Round 1 of the Superbikes season kicks off this weekend at Phillip Island outside of Melbourne, Oz. Riders will attack the 4.4 k, 12 corner GP course for a total of 22 laps during the conduct of their race on Saturday and Sunday.
NASCAR is conducting a triple-header this weekend at Atlanta. Trucks and the Xfin series both race on Saturday, while the cup teams race on Sunday.
Qual and Race time schedules - Note: Superbike time is local (UTC+10), NASCAR time is EST (UTC-5)
>Fri 22 1710 - Cup quali, FS1 >Sat 23 0935 - Xfin quali, FS1 1040 - Truck quali, FS1 1215 (L) - World SBK Quali 1255 (L) - World SSP Quali 1400 - Xfin series Rinnai 250 at Atlanta, FS1 1630 - Truck series Ultimate Tailgating 200 at Atlanta, FS1 >Sun 23 1200 (L) - World SBK quali 2 1315 (L) - World SSP race 1400 - Cup series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta, Fox 1500 (L) - World SBK race 2
SOON: Supercars - 2 Mar MOTOGP - 10 Mar Indy - 10 Mar
TLDR version: - smaller tapered spacer to reduce engine horsepower to a target goal of 550 (from 750) will be used at Atlanta - aero ducts will NOT be used at Atlanta
So let me get this straight...these teams are spending money on engines capable of 750 hp but are forced to cut their hp by almost 30%? Why don't they just run 4 cylinders on those tracks?
I always feel for rich fuckers that fall for the trophy wife meme, as divorce is highly probable, and the (((courts))) always give the bitch the fortunes those poor bastards earn on the track / field.
Gabriel Gomez
>aero ducts will NOT be used at Atlanta snooze fest incoming.
Nathaniel Morgan
Probably.
Connor Allen
>these teams are spending money on engines capable of 750 hp No they're spending money on engines capable of 900hp
Kevin Jones
reliability :)
no it's just to make the racing "closer" and more gay
Leo Lewis
correct, without the tapered spacer the engines would produce around 900HP Corner entry speeds were getting pretty scary at California and Michigan 220 mph and as I understand it NASCAR's insurers pushed for scaling back the horse power through the tapered spacer to slow them down. Of course that killed the throttle response and hurt the racing.
Carson Harris
That was only at Michigan after the repave, current Fontana is massively slower.
>220 >scary lmao
Not that NASCAR cares because they just suck the insurance jew dick and pretend that 25 car crashes that launch cars above the wall on a regular basis are totally safer than going over 200mph, but the 750hp wide open all the way around package was actually more dangerous because the mid-corner speeds (you know where things actually break and put you into the wall at an abrupt angle) were quite a bit higher, top speed is only a big deal at Pocono and Indy where you have relatively tight corners at the end of a really long straight and brake failures put you into oh shitsville.
Those dudes were running a tight race up until 20 to go, and then it went to complete shit.
Juan Roberts
>550 hp
I wonder why NASCAR is dying. Can anyone explain please?
Benjamin Lee
Everything regional that gets popular and goes national eventually turns into complete shit. Everything.
Grayson Lewis
motorsport.com/motogp/news/indonesia-street-circuit-three-year-deal/4341890/ >Indonesia has signed a three-year deal to host a MotoGP street circuit race starting from 2021. >Plans to construct an all-new venue in the Mandalika area of the island of Lombok with the aim to host grand prix motorcycle racing were originally reported by Motorsport.com in November. >A final deal has now been reached between the state-owned Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation and MotoGP promoter Dorna, which will see the new track host MotoGP events between 2021 and 2023. >Abdulbar says the design of the circuit, which is set for a 4.32km layout featuring 18 corners, have already been approved by FIM Safety Officer Franco Uncini.
>MotoAmerica had as low as sub-30,000 Youtube views for some superbike races last year but wants people to pay 70 USD a year for streaming now Big ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That's actually more per weekend than WSBK if you don't get the $50 pre-season price.
AKSHUALLY THE ORIGINAL TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY WAS REALLY TERRIBLE AND REQUIRED TWO RECONFIGURATIONS TO BE MADE SAFE AND RACEABLE
Ryder Collins
You know you never hear F1 justifying things with inane soccer comparisons like freefalling North American motorsport championships and their obsession with the NFL
>motogp calendar 2023 >qatar, spain, spain, spain, spain, italy, nederlands, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, SE of asia, japan
Sebastian Wright
You can maybe add Finland to the list. >The series currently comprises 19 events, and with Finnish venue KymiRing expected to join the calendar in 2020, the Indonesia race could take the MotoGP schedule past the 20-race mark.
Leo Young
pig disgusting
Daniel Scott
All about who can extort the most tax dollars, my man.
Western nations already have a heavy track extortion racket with their own local tracks, so it's easier to shop in SE Asia and other markets that don't have that infrastructure yet.
For whatever reason when i was a kid i liked rooting for Mike Skinner. I think it might of been cause i watched a lot of the trucks back then and first heard of him there.
dailysportscar.com/2019/02/22/bentleys-spa-24-line-up-almost-complete.html >Bentley Motorsport has revealed 11 of its 12 drivers for the 2019 Spa 24 Hours today, the list featuring six new faces to the team. >Callum Macleod will share a new Continental GT3 with former British GT Champion Seb Morris and K-PAX regular Rodrigo Baptista. >In the second of the one-off additional Continental GT3s, former Nissan factory drivers Alex Buncombe and Lucas Ordonez will team up and drive with Markus Palttala. >The other two cars, the #107 and #108, will run with their full-season drivers with one exception, that Frenchman Vincent Abril has not been named. He is leaving the brand with immediate effect to pursue other commitments in racing. Steven Kane, Jordan Pepper and Jules Gounon will compete in Car #107 while the sister #108 car will be driven by Andy Soucek and Maxime Soulet.
