Yep. Despite McRae's death, the fact that the Dirt games are backed by people like Travis Pastrana and Ken Block as opposed to WRC contenders like Loeb or even retired ones like Makinen shows the audience that companies (not necessarily licensed ones... although that was an abortion last year, with little more than licensed cars afaik) aren't bothering tackling enthusiasts anymore.
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Official Motorsports Thread of 2012 (F1, MotoGP, WRC, Le Mans, Nascar, IRL, etc)
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American audiences have never really followed WRC, and that is who those games are targeting now.
True, hadn't actually thought that one through. It seems the original Colin McRae games, the Richard Burns game and to a lesser (but still notable) extent Rallisport 2 had a very European-centric, serious game design philosophy going on, but the Dirt series (admittedly, even while Colin was still alive for the first one's release) has taken a turn for the worse with nothing else (not even the official one, licensed to a dev with a rather poor track record.
Anyway, too much rambling. Point was, something happened in WRC over the last 5 or 6 years which screwed the popularity of the sport beyond repair.
WRC is actually starting to pick up a bit compared to recent years with Mini joining last season, Volkswagen joining next season and the return of the Monte Carlo rally to the calender. Competition is also tighter with Ogier's rise (until Loeb threatened to leave Citroen) and Latvala is starting to up his game. Also Solberg is back in a factory car for this season, he's one to watch. It's a shame Mini doesn't have a stronger financial backing though, if they had two strong drivers it would definitely make it more interesting.
They did but they're in with only one factory driver, while the second seat will be filled by pay drivers.
mclaren777
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Wait, Petit Le Mans is not part of the endurance championship? That was my favorite race of the year. Multi-class racing on Road Atlanta is always entertaining.
It looks like the Bahrain race is the same weekend so I assume that means none of the big teams will be at Petit. I guess the chances of any of the big prototype teams running a full season in the ALMS anytime soon is slim.
It looks like the Bahrain race is the same weekend so I assume that means none of the big teams will be at Petit. I guess the chances of any of the big prototype teams running a full season in the ALMS anytime soon is slim.
GTP_Daverytimes
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Rumor is the Toyota lmp1 car will roll out next week
Awesome, am curios how it runs compared to the R18
Rumor is the Toyota lmp1 car will roll out next week
Toyota have apparently rented out Paul Ricard next week so if there isn't an official launch then there will be spy shots emerging.
http://www.mulsannescorner.com/newsjan12.html
Just Toyota this year I think, Porsche are joining in 2014.
Dome may join in the near future.
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/dome-eyes-le-mans-return/
Also Lotus were working on an LMP2 for this years Le Mans, but delayed to 2013.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87050
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20111007/ALMS/111009912
Almost forgot the Deltawing, taking up the 56th entry for cars using new technology.
http://deltawingracing.com/
I don't expect it to be up there with Peugeot and Audi since the current rules still seem to favour diesel engines. Nothing's certain though since they're the first factory team to run a petrol hybrid so who knows what kind of potential it has.
The 24 Hours of Nürburgring Experience - Launching DRIVE
First episode of a new web-series, looks like it's going to be pretty good.
First episode of a new web-series, looks like it's going to be pretty good.
slothmeister
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Really cheesed off to find out that the gt1 championship isn't coming to silverstone this year. Went last year and had a absolute blast, lurve them machines!
Edmond Dantès
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Nissan are rumoured to be interested in a return as well.
Also, it's nice to see this thread getting traffic, a strong motorsport thread to go along with F1 thread is exactly what was needed.
slothmeister
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Edmond Dantès;33936638 said:
I'll be honest, I stayed out of this thread last year as I hadn't long been a member of GAF and every time I poked my head in it always seemed to be NASCAR chat. I built up a massive love of all forms of Motorsport last year after attending a few races and taking interest in various championships so hopefully will be a regular in here now.
Edmond Dantès
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That thread was much more varied when Subzero9285 was around and was the main thread before F1 was given its own thread.
ClassyPenguin
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Purists mostly who would have liked for the on The Long Way Round to not have a back-up vehicle and support.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=398532&page=15
the WRC has definitely fallen from grace.
mclaren777
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Edmond Dantès
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Still looks like the Batmobile, but I'm very intrigued as to how it will fare.I'm still shocked that the ACO is letting that thing on track with the other cars.
