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Dr. Garbanzo posted:Its scary enough in a normal road car doing the speed limit of 60km/h cause the whole run is blind. In saying that though it does flow very nicely Also lol at the #101 AMG Merceres flapping its hood. 
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Arcella posted:Iron Dames in a Porchse rather than a Ferrari is new to me; Michael Fassbender in a Proton Porsche, and only 1 Corvette. Really excited that this is the year we're going. Still, 10 Danish race drivers is, I think I'm right in saying, a record. I'm also a fan of there only being three classes of much more equal size.
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harperdc posted:Iron Lynx (and therefore the Dames) have switched allegiance and are becoming a factory Lamborghini effort, hence running that at the Daytona 24 last month. And next year, when the Lamborghini LMDH arrives, they’ll be the team to first run it (alongside Prema). So that would make running a Ferrari this year a bit awkward! And yeah, the LMPh field looks interesting - but I still can't get over how nice it is that each class is roughly the same size. It should get much better chance of real competition in each of them, instead of half the field being taken up by LMP2 as it's been some years.
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Feb 28, 2023 01:08
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Since Brady's NFT nonsense blew up, I'm half expecting his car to blow up too. Just a little bit, not enough to hurt anyone.
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Mar 3, 2023 22:13
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orange juche posted:would be funny if Ferrari are trying to sandbag lol
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Mar 12, 2023 00:58
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Thessaly posted:For fellow goons at Sebring: feel free to watch the last 30 minutes of either race with us at Camp SASCAR at Turn 17.
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Mar 17, 2023 22:47
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harperdc posted:WEC 6 Hours of Portimao coverage starts in about an hour As a bonus, this lets me skip all the commercial nonsense on Eurosport.
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Apr 16, 2023 10:58
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SlowBloke posted:Eurosport is streaming EWC and snookers, no coverage of Portimao. 
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Apr 16, 2023 11:35
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SlowBloke posted:App didn't show it until now :/
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Apr 16, 2023 12:29
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Best thing said during the Danish commentary was that Cadillac did impressively well on an European track, considering they probably didn't know where Portimão was without looking at a map. I look forward to the coming hypercar races, because it was a lot closer than I expected it to be. That being said, starting on cold tires during the night at Le Mans is gonna be terrifying.
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Apr 16, 2023 20:52
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Dudley posted:They've (Ganassi) won LeMans before, they'll probably be ok. I'm not even sure the commentary mentioned that it was the Ganassi team?
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Apr 18, 2023 17:02
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Finally got the last two hours of Spa watched, no thanks to TV2 not showing it on any channels before early this morning. It's impressive how close the race was, especially for the secondary positions - so one can hope that it translates to an even closer race in France. Speaking of racing in France, I can't help but wonder why the LMH car with the lowest amount of drag from downforce is the one that's slowest on the straight. One of the commentators on TV2 pretty much outright stated that he thought they were sandbagging, in order to win on the 100th anniversary of the first 24 hour race. SlowBloke posted:Cadillac turned into shards. Driver is fine thank good. coconono posted:Solved his Cadillac problem. SlowBloke posted:5 secs for Toyota for a offtrack overtake while three minutes for a safety car infraction on Prema
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loving hell it's a good race so far.harperdc posted:
algebra testes posted:As long as I have been watching the 24 hours, the Opel Manta has been a running gag and I'm here for it.
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May 20, 2023 16:47
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net work error posted:Radio Le Mans crew is great, they're the sound of endurance racing to me. ilmucche posted:I love endurance racing. Just had a discussion on cordless v pneumatic tools in the pit lane, now onto advances in lighting technology. LED lights are a lot brighter than incandescent bulbs can be, especially on racing cars where you want as much power as possible to go to the wheels. Powershift posted:I thought this guy was gonna catch a ride at first. Arcella posted:I have this on at work and people keep calling it NASCAR <
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A 24 hour race decided in hour 2 by an early pitstop (after only 5 laps, rather than the usual 7-8), at less than 30 seconds between P1 and P2. loving wild.
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Powershift posted:7 day forecasts are ~80% accurate, longer than that is around 50% If you look at detailed chart on yr.no for Jammerbugten in Denmark as an example, you'll see that for the first part of the chart is much more detailed than further out - if your weather app doesn't have something like that, or won't publish it, it's pretty reasonable to assume they're not very accurate. For a particular example, look at June 9th; there's a whole 10c difference in the the 80% probability range. Unfortunately the satelites they use don't cover all of Europe down to Le Mans. Also, here's a somewhat interesting fact: Jammerbugten is named that because back in the day, when storms would rage because they'd be pushed down here by the Norwegian coast (which still happens regularly today, and is why it's one of the windiest parts in Denmark), people on the beach would light fires to lure in ships. These ships would then ground themselves on the beach thinking there was a harbor where there was a light, and the people on the beach would raid the ships - and all this happened long after the Viking age 
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ilmucche posted:This is a story I've heard about several coastal places
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spaceblancmange posted:*Jason Statham voice* Of course, you still might end up crashing, but it's a given if you aren't expecting rain.
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harperdc posted:It's Le Mans practice time Practice 02 does get shown, though.
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Do remember that the live timing is available nowadays even for qualifying and practice, so if you wanna follow-along it's here.
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Powershift posted:I'm going to have to watch the race on cable TV this year and i hope there aren't 35 minutes of commercials every hour TV2 does show the race itself, and only have a few breaks in programming to do a news show at around 18:00 CEST - they resume the broadcast at 19:40 CEST, so I only have to suffer through like 1½ hours of commercials occationally.