I feel pretty fucking bad for Troy Herfoss though, he's making a wildcard start with the team he won the Australian championship, and it's pretty clear that an ASBK bike is just straight up not in the same class as WSBK so he's just going to be riding around on his own all weekend.
That is a rapid, and cost effective I might add, approach to protecting drivers from debris resulting from accidents in the immediate past. That special piece of highly sophisticated protective equipment clearly demonstrates a commitment to safety on behalf of Indycar, and will certainly void any legal effort to claim "negligence" against them in any future litigation.
There's an offroad series that tours the southwest: Best in the Desert They are just coming off the Parker 425 a few weeks back in Arizona. Mint 400 is run in the desert hills just south of Las Vegas. Best in the Desert Racing Association is the name. Fun form of motorsport to go watch
Grayson Rogers
I thought Indy was going with the aeroscreen?
Julian Jenkins
I think I read the air screen material failed under high speed large object impact tests
Charles Hall
newfag question. I see that Dale pic all the time but what does the filename mean?
Ian Fisher
>first place in Xfinity practice would be 21st in Cup Eh not as bad as I figured.
No by the looks of things you can't, having not even one successful veteran is the fucking point and those stats are still a lot better. Just as importantly, when I say 6 RCR cars, I mean literally all of them were run from the RCR campus as basically one team that happens to have cars owned by three different people.
Some of the midpack guys are excited about being able to draft their shitboxes into better finishes but I don't think anyone can pretend qualifying is interesting.
Jason Reyes
>think Krut is heading for the pits >he's on a lap and it's just that slow
it failed the "extreme impact tests", they are going back to military grade materials (the material from the f16 canopy), also apperantly they are having problems implementing a screen into the current dw12 since it wasn't designed for it, so they'll likely working to integrate the aeroscreen (or who knows, maybe a full canopy) on the next generation car
Leo Campbell
>McDowell doing awesome in qualifying >Hurrvick 18th
ynr that FRM let Landon go in order to sign McDowell so he and Ragan could form the "We were hot prospects with high expectations in 2008 and have never amounted to much since" All-Star Team.
Caleb Cox
>can't even run behind someone in qualifying with good tires Legendary kuso race confirmed
Why won't Bentley return to the Nurburgring? I miss them.
William Martinez
This is from last year. sportscar365.com/other-series/n24/bentley-working-on-n24-return/ >Bentley is working on a return to the Nürburgring 24, with the British manufacturer in discussions with two potential teams for this year’s race, according to motorsports director Brian Gush. >Having made its debut in the German endurance classic in 2015, three Bentley Continental GT3s were on the grid in last year’s race(2017), fielded by ABT and with with support from M-Sport for one car. >With its relationship with ABT having dissolved shortly after the 2017 event, Gush is now on the hunt for a new team to represent Bentley with its current-generation machinery. >Gush has ruled out seeing M-Sport again field a car in the race, with the factory squad focused on development of the new-gen Continental GT3, which will debut in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup season-opener at Monza in April. >“At the moment I want M-Sport to concentrate on the new car,” Gush said. “It would be too disruptive to our effort for [24H] Spa for them to do Nürburgring. M Sport is no longer developing the new car but they are running 4 cars at Spa so it's unknown whether they can afford to do Nurburgring.
Atlanta is super low grip, has pretty short straights (2/3 of the lap is spent in the turns), and they have an absolute fuckton more downforce. They basically rolled back 4 years worth of downforce reductions, some of which were very extreme.
I wish I could give you a number but I'm literally looking at three different articles that claim completely different downforce numbers for both before and after the 2017 rule changes and the other years have equally baffling inconsistencies like the 2018 announcement that seems to imply the cars had an entirely impossible 9600lbs of downforce. It could very easily be more than double what they had last year anyways. So speed is actually up for the majority of the lap (which is why any safety argument is bull fucking shit), it's just this year they hit a brick wall on the straights by comparison.
>They have to increase drag somehow. Just make them run truly stock bodies. All the safety mandates of the last 30 years have made street versions close enough to the same shape.
Nolan Lee
WSBK in a few minutes.
Joseph Walker
cheers
Bentley Green
if Bautista wins this thing the spanish bandwagon will be insufferable
Xavier Perry
I'm more worried about everyone having to make a street bike with goddamn wings on it because of Ducati's faggotry
Elijah Peterson
sebastian porto is in the comentary here, few notes so far 1. the new ducati requires a style very similar to the gp bike, hence why Bautista is btfo of Davies 2. kawa is limited to 14300 rpm, bmw 14750, ducati 16000 3. red bull pulled out from honda for being assholes to ten kate
Colton Thompson
reawinslol thoroughly btfo
Landon Ramirez
same as last yeat and look at what happened after
Alexander Hall
Anyone see the aus sbk crash on last corner? Did Maxwell raw.
Joseph Bailey
Even if Bentley found a customer team willing to give up partnership with a German brand that can offer an interesting parts package and on-site support they'd be looking at doing tons of development work on a car that hasn't even competed in one VLN race. Then there'd be the works drivers that either need to refresh their GT3 permit or do it from scratch altogether OR stick with the teams (potentially) slower pay drivers.
I don't see it happen this year, if Bentley's not present at the VLN test session on March 16th that should give us a definitive answer.