Most of the NASCAR stuff was in its own thread last year, and me and the three or four other NASCAR people don't bite.
Can't believe that there are less than four weeks until the 24 Hour race at Daytona!
I'm still shocked that the ACO is letting that thing on track with the other cars.
I'm surprised as well. I think the way it looks is the main reason that it wasn't chosen as the new Indy Car chassis.
It will be interesting to see how it performs though, I think it could be pretty good down the straight as it has very low drag (Cd = 0.24). But with such narrow front tyres (4 inch) and so little weight and downforce at the front (72.5% weight over the rear axle, and 76% of the downforce at the rear) I think it will handle fairly poorly. Then again Michelin are making custom tyres just for them so they may be able to overcome some of these issues.
Either way it should be interesting, I can't see it lasting 24 hours though.
That's the version that was proposed for IndyCar, the Endurance version is a bit different:
Very unusual-looking, it will definitely be a sight to see.
Fun fact: they are using the failed Aston Martin AMR-One chassis to build it. It will be run by the very successful LMP2 team Highcroft racing.
Very unusual-looking, it will definitely be a sight to see.
Fun fact: they are using the failed Aston Martin AMR-One chassis to build it. It will be run by the very successful LMP2 team Highcroft racing.
Ok Motorsports GAF, I'm a huge racing fan and I even suffered my spinal cord injury doing it! But anyways I have my own private server and I upload mainly F1 but I'm going back and uploading DTM and then WRC. I also have gb's upon gb's of photos. Right now it's just a directory dump so Right click->Save Target As
I also have a boatload of car magazines to enjoy. I also take requests so let me know! Right now I'm in the process of putting up some F1 Documentaries.
If interested PM me for a login/pass! Cheers.
I also have a boatload of car magazines to enjoy. I also take requests so let me know! Right now I'm in the process of putting up some F1 Documentaries.
If interested PM me for a login/pass! Cheers.
Shouldn't be too hard to improve then. They only lasted 4 laps last year!
That's the version that was proposed for IndyCar, the Endurance version is a bit different:
Very unusual-looking, it will definitely be a sight to see.
Fun fact: they are using the failed Aston Martin AMR-One chassis to build it. It will be run by the very successful LMP2 team Highcroft racing.
The narrow front track on that thing can't be good for it.
The whole NASCAR thread was under 500 posts iirc for the whole season (36 races) last year. Having discussion about the left turners in this thread wouldn't be much of an annoyance. There are not enough posts outside the F1 thread to have multiple healthy Motorsport threads other than the general one.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
There is one exception to that; Le Mans.
Last years thread was very active and a joy to follow.
Nice work man!!
Edmond Dantès;33941641 said:
Yeah, I love the Le Mans thread here, makes it more interesting to watch the race when there is always someone awake to discuss it with!
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Dakar Rally update
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Seriously.
Leunam, mblitek and SunhiLegend have really made the F1 threads a joy to follow.
mclaren777
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Edmond Dantès;33941671 said:
Any chance you can use
spoiler
NihonTiger90
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I'll be working on some stuff to possibly throw in the OP later (schedules, etc.), starting with NASCAR because that was the one I had almost finished up. Don't worry, I'll do ones for WRC, IndyCar, V8 Supercars, etc. as well, if all goes according to plan.
Edmond Dantès
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Yes, sorry if I ruined the result for you.
Have you got any videos of last years Le Mans 24hr or Daytona 24hr?
SunhiLegend
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Awesome. I download the BBC F1 Season Review from your site and it it downloaded fast.
Dakar Day 2 HD Highlights Youtube
Motorsport in HD 60fps looks amazing.
How the hell would it be filmed then? And insured? Ridiculous expectations.
The Aston chassis was supposedly very good it was the engine that was junk, I remember a interview during the nurb 24 enduro with a audi engineer who stance on the matter was 'why the **** did they choose an engine of that design, stupid idea'.
IndyCar is expected to announce tomorrow that they're hiring Beaux Barfield away from ALMS to replace Brian Barnhart as chief steward/race director.
He's currently working in that position for ALMS and was a steward for Champ Car as well as a race director for Atlantics and Trans-Am before that.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-barfield-hired-to-replace-barnhart-as-race-director/
He's currently working in that position for ALMS and was a steward for Champ Car as well as a race director for Atlantics and Trans-Am before that.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-barfield-hired-to-replace-barnhart-as-race-director/
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