VVVRROOOMM Auto Racing Thread (NASCAR, F1, etc)

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This race is begging for a safety car
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Baloney wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:41 am This race is begging for a safety car
or rain, or, anything. What a dud.

Think Seb is still in the Ferrari by next race?
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I don't know what they have to lose now by putting him on gardening leave till the end of the season and getting in a replacement. Might do him some good to having time away.
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From Racing Point

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I really thought that Max would have the pace to at least push Lewis and I'm also surprised Valtteri didn't have the pace to push Max
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Not quite auto - but wow all the same

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Baloney wrote: Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:36 pm Not quite auto - but wow all the same

Think about the safety equipment that makes up his great that he could stand after that. The fact he was not shredded to the bone is amazing. Looks like he did not even rip his suit.
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Holy shit
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Zzz apart from the safety car, Pierre Gasly driver of the day I reckon
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Baloney wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 9:57 am Zzz apart from the safety car, Pierre Gasly driver of the day I reckon
Yep. That safety car needed to be a few laps earlier.
I’m enjoying this Renault form though.

Ferrari is gonna finish out of the points at Monza and they’re so bad right now I’ll just feel sorry for them instead of enjoying it.
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Big crash Leclerc, race stopped, Hamilton now with a 10 second stop go penalty, going to an interesting race when it restarts
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Baloney wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:59 am Big crash Leclerc, race stopped, Hamilton now with a 10 second stop go penalty, going to an interesting race when it restarts
This is gonna be crazy. Is... Pierre Gasly gonna win this race?
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Stroll gets to change tires during the red flag, so doesn't have to pit again. His race to lose now.
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travzilla wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:06 am Stroll gets to change tires during the red flag, so doesn't have to pit again. His race to lose now.
now saying Stroll has to put on same tire type, meaning he will have to pit again. Back to Gasly as the eventual leader.
I think there's gonna be another safety car this race still.
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travzilla wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:00 am
Baloney wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:59 am Big crash Leclerc, race stopped, Hamilton now with a 10 second stop go penalty, going to an interesting race when it restarts
This is gonna be crazy. Is... Pierre Gasly gonna win this race?
After last week he should get a podium
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You think AlphaTauri are happy?
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easily the best F1 race of the year and on par with Germany last year. and I say that as a Hamstan
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Yellow flag and a red flag and they haven't raced a complete lap yet, crazy stuff
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Good old fashioned shitshow here. Bottas I guess can set the pace to the line but since the line is so far down the straight the back of the pack started racing before the front.
Very dangerous with all that debris flying past people’s heads.
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Another red flag
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travzilla wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2020 8:37 am Good old fashioned shitshow here. Bottas I guess can set the pace to the line but since the line is so far down the straight the back of the pack started racing before the front.
Very dangerous with all that debris flying past people’s heads.
12 drivers warned, that's more than half the field

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So Bristol is going to be a dirt track race next spring. Last dirt race was September 1970 when Richard Petty won at the half-mile State Fairgrounds Speedway in Raleigh.
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What a goat Stroll is
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All happening under this safety car
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Baloney wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:33 am What a goat Stroll is
I wouldn't trust Stroll with a mobility scooter

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Holy cow that Hass car just literally exploded in fire

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Yellow flag, Stroll upside down
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The crash was incredibly scary and it's unreal that all he came away with were second degree burns on his hands a few broken toes.

While Stroll is a tool, that was an odd "crash" on that turn. They docked Kyvat 10 seconds for that one.
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Hamilton has Covid and will miss this weekends race
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Holy shit. Someone else is going to win a race! Must see TV.
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Money on Max
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Baloney wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:51 amMoney on Max
Yeah, he's been pretty consistent in that spot, but Bottas must be licking his chops.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:33 am Holy shit. Someone else is going to win a race! Must see TV.
At this point I'm inclined to believe Hamilton could be the only person every to win a race he doesn't participate in. Sinkhole in turn 2 for +5000 please.
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George Russell will take Lewis Hamilton's place in this weekends race, also Mick Schumacher will have a Haas seat next season
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Part of the Mercedes junior program... Still, what a weird sport sometimes.
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The fact that F1 is so engineering and engine dominant, I wonder how much better a driver Hamilton is than others. It will be interesting to see how Russell does. The Grand Prix on Amazon prime spent most of the time on the engineering and Honda engine issues.
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Russell fastest in first practice, make of that what you will
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:51 am The fact that F1 is so engineering and engine dominant, I wonder how much better a driver Hamilton is than others. It will be interesting to see how Russell does. The Grand Prix on Amazon prime spent most of the time on the engineering and Honda engine issues.
They are introducing some rules next year that will make it closer to F2, where the cars are kept more in line with each other. Going to be very interesting to see how that plays out, as Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull all vastly outspend other teams on the circuit, and it shows in the standings (obviously).
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Holy shit. That was fucking BONKERS. At least Russell got some points out of it.
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