I think they make money through low cost sponsorship slots and with the cash they get by simply starting from NASCAR.
Owen Gutierrez
>running the same ancient chassis >one set of tires per race bought off another team >no need for a crew >still can sell sponsorship He probably spends more money getting to the track than running the car
Daniel White
what's happening with busch and fox? refusing to talk?
Charles Hill
>running practice in the rain What the fuck are they thinking?
Julian Wilson
anybody down to form a /turnleft/ xfinity team?
Christopher Scott
i'll clean the windshield
Luis Watson
Trucks would be a more (((thrifty))) option with the speck engines. Plus it's a better series.
WSBK and AsLMS today/tomorrow. >Next 24h race. It's Nurburgring i think. We have Sebring 12h/1000M before that though.
William Reed
Nascar lower series race today Nascar cup is on tomorrow. Sebring 12 hour is in a couple weeks
Joseph Mitchell
this time suzuki has good race pace though
Jace Harris
Turnleft thread?
I'm on mobile
Brody Nguyen
Lorenzo: >still problems with his wrist, started to hurt after 3 laps on the bike >overall ergonomic troubles didn't sound confident at all, it's going to be year-1-ducati all over again
here
Charles Green
The difference is this team isn't run by Italians and probably won't tell him he's retarded and refuse to fix the bike for 2 1/2 years. Unless he gets PUIG'D, obviously.
Jace Sanders
Truck race coming up in 20. Using the same Xfin thread till it dies
>Someone explain how teams work in NASCAR There's this thing called pit crews that do work on the car from time to time. In addition to the driver, this makes it a team sport
Camden Kelly
is there a way to explain to somebody that knows jack shit about bike racing why Bautista's Ducati dominates so much? is this related to the Ducati bikes?
Jordan Miller
Here's the way it kinda, sorta works.
Team owners want to win races and championships, so they use multiple cars and drivers when possible.
The drivers on the same team will help each other out as long as it doesn't slow them down or cost them a good finish / win, but usually the drivers act as individuals regardless because stock car racing is an individual sport, while shit like F1 has "lead" drivers and team orders that favor that driver.
Jeremiah Scott
esta nueva ducati se maneja muy parecida a la que bautista usaba en motogp, también tiene aprox 1600 rpm mas que la kawasaki, bautista corrio en esta pista hace un par de meses y terminó 4to en gp, aparentemente la ducati trata mejor la goma trasera (rea se ha quejado todo el finde) y parece que kawasaki esta haciendo sandbaging para cuando reajusten el límite de rpm en 2 fechas mas
Jason Sullivan
well said Never forget pic related lost his team for bullshit team orders in NASCAR. That doesn't happen in /f1/
Fairly. As of 2013 you needed to build 2000 bikes within two years, then it got cut to 1000 and then 500 over the next two seasons. Nobody took huge advantage of that so far because the only totally new bike since then was the Honda but the V4 R has a different engine, different frame, and different fairings from the regular V4 and is twice as expensive, so it's pretty much just cosplaying a "regular street bike"
Cooper Diaz
it's taco, the language of sudacas and mexicans
Isaiah Foster
>Assuming you mean teams of cars, organizations can field multiple cars. Not much else to it. Are there individual ownership rules in place still? For example, Roush needed Mark Martin to be co-owner of the 17 and Hendrick needed Jeff Gordon to be co-owner of the 48 and such at one time. Teams would spread individual car ownership around to different people.
Liam Gutierrez
>xavi fores's replacement being lapped that must be painful to watch
Angel Thomas
Ok i understand now, but why is(if it's true) Kawasaki sandbagging?
Oliver Long
Man if I was a Ducati rider that isn't Bautista I would just find a wall to ride into and end it at this point. Even though it's surely not that simple it's really an awful look for Rea when this dude shows up from MotoGP and just annihilates the entire field. Dorna's probably happy though.
Since last year they have a dumb rule where they can lower the RPM limit for a bike at a certain point in the season to try to stop Kawasakiwinslol
Kayden Parker
On the official entry lists and owner points pages cars are just listed by organization now. Not sure when this change happened and figuring it out is impossible now that jayski's gone.
Asher Hughes
Stopped mattering when Toyota cucked everyone into this giant technical alliance gay orgy.
Zachary Perez
Actually it looks like they changed the entry/points listing when the charters came. No idea what happened with that rule though.
Dominic Long
yeah there's surely more to it behind the curtains, but still the dude was on his own postcode the whole weekend >Dorna's probably happy though spaniard dominator = happy dorna
Ian Barnes
>now that jayski's gone. and I'll bet ESPN has him on a non-compete clause and he can never open up another web site, republish his work or use his name again.
Landon Powell
>ESPN That's still a thing? I cut my cable during the Bush administration, so I'm not in the (((broadcasting))) loop.
Christian Turner
as someone that rarely watches nascar because of the wrecks, i loved the race until that point
Cooper Foster
Cheers will watch this later. Was too late for me yesterday.
Aiden Reyes
Of what streamingservice should I buy a subscription?
Eurosport player: €33.99 year has WEC and WSBK, bunch of other irrelevant sports too Motorsport.tv: €33.99 year has WSBK and lots of other series (super formula, wec (no lemons) F1 tv pro: €64.99 year WSBK season pass: 69,90€ year MotoGP season pass: 139.99€ year
Eurosport player or Motorsport.tv in my opinion. Eurosport player has EWC, WTCR and commentary free streams. Motorsport.tv has the extra series, alot of classic videos and Eurosport player is usually cheaper during LeMans week. I have been looking at the motorsport.tv website though and WSBK isn't classified as a live as far as i can see, they seem to be uploading the race after it's done.
