Fantastic.
Cheers, updating OP now.
Edit: I linked to the English version of the DTM site, hope that's okay for the German gaffers.
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Official Motorsports Thread of 2013 (MotoGP, WRC, Le Mans, Nascar, IRL, V8's etc)
- Thread starter Dead Man
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Fantastic.
Cheers, updating OP now.
Edit: I linked to the English version of the DTM site, hope that's okay for the German gaffers.
Wax Free Vanilla
Member
Eurosport confirm that BT will have exclusive UK Moto GP coverage next season.
Why do sports series do this? They need coverage to stay in business, all this shit does is kill interest in the long term.
Slackbladder
Member
Thank God! Have'nt seen DTM in ages and was thinking of paying £13 a month for ESPN but now no need! Excellent!
Will be interesting to see how DRS and the new option tyres work in DTM this year.
They all have the same rear wing and DRS can be activated once per lap by the driver when they are within 2 seconds of a car in front. It will be a much milder boost in speed compared to F1.
Here is a current spotters guide...
http://www.spotterguides.com/2013-dtm/
They all have the same rear wing and DRS can be activated once per lap by the driver when they are within 2 seconds of a car in front. It will be a much milder boost in speed compared to F1.
Here is a current spotters guide...
http://www.spotterguides.com/2013-dtm/
Haha, this is pretty damn rad. Indy driver Josef Newgarden goes undercover and asks random punters about... himself.
Seems like a nice enough bloke. Hope he does alright for himself!
Seems like a nice enough bloke. Hope he does alright for himself!
If only they knew what the other pedal besides the gas and clutch is for, most of them could have probably stayed out of it.
A little over an hour to go before V8 Supercars race 10 in Perth.
Qualifying results for the 60-60 sprint:
Whincup, Bright, Coulthard, Lowndes, Alex Davison, Winterbottom, Premat, Will Davison, Engel, Mostert make up the top 10.
Van Gisbergen 11, McLaughlin 12, Holdsworth 14, Webb 18, Tander 19, Fiore 21.
Qualifying results for the 60-60 sprint:
Whincup, Bright, Coulthard, Lowndes, Alex Davison, Winterbottom, Premat, Will Davison, Engel, Mostert make up the top 10.
Van Gisbergen 11, McLaughlin 12, Holdsworth 14, Webb 18, Tander 19, Fiore 21.
Forgot this was on this weekend! Thanks for the reminder. Barbagello is a good little track, normally has some good racing.
Scott Pye had a stroke of luck here. Got turned sideways at 250kph, takes flight and somehow avoids his wheels digging in when he lands and the tumble dryer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5eriuPKps8&t=51s
I remember watching that replay from that angle for the first time and just being blown away at the fact that the car didnt dig in and roll, Pye should buy a lotto ticket lucky man indeed!
Spa WEC starts in around four hours. Cannot wait! Audi seem to have serious speed over Toyota and Rebellion have shown fine form qualifying very close to the Toyotas. Aston are on pole for GT PRO, no surprises there, apparently Ferrari are pissed off about Balance of Performance favouring the Astons heavily, but the class is quite close so the race should be a cracker. The Young Driver AMR run Gulf Aston will be on pole for GT AM, go Alan Simonsen!!!
Greaves LMP2 will not start the race after the car was heavily damaged in qualifying.
Spa WEC starts in around four hours. Cannot wait! Audi seem to have serious speed over Toyota and Rebellion have shown fine form qualifying very close to the Toyotas. Aston are on pole for GT PRO, no surprises there, apparently Ferrari are pissed off about Balance of Performance favouring the Astons heavily, but the class is quite close so the race should be a cracker. The Young Driver AMR run Gulf Aston will be on pole for GT AM, go Alan Simonsen!!!
Greaves LMP2 will not start the race after the car was heavily damaged in qualifying.
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
I just finished watching the V8 race from earlier today. Do the drivers get fined for swearing? I heard Lowndes say fuck live on TV at least 5 times at the end of the race.
