Motorsports (non-NASCAR)

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:08 pm

Oof. That same graphic for Hamilton would be:

2017 - 22.188
2018 - 21.164
2019 - 20.486

Postby **tifosi77** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:23 pm

lol Vettel

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:24 pm

Ooof, got me in the feels:

https://twitter.com/PieroLadisa/status/ ... 6118957056

Would be nice if she weren't standing alone.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:07 pm

That's got to be..... I dunno..... it would be one thing if Schumi were in his present state because of a racing accident. But still.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:02 pm

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:32 pm

Ferrari really is the best

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:39 pm

Been binge watching F1 races from the 90s-00s on the YouTubes. It's easy to forget how utterly dominant Schumacher was compared to his peers. When he got to Ferrari in '96, it took around18 months to complete poaching the Benetton brain trust. So that meant the '96 and '97 cars were designed by the guys who scored 28 constructor points a few years prior, but the '97 car was at least developed in-season by the Benetton guys. In those two years, Schumacher scored 8 wins (including comically dominant wet races at Barcelona, Monaco, and Spa) and lead the championship going into the final race of '97..... in cars that Eddie Irvine was routinely qualifying P15 2 seconds slower than Schumi.

By '99, when the cars were good, Irv was winning races. But the gap early in their teaming up and what Schumacher was able to do in absolute dogshit 'cars' was astonishing. It made the Ferrari fan in me happy to see them winning so much, but my disdain for Schumacher made it all kind of meh. Revisiting that stuff 20 years on has been eye opening.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:41 am

Thanks for that tifosi. I went on a Wikipedia run that saw me checking out the history of Formula Ford.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:52 pm

(Huffman college bribery scandal)

https://theluggnutt.com/2019/03/13/brea ... reer-scam/

LOS ANGELES, California – In what is being called the largest Racing Driver Career Scam ever prosecuted, rich dads, racing team owners and driver coaches are being accused of carrying out an industry-wide fraud scheme that gets their silver-spoon sucking children in prestigious race seats. “It’s actually quite an impressive scheme that has gone on for well over a decade,” said Andrew Lelling, US Attorney, “Rich parents would bribe team owners, team managers, and driver coaches with millions of dollars each year, just to get a ride in a GT3 or LMP2 car for their undeserving child...

Postby **CBear3** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:17 am

That's beautiful

Postby **CBear3** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:27 am

The beauty of watching Ferrari fall all over themselves with team orders. Magnifico!

Postby **dodint** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:31 am

Yeah. Was a bad look when Seb failed to pull away there. I get the logic, and Chuck wasn't pulling away from Seb either, but still.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:12 pm

I've been a Ferrari fan most of my life. (I mean..... tifosi......), but this team orders thing is really stupid. It's clear Chucky is a match to der Seb for pace, just let him go.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:00 pm

Unusual red flag conditions for VLN at Nürburgring in the Eifel mountains:

Postby **CBear3** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:19 pm

I love the snow build up on the front bumpers

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:23 pm

Then, MOAR!

Postby **CBear3** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:30 pm

It looks like something you'd see on Gran Turismo, lol.

Postby **Kane** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:31 pm

I mean, it does say Gran Turismo in the picture.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:31 pm

Project Cars 2 has a weird penchant for putting races in snowy conditions. Their opening title sequence includes Prototypes sliding around on completely snow covered track. These two pictures here might be the only time I've seen top level spec race cars actually tooling around in it.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:16 pm

Slicks, inters, full wets, and studs.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat May 11, 2019 5:21 pm

80% of this Indycar Indy road race is running under caution.

Postby **dodint** » Thu May 16, 2019 4:42 pm

Ferrari 308 GTB Targa Florio - 1981

Postby **Shyster** » Thu May 16, 2019 5:23 pm

So the Dutch Grand Prix is coming back for next year. Might as well just call it the Verstappen Grand Prix.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu May 16, 2019 5:37 pm

I could've sworn I saw that car at the Museo Ferrari in Maranello, but if I did I did not take a photo of it.

So instead, here's photo I took of the Ferrari Indycar concept when they were threatening to leave F1 because they had to run small block V6 turbos, and they thought a convincing bluff would be to threaten defection to a series that ran turbo V8s.