Grayson Howard
>just let my motogp sub roll over >didn't even look at it
Uhh I don't remember it being that pricey. Time to go look for a receipt.
Aiden Robinson
It was 80 euros in 2016, 100 the next year, and then 120 the two years after that. I liked this deal a lot better at 80 euros.
Owen Wilson
From what I heard, the opticor material didn't shatter during testing, but when struck up high the screen would flex a great deal which allowed the impacting object into the cockpit.
nascar truly is dead. i hope todays race is so incredibly boring and horrible that they scrap the package out of fear
Brody King
Well I see why these rarely get made, the decisions are really tough and I gave up. When I started, I wanted to have guys like Ricky Rudd and Dale Jr in tier 4, but I realized that left me with almost no tier 3. Edwards and Hamlin would probably need to go back there with them. And how do you properly judge the guys before Petty and Pearson era? Sure I've heard of them, but I'm not going to pretend know shit about them. I don't even like this list and I'm the one who made it.
>how do you properly judge the guys before Petty and Pearson era?
You don't. Whats the point of making the list anyway? Everybody knows who the good drivers were and there is no objective way to rank them. So who cares?
On a side note, why does EVERY fucking NASCAR-related list have to contain people like Herb Thomas and Fireball Roberts? The things they did are outdated and don't compare to modern things at all. Do you really think that Fireball Roberts belongs on the same list as the others?
Jose Perez
>Whats the point of making the list anyway? I thought it'd be fun. It wasn't.
Connor Sanders
>things they did are outdated Yea, that's true...things like....oh, showing courage, skill, and determination, despite the potentially career ending, if not life ending risk due to the fact they had shit for "safety" equipment and "racing" technology was what you put on the car that didn't break that week.
Definitely outdated.
Aiden Miller
So whats your point? Are you calling modern day drivers pussies? If so, why not just say it instead of beating around the bush?
Grayson King
natalie has a part time deal or she'll be racing full time?
>whats your point? The point is that the user that made this post is a complete moron....which is obvious to anyone that is NOT a moron.
Ethan Lopez
stream pls
Parker Davis
>in the same spot >almost the EXACT same spot Holy shit dude.
Christopher Jenkins
Atlanta race thread
Samuel Carter
Why does Michael Waltrip always sound like a blubbering idiot?
Ian Bennett
>sound like
Benjamin Flores
Because Mikey, while being exceptionally "exuberant", apparently understands that it's the job of the reporter to make the interviewee look good, so by being a goofball he makes even the most bland driver seem "stoic and professional" by comparison.
tbf Brad beat the shit out of joey to knock him out of the way for the win Everyone forgets he also did that at Martinsville to take the lead with like 50 to go while Joey was still trying to win the championship >bread is new dale sr
botposting on nascar's facebook page is hilarious. when you actually comb through the comments, there's a disproportionate amount of old women who are HIGHLY invested in the technicalities of nascar, and obvious bots who spam incomprehensible babble.
that's some yuck i didn't need to know about. fuck non-asian femoid "art"
Andrew Myers
unironically a high quality list
Ryder Powell
Did you think the driver alone built the car, set it up, transported it, tested it, maintained it, fixed it, analyzed the test and practice data, calculated setup changes, prepped it for each session, changed tires, refueled, and calculated race strategy, ALL on his own?
It's not impossible to imagine a world where the league owns and operates all the cars and the drivers basically just rent them. Like a kart rental place scaled all the way up. There's a million different reasons why that wouldn't happen but someone who doesn't really know anything about motorsport won't know them.
Julian Lee
Like IROC or fast masters?
Matthew Sanchez
Oh wow IROC lasted so much longer than I thought an organisation like that ever could.
dailysportscar.com/2019/02/25/garage-59-switches-to-aston-martin-for-2019-campaign.html >Garage 59 is set to continue racing in the Blancpain Endurance Cup in 2019, but with a new brand. The team, which has competed with McLaren in GT3 competition in recent years will race with Aston Martin going forward. >The Endurance Cup championship-winning British team, led by Team Principal Andrew Kirkaldy, will run two new Vantage GT3s, one car in the PRO class of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and one car in the AM class. The team will also enter one car in selected rounds of the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
As much as I generally thought no ride height rule made sense because bump stop setups are fucking dumb from an engineering standpoint, the reality is that what NASCAR should have done is let the fucking cars be what they are and just race the goddamn things. Changing rules every single season has only made things worse and worse, and the shit really hit the fan last year because everybody but TRD and Ford ran out of money to keep up with them.
I don't think you can save it at this point though, the corporate bureaucracy is just too big to accomplish anything besides moneyhatting and doublespeak. We already have them talking about "reducing costs" for Gen 7 by introducing shit that they don't need like IRS, sequential gearboxes, and brand new engines to make them 1% more road relevant so the jackwagons from the manufacturers can get technically illiterate board members to approve an increase in their racing budget.
Jace Powell
U think her feet taste good?
Chase Price
sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/hartley-joins-action-express-for-sebring/ >Brendon Hartley will take the place of the now-retired Christian Fittipaldi at Action Express Racing at Sebring, with the ex-Porsche LMP1 star and Formula One driver set to join Joao Barbosa and Filipe Albuquerque in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R for next month’s enduro.
