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Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Daytona starting, prolly gonna be some fellers in discord! Already Mazda problems, lol

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Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Gettin spicy at the front

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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I love the Bathurst 12 probably more than any endurance race that isn’t Daytona and Sebring, so yeah I’m bummed too.

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Multimatic going with Audi/Porsche was probably the final nail. Mazda has really been dialing back their motorsports after they decided to ditch "zoomzoom" and go upmarket. guess it makes sense, even if it sucks.

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Cool to see, even if i hope they DNF every race they start.

e: Actually it wont be cool to see unless they run Daytona and Sebring with it too. It is nearly ok to see until then.

Cygni fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Feb 24, 2021

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Well it apparently can run for at least 12 minutes, so they probably have ByKolles beat at least.

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Chances of an overall p2 victory looking tasty. Which is good because it is Gods Class (lovely driver rating system not withstanding)

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Hell yeah, thanks man!

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Yeah, its last years Rebellion (an Oreca). Previously announced but the scheme wasn't shown. Lets hope all the other hypercars grenade and it wins races.

Also Sebring this weekend!

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Insanely jealous.

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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A good story about the JDC Miller win at Sebring:

https://racer.com/2021/03/23/insight-how-jdc-miller-sprung-an-upset-at-sebring/

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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In a shocker of shocks, IMSA is gonna grant GM a waiver to run a laughably detuned C8R in GTD Pro. They will need to give back about 5 seconds in lap time at Sebring, and 4 seconds at Daytona with a much shorter lap so uh... yeah. To be fair, going to spec rubber (if GTD Pro goes that way) will likely take a huge bite out of their grip.

https://racer.com/2021/03/29/corvette-expected-to-get-waiver-to-allow-gtd-pro-move/

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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anything that makes the ACO/FIA look bad is good so thats pretty good!

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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Bathurst 12hr and Sebring 12hr are my favs, then Daytona/Lemans… then Petite… then other things if they are on

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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To be fair, they have been in IMSA (old), ALMS and/or Grand-Am, or IMSA (new) consecutively since 1995. Pretty sure that like Honda America, BMW USA has a lot of independence in its racing/marketing that has generally made them far more long lasting in their programs than the ones funded by the Motherships directly.

(yes i know it was a joke im just being pedantic)

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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The neon green accents are cool. More of that.

Also like that whenever they try to make a new spec that isn’t protos, they just immediately turn into slightly different shaped protos instead.

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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White and red with black numbers is the historic japanese racing colors... unfortunately white with red numbers is the historic german racing colors too (when not silver/bare metal).

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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track day bro! posted:

Remember when there were 9000 private R8 LMP1's and there was a crocodile skin one for some one off race

that was the Joest factory car, lol. Adelaide street circuit in 2000, and won the race!

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Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

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net work error posted:

Are the IMSA h's starting before the WEC's?

2023 for all of the LMDh, except 2024 for the Alpine/Oreca. Ligier supposedly has an LMDh customer too, but they are probably 2024+ as well.

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