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15 Jul 2017, 23:25 (Ref:3751541) | #76 | ||
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I saw part of the race. That track is awful. The hairpin at turn 1 is beyond ridiculous.
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Heck what about Lynn taking pole!? He's a decent driver but nothing amazing, FE is a series tough on the rookies due to the different cars and driving style, along with all these street circuits, yet Lynn comes along and takes pole. Makes Sam Bird look silly. I wonder if DS Virgin could have come away with more wins over the years with a different driver. Of course in the race Lynn dropped back as expected. The other big surprise, Gasly in the fastest car qualifying dead last. Came up to 7th in the race though with all the attrition, beating Nico Prost even. Di Grassi 4th... gotta do better than that if you want the title. Buemi's going to sit 2 races out and still win it at this rate. |
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lynn's a decent driver but nothing amazing? to be fair before he walked into lmp2 and smashed everyone there i thought the same, but you have to give the guy a bit more credit than that.
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I haven't really watched his progress at all in WEC, in fact I kind of overlook LMP2 completely. Too many drivers to follow, all made quite difficult when they're sharing cars and not always pushing 100%. So I sort of just watch LMP1 and my preferred driver in Pro.
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Lynn's also won the 2017 12 Hours of Sebring with a Taylor Cadillac. His resumé is rather impressive for a 23 year old.
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16 Jul 2017, 20:09 (Ref:3751985) | #82 | |
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I ran into Jordan Taylor at Turn 2-3, anyone know why he was about?
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Anyway race 2 bought Lynn back down to earth a little with only 17th on the grid. Some bad luck to go out again in the race though. Hey how about Gasly in race 2 qualy? He certainly made up for the first race with that lap, fastest of the weekend I think? It didn't end up being pole but still a good job, making Nico Prost look pretty average. Quite cool to have Lynn and Gasly in FE for a couple of races. Good job Bird though, he's been hooked up around that track. Daniel Abt getting the fanboost in both races. I wonder if they pay an asian sweat factory for clicks? You could put Alonso or Hamilton into this series and I bet Abt would continue to get the fan favourite vote. |
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Who plans the course for these races? That turn 1 hairpin is the worst track idea I've seen for a while. How can you possibly do anything with that at the start of the race without causing an accident? Which is bound to happen anyway due to 20 cars all on the same bit of track suddenly slowing to 20mph. The start of Monaco isn't much better but that's Monaco so I'm not certain there's a lot they can do with that beyond pushing the cars up the hill.
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I think a lot of the grid could do this
Although Gasly and Lynn looked quite impressive. I still have no idea what happened to Gasly at the final corner though - Channel 5s wonderful coverage tends to cut out almost immediately after the finish (cutting to an ad break as the leader took the chequered flag in race 1) and they never bother showing the standings. But they certainly swam when thrown in the deep end. |
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Er posted this previously in the wrong thread....
Poor old DTM huh, that leaves 12 drivers *cough 3.5 cough*. I guess some will move over to new teams running Audi's or BMW's. I think some of these european touring car series need to take a look at the Aussie V8 Supercars and how much better that series is from an entertainment perspective (not driver quality, DTM has a fantastic field of course). But so many more races and most of them longer (esp the enduros), much bigger fields. I kind of feel the driver talent goes to waste in DTM with their short schedule and barely minimum field size. Maybe it's big in Germany but no one has heard of it on this side of the world. But anyway Mercedes in FE... that might mean the end of Buemi's domination. Who are their current development drivers that might get the seats? George Russell? With Aikten being a flop in GP3 so far, I'd expect Russell to take that title with the current momentum he has. Move up to F2 in 2018 then FE in 2019 if he performs? Or maybe they're looking to pull over a couple of their on form DTM drivers. Paffett, Wickens, Di Resta, Engel, Auer, Mortara... I bet Di Resta wouldn't mind a chance at single seaters again. Engel has shown some suprising pace in FE at times this year. Paffett is probably tintops for life though. |
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Audi, BMW, Mercedes, CItroën, Renault, Mahindra, Jaguar
Where's Ford, General Motors and Dodge? Selling V8 pickup trucks, I guess. Where's Nissan? Paying the debts of the 2015 LMP1 failure, I guess. Where's Hyundai, Kia, Fiat, Alfa Romeo? Ignoring motorsport as usual. |
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TCR is a customer program, not a marketing program or much less a technology program.
I always forget that Hyundai returned to the WRC, my mistake. Ford's European motorsport program is GTLM, WRC and/ WRX, which is not bad to be fair. But as one of the big corporations, they should do something more innovative than running V8s and Fiestas. |
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Montreal Season Finale
I will be at the Montreal season finale this weekend to see what this series is like with my own eyes and ears. Looking forward to it although it would be nice if there were some support races.
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However, there is a rumor that Renault e.Dams may rebrand to Nissan so the French half can focus on F1 and the Japanese marque gets a new top flight motorsports program after the P1 program went so well.
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I have been in three this year and I can tell you the format is very nice for those attending the circuit. You have all action packed in one single day plus a few extra things to watch and do in between sessions. You will not get bored.
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There wasn't much else at the NYC event, except for a race that could melt down Tenths, Roborace. While the cars look cool for kids. and definitely futuristic movie styled, I'm not so sure. I think a great idea for a new Formula SAE option and colleges would jump on it.
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