>"...they better perform in the KBM stuff because if you don’t, sorry man, there’s not much left for you...." >Kyle Busch
That's right on the money. Nice to see he's open about it, and he's certainly not wrong. When you suck in some of the best equipment on the track, then you actually do suck and can't pull the "muh shitty car" card. Those drivers should be looking for something they CAN drive, or a new line of work.
dailysportscar.com/2019/02/26/r-motorsport-gt3-driver-roster-set.html >R-Motorsport has confirmed its driver crews for its Blancpain Endurance Cup and World Challenge Europe campaigns this year. The team will race two new Aston Martin Vantage GT3s in each series, with a third car added for the Spa 24 Hours. >The #62 will see the returning drivers Matthieu Vaxivière and AMR works driver Maxime Martin, joined by Matt Parry, who arrives at R-Motorsport following an Endurance Cup campaign with the RJN-Nissan outfit. Parry has already made his debut for the squad, competing at the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour earlier this month. >The team’s #76 will also contest the full Endurance Cup campaign, with team regulars Jake Dennis (who has been named in its DTM squad) and Marvin Kirchhöfer joined by Aston Martin WEC driver Alex Lynn. >The #62 and #76 Aston Martins will contest Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe, though the line-ups will be shuffled for the sprint-format championship >The #62 will enter the Silver Cup category, with Finnish racer Aaro Vainio and Swiss ace Hugo De Sadeleer. >The #76 will see Kirchhöfer joined by Ricky Collard in a Pro entry. >At the Spa 24 Hours, the team’s third Aston – the #760 – will be driven by Collard, de Sadeleer and Austrian team newcomer Ferdinand Habsburg (who will also race in DTM with the team).
Bring it. The more competition the better, and he can't be worse than Austin Cindric.
Andrew Clark
My fiancee is Danish m7+1.
Samuel Myers
wtf where's Nicki Thiim the factory pay driver
man that sucks. now that they don't even have a v12, theres no reason to cheer for the astons this year
Carson Peterson
Garage 59 has not announced their drivers yet so it's still possible he does blancpain. He is doing British GT again this year and more than likely the Nurburg 24h aswell.
Odds of Ginetta announcing a top class WEC campaign off the back of revealing this thing? We're getting pretty desperate to hear some manufacturers committing to it.
The barn swallows are back and my tree is flowering in the front yard.
Indy must be racing at St. Pete soon.
Brody Hughes
Wouldn't be surprised if they announced interest in them just to see if anyone would be interested in being their costumer. I doubt they will build a car and wait for customer after getting burned last time. >We're getting pretty desperate to hear some manufacturers committing to it If anyone is announcing anything it's more than likely at LeMans.
>“We know that fans at racetracks and watching from home appreciate the LED system that helps them keep track of how their favorite cars and drivers are performing,” INDYCAR President Jay Frye said. Not so much.
motorsport.com/v8supercars /news/mclaughin-van-gisbergen-bitter-rivalry/4343876 >"unnecessary taps" at Sydney Motorsport Park >"unnecessary taps" boy you'll sure enjoy nascar
Ian Myers
>system that helps them keep track of how their favorite cars and drivers are performing Dont they have apps for this? Almost every racing series has an app
Brody Ortiz
Anyone who is a McSoftcock fan over SvG is a massive faggot. IMAGINE having the gall to write a book after a single championship victory. He can fuck off to nascar as far as I'm concerned, he's no kiwi, that's for sure.
Grayson Myers
Probably.
Regardless, most series are smart enough now to have some kind of live leaderboard available on their websites, and that's my go-to for race intel, not the LED's.
The LED's are nice in IMSA and other series that have multiple divisions, but not so much for Indy. >Kiwi not exploiting every chance they can to rake in shekels Nope.
the couple of times they had them at the Indy 500 they were so crucial after drinking all day and 50 or so laps when backmarkers start getting lapped
David Reyes
I hope Prisma Illya stays
Joshua Russell
sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/imsa-sets-sebring-bop/ >Released on Wednesday, the tables are reflective of changes since last year’s season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans due to the event-specific BoP IMSA implemented for Daytona. >The majority of DPi cars, however, are facing slight power reductions compared to this year’s season-opener, with the exception of the Cadillac DPi-V.R, which maintains its 31.9 mm air restrictor. >The Mazda RT24-P, meanwhile, will be 10kg heavier and face a two-liter reduction in fuel capacity for Sebring. >LMP2 cars remain unchanged, with the exception of a slight adjustment in the minimum rear wing flag angle of the Oreca 07 Gibson compared to the specification it ran in the Florida 24-hour classic. >The Ferrari 488 GTE has been given both a weight break and power increase for Sebring, with the Prancing Horse set to run 15kg lighter than in Daytona. All changes. competitors.imsa.com/sites/default/files/reults/downlods/tb_iwsc_19-18_sebring_bop_tables_022719.pdf Didn't Saekano end already? It would make more sense to advertise a series still ongoing.
Ethan Young
Movie doesn't come out until fall and if you're inclined you can drag an advertising campaign out a little longer than that to shill for home video release, merchandising, etc.
Ryder Gray
>advertising (((twitter))) cancer C'mon, dude. That's 14 year old girl gossip tier trash, and I doubt any of you are 14 year old gossiping girls. On the outside, at least.
David Wright
>reading a shitty footish X footish big LED display on a car doing 150+ while shitty at the track Nope.
To be fair, Gilliland should have won Mosport and Texas last year. Which makes me wonder if something's happening behind the scenes and Busch is trying to light a fire under his ass.
