Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Flibster said:
Good. Get rid.

Never really liked Silverstone anyway. Let's have some more interesting circuits back.
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I'm not a fan of Silverstone either. I find it boring for F1 and worse for MotoGP, it's just too bland and open. Still there are other tracks I'd axe before that. Spa excluded, the shorter tracks where you have 70+ lap races tend to be more fun as the cars are much closer together, and mistakes more costly. Wouldn't mind seeing another race in Japan (Aida probably needs some development though)
 
Vertigo1 said:
Formula E doesn't belong in this thread, it's not motorsport :p
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Are they powered by an electric motor? I rest my case... or crate of milk on the back of them. They're fancy milk floats. :p:p

F1 right now is dire. They should just lose the BGP and let them parade around on dull circuits paid for by oil/gas money.
 
Ryan-3 said:
Are they powered by an electric motor? I rest my case... or crate of milk on the back of them. They're fancy milk floats. :p:p

F1 right now is dire. They should just lose the BGP and let them parade around on dull circuits paid for by oil/gas money.
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I was going to say - by its very definition it's more 'motorsport' than any other racing series.

Formula E is good for what it is - close and fun racing not taken especially seriously. It has many issues, but for me I can happily sit back and watch a Formula E race and will usually enjoy it. The bouncing and dancing around the street circuits make it look like F1 cars of years gone by.

The sound doesn't detract from it on TV in my opinion - it sounds like an insane gearbox whine from some monster of years back. I think the lack of sound would annoy my live (as much for the terrible DJ tracks), but then current F1 cars live sound about 20x better than they do on TV too.
 
this_is_gav said:
Formula E is good for what it is - close and fun racing not taken especially seriously. It has many issues, but for me I can happily sit back and watch a Formula E race and will usually enjoy it. The bouncing and dancing around the street circuits make it look like F1 cars of years gone by.
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Very true. The close nature of racing is what makes it exciting. Senna always used to say that as he progressed though the ranks, the racing became less of a fight from start to finish, the cars were more spread out.

Early 90's DTM to me is some of the best to watch. You can see how committed the drivers are, nose to tail, asking the cars for everything they've got.
 
Did anyone watch the E-sports Formula E in Las Vegas this weekend? I heard it was a bit of a joke - the leader had a bug with his fanboost so was able to run 2 secs/lap faster. Some familiar names from when I did a lot of sim racing back in the day took part in it. I found it quite funny that the actual FE drivers were in the lower half of the top 10.

I'm surprised Huis hasn't been put into a proper race car yet. He's been winning everything he enters for years now.
 
timmeh said:
Did anyone watch the E-sports Formula E in Las Vegas this weekend? I heard it was a bit of a joke - the leader had a bug with his fanboost so was able to run 2 secs/lap faster. Some familiar names from when I did a lot of sim racing back in the day took part in it. I found it quite funny that the actual FE drivers were in the lower half of the top 10.

I'm surprised Huis hasn't been put into a proper race car yet. He's been winning everything he enters for years now.
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All the way back to GPL with Gregor Huttu - ah the good old GH2 setups.

Huttu drove a Formula Mazda at Road Atlanta a couple of years back as a promotion for iRacing. Apparently he was only 2-3 seconds off the leading pace that weekend, which isn't bad considering he had limited running, didn't have a driving license and was sick in the car!

The transition is very real (from good sims anyway - GPL and iRacing for example). I won the first ever karting race I had after all those years on sims - the skill set required is exactly the same but with more danger and is obviously more physically demanding.

I nearly got Huttu to drive for our team for a one-off at Le Mans one year. He was up for it but other commitments meant he wouldn't have had the time to prepare. Both our cars failed during the race anyway, one before evening time and the other a 6am the following day, both while in 2nd place at the time as I recall. We got a 1-2 the following year though!
 
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this_is_gav said:
Huttu drove a Formula Mazda at Road Atlanta a couple of years back as a promotion for iRacing. Apparently he was only 2-3 seconds off the leading pace that weekend, which isn't bad considering he had limited running, didn't have a driving license and was sick in the car!
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I remember reading about this. Apparently the only car he'd ever driven before was a knackered old Ford Sierra.

I need to get a PC and get back into it although I'm not sure how well it'll fit with family life nowadays lol.
 
Seems all not well at Renault, team boss Fred Vasseur just left with immediate effect.

Shame as I'd like to see Hulk do well.
 
Does anyone else feel that the FIA test of the HALO in this article is way out?

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fia-simulated-alonso-s-australian-gp-crash-with-halo-865841/

"We put one of our chassis upside down with a halo, we put Andy Mellor [consultant for the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety]
into it as the worst case scenario and we asked him to come out exactly in Fernando's position and incredibly he did"

So they put a driver in a car, then turned it upside down. The guy got out and said all is ok?
To me this is a very strange way of testing. The FIA forgot about the speed of the car hitting the ground
then spinning and finally crashing in to the side.
 
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