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maxs team had to retire the car due to a broken driveshaft which fucked the whole rear axle. man his bad luck is gonna go down in history. engel ended up winning with the other amg with 156 laps.
still a great drive though, was a great watch. endurance racing might not have the frantic speed of f1 but it certainly has none of the faggotry
 
Zaryiu2 said:
I feel dumb asking but looking at the screenshots, what kind of racing sport in particular is it? (I think it's not F1 since different in appearance to those cars and closed roofs on the cars)
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your team brings a fast car that fits some regulation(some are very open) and drives around the best race track in the world for 24 hours.
there is a winner in each class(regulation) and an overall winner.

have been to a couple of them before corona, it feels alot like a music festival, just with a much more sophisticated camp ground.
alot of camping groups bring their own pop up beer garden, with fresh draft beer and music.

sadly the lock out time for the ring itself has been expanded over the years, so you cant do a lap yourself before going to the camp anymore.
 
Stoneheart said:
your team brings a fast car that fits some regulation(some are very open) and drives around the best race track in the world for 24 hours.
there is a winner in each class(regulation) and an overall winner.

have been to a couple of them before corona, it feels alot like a music festival, just with a much more sophisticated camp ground.
alot of camping groups bring their own pop up beer garden, with fresh draft beer and music.

sadly the lock out time for the ring itself has been expanded over the years, so you cant do a lap yourself before going to the camp anymore.
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I like my wife's explanation. It's like there's 10 different racing series having a race on the same track at the same time.

I picked a great time to go to sleep. Team Verstappen retired 2 laps after I passed out.

Edit- Misha gave us an update this morning about why the #632 Porsche crashed and retired during the early hours of the morning. The brake rotor exploded.
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I'm going to drop the most islamic take ever: I kinda liked Buddh, at least in F1 2012 game. Maybe because I didn't have to endure the smell. But at least it had some elevation changes and wasn't a flat generic street circuit.
 
Pee Cola said:
The Alpine F1 team is an even bigger disaster than when Citroen owned Maserati. At least the latter had the SM to show for it.

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One of the most gorgeous cars ever made.

French in F1 have always been somewhat cagey and flip floppy with French politics going to often help or hinder the project because so many of their companies had been somewhat nationalized. Combine that with the den of vipers Italian corporate culture that will attempt to sit as king of ashes rather than the second man in an empire and you have Alpine.
 
Kyria the Great said:
French in F1 have always been somewhat cagey and flip floppy with French politics going to often help or hinder the project because so many of their companies had been somewhat nationalized. Combine that with the den of vipers Italian corporate culture that will attempt to sit as king of ashes rather than the second man in an empire and you have Alpine.
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It's even funnier when you have actual politics helping your team but not the pesky rival team. For example Ligier's old boss Guy Ligier was a friend of Francois Mitterand the French socialist president. And Ligier basically asked him for help getting sponsors and Renault engines in the early 90's (which they did, from 1992 - 1994 Ligier used Renault V10 engines). Meanwhile the Larousse team, led by Gerard Larousse, was not a fan of Mitterand and therefor the team was basically ignored (even from French companies)
 
Balr0g said:
It's even funnier when you have actual politics helping your team but not the pesky rival team. For example Ligier's old boss Guy Ligier was a friend of Francois Mitterand the French socialist president. And Ligier basically asked him for help getting sponsors and Renault engines in the early 90's (which they did, from 1992 - 1994 Ligier used Renault V10 engines). Meanwhile the Larousse team, led by Gerard Larousse, was not a fan of Mitterand and therefor the team was basically ignored (even from French companies)
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Well French politics were a huge contributing factor to the failure of Prost GP. I feel really bad that it felt everything that could work against you did play against The Professor. Though I suppose F1 is just IF backwards.
 
Kimi gets banned from competing in Nurburgring.

This is some old bullshit. If the kid wants to race, let him be a motherfucking driver and race.

I know they can't put a leash on Max, but Mercedes telling their young prodigy he can't grow into being the Verstappen of his generation is garbage. And yes, they claim he was joking, and yes, they're acting like "let him win four world championships". Yeah, when that happens, there will probably be a lot of regulations put in place during that time to stop drivers from driving in other motorsports, lest it make Formula 1 look bad.
 
Not A Bunny said:
Kimi gets banned from competing in Nurburgring.

This is some old bullshit. If the kid wants to race, let him be a motherfucking driver and race.
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Toto must've seen Lollipopman's latest video and taken inspo from it.

btw h/t who whever it was ITT that started posting Lollipopman. I've binged on it for the last two nights. By far the best F1-related channel on YT.
 
Not A Bunny said:
Kimi gets banned from competing in Nurburgring.

This is some old bullshit. If the kid wants to race, let him be a motherfucking driver and race.