I get the sense that Gilliland's a good driver but his K&N Pro results resulted in people overrating him.
dailysportscar.com/2019/02/28/car-guy-confirm-le-mans-intentions-and-asian-le-mans-return.html >Kei Cozzolino was justifiably delighted with Car Guy’s completion of a four-win Asian Le Mans Series GT class whitewash at the 4 Hours of Sepang. >It secures not only the class Championship but also an automatic invitation to the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans which the team driver and manager was delighted to confirm was set to be taken up by the Fuji-based squad. >“We’ll be there and the deal is close to being signed (with AF Corse).” After stating in an interview in December that competing at Le Mans was a multi-year plan would that then be job done? >“No, we now have a measure of just how big a task we have ahead of us – for me the first step was this programme, then getting to Le Mans, we’re delighted to achieve that in year one – The dream now is to go there and win, and that will be a multi-year commitment, three at least.” And having won the Series here in Asia, are you looking to do this again or are you looking further afield? >“We are a Japanese team, an Asian team, this is where we race and this is where we want to win. We’ll be back and I hope that we can persuade other teams from Japan and across Asia to join us. This is an excellent Series – we’ve learned so much, and we’ve enjoyed doing it. >“We may well look to add some additional races through the year, including perhaps requests to join one or two WEC races, but our roots are here. We’ll be back in the Asian Le Mans Series next season – but first Le Mans!”
>only 8 indy lights cars again this year Just mercy kill the series already
Daniel Hughes
when did the orange cone account go from occasionally funny parody to relentless kissass?
Colton Lopez
when he saw he could grift $$$ from people
Jaxson Gonzalez
>Oh why so cynical, user, come start a (((social media))) account and make me more ad reven....er, I mean to get your 15 minutes of fame and have fun, but you better adhere to the (((party))) line or else!
>Aston Martin is among a group of manufacturers pushing for major changes to the hypercar concept prototype regulations due to be introduced for the 2020/21 World Endurance Championship.
>The group, which is believed to include McLaren and Ferrari, has proposed that they should be allowed to develop a car for the new category out of a road-going hypercar rather than building a bespoke racing prototype that would incorporate only styling cues from street machinery.
HOW WILL THE ACO FUCK IT UP THIS TIME
Aiden Brooks
he also works for ARCA, which is NASCAR
Wyatt Torres
amazing how much they fucked this up already. literally everyone wanted actual road based hypercars, ACO decided on this dpi 2.0 thing
Ayden Garcia
just to add, giving in to the manufacturers' demands would lead to bad things as well.
Joshua Allen
Doomed from the start. A race car IS a "hypercar" already, so claiming you're making a "hypercar" class is beyond ridiculous and makes you look like a (((marketing))) faggot as opposed to a race pro. Seems the ACO and a lot of other "race" series are allowing dipshits from (((marketing))) to dictate the direction of their race series, which is sad.
Colton Carter
I just want Gt1 back
Isaac Mitchell
isn't it the marketing bogeymen that want the soulless prototypes with a badge slapped on it?
Production based cars doing 3:20s at Le Mans and probably doing that with lower straight line speeds than the 3:35s in the 90s still is fucking retarded. They're now basically cucking the ACO into wasting their time trying to see if some street cars that haven't been built with a single FIA crash test or aerodynamic stability requirement in mind are as safe an LMP1.
This is why you don't try to tailor write your rules for manufacturers. May as well just make it an LMP2 race and have a 30 car battle for overall win instead of GT3(-2) with a bunch of BoP crying all weekend.
>"In 2007, after Hayden was crowned champion, Honda tried to radically change the design of its prototype in order to adapt it to Dani’s size. Overall those numbers meant 13 years in MotoGP, during which the support was unconditional in good moments and bad.
Puig admitting they fucked over Hayden for his twink while trying to defend himself lmao
Chase Powell
He was already working for NASCAR on K&N East and was practically running Brian France's PR when he got a DUI. Even when every team and driver who were normally just posting PR was shitting on France because that was the time the Monster Energy negotiations were on going. >Big dog big dimes Kryle is at JGR for another three years Wonder if he finally got the Indy 500 in his contract this time and Toyota gave up on stopping him.
Christian Campbell
>got the Indy 500 in his contract Never knew he wanted to run Indy. I support it regardless, as I appreciate race car drivers willing to leave their comfort zone to race in other series. I guess the point of contention was racing something other than a Toyota?
Chase Morris
He had something for the 2017 race but was denied by Gibbs/Toyota
This would be the same consortium of idiots who midweek motorsport alluded to as wanting a bop system for the class, probably. These regs are going to end up as a pile of shit that makes no-one happy.
Brody Diaz
They're already a pile of shit that makes no-one happy. BoP is fairly meaningless against defining every significant performance factor of the car already anyways.
>just tucked inside the hat Why the fuck would he do that though? That's pants-on-head retarded.
Jaxon Morales
Whoever streams that is doing God's work indeed.
Camden Lewis
Unlike many before her, the young Deegan girl was raised properly to understand what it takes to drive. The only other thing to compare it to is John Force's daughters.
12:05-12:55 pm - MENCS 1st practice 1:05-1:55 pm - NXS 1st practice 2:10 pm - NGOTS Qualifying 3:35-4:25 pm - NXS final practice 4:40 pm - MENCS qualifying 6:00 pm - NGOTS race
If I'm not lazy, maybe I will post some concessions pics.
Eli Morales
There were way more people in the stands for last year's fall K&N race at LVMS Dirt. The geniuses of the Order of France decided to couple the World of Outlaws and the K&N into a single night despite the open schedule for a Wednesday night sprint car spectacle.