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Jun 7, 2023 21:14
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Grimson posted:most meteorology services are public services and hand out all their models for free so most third party apps just pick up those. so yeah just use whichever app you want, its generally fine unless the app is complete poo poo. Anything outside of that is basically just guess-work anyway.
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Grimson posted:yr does 60 hour short term, so they're a few hours away from the start of the race atm but theyre saying very light rain I love that site and use it daily, but for a long time it only covered the Scandinavian area - I even mentioned it ITT. EDIT:   EDIT2: Ah, there's no probability like there is on this one for where I live:  BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Grimson posted:they're part of the pan-european ECMWF network which gives them good coverage of europe, but its generally less high-res than their nordic coverage (9km between each measuring point in europe compared to 2.5km for the nordics). also iirc their coverage was so good in some odd places like australian or new zealand sheep farmers started relying on them instead of their local met office cause it was way more accurate or something?
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spaceblancmange posted:had no idea the NASCAR was going to be that quick MazeOfTzeentch posted:Early on in the week, they had a 2" larger spoiler on and were actually slower than the GTEs on the straights, they've since gotten permission from race control to trim out a bit and put a smaller spoiler on the car to reduce drag. Also, they didn't add airjacks for raising the car when it's in for a full-service pitstop - which is baffling to me. I know they're technically not competing, but there's on the order of 30 pitstops during a race, and with a third to a fourth of them being full-service that last at least a minute for some of the most efficient teams, there's a lot of time to be saved. It might be conceivable that they lose out to a top GTE Am team simply on pit strategy alone.
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I remembered the way to get live timing like they're presented at the track: If you're using a Chromium-based browser (unfortunately it doesn't work for Firefox), you can install this then go to the live timing site when the race is on and press the "Launch Timing71" button. This will open a new window that you can put on a secondary/tertiary/quaternary monitor. It's much better than the official live timing, because it's easier to look at at a glance and see where things are, plus it takes up a lot less screen real estate. If you press the gear, there's also an analysis function that lets you dig deep into the data that's collected to find stuff that wasn't available on the official live timing (but might've been pulled out from behind the paywall at some point, it seems they've made some good changes). Finally, if you're the kind of stats nerd as I am, all the statistics and information that ACO/FIA make available to the teams is available to everyone. DEEP STATE PLOT posted:according to the commentators, the aco specifically asked them not to add air jacks and to fully commit to nascar-style pit stops (mimus fuel can for obvious safety reasons) Then again, it looks rad as gently caress when they jump in through the window.
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harperdc posted:well, I'd be more worried if they didn't just win the GTE class pit-stop challenge this week with that floor jack and beefy crew of former college American football players I was making a few jokes about NASCAR in the Discord for the fun of it, but the more I learn about what actually goes into NASCAR in terms of the engineering challenge of it, the more impressive it gets. I probably won't ever actually watch a race (though part of that is that I don't wanna deal with Usanian commentary, and worse, the commercials), but it doesn't live up to its stereotypes anymore. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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I mean they're even doing driver changes through the window like a regular NASCAR, it's fun, it sounds amazing, it's quick down the straights and might just last the whole race. Can't hate it.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Oh there's a descendant of the Habsburg dynasty in LMP2. I remember that because they always being up the length of his full name.
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I got fooled by the WEC commentary, it's no longer the RLM stream. RLM supremacy.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Motortrend+ will have the WEC Official feed it seems. That's the best bet for Americans. It'll also be on TV on MotorTrend but it'll most likely have commercials.
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If you're wanting something to listen to while waiting for the hyperpole, after this free practice is done, here's a piece from RLM on BOP.
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All this might help people who're tuning in during the hyperpole or the race, so let's mention the whole spiel. For the best commentary, check out the Radio Le Mans Studio Vision - it's a YouTube stream with a clock, so you can sync it up with the live stream (whether you get it on TV, your PC, an app, or something else). It's available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6pF3EwQW-Sj-46DOXWydw/streams For the best live timing, check out Timing17 - it's an extension for Chromium-based browsers (no Firefox, which sucks) that adds a launch button on the FIAWEC live tracking, which opens a separate window that looks like the live timing available at Circuit de la Sarthe. It's available at: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timing71/pjdcehojcogjpilmeliklfddboeoogpd For access to the information made available for press and the teams, the timing results et al are published by ACO/FIA - it's a collection of all the various technical details about the race: http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/ For being able to spot the various cars easier, check out the spotters guide. It's available at: https://spotters.guide/resources/2023_Le_Mans_SG_v1.1.pdf For a live map with car positions, check out https://live.griiip.com/session/149/map?columns=Last%20Lap,Best%20Lap,Interval,Gap,Sectors,Laps
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SlowBloke posted:gently caress me raw. It might be a bit of rant but I’m angry. Proper Angry. I'm sorry to say that it's probably going to rain the most tomorrow, out of the entire weekend. 
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SlowBloke posted:I am currently in the village, took one for the team and got some Toyota merch. Last time I did the same in Monza, both Peugeot imploded.
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SlowBloke posted:Current live status: It’s lightly raining, stuff you would barely notice if not for electronics getting fried. Sky is cloudy, thunders and lightning have stopped being frightening a bit ago.
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spaceblancmange posted:lol If Anders Fjordbach was getting punished for tracklimits (which was entirely deserved, as he did), running a yellow flag seems a much worse infringement.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:How long is a stint nowadays?
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