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Official Motorsports Thread of 2013 (MotoGP, WRC, Le Mans, Nascar, IRL, V8's etc)
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Elfforkusu
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The Chase was always a half-assed idea by an organization (NASCAR) that specializes in half-assed ideas.
All it does is enable teams to game the system, either "legitimately" (Jimmie Johnson's team using the first 26 as a preseason) or otherwise.
TangoAlphaLima
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To be fair, only 1 of Johnson's 5 championships would not have also been won under the pre-Chase season long format.
But yeah, the Chase is a futile attempt for cooked up drama. Of course, with MWR involved, I guess there's actually a lot real drama.
The new United SportsCar series got itself a title sponsor, Tudor Watches. They signed up for 5 years. Great news for the series.
Press Release
Press Release
This is just like the time he brought jet fuel to Daytona and tried to use it in his car.
The cheating sucks but it makes for compelling events.
NASCAR announced that Jeff Gordon will be in the chase while not removing anyone else.
http://www.racintoday.com/archives/42979
http://www.racintoday.com/archives/42979
Big Takeover
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Wow, didn't see that coming. That's nutso.
On The Edge of Insanity
Member
Isn't it just an attempt to mimic the other major US sports with a playoff-like system? Of course it makes zero sense in motorsport because all the other competitors are still involved, but I guess that has to be the thinking behind it.
Elfforkusu
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NASCAR. What else is there to say, it's a goddamn circus.
(JJ can make up for it by getting robbed this year, since he'd clearly have this on lockdown without the Chase)
IIRC, JJ would have 3 under the old (rational) points system of having a 36 race season rather than a 10 race season. So 2 out of 5. But this sort of revisionism is complicated by the mere presence of the chase, since teams try to budget accordingly.
(JJ can make up for it by getting robbed this year, since he'd clearly have this on lockdown without the Chase)
So before the final practice, a driver meeting was held to announce some new rules that will be in effect starting tomorrow. The rule goes as followed:
Also starting tomorrow, there will be 1 spotter per team on the spotter's stand. They will only be able to have 2 analog radios, a scanner and a Fan View with them. Digital radios are now banned.
Entire transcript of the conference can be found here: http://pressdog.typepad.com/dogblog/2013/09/transcript-of-nascar-100-rule-press-conference-.html
Rule 12-4L if Mike Heltons memory serves him right said:
Also starting tomorrow, there will be 1 spotter per team on the spotter's stand. They will only be able to have 2 analog radios, a scanner and a Fan View with them. Digital radios are now banned.
Entire transcript of the conference can be found here: http://pressdog.typepad.com/dogblog/2013/09/transcript-of-nascar-100-rule-press-conference-.html
seattle6418
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Justice was served with Gordon in it. I don'care what people say, like the Maradona hand goal or some other examples, everytime you can correct a mistake, i'm all for it.
Damn rain, it's gonna take forever to get this race in.
Damn rain, it's gonna take forever to get this race in.
I would be just fine with that.
Big Takeover
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Montoya to Penske (Indycar). Very exciting, and kind of out of the blue. I'd love to see Roger give him some non-conflicting Nascar starts too. He'd be silly not to, imo.
http://penskeracing.com/news/index.cfm?series=n&cid=51801
http://penskeracing.com/news/index.cfm?series=n&cid=51801
On The Edge of Insanity
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Great news. Excited to see him back in a single-seater. Will definitely be watching IndyCar more regularly next year now.
Big Takeover
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Napa pulled out of MWR over the Richmond flap. OUCH.
seattle6418
Member
Kind of deserved for being so stupid at manipulating a race. When you do that over a radio that everyone is listening, you are just too idiot.
http://www.indianapolismotorspeedwa...57-ims-to-host-indycar-road-race-in-may-2014/
IndyCar is going to be holding a road race on the road course (which will be getting repaved with some track design changes to be a much more exciting courses) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to kick off the month of May next year.
Seems like a good move to me... this will be a more exciting opening day and draw people locally to the track.
IndyCar is going to be holding a road race on the road course (which will be getting repaved with some track design changes to be a much more exciting courses) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to kick off the month of May next year.
Seems like a good move to me... this will be a more exciting opening day and draw people locally to the track.
Big Takeover
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I like the idea, it's just that most consider the road course to be dreadful. It makes it hard to be truly excited about it. They are planning revisions to it however, so we'll see if they can find some character for it.
Jezbollah
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The IMS road course is getting repaved mostly at the request of the MotoGP series - it doesn't surprise me at all that IMS and Indycar are looking to gain further value of this work by hosting a race.
It might not be the most exhilarating layout, but it gave a tremendous MotoGP race - so much so that MotoGP extended the circuit's contract and looks to be ditching Laguna Seca - where as before Laguna and COTA were likely to be the only two US GPs going forward.
The only thing I'm wondering about are the dates. Start of May then the 500 build up to the 500 at the end of May. Great if you are a local, but man it would suck if you are a diehard Indycar fan and want to attend both. Maybe slot it in after Mid-Ohio or something since Baltimore isn't happening any more.
Big Takeover
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Shame Dani's bike took some damage as Marquez went by, but yeah, Marc has really impressed. He foolishly dumped it at Mugello, and that was the last we saw of the rookie mistakes. I give him a lot of credit for finding the balancing point so quickly and definitively. Now about those starts...
Montoya doing work these final nascar races
him and brad should share a beer later tonight. Also wtf is up with fires this weekend? First f1 and now nascar today.Holy shit you were not kidding. Scary crash. Hope all of the drivers and fans are ok.
Yeah, even though he was hurt pretty bad he would have been killed a few years ago. First real test I think of the new car, safety wise.
Elfforkusu
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Awful wreck in IRL, awful racing from NASCAR (as usual)...
so instead here's something awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuod2BaHQ8&t=12m30s
so instead here's something awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuod2BaHQ8&t=12m30s
Lol wat thats awesome
Big Takeover
Member
I thought Robby Gordon had completely lost his mind when he started talking about doing this a while ago, but it really works. It kind of reminds me of watching pro drivers race crappy road cars, where the cars are in way over their heads.
The Dario crash was horrific. Glad all the fans seem OK. I felt ill when I saw that little kid standing near the fence taking a picture, but remained hopeful that, because of the long lens, he was further back than it looked. I guess that was the case.
Sato, God bless him, but I'd hate racing with that guy. There's a mistake lurking around every corner with him.
My press coverage of the Grand Prix of Houston. They didn't supply me with a media pass so I did what I could.
http://www.houstonpress.com/slidesho...ston-40476656/
I was sitting in Grandstand 4 Race 1.
I'll post some larger photos from flickr soon
http://www.houstonpress.com/slidesho...ston-40476656/
I was sitting in Grandstand 4 Race 1.
I'll post some larger photos from flickr soon
That's pretty lame... my understanding is they generally give about every blogger a press pass (provided they have a ticket to get in). If they end up having the race again next year I'd tweet at @IndyCar about it.