Motorsports (non-NASCAR)

Postby **dodint** » Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:33 pm

It's worth noting the start was wet and maybe should have occured under SC.

I'm glad they didn't but it was a **** show up and down the grid.

Postby **BigMck** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:47 am

So, in the parking lot where I have an office, there are 4 top-dollar tractors with top-dollar trailers attached. Travel trailers of cars. Mario Andretti cars.

Security says I see nothing, just move along. Me? Nope. I have all access as to this lot and someone will talk. So, there is a scheduled event in Los Angeles of racing that so far is not known. Two trailers of cars, one trailer of parts, one trailer of living spaces.

Irwindale has a track, in LA County in October full of drifting cars, but they do not list Andretti racing as a participant.

Hopefully more details to follow, with some tickets to the event.

Postby **CBear3** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:45 pm

Michael's Rallycross Team perhaps?

A saw the Penske Indycar trailer passing through the other day on the way back from Sonoma.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:03 pm

So, in the parking lot where I have an office, there are 4 top-dollar tractors with top-dollar trailers attached. Travel trailers of cars. Mario Andretti cars.

Security says I see nothing, just move along. Me? Nope. I have all access as to this lot and someone will talk. So, there is a scheduled event in Los Angeles of racing that so far is not known. Two trailers of cars, one trailer of parts, one trailer of living spaces.

Irwindale has a track, in LA County in October full of drifting cars, but they do not list Andretti racing as a participant.

Hopefully more details to follow, with some tickets to the event.

My guess is it's for the Mario Andretti Racing Experience, which has events scheduled for 9/29 and 10/1 at Fontana.

https://www.andrettiracing.com/events/

Postby **BigMck** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:17 pm

Mystery solved. @CBear3 nailed it. Two of the trailers house Global Rallycross cars for Tanner Foust and Scott Speed. They both are running the VW GRC Beetle for the Andretti Race Team. The third trailer house parts, and the fourth is a luxury VIP lounge on wheels with a full slide out side.

GRC 2017 | Round 12
October 13th and 14th, 2017
Los Angeles, CA (Port of Los Angeles)

http://redbullglobalrallycross.com/even ... ngeles-ca/
http://www.tannerfoust.com/Vehicles

Postby **tifosi77** » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:23 pm

Excellent. That's right down the hill from our first house in San Pedro.

Postby **mac5155** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:10 pm

Went to the nhra Dodge nationals in reading today. Great time as always. Sucked seeing Robert Hight get bounced in the second round as he reset both sides of the track record Friday night.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:12 pm

Dang, I'm still bummed that I was never able to take BigMcK up on his offer to go to NHRA at Pomona. Not my bag, but definitely something I'd like to check out.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:56 am

STR press release:

For the next Grands Prix, Pierre Gasly will be driving for Scuderia Toro Rosso, standing in for Daniil Kvyat, alongside Carlos Sainz. Gasly, one of the Red Bull Junior Programme drivers, has been racing in Japan this year in the Super Formula category. The 2016 GP2 Champion finished second in last Sunday's race, having won the two previous rounds. The 21 year old will therefore get his chance to prove himself in F1. This is not a case of goodbye for our Daniil, as he still remains part of the Red Bull Family.

Postby **CBear3** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:06 am

So how does that effect your Fantasy team?

Postby **dodint** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:12 am

You buy the seat, so Gasly scores for Kyvat as a surrogate.

Postby **CBear3** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:31 pm

Damn, you might make some headway. Gasly is talented enough to at least be Sainz's equal I feel. But then again I thought Sainz was performing as Max's equal too.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:14 pm

STR press release:

This is not a case of goodbye for our Daniil, as he still remains part of the Red Bull Family.

Yes it is.

Actually, has a RB driver ever been demoted from the junior team and then promoted back to the RB F1 program?

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:18 pm

Dang, I'm still bummed that I was never able to take BigMcK up on his offer to go to NHRA at Pomona. Not my bag, but definitely something I'd like to check out.

https://www.facebook.com/NHRA/videos/10155804697041410/

Here is the record-setting run, and the second fastest pass in NHRA history (he had the fastest pass earlier this year too, until Matt Hagan knocked him down in the same race).

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:54 pm

0-339 in 1300 feet

That is deliciously absurd.

Postby **columbia** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:14 pm

I would totally go see that.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:24 pm

0-339 in 1300 feet

That is deliciously absurd.

Actually... 1000 feet... They had to shorten it because they couldn't stop in time

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:55 am

lol They can't do 1/4 miles because they're going too fast to stop? That is amazing.

Postby **CBear3** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:49 am

Vandergriff once told me that he was constantly asked how fast the cars would go if the track was longer. His answer was absolutely no faster. The engines are already rebuilt after 1/4 mile because they're too stressed from it. To make an engine last a 1/2 mile they'd have to detune it and they'd be right back where they started.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:51 pm

Gulf Racing/GTC Paul Ricard 4 Hours 1995

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:00 pm

*sploosh*

The McLaren F1 is really the only supercar from the 80s and 90s that still looks the part today.

@CBear3 , that's exactly as it should be, imo. In terms of grand prix racing, the car should sputter to a halt after running out of fuel a few hundred feet after taking the checkers. The whole idea of a cool down lap is silly, in the abstract, as it means the minimum length of a race is really 305 km + 1 lap. (not applicable at Monaco or Spa)

Postby **dodint** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:06 pm

When I do bother, late at night, to let my mind wander to what it would be like to win the lottery I always think that McF1 would be on the list. It's one of the few things in life I lust for despite knowing that I will never, ever be able to have one without some kind of divine intervention. It's a warm thought, but ultimately saddening.

Unrelated, but the new owners of F1 are thinking about putting microphones in the F1 car exhaust to make the motors sound louder. Because the motors suck as they are and this is undeniable.

Postby **CBear3** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:11 pm

Until it revs up to 20k it'll still sound cheesy.

I always had a hard on F355. Last Ferrari without wind tunnel design work. For that reason, I'd go F40, but I wouldn't kick a McLaren F1 out of the garage.

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:44 pm

Modern F1 cars sound like they have emphysema, or consumption, or some other 19th century respiratory disease. They're just 100% overly complicated ass, and all they do is take gas and electricity and turn them into sadness.

The F40 definitely looks dated, but it is, imo, the ne plus ultra supercar.

Postby **mac5155** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:46 pm

lol They can't do 1/4 miles because they're going too fast to stop? That is amazing.

They changed the rule when Scott Kalitta passed away after not being able to stop completely and hit the wall in a fiery crash which took his life. They used to run quarter miles, but shortened it to 1000 feet as a safety precaution.

NSFL, he does die..