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Posted: January 31 2016 at 15:13
Shame I missed it, sounded like a good race. I'll be sure to watch highlights on speedcenter....oh wait a minute...............
Heres to 2016!
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Posted: February 01 2016 at 05:44
An excellent race, those Corvettes racing to the line and finishing 0.034s apart was nuts and congrats to ESM on an excellent race, Pipo Derani seems to be one hell of a find for sportscar racing.
Interesting to note that the Deltawing was the fastest car out there until it crashed out in the 4th hour.
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Posted: February 01 2016 at 18:29
MillsLayne wrote:
sleeper wrote:
Interesting to note that the Deltawing was the fastest car out there until it crashed out in the 4th hour.
That sucked because during Katherine Legge's stint, she was tearing it up and making some pretty aggressive moves to move up.
Yeah she was pretty impressive.
A bit of news, Max Chilton has signed for the 4th Ganassi car this year in Indycar and will do the full year. I also predict there will be fewer crashes in F1 this year as Maldonado has lost his seat at Renault and will be replaced by Kevin Magnussen, seems there was a bit of a falling out between PDVSA and Renault and frankly if he's not bringing the money there's no reason to keep Maldonado on over someone like Magnussen.
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Posted: February 02 2016 at 13:46
sleeper wrote:
MillsLayne wrote:
sleeper wrote:
Interesting to note that the Deltawing was the fastest car out there until it crashed out in the 4th hour.
That sucked because during Katherine Legge's stint, she was tearing it up and making some pretty aggressive moves to move up.
Yeah she was pretty impressive.
A bit of news, Max Chilton has signed for the 4th Ganassi car this year in Indycar and will do the full year. I also predict there will be fewer crashes in F1 this year as Maldonado has lost his seat at Renault and will be replaced by Kevin Magnussen, seems there was a bit of a falling out between PDVSA and Renault and frankly if he's not bringing the money there's no reason to keep Maldonado on over someone like Magnussen.
Excellent news! (both about Maldonado & Chilton)
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Posted: February 02 2016 at 16:15
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^ Yes, I suppose so.
Couldn't follow much of Daytona as I'm not a fan of watching endurance racing, glad to see it was an entertaining race though.
So, if next year Daytona Prototypes are no more...will GrandAm (IMSA now?) run with LMP prototypes only?
I'm pretty determined to watch as many Indycar races as I can this year...with the occasional touring cars (WTCC, TCR) as dessert
In regards to Maldonado, no, PDVSA are/were (we shall see for the future now that he wont be in F1 this year) very much prepared to keep sponsoring him as before. The fall out with Renailt is regarding signage on the car, Renault wanted them to have less space so Total could get more but couldn't come to an agreement regarding how much, so PDVSA wont sponsor them and Pastor gets dropped like a ton of bricks.
The plan at the moment for IMSA next year is for LMP2's to make up the top spot but manufacturers will be allowed to build their own engines rather than the spec Gibson unit and produce bodywork kits for the cars (kind of like the Corvette bodywork that some of the DP's currently have). If the teams go to Le Mans they'll be allowed to run the engines but not the body kits.
A problem that recently came up, though, is that IMSA seem to be pushing for far more freedom in manufacturers designing their own mechanical parts for the cars as well. The feeling is that this may push them away from LMP2 performance and into LMP1 territory which will very likely split any connection between IMSA and the ACO/FIA. A bad move IMO as GrandAm was far to American focused to start with, lacking global crossover definiely hurt the series.
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It is sad. Although, I'd given up a long time ago about this having a happy ending.
So, Tony Stewart's swan song season probably won't be as memorable or celebrated as Jeff Gordon's, and it's also not going to be as successful, unless he pulls a Kyle Busch. He'll be missing the first few races due to his ATV accident that happened earlier and then surgery that followed. I guess he fractured one of the vertebra in his back.
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Posted: February 04 2016 at 22:53
Ditto. Still there was a sliver of hope at one point. But that's well past now.
And he's suppose to have these incidents in August! Hopefully he'll get another chance to ride in the 500.
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Posted: February 10 2016 at 23:33
^Saw that today. I'm not even sure who that is, to be honest.
And Brian Vickers has been confirmed to replace Tony Stewart for the Daytona 500! This has me extremely excited, as I thought we'd never see him in a stock car again. Hopefully, if his health can hold out (blood clots, etc.), this could maybe land him something more permanent in one of the top 3 series.
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Posted: February 11 2016 at 15:09
MillsLayne wrote:
^Saw that today. I'm not even sure who that is, to be honest.
And Brian Vickers has been confirmed to replace Tony Stewart for the Daytona 500! This has me extremely excited, as I thought we'd never see him in a stock car again. Hopefully, if his health can hold out (blood clots, etc.), this could maybe land him something more permanent in one of the top 3 series.
Ditto...but I found it interesting and fairly bizarre.
And sweet. Yeah, I thought he'd taken a gig in one of the television productions, but either I'm mistaken there or he is in better health than I thought. Good for him.
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Posted: February 21 2016 at 18:56
Was pulling for Truex, but it's hard not to root for Hamlin.
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Posted: February 22 2016 at 05:51
F1 testing starts up again today, Haas hits the track for the first time as well.
The full grid fo drivers for this year for those that havn't seen the new signings.
Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg Ferrari: Sebastien Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen Williams: Valteri Bottas, Felipe Massa Red Bull: Daniel Ricciardo, Daniil Kvyat Force India: Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg Torro Rosso: Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr Renault: Kevin Magnussen, Jolyon Palmer (2014 GP2 Champion) Sauber: Felipe Nasr, Marcus Ericsson McLaren: Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso Manor: Pascal Wherlein (reigning DTM Champion), Rio Haryanto (GP2 race winner) Haas: Romain Grosjean, Esteban Gutierrez
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