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GT has been the best categories for endurance racing for years. There's a reason there isn't a P1 category in America any more, while there are GT3 or similar spec series popping up all over the place.
 
The Delta Wing broke down again :(.

I'm so annoyed Nissan left them out in the cold. Without big name backing I can't see it surviving. The coupe is also super fugly.
 
Says test at the top. Although the entry list is hardly going to differ much given its now run to a set of regs only that series runs too (I.e. nobody from Europe is going to pop over to get some testing miles in :()

Edit: No DeltaWing :(
 
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Skeeter said:
Says test at the top. Although the entry list is hardly going to differ much given its now run to a set if regs only that series runs too (I.e. nobody from Europe is going to pop over to get some testing miles in :()
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LMP2 cars in USCC are matched to the ACO regulations until 2016 or so. GT I've mentioned above. As I understand it, Chevrolet were one of the key parties that insisted on use of the same GT spec as other series, so they could build one C7R model for all of them.
 
Indy500 said:
LMP2 cars in USCC are matched to the ACO regulations until 2016 or so. GT I've mentioned above. As I understand it, Chevrolet were one of the key parties that insisted on use of the same GT spec as other series, so they could build one C7R model for all of them.
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True. But I miss the days when Sebring was a warm up fight for the Le Man's P1 challengers. Its going to feel odd watching Sebring with no Audi.
 
Skeeter said:
True. But I miss the days when Sebring was a warm up fight for the Le Mans P1 challengers. Its going to feel odd watching Sebring with no Audi.
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It was interesting to watch them lap the 2-3 privateer entries repeatedly? :p

In WEC there's actually some competition for 2014, last year's LMP1 category may as well have been called the "Audi class".
 
Better than the 2013 ALMS P1 class. Wasnt there only 1 team that competed at every round and won by default :p.

Can't wait for WEC this year. Tempted to go Silverstone for the 6 Hours. Anyone else going?
 
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Better than the 2013 ALMS P1 class. Wasnt there only 1 team that competed at every round and won by default :p.
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Pickett and Dyson, but the number of P1 cars per race wasn't much lower than WEC. Audi (x2), Rebellion and Toyota did the whole WEC season. Considering that Rebellion entered the same drivers in both series...
 
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That's one of the most impressive pieces of F1-internet-technology Ive ever seen. I wonder how they did it. I'm assuming they had multiple cameras and are interpolating between cameras, as we change camera angles.
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It's hard to work out how they did it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on the same techniques of 360/180 panoramic photos.
 
The difference though is that this is moving/film footage.
Unless they created a series of still images, did the panoramic view on each set of images and then spliced them all together to create a video. I think its called a jpeg movie. GIFs also operate in this way.

That still doesnt explain how you get a smooth video, while moving the camera view. If you use the technique above, the video would momentarily stop, then resume, once the new camera view has been selected
 
sunama said:
The difference though is that this is moving/film footage.
Unless they created a series of still images, did the panoramic view on each set of images and then spliced them all together to create a video. I think its called a jpeg movie. GIFs also operate in this way.

That still doesnt explain how you get a smooth video, while moving the camera view. If you use the technique above, the video would momentarily stop, then resume, once the new camera view has been selected
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Maybe multiple videos spliced to a 360/180 panoramic view. but then they would need quite a few go pros for that....
 
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