LVMS set combined ticket prices to a maximum and they discontinued online sales prior to way before the races started on Wednesday evening, and never incentivized this event to locals in any way shape or form as in years past. Therefore, there were about 250 people in the stands. Maybe.
Average NASCAR fans who jet to LV every year are already getting the nickle and dimed up the ass due to everything else going on in that shithole tourist trap of a city. They will sit out the best racing of the week just to be able to afford to see clean air wins on Sunday. Sad times.
Bruton and Jim France trying to overcapitalize on a modicum of success last year is a disgrace. Congratulations Hallie.
Both of them have privately tested open wheel in the off season. Kurt has even did testing the Haas F1 back before the 2018 season. Kyle would have to do the rookie orientation but he'd probably do fine in the Indy.
>You are also very well-known as model at Super Car Events in Japan. Do you now and then also hear some kind of cheeky comments from male drivers? >Who is this wild and sexy diva is the first question on your homepage. There is also a manga and a photo showing you in a bikini. What is it all about?
sportscar365.com/other-series/saleen-announces-new-single-make-series/ >Saleen Automotive has announced a new single-make series that will support Blancpain GT World Challenge America later this year. >As first reported by Sportscar365 in October, the Saleen Cup will be dedicated to the racing version of the manufacturer’s 450-horsepower Saleen S1 sports car, which was launched last year. >The five-round championship “arrive and drive” series will feature 20 cars plus spares prepared and transported by the California-based company, and comes with a chance to win a “factory seat” in its GT4 lineup next year. >Round 1 of the Saleen Cup is set to take place at Sonoma Raceway in early June, followed by stops at Portland International Raceway, Watkins Glen International and Road America before concluding in Las Vegas in October. >Saleen’s director of motorsports Gabriele Cadringher confirmed that Cup events will comprise of two 50-minute races with grids decided by 30 minutes of qualifying spread over two sessions. >Single or two-driver lineups are permitted, with each race carrying a mandatory pit stop but no tire changes. >Three sets of Continental tires will be available to each entry per weekend. >Cadringher projected that the total cost of a full-season program this year will be $190,000 ($38,000 per event) if submitted before April, rising to $210,000 afterward.
>“It’s a staggering message to their customers,” said Dean, “that adding a successful Asian programme effectively cancels out a major commitment to all the other ACO Championships you are present in.
>“We entered 11 cars across three ACO-run Championships this year, won races in the ELMS both overall and in LMP3 and brought new customers into the ladder through a three car effort in the Michelin Le Mans Cup, as well as bringing four cars across three classes to Asia, winning a race apiece with all four of those cars, taking the Championship and staying in contention until the final round in two other classes.
>“I am left with no other conclusion to reach than the fact that our Asian Series win effectively allowed the Selection Committee to take what, by any measure, would surely have been at least one selected entry on merit, off the table.
>“We bring high quality presentation, and have brought big-name drivers to Le Mans with Montoya and di Resta (The team scoring a class podium at Le Mans in 2018).
>“I am genuinely confused as to the message to the teams being sent here – It’s not about who is on the list, it’s about the fact that loyalty in depth, including our announcement weeks ago that we would be joining the FIA WEC in LMP2, does not seem to have been rewarded in any way at all.
>“Effectively the only message to an LMP2 team here is that unless you qualify by right via the WEC there is no way you were going to get more than one car at Le Mans this year.
>“It makes decisions about which Championships to support, and with how many cars, all the more difficult for us, and for everyone else, going forward.”
Who the fuck cares: >ELMS LMP3 >ELMS LMP3 >AsLMS LMP3 >AsLMS LMP3 >LMC LMP3 >LMC LMP3 >LMC LMP3
AsLMS runs out of date cars with a short season and small fields so counts much less, especially the Am class which has different driver rules than LMP2 does everywhere else so you can mostly ignore those outside of auto-entries too. Their WEC entry won't count until next season and it's pretty fucking dicklord to expect just announcing that to get you preferential treatment for the preceding season. So what all of that fucking crap really boils down to is "we have 2 ELMS cars and didn't get an invite for either"
Of the 17 LMP2 entries, 7 are taken by full time WEC cars, and another 5 by the auto entries for G-Drive, RLR M Sport, United Autosport, ARC Bratislava, and Inter Europol, leaving only 5 entries for other LMS teams.
So those are >Algarve Pro Racing (2 cars ELMS, 2 cars AsLMS) >Panis Barthez Competition (1 car ELMS, 1 car AsLMS) >Graff (1 car ELMS) >Cetilar R. Villorba Corse (1 car ELMS) >IDEC Sport (2 cars ELMS, finished ahead of United in the standings)
But we spent more money so fuck those other guys that need to get into Le Mans to keep any sponsors or funding so they can keep their team open.
Jacob Roberts
That's based on last year in ELMS by the way, Panis Barthez has two cars this year and Villorba Corse is outright switching their LMP2 entry to WEC.
Michael Stewart
ON THE OTHER HAND though, all of the ELMS P2 teams getting dickbutted so Ford and Porsche can enter a billion GTE cars is some gay shit.
Anthony Turner
this is the same team run by the American Mclaren guy, right?
Carter Nelson
Yeah. Note the particularly stupid "we have Paul di Resta give us an entry" part
Colton Ross
If you look at the entry list you can see that the only LMP2 team running 2 cars is JCDC because those are WEC cars. Hell they are the first team in the reserve list to be in position to run 2 cars.
oh what the fuck happened to gpupdate? i used to use them for the OPs because DTM and some others were bad at posting.
