: Red Bull Ring August 18th: Paul Ricard September 23rd: Spa-Francorchamps October 28th: Portimao  The 5th Season of WTSC, IMSA, whatever you want to call it. The big thing to watch for this year is Penske and Acura teaming up with an Oreca based DPi and Joest joining Mazda to get their poo poo straightened out from top to bottom. Cadillac is adding Spirit of Daytona to their ranks from bouncing around in the Multimatic and then finding some success in the Ligier. GTLM as always will be a barn burner with BMW now having a proper GTE/LM car that isn't a modified GT3 car. GTD holds rank on full season teams with your nice blend of Ferraris, Mercedes, Audis, Lamborghinis, BMWs, Acuras, Lexus', etc... As for Daytona, many P2 WEC teams are joining for Daytona and possibly the NAEC championship giving a big boost to IMSA and challenging WEC in where all the manufacturers are going. Oh and COTA is also gone from IMSA, and replaced by Mid-Ohio. Also rip PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oC8goRJHis Schedule January 27-28th: Rolex 24 At Daytona, All March 17th: Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida, All April 14th: BUBBA Burger SportsCar Grand Prix at Long Beach, P/GTLM May 6th: Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio, All June 2nd: Chevrolet Sports Car Classic, P/GTD July 1st: Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, All July 8th: Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix (Mosport), All July 21st: Northeast Grand Prix, GTLM/GTD Aug. 5th: Continental Tire Road Race Showcase (Road America), All Aug. 19th: Michelin GT Challenge (VIR), GTLM/GTD Sept. 9th: Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix powered by Mazda P/GTLM/GTD Oct. 13th: Motul Petit Le Mans P/PC/GTLM/GTD New Cars Acura ARX-05 DPi  Ginetta G650-LT-P1  Dallara BR1  BMW M8 GTE  Bentley Continental GT3  Come join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/kg3d2Uu BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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orange juche posted:Posted in the other thread as well but looking at the spotters guide for Rolex 24, anyone who wasn't Mazda has abandoned the Riley-Multimatic chassis then? https://twitter.com/andyblackmore/status/955806576719179777 And to answer that question, SDR sold their Multimatic to BAR1 who is gambling the updates make the car closer to at least Ligier. At the Roar, they were running pre-upgrade version so of course it didn't do well.
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Jan 24, 2018 00:29
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BMB5150 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0URM5gywKA Added some youtube of some series, if you got some shout them out.
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Jan 24, 2018 04:20
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Terrible NHRA news https://www.nhra.com/news/2018/nhra-statement-atlanta-incident I've seen only a few screenshots, but looks to be this accident but the impact was on the roof where the driver is.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeeOxbRS-w
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May 6, 2018 02:18
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Wirth1000 posted:Thought the video was of the crash but realized it was kind of dated. For others who don't know that video is from a 2005. Yeah NHRA is scrubbing youtube from that video getting out. Screenshots were as horrific as that but the car was facing in the worst direction for a car to drive through it.
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May 6, 2018 02:25
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https://twitter.com/Mattzel89/status/995458621931745280 Man this is one wet 24 hr race.
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May 13, 2018 06:31
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orange juche posted:Did they announce the driver list for Petit Le Mans yet? I know that there was substantial conflict all up and down the driver list because a lot of the pro drivers are WEC drivers as well, and with a WEC race on the same weekend, they're going to obviously pick the one with the bigger international coverage. Probably won't know until September for which series they pick that weekend depending on if they can win the IMSA championship.
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May 22, 2018 22:39
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WindyMan posted:Video games are leaking into the real world I think I did a 7:17 in a Peugeot 908 on the 24h circuit in Gran Turismo 5 and that things only had over 600 hp and whatever LMP1 regs were in the late 00s. I did get a wicked and unrealistic draft down Dottinger, but yeah I can believe that 919 could loving destroy Bellof's time with little effort. That would be a wicked time to hang in the low 5 min.
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Jun 7, 2018 00:16
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:to be fair, i'm in the us and just bought it through vpn And now to see if the VPN doesn't get sniffed out. Would really suck for you guys. I'll unfortunately miss good section of the race due to work. I'll probably sleep but have the race on.
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Jun 13, 2018 05:54
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Chaos still reigning in Villa Real https://twitter.com/Mattzel89/status/1010898938516340736
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Jun 24, 2018 16:20
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Just burn up the MotorTrend free trial or hell even :5bux: is cheap enough for the race only let alone what's on MotorTrend.
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Jul 29, 2018 00:08
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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if Joest finds a new engine to develop themselves so they're not having to constantly blow the engine trying to yank out all the power they can out of that AER. And Michelin could use one of their hard tires and still be faster than the Continentals. Still silly GTLM cars beat the DPs/P2s couple years back in the rain since Conti couldn't make a good rain tire.
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Aug 6, 2018 22:11
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The Kimoa Kid posted:Think this could be at Daytona next year? It won't be at Le Mans because they can't homologate a new car during the super season. I think there could be an exception made with how willing ACO is willing to bend rules with the Ford running their car a year early (and clearly turned a blind eye to the sandbagging). They could work something out, or make that race the swan song to the C7.
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Aug 10, 2018 05:57
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Don Panoz has passed away. http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/09/11/don-panoz-1935-2018.html
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Sep 11, 2018 17:09
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They're going to need a sportscar crew so I vote to bring back Varsha. Most likely they just take Creamer and same guys and just continue on.
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Oct 9, 2018 19:38
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https://streamable.com/829mm Seemed like she got lucky and was more rear end first. Though that is some video game levels of craziness to that wreck. E: wow so she tipped up and cockpit was in an opening in that structure. That was lucky and those track workers, geeze they're lucky. BMB5150 fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Nov 18, 2018 16:26
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Alonso with WTR for Daytona https://racer.com/2018/11/26/alonso-set-to-make-rolex-24-return/ Also Jimmie wants to buddy up with Alonso at Daytona too
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Nov 26, 2018 22:10
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Cygni posted:I wonder if WTR would run 2 cars, seems like they got a ton of dudes wanting to run who would bring primo sponsor interest. In 2017 Tony Stewart tried to get a 2nd car for WTR but couldn't quite get it set. I'd say they would, just depends if they have the money and man power to get it done.
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Nov 27, 2018 04:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHK-RWmqO8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et6xh3QIvbA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmkBTZf_K8
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Jan 5, 2019 06:15
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DoctorGonzo posted:thanks for the heads up. Yes there will be in the GT classes. iospace posted:I agree, it is time for a new thread! I'll work on a new thread tomorrow unless anyone wants to take control of the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqARqqkxcTo
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Jan 7, 2019 01:52
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net work error posted:https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/dpi-manufacturer-interest-building-for-2020/ Unless Dagys is calling Lexus medium volume then Subaru would make most sense. Also wonder which ones P2 cars they're looking at. Ford would be the Riley chassis that Mazda is using due to their alliance with Multimatic. Hyundai and the other Japanese manufacturer I could see Oreca or Ligier, more so Oreca since they don't have much cars going for those in DPi where Dallara seems all in on Cadillac.
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Jan 8, 2019 19:13
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harperdc posted:I have a decent OP/part of an OP answering the question about sports car racing written up. Are we ready to move, thread? I'd say go for it. Do dig the Acura and Ford GT's
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Jan 12, 2019 01:12
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e: fb, but closing down this thread now.
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Jan 12, 2019 02:54
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