The Motorsport Thread 2017 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Thought I'd get this years thread rolling.

Big news to start the year, Bottas is replacing Rosberg at Mercedes for this year with Massa coming out of a very short retirement at Williams for one last season and Pascal Werhlein moving to Sauber. Manor are unfortunately in administration, there's an offer on the table for them but it's got to be sorted very soon or the teams done.

The Daytona 24 Hours should be up soon, the first season with all LMP2's and there the newer more powerful cars this year.

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I don't know about destroyed, but Verstappen, Alonso and Ricciardo are the only drivers I'd not automatically expect to loose when alongside Hamilton.

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Can't complain about Bottas getting that seat.

Looking forward to catching some of the 24 hours of Daytona

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With the NFL season completely unraveled, I just want to get back to racing again. Some fairly big stuff happening in the off season, too, across the globe.

-Obviously, the Nico Rosberg retirement announcement came as a shock to everyone, especially just having won the title. Bottas getting the seat is cool. However, I can't imagine he does much against Hamilton and wouldn't be surprised if his own team were the biggest road block. It just seems too temporary.

-Another shocking retirement came out of Monster Energy Cup Series (formerly Sprint Cup) ranks when Carl Edwards announced he was done with full time racing, effective immediately. Coming so close to finally getting that illusive title last year, I didn't see this one coming at all. Being at JGR, he has the best shot of anyone to get it this year. He stated his reasoning mainly being that he wants to do other things, but I don't know. Seems too sudden. 2016 Xfinity champion Daniel Suarez will take over the 19 in the Cup series full time.

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sleeper wrote:

So it's been confirmed today, Manor have officially closed their doors and shut down, no buyer was found in time for them to get going this year.

On the upside, Daytona 24 this weekend.

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YES!

And that controversial move that got them the lead late, to me, was just hard racing where both cars forced the issue and Taylor came out on top. A very quick move that I'm sure surprised Albuquerque, but he ended up coming down on the 10. Honestly, though, IMSA had been letting a lot of aggressive moves go the entire race, so they were pretty consistent throughout.

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MillsLayne wrote:

YES!

And that controversial move that got them the lead late, to me, was just hard racing where both cars forced the issue and Taylor came out on top. A very quick move that I'm sure surprised Albuquerque, but he ended up coming down on the 10. Honestly, though, IMSA had been letting a lot of aggressive moves go the entire race, so they were pretty consistent throughout.

That is pretty sweet. I didn't realize he was on that team as the ending laps were happening. Pretty fun end of the race too.

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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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The 24 hours of Daytona is my ringing in to the new racing season :D

Wow, another close ass finish. Congrats to the old man Jeff Gordon, Angelelli and Taylor & Taylor on the win!

Sad about Nico, but hey...guess tough to resist going out on top. Excited to see what Bottas can do.

It's hard to tell how much of an advantage they had though, very strong rumours going around that Nissan and Mazda had detuned their engines for the weekend due to reliability fears.

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First of the 2017 cars, the Sauber C36. Looks good, shame it's going to be last.

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