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MillsLayne 
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Joined: September 14 2010 Location: East Bay, CA Status: Offline Points: 2504 |
 Posted: April 27 2014 at 02:46 |
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I saw that! Never did see what caused there scuffle, but I guess after Ambrose socked Mears, he was sucker punched by someone else. And then Keselowski was pissed at Kenseth after the race, who in turn pissed off everyone else in the top 5 because he (BK) ended up causing a bit of damage to some of those cars. Everyone but Logano seemed mad afterward.
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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183 |
Posted: April 26 2014 at 23:42 |
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Excellent punch by Ambrose as well!
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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MillsLayne
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Posted: April 26 2014 at 23:35 |
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There have a few good races so far this season in Sprint Cup, but the race in Richmond tonight was probably the best all year. Fantastic four car battle at the end with Logano picking up his 2nd win of the year and Gordon coming up just a bit short, again.
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: April 23 2014 at 10:37 |
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I'll have to ease in haha At first the Enzo went like this: Constantly getting out and in of fishtails, once in a while accelerate, spin out. It's still a bit loose, but I have it under control. Sarthe was the bane of my existence, so I was pretty proud when I kept it on track the whole time. Not an inch off, I was like Button...except hauling major ass
Nah that was mean. Anyway, been playing the hell out of GT and watching Top Gear with all my free time to prep for the NY auto show this Friday. Pretty damn excited by now.
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sleeper
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 06:55 |
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Have a go with the Red Bull X2010/11! Damn thing is unbelievably quick, so much so that I can't even control it properly, and I'm pretty good at GT.
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: April 22 2014 at 22:26 |
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I managed to hit 230 mph! Bought an Enzo Ferrari and beefed it up. That thing literally eats cars alive.
Thing handled like a death trap, but made a few adjustments and mainly I learned how to handle it finally This is probably stupidly common sense but things like braking only in a straight line, and coasting through turns (maybe some feathering at most). It took a pretty big adjustment for me but I got it now, hitting the slowest speed right at the apex so I can "attack" through a turn and just dropping the speed quicker. It's amazing! Managed to not put a wheel off at Circuit de le Sarthe, won Monza by over a minute, all in the top series.
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sleeper
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Posted: April 21 2014 at 10:02 |
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You should try it in the Group C cars, the Sauber Mercedes C9 is nuts.
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 21 2014 at 07:40 |
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GT5 it was in my souped up Ferrari 458.
I actually did forget it was public roads.
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sleeper
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Posted: April 21 2014 at 06:22 |
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What game were you on? The 2010 Peugeot 908 and Audi R15+ were doing about 215mph on the run to the first chicane and Indianapolis, I expect this year there's a chance they may go even faster this year.
You have to remember that all of the Mulsane straight, the run from Mulsane corner to Indianapolis and Arnage and then on to the start of the Porsche Curves is all public roads, open for all but 5 days a year, so it has a crown and is going to be very bumpy. Toyota were 1 and 2 in the first race of the WEC yesterday at Silverstone, which got red flagged 30 minutes before the end when the rain got biblical, Webber's Porsche was 3rd. In 15 years of watching Sportscar racing I've never seen Audi mess up a race as badly as they did yesterday, they left their cars out when it started to rain in the first hour and Lucas di Grassi (Alan McNish's replacement) crashed the 1 car whilst the 2 car lost 3 laps before crashing out itself, complete madness. |
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 20:13 |
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Unrelated, I've done most of the tracks there are thanks to all the racing games I've played, but today is the first time I've done Circuit de la Sarthe.
Holy sh*t, that is nuts. I was scared just playing it in a game Had no idea how bumpy that thing is! Hit 205 at one point, on that narrow road while getting thrashed up and down, thought my car was gunna take off. And all those mid-full speed turns, how the hell do people do it in real life? Only thing scarier was the Nordschleife.
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sleeper
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 18:43 |
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I feel sorry for Gorsjean, the cars starting to come good, he was on course for scoring points today until the gearbox broke.
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 18:41 |
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Though Massa got epically screwed on that pitsop. I believe he was in the points when that 2 minute long debacle went down and pretty dropped him to last in running :(
Williams is on an upswing though, and talk about going backwards...Lotus has fallen so off I forgot they were even here!
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sleeper
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 12:10 |
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I'm shocked at how poorly McLaren did today, it really does look like they are going backwards, they need a big update for Spain or they're going to be in real trouble.