Henry Moore
she's actually decent though and makes a cute couple with chocoblanka desu
based
Logan Martinez
sportscar365.com/industry/saleen-confirms-gt4-car-plans-for-2020/ >Saleen has confirmed plans to enter the GT4 ranks with its new S1 sports car, which is slated to debut in time for the 2020 Pirelli GT4 America season. >A build target of 12 GT4 cars has been established for the first year, according to Cadringher, who said that sales and support will initially be focused on the North American market. >He said the car will be one of the more cost-effective on the GT4 market, priced at under $200,000. >A future expansion into GT3 has not been ruled out and is understood to be among the targets for the automaker, which is making its re-entry into motorsports for the first time since the Saleen S7-R. >When asked about the prospects for additional GT cars, Saleen said there’s a “master plan.” >Sportscar365 understands a potential GT3 car would be based around a new, yet-to-be-announced Saleen model.
Ian Butler
>RCR probably going to suck dick on race day because they brought clean air low drag cars again
They ran this setup already at Indy with either cup or Xfin, and it was ass.
Sebastian Rodriguez
They don't have the aero ducts at Pocono because nobody has worked out that knocking 25mph off the top speed and increasing apex speed by 15mph rather reduces your need for actual brake ducts.
Julian Wood
well they couldn't have as this is the first year.
Kyle running in a lower series isn't the problem on paper.
The problem is, the Truck Series (and Busch Series) of yesteryear that allowed this sort of arrangement to work are dead.
None of the truck or xfinity teams have any money. Tonight we had a truck literally sponsored by a Trump meme gear page and in Xfinity tomorrow there's a car being funded by the ad revenue of a autistic youtuber. Oh and just to keep the operation afloat, these teams are basically allowing the kid of any random CEO to pay an up front fee and bam, you're a Truck Series driver.
Kyle, on the other hand, is showing up with full factory Toyota backing after spending 15 years in the cup series.
B-but muh Earnhardt racin in the Busch series in 1989
Oliver Wood
It's one of the great problems of our current generations of "road relevant" despite being 0% production related equalized homo cars, where they build a race car around a mandated general shape close to what's currently being raced then a few years later all those cars are out of production and they're trying to fit completely different shaped cars on that chassis and end up with hideous things that shouldn't exist.
Next one is going to be Toyota shoving the rear axle and tail lights back 11" and sticking a dome on the roof of the Supra for GT500.
Jacob Green
that feel when no picture of JD hauling an Xfinity car on an open trailer
John Lopez
>Kyle running in a lower series isn't the problem The bottom line is money. It's always money. A race tame is a money making enterprise, and when you're Kyle Busch being sponsored by a factory race team, you've got a better than average chance of actually winning and getting your (((product))) in front of millions of people at the race, and way on down the line with diecasts and crap.
They aren't from the EU that's for sure, we a have a special website just for us because of GDPR.
Jeremiah Cook
>Former CGR driver has to be sponsored by 50 year old boomer meme merchandise >Next day people are just making jokes about your drive because one of your pit crew was "over the wall" too soon because you were uncompetive >Meanwhile Kyle's smurf account wins again because he's the only one who can get factory backing and decent sponsors and he's still pissed because his drivers are fucking up. The absolute state of trucks right now. If it wasn't for Lemonis giving them a good deal extension they likely would have announced it would be co-headling ARCA while fondling Musk's balls to get an Electric series up and running as the third series. (Not that Trucks co-headling ARCA would be a bad thing. They would be racing at better tracks at least)
Nolan Watson
It's all American boomers and they are pathetic cucks for the most part
Damn, that last lap was pure fun. also >track limits
Justin Nguyen
It's COTA track limits are a suggestion.
Carson Gonzalez
>American boomers >pathetic cucks Surely the generation that embraced drugs, fornication, and draft dodging while ignoring biology and completely fucking up our police and military by feminizing them making them less effective, efficient, and more costly can't be considered "cucks" now, can they?
These broadcasts are hilarious because they're trying so hard to shill like they're supposed to but there's big chunks of time they can't come up with anything at all to fill air that isn't an observation on how shit it is.
Zachary Flores
based retards
what exactly is the tca class now? has that changed since before sro intervening?
Luis Hall
Same as before as far as i'm aware of. world-challenge.com/competition-classes/ >TCA is made up of limited-prep versions of TC cars, with lower horsepower ratings. Both front- and rear-wheel drivetrains are allowed, as are turbocharged and naturally-aspirated vehicles. 160-200 est. HP.
Jaxon Baker
I think D.W. confirmed your post, and I agree completely.
its like he kept the steering wheel turned well after the weight shifted
Mason Morgan
patty long and imperato are the only american ones i've heard of. i actually forgot pwc gt3 was a thing because of how much of a shit show it was leading up to the purchase from sro
Cameron Collins
they do driver changes now, so a couple of the other pro americans are still in the garage but yeah this is mainly an AM series. I think there are only 5 P cars
Dylan Long
i thought they did that even back then, ams just had to do like 15-20 mins. is dalziel still moonlighting down there or some other series?
Juan Wood
Imperator? As in the Henry Repeating Arms Imperatos? Never knew they were Motorsport guys
Luis Perry
someone make a new motor/sp/ort but include next week's schedule in the op and sunday
Camden Stewart
Do it yourself
Nathaniel Allen
Never saw the incident, did someone get a webm of it?
>h8ing this much At least the bentleys are honest liars, unlike the astons who whined for years and years about BOP and still couldn't win when given breaks.
