NASCAR can piss off with it's 'Roval', going to actual race tracks is one thing but there's a perfectly good oval for your stock cars right there and you're making them piss about in chicanes.
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NASCAR can piss off with it's 'Roval', going to actual race tracks is one thing but there's a perfectly good oval for your stock cars right there and you're making them piss about in chicanes.
They just can't have 850HP saloon cars driving around Mid Ohio or whatever. It doesn't fit.
It's it building something that Indy can race on that doesn't come with the same likelihood of death as the traditional oval?Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
I agree it's kinda stupid but I will say I enjoyed watching them try to manage the first corner after every restart, including one in which the eventual winner of the race seemingly forgot all about the turn and drove straight into the wall as such.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
https://www.nascar.media/wp-content/...al-gifs-15.gif
Which was even better when he then did a burnout in that exact spot after he won
https://www.nascar.media/wp-content/...al-gifs-16.gif
NASCAR is cool sometimes.
i didn't even notice these:
https://www.nascar.media/wp-content/...al-gifs-18.gif
https://www.nascar.media/wp-content/...al-gifs-17.gif
what a fucking DON
It's dumb, and not the good kind of dumb that NASCAR does so well. The stupid penalty zone for missing the chicane is the worst thing I've seen since I tried to understand how you have a playoff in a motor racing series (or more importantly why you'd want one). Taking NASCAR to road courses is inherently silly but the novelty value makes it worth it, doing it in full view of a proper oval was just taking the piss.
Yeah, the playoff's the worst part of the structure. Just play it straight. The best man wins, etc.
The schedule for tomorrow is brutal, qualy at 2am then the race at 6am. Ouch.
Why is that? Weather?Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Yup, same typhoon that's affected the rugby (Suzuka is near Nagoya) so they cancelled all of today's sessions.
I assume this is a sort of replacement for today's sessions but the F1 youtube channel ran the 2005 Japanese GP this morning a race which demonstrates, among other things, just how bang average Fisichella was and how satisfying it is to see Briatore losing races he should have won.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omtp_x00DNw
No one had better bin it in Qualy then. I assume it'll still be windy/rainy too.
If it's still risky, they'll use the FP2 times.
It's supposed to be dry tomorrow so it should be fine but there will inevitably be some knob (Grosjean) who fucks their race up by breakfast.
Magnussen and Kubica into a wall within 10 minutes. Their mechanics will be delighted.
Leclerc :cool:
Ignoring team orders. Refusing to pit. Most of the wing thst was dragging around, has now fallen off so he may be ok.
So we're just ignoring jumped starts now are we?
And I notice we've not seen the driving standards flag since Monza, funny that.
Calm down, Hamilton is still going to win the WC.
As if that's the point, they can't even apply the rules consistently within the same team.
Is Vettel a broken man? I don't watch every race but when i do, Vettel is making stupid silly mistakes.
This was the first since Monza.
The TV directors have been useless recently. We missed Albion charging through the field earlier, and now missed all of Ricciardo's overtakes.
Albon getting a bit more London born and a bit less Thai with that result.
Toto in his interview saying his drivers have been able to race all season :harold:
Toto, it's James....
I see now the titles are in the bag we're playing the "keep Bottas happy" game again.
I just saw that Leclerc has finally been handed a penalty for the Verstappen incident and driving the car in an unsafe condition. How that takes hours to decide is a mystery to me.
If they're really concerned about safety, they should have black flagged him. Or at least ordered Ferrari to pit him immediately.
Why didn't Seb get one for the jump start?
He stopped and didn't go past the line/grid box, took them more than 10 laps to get around to looking at it though.
Did a bit of LeClerc's car come off and hit Hamilton's (taking his wing mirror off)? Absolutely mental that's not Schumacher-esque insta-black flag territory, considering how (perhaps rightly) anal they are about safety these days.
He should have had the black and orange flag meaning he has to pit, perhaps all their flags had blown away.
Regrettably they seem to have lost the plot a bit on this front since Charlie Whiting died.
Except for Brundle, why do all the F1 pundits have such incredibly tight pants on?
Di Resta particularly appears to be attempting to cut of any circulation to his legs,
Coulthard and Jordan always look like they’ve childs legs. Though Jordan has the body to match.
Grand Prix drivers are all diddy. Hulkenberg is supposed to be tall enough that it's a problem, and he is about six foot at best.
The moment in each race when you realise Ferrari have ballsed it up again is so good.
I'm not sure they have.
For about 10 laps it seemed like they had. They have however thrown Leclerc to the wolves (again).
Maybe, Hamilton could well be sitting duck in a minute.
Channel 4 must have dropped in coverage have they? Not a hope they’ve half the races these days, it seems like they’ve shown two or three max.
They have one or two max, I think.
If Hamilton hangs on to this the others should all give up.
Not much point in following it now at all then. The way Sky insist on showing it is fucking ridiculous too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
They've absolutely robbed this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Sky Sports is a worthwhile investment for me tbh, but if you only follow one or two of the sports they have it probably isn't.
I’d have no problem getting it for F1, NFL, golf for a start but Sky Sports F1 is for Sky subscribers only (that’s the fucking ridiculous bit). I have Virgin Media TV and broadband, and can subscribe to Sky Sports on it but I’d get every channel except F1. As much as I’d like to see it there’s fuck all chance I’m getting the house wrecked by some dodgy dish installer so I can give up my 360Mb/s cable internet for some 30Mb/s phone line shite. Even if they let you pay extra for it I wouldn’t mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Lol at the 'fans' voting Verstappen driver of the day for another rank poor bumble from the back ahead of that masterclass by Hamilton.
I reckon there'll be a direct subscription service soon enough.
F1 TV is trying to get there but very poorly.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...onference-live
They're trying to go through the changes coming in 2021. I'm not sure if the mooted BIG TYRES is one that's on there though.
I've had a glance. Sounds like they want to keep a check on downforce but engineers always craft a way around that. Engines are staying the same which is fair enough. And a budget cap of $175m. I often wonder how caps effect a sport like this because the big teams still hold a sway that's more than financial.