VVVRROOOMM Auto Racing Thread (NASCAR, F1, etc)

[cerranoredux]

Had people over with the brickyard in the background so I don’t even know who won. Thank god for Peacock for showing the replay on a relaxing Memorial Day morning on the patio with my pup and a
good cup of coffee.

[Brontoburglar]

Indy 500 is the best sporting event I have ever attended as a fan. would highly recommend. was an amazing weekend (outside of covid wrecking our original group plans and L's massive travel fiasco)

[Baloney]

It took you 4 days to work out who died?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/motorsport/61733290

[Baloney]

Some race that, happy that nobody was seriously hurt.

[govmentchedda]

Fantastic race

[wlu_lax6]

Vettel retiring from F1 at the end of the season

[Nonlinear FC]

I'm very late to this, but not seeing it posted here: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/ ... e/2886326/

For the first time ever, NASCAR is going to hold a city street race... In Chicago.

I found this in a very odd way, from a weird chicken puppet comedian I follow on TicToc who was (hilariously) predicting that this is going to be an absolute nightmare for Chicagoans; over the 4th of July weekend no-less.

[Brontoburglar]

just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

[Baloney]

[wlu_lax6]

just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

that is what made you giggle...not "a weird chicken puppet comedian"

[Nonlinear FC]

just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

I know... at least I didn't say The TicToc.

[Nonlinear FC]

just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

that is what made you giggle...not "a weird chicken puppet comedian"

Dude is very funny... A lot of hyper local stuff, but it's still funny.

He's called Chad the Bird... Look him up on The UTubes.

[Baloney]

[cerranoredux]

Don’t know enough about F1 to know whether the start of a summer break is a good time to fire your sack your chief race strategist, but goddamn, they are really shooting themselves in the foot.

[govmentchedda]

Their in race strategy is so bad. Unbelievably so.

[Baloney]

Alonso leaving Alpine to join Aston Martin next season

[Baloney]

And now Daniel Ricciardo has announced he will retire from F1 at the end of the 2022 season.

Busy F1 day

[govmentchedda]

And now Daniel Ricciardo has announced he will retire from F1 at the end of the 2022 season.

Busy F1 day

Pretty sure that's a hoax account.

[Baloney]

McLaren have confirmed that Daniel Ricciardo will leave at the end of the season

[Baloney]

Tim Cook is about enthused as I am buying an apple product.

[govmentchedda]

I'd be so worried about dropping the flag on the track.

[Baloney]

Audi to join in 2026 replacing Alfa Romeo

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... 026-season

[wlu_lax6]

The ending to the Nascar race today was wild.

[DaveInSeattle]

The ending to the Nascar race today was wild.

Can we get Bronto to explain to us less-NASCAR literate what exactly was going on with that? It was all over my twitter feed yesterday afternoon.

[wlu_lax6]

The ending to the Nascar race today was wild.

Can we get Bronto to explain to us less-NASCAR literate what exactly was going on with that? It was all over my twitter feed yesterday afternoon.

The guy who put car into the wall and pedal to the metal had to get more points than Denny Hamlin to make the championship 4 (eligible for the series championship with the next race). So he went all in to get that last spot.

He is known for his last lap wall riding pass on Denny Hamlin, at Martinsville in 2022 to secure a spot in the Championship 4 race the following week at Phoenix. His maneuver is known as “Balls on the Wall”.[citation needed]

He is nicknamed The Watermelon Man, or simply Melon Man, due to his family's history as watermelon farmers, which he also participates in; whenever he celebrates race wins, he smashes a watermelon to the ground in Victory Lane.[2]

Also like that his sponsor is The Moose Fraternity

[Brontoburglar]

the wall-riding move has worked for years in the EA Sports NASCAR games from the 2000s. but no one has ever tried it.

He was out of the final four on the last lap and needed to pass 2 cars (I think) to have a shot and wasn't going to pass them by racing "normally." So he tried the wall-riding move ... and ended up posting the fastest lap ever at Martinsville in the Cup Series.

it was incredible. and NASCAR has to somehow figure out how to prevent it from now on given how much faster he was than everyone else. Chastain ran nearly 2 seconds faster on his final lap than the race winner and that's just from doing what he did in the final corners. so now others will want to take that risk on the final lap at Martinsville and maybe even other tracks.

of course, it true funny NASCAR fashion, the move ultimately proved unnecessary too. the guy who finished fourth was disqualified after his car failed post-race inspection, so thanks to NASCAR's complicated points system, Chastain would have advanced to the final race with a title shot by simply staying in the spot he was in on the final lap before he rode the wall.

[Shirley]

So is the idea that you can use the wall to help you corner, so you just mash the pedal? And that help more than offsets the obvious friction and damage caused by the wall?

[Brontoburglar]

basically, yeah. Martinsville is so flat and the corner radius is so tight that you have to slow down a fair bit to make the corner. so by staying in the throttle and using the wall as your guide, you can go considerably faster.

it was surprising how much faster he was. the rigidity of this car helps a ton I think. there's a new car this year that's gotten a lot of (necessary) scrutiny because it doesn't absorb as much impact as the previous car did. multiple drivers have gotten concussions and missed races while others have said they are feeling wrecks more than they ever have this year. and while his car certainly looked beat up, it also wasn't obliterated

[govmentchedda]

Rubbin' (the wall) is racing.

[wlu_lax6]

So guess that could go in the guns infinity but the Jimmie Johnson story is terrible.
https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/stor ... found-dead

[A_B]

That is terrible. As is the headline writing:

Jimmie Johnson won't race in-laws, nephew found dead

There's a vital semi-colon or word missing there.

(They fixed it)

[mister d]

So a Nascar driver sponsored by black rifle coffee was suspended for liking a meme mocking George Floyd. Very on brand.

[wlu_lax6]

Costco has a 3 day ground pass for US Grand Prix. 349.99 instead of $600.

[brian]

Costco has a 3 day ground pass for US Grand Prix. 349.99 instead of $600.

Wonder if Miami and Vegas getting races is biting into their demand.

[brian]

Got passed on I-40 through Texas panhandle by semis for three different IndyCar teams/drivers (ie three different cars). Looks like next race is Long Beach but not for a few weeks so can only guess they were heading to Indianapolis for testing?

[Brontoburglar]

coming back from Thermal