I know they can't put a leash on Max, but Mercedes telling their young prodigy he can't grow into being the Verstappen of his generation is garbage. And yes, they claim he was joking, and yes, they're acting like "let him win four world championships". Yeah, when that happens, there will probably be a lot of regulations put in place during that time to stop drivers from driving in other motorsports, lest it make Formula 1 look bad.
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The N24 was a huge hit with the F1 fans that tuned in. Pear shaped Chris Chan look-alike, LawVS, is even talking about how F1 should be rightfully concerned how hype things were. GT3 cars cutting past your cousin's clapped out Subaru reminded everyone of the shortcoming of the '26 regs with all the super clipping and boost harvesting shite. The commentators were fun and addressed controversial stuff without all the smarmy cock sucking of Sky Sports. The official highlight reel from qualifying included a 10 second clip of a dude wearing a big fleshy cock hat and everyone had a big laugh about it. There was also a huge variety of cars and positions that were making the broadcast instead of keeping the cameras glued on the top 5. I'm surprised back marker teams can even get sponsors when their car's might be on screen for 2 seconds during a whole race weekend.

People are coming off a high from great racing. People might start wondering if the only thing F1 has to offer right now is 20-30 second faster lap times. I'm trying not to be a hater but I really wish the regs weren't so unsatisfying.
 
ForTheHoard said:
I'm surprised back marker teams can even get sponsors when their car's might be on screen for 2 seconds during a whole race weekend.
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the stream is just the tip of the iceberg, nurburgring has a huge community of people who go watch the races for the cars themselves. theres always people on the track, amateurs, semi pros and even real pros practicing. anytime you want you can drive to the track and pick one of many cool spots to park and watch the action for free, it costs nothing. pretty sure you could go watch 24hrs in person for free as well, tho maybe not from the grandstands at the gp track.

ForTheHoard said:
People are coming off a high from great racing. People might start wondering if the only thing F1 has to offer right now is 20-30 second faster lap times. I'm trying not to be a hater but I really wish the regs weren't so unsatisfying.
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really its not just the lap times but everything liberty media is doing. theyre trying to turn it from a motorsport to some gay high society circlejerk for random celebs to have cocktail parties at with cars zooming past in the background. thats why theyre trying so hard to turn drivers into influencers and celebs in their own right, to these faggots its a bad look to be in the company of autistic nerds with motor grease stains on their face. tptb wants the drivers clean, politically correct and socially engaged. it also helps sell the whole show to random women whose vaginas turn into the niagaras instantly when they see the latest zesty instagram reel from lando norris but have no interest in cars.
 
I consider it a sign of me getting old that I don't give a shit about a certain subset of fans of a thing that in my younger years would have turned me off to a thing. Case in point:
Lapsus of the bepsus said:
tptb wants the drivers clean, politically correct and socially engaged.
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I started following F1 because it was about as easy to follow as the Savannah Bananas, which, no hate if you don't like them, but it's fine for someone like me that there aren't a lot of games to keep track of. But when I did start following it, my feed unintentionally got shitted up with a lot of "fan" content that I didn't get from any other sport. You can tell almost all of them have been backed into the corner of "media training" (a point of order that gives me a small and begrudging respect for Lance Stroll) which feeds into the social media nightmare that is having to create content for the fans, which then feeds the fan content creation machine, which leads to the McLaren video I posted upthread where some random girl just-so-happens to find a hot mic into which she can randomly tell you how she was totally afraid to come to a fan event, but everyone is just so nice y'all. And when the discussion is about how the fandom is a "safe community", you get exactly the fans you deserve.

It's one thing if someone makes a nice tribute video, or comedy commentary. Even the occasional thirst video can be fun if done right, but some of the shit I've seen where it's like Lando and Oscar just looking at each other means they're totally hooking up is not an organic reflection of the sport. It's encouraged by Liberty Media. It's the kind of engagement they absolutely want. Soft-looking, unintimidating boy-band types. At least you'll get the occasional allusion to Max being the final boss of the sport, but those are few and far between.

It kind of makes me wonder that if my predictions about retirements this year are correct, which just so happens to purge out almost everyone who either doesn't give a shit about this sort of thing, or has been grandfathered out, how much people who have been following the sport for years will scream "oh, for fuck's sake" and follow Max's lead into other motorsports. Thus my point about Kimi, and my small hope that Carlos gets his head on straight and retires to join his dad in Rally. They're trying to lock the drivers into this weird ecosystem where they're media mutants and not drivers.

I'm surprised McLaren hasn't dropped a dime on Pato O'Ward yet. But maybe I should start following whatever that kid is doing.
 
You have to admit this whole Social Media thing expanded when Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris and I think russell began streaming careers where they show themsleves driving simulated races or play other games (Thoguh I am not sure if Verstappen ever played something else then IRacing on stream) Before that I think only Hamilton did this whole Social MEdia tour (so to speak). Looking back I doubt someone like Schumacher would have used Social Media at all considering how he often wanted his peace after the circus was over. Senna on the other hand..he might have been a full blown shitposter if Social Media would have been a thing back then (and Berger would be the notorious prankster posting prank vidoes each day)
 
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