The Motorsport Thread 2016

Wow.  That's all I can say for the 500.  That was a crazy finish that I don't think ANYONE saw coming and congrats to Alexander Rossi!  This race is on my bucket list to attend, for sure.  I was bummed about JPM and Castroneves' luck, and then the pit accident that took Bell and RHR out of the running (because that could've been an insane battle), but Rossi winning makes up for all of that.  

I'm glad the 500 was as good as it was, because the 600 was probably the worst NASCAR race of the year.  And not taking anything away from Truex and the 78, because they did everything perfectly, but that was just flat out boring.  And maybe it felt like that because the racing has been so good this year that tonight felt out of character.

Average race in Canada IMO. Shame Nico spun out there on the last lap, but it probably wont mean much in the overall scheme of things.

Not a bad race. It was good to see Ferrari was very close on race pace, shame about the strategy but I got the feeling that the tyres were very hard to read for everyone this weekend with the cold conditions.

Baku next, I gather the track is going to be similar in character to Montreal.

Le Mans next week as well, based on Silverstone and Spa it's going to be a real fight between Audi, Toyota and Porsche, should be good.

Ah LeMans. Can't wait!

Certainly sounded like a bad crash, geting pinned into the barrier. I gather the rest of the Texas race will be held in August.

Lots of mistakes from Hamilton k

Le Mans was amazing, and so so cruel. After 30 years of trying it looked like Toyota would finally score their first victory having led most of the race, only for the turbo to fail on the lead car of Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima with 5 minutes to go. The #2 Porsche of Lieb, Dumas and Jani swept by into the lead just at the start of the final lap. To add insult to injury, because the car couldn't complete the final lap in less than 6 minutes it was counted as a retirement and classed as 46th, insted of 2nd. Does mean Audi keep their record of being on the podium every time since they entered in 1999.

And Ford win in GTE as well, beating Ferrari.

Baku looked like a very interesting circuit, very fast but with a ballsy old city section, and produced some good racing as well.  

Baku would've been more exciting had there actually been a fight for the lead, but you know, F1 doesn't have much of that, lately.  Same could almost be said about IndyCar's return to Road America.  Great track for Indy, but Will Power had too good a car that day, although TK made it interesting at the end.  And did anyone else see the end of the NASCAR race in Sonoma?  Fantastic battles, and Tony Stewart somehow got back around Denny Hamlin in the final hairpin after surrendering the lead a half a lap prior.  Great race, overall, and probably Stewart's last career win.