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Generally good racing throughout the weekend. Too many interruptions for my liking though, it makes the sport look a bit of a joke when it's like that.
I'm not really keen on drifting but at least it's spectacular & takes skill to compete in. However, as it's a judged competition where the winner is effectively chosen based on the opinions of a few people, it means that it isn't a sport, IMO. eSports are fine. Doesn't take up any track time and it wasn't actually a bad race. Short races like F4 & touring cars need to be run over a number of laps instead of time. Safety cars take up a huge percentage of the race when they're timed. Those two disciplines produced the best racing of the event though. The GTs should have been so much better but the amateurishness of it all made it hard to take seriously. OK, the weather can't be controlled but there was no need for the stoppages to be anywhere near as long as they were. To quote myself from another forum during the first race: Quote:
Ideally, the event should be held at a venue with a karting circuit so that they can race instead of doing that slalom sideshow. If they want an event like that then autotest should be considered for the future. On the whole I'm a fan of the concept of the games. Hopefully it will get bigger and better. |
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The drivers should have been the cream of the crop, in their respective nations. Either front-runners, or recent champions. I felt there were quite a number of nobodies, and drivers that are typically grid-fillers where they normally race.
I thought the commentary was disappointing, to be honest. Mark James, and maybe Stefano Comini would have been a better choice. Both know TCR and it's drivers very well, and do seem to work well together. Besides that, the racing that I saw was very good. |
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I assume it was a pay to drive event?
Don't understand why they were using different cars in an event like that. If you're comparing drivers across nations then the playing field needs to be even with everyone in the same model. Whole thing just seemed really weird. Most people in the YouTube comments didn't have a clue what it was about and why some countries were represented and others not (no Japan in drifting for example). Just seemd poorly publicised and run to me. |
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4 Nov 2019, 11:11 (Ref:3938499) | #30 | |
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The cars are BOP'd as part of the formula.
Playing devils advocate it's not that simple to rustle up 20 identical TCR cars worth £2m+ at the drop of a hat, plus all the required support. Whatever car and track you pick someone will still have home field advantage. |
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You could gather those 20 identical TCR cars but you'd