VVVRROOOMM Auto Racing Thread (NASCAR, F1, etc)

cerranoredux · Post by **cerranoredux** » Mon May 30, 2022 8:32 am

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 · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon May 30, 2022 4:31 pm

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 · Post by **Baloney** » Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:42 am

It took you 4 days to work out who died?

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

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:25 pm

Some race that, happy that nobody was seriously hurt.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:36 pm

Fantastic race

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:52 am

Vettel retiring from F1 at the end of the season

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:48 am

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 · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:05 am

just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:25 am

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:43 am

Brontoburglar wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:05 am just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

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

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:13 am

Brontoburglar wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:05 am just gotta say that "tictoc" made me audibly giggle

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

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:15 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:43 am
Brontoburglar wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:05 am 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 · Post by **Baloney** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:45 am

cerranoredux · Post by **cerranoredux** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:42 pm

Baloney wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:45 am

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 · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:01 pm

Their in race strategy is so bad. Unbelievably so.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:49 am

Alonso leaving Alpine to join Aston Martin next season

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:54 am

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

Busy F1 day

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:28 am

Baloney wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:54 am 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 · Post by **Baloney** » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:41 pm

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

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:57 pm

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

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:36 pm

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

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:39 am

Audi to join in 2026 replacing Alfa Romeo

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

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:29 pm

The ending to the Nascar race today was wild.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 11:53 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:29 pm 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 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:29 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: Mon Oct 31, 2022 11:53 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:29 pm 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 · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:37 pm

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.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:46 pm

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 · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:53 pm

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 · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 1:30 pm

Rubbin' (the wall) is racing.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:27 pm

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 · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:36 pm

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 · Post by **mister d** » Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:41 pm

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

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:11 am

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

Post by **brian** » Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:50 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:11 am 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.

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:46 pm

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 · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:33 pm

coming back from Thermal

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue May 28, 2024 4:13 pm

Stewart-Haas shutting down the team at the end of this year.

Tony has been absent (drag racing).
Haas has been F1ing

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Tue May 28, 2024 4:27 pm

Smithfield, Mobil 1 and Busch Light left at the end of the 2023 season

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Thu May 30, 2024 3:04 pm

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Jan 03, 2025 6:43 pm

I find it fun when Bronto gets called out by drivers and family of drivers on social media.