Williams certainly build strong cars, if only they could remember which way round left and right is. |
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 03:59 |
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Eh, I'll keep the faith. Rosberg still does lead the points...all it takes is one Hami DNF and a Nico win and that's a huge swing right back to Rosberg.
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 03:48 |
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Wow, that was on helluva start!
Not much to say about Merc, business as usual. Drive of the day has to go to Alonso. I know I'm pretty much the only here who likes him, but can't deny guy is a force. Congrats on the podium  Huge drive for Ricciardo as well. 4 races in it's safe to say thus far he is clearly quicker than Vettel. Never thought I'd hear the team tell Sebastian "move over" and while his response was "tough luck" he is who felt some tough luck, Ric blew right by and I'm not sure the final times but was at least 19 seconds ahead of Seb. Did not see this coming. While I absolutely get it, and never have liked team orders, gotta say he really is becoming a punk. Supposedly he spoke of how well Daniel has been and that he's just beaten him fair and square. If he maintains these comments than I'll give Vettel his due. I can accept being that fierce if you at least own up to being beaten. After a nice first race, looks like McLaren is way off the pace. Edited by JJLehto - April 20 2014 at 03:54 |
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MillsLayne
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Joined: September 14 2010 Location: East Bay, CA Status: Offline Points: 2504 |
Posted: April 20 2014 at 03:47 |
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Well that wasn't much fun to watch, other than a couple of funny radio transmissions. Hamilton will be the 2014 champion and hopefully there's a huge shake up with McLaren, because they flat out suck right now.
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 19:59 |
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4th pole for Merc, still early but hard to dispute they will be untouchable. I reckon even if other team make headway the gap will be too great anyway. Yikes, comparing it the 92 Williams!? That is a bold statement.
Again, it's early but it does kind of seem Ricciardo is performing better  As for the Ferrari battle for #1 so far it's been a snoozer, Alonso has been far superior. Not sure if the deal is with Kimi or the car, (or has lack of being able to handle the car) but maybe all the "Hulkenberg should've gotten the seat!" should put to bed. He may be better off on Force India! Well...there you go then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7B6oTbwnQ best reaction ever
Edited by JJLehto - April 20 2014 at 00:37 |
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sleeper
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 08:39 |
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Another pole for Hamilton. I think Maldonado's 5 place grid penalty for flipping Gutierrez will be carried over to Spain since an oil leak meant he didn't go out today.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap
1. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m53.860s
2. Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 1m54.455s +0.595s
3. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m54.960s +1.100s
4. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m55.143s +1.283s
5. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m55.637s +1.777s
6. Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1m56.147s +2.287s
7. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1m56.282s +2.422s
8. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m56.366s +2.506s
9. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 1m56.773s +2.913s
10. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m57.079s +3.219s
Q3 cut-off time: 1m56.847s
11. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m56.860s +2.831s*
12. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m56.963s +2.934s*
13. Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 1m57.289s +3.260s*
14. Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 1m57.393s +3.364s*
15. Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 1m57.675s +3.646s*
16. Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 1m58.264s +4.235s*
Q2 cut-off time: 1m58.411s
17. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m58.988s +3.472s**
18. Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 1m59.260s +3.744s**
19. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 1m59.326s +3.810s**
20. Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 2m00.646s +5.130s**
21. Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 2m00.865s +5.349s**
22. Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault
107 per cent time: 2m03.602s
* Gap to 1st in Q2
** Gap to 1st in Q1 |
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sleeper
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Posted: April 18 2014 at 18:05 |
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At the moment Ricciardo is looking the stronger of the Red Bull drivers
(didn't expect to be saying that after 3 races!) and Merc had as much as
2s per lap over everyone at Bahrain so I seriously
doubt anyone outside of the Silver Arrows is going to be challenging for
this title. I don't think I've seen a car that dominant since the
Williams FW-14 of '92, it's certainly surpassed the Ferrari F-2004 in
that regard.
First round of the WEC this weekend as well, will be interesting to see how Webber and Porsche get on at Silverstone. Edited by sleeper - April 18 2014 at 18:06 |
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 18 2014 at 17:59 |
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I half kid. I really do think it's a Merc fight, buuuut ya never know. This is Vettel we're talking about! I do think Hamilton is a better driver, but if Nico can at least hang in and fight till the end I'll take it. Of course I would prefer Nico for sure! |
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