Good race earlier.
LOL, not really. 7 will normally apologise but that's about it. Dangers of live tv and all that.
He's getting in the habit with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In-s-n-cSZ8
Not so much in the lucky, but in the offs.
LOL, not really. 7 will normally apologise but that's about it. Dangers of live tv and all that.
Scott Pye had a stroke of luck here. Got turned sideways at 250kph, takes flight and somehow avoids his wheels digging in when he lands and the tumble dryer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5eriuPKps8&t=51s
He's getting in the habit with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In-s-n-cSZ8
Not so much in the lucky, but in the offs.
Neil Crompton once dropped the c bomb on air once at Bathurst a few years ago.
Its on youtube somewhere.
WEC Spa starts in ~15 mins. There is an online stream: http://live.fiawec.com/ I dont know if its region locked but it works for me in the UK at least.
I went to this race 4 years ago, it was great fun.
I went to this race 4 years ago, it was great fun.
Watching this stream here in Australia, no geoblocking here unlike Blancpain and FIA GT
Cant wait!!!
Guess i'm not going out today. Thanks for the heads up.
Psychotext
Member
Good little battle at the front of the WEC race.
Psychotext
Member
Body armour works, fair play.
moojito
Member
Holy crap, since when was Nelson Piquet Jr a Nascar driver?
Quite a while now, I think. He's even won a race or two.
and those were all fast corners
Elfforkusu
Member
NASCAR hasn't figured out what to do with cautions since they changed the rule to "freeze the field". It's obvious for this sort of situation that they need a 3rd option ("race back to the flag like we used to"), but they're dumb so they don't have it.
Here's the onboard for Regan Smith's race winning last lap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9byHnNq8cM#t=1m45s
The biggest problem is that they aren't consistent. Half the time, when there's a caution coming to the finish, they don't throw the caution. Half the time, they do.
Couldnt have said it better myself.
Cant stand Matty White either, he brings nothing to the table.
Scott Pye had a stroke of luck here. Got turned sideways at 250kph, takes flight and somehow avoids his wheels digging in when he lands and the tumble dryer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5eriuPKps8&t=51s
Sooooo lucky those wheels didn't bite and flip the car at that speed.
Yeah, having a 'professional' commentator on there is just a waste, Cropmton has been doing it long enough to be the 'play by play' guy, Skaife and the others for colour. Still White is far above Leigh fucking Diffey, glad he went back to the US, couldn't stand him being home over here.
Wax Free Vanilla
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Diablo Rosso
Member
That is a bit naughty but Lorenzo shouldn't have given him the chance to do it.Pretty uneventful MotoGP race until the last lap, good ride by Pedrosa. Marquez was pretty reckless at times.
Stepped over the line with that last corner move imo and maybe should receive some sort of penalty.
He was heading off the track till he made contact.
Charlie McCarthy
Member
I will admit at first I thought Marquez was completely in the wrong, but seeing it again and again, you guys have a point about Lorenzo leaving the door open.
In saying that though, he did kind of use Lorenzo's bike as a brake and if he was penalized in some way I wouldn't have been surprised. Being aggressive is Marquez thing, but that might of been a bit too much. You aren't supposed to make contact like that while passing. If Lorenzo goes down (which could have easily happened), what would we be saying then?
Whether he was right or wrong will be debated, but what Marquez shown today was that it doesn't matter who he takes on, he believes he can/should beat them. So confident already and only 3 races in.
In saying that though, he did kind of use Lorenzo's bike as a brake and if he was penalized in some way I wouldn't have been surprised. Being aggressive is Marquez thing, but that might of been a bit too much. You aren't supposed to make contact like that while passing. If Lorenzo goes down (which could have easily happened), what would we be saying then?
Whether he was right or wrong will be debated, but what Marquez shown today was that it doesn't matter who he takes on, he believes he can/should beat them. So confident already and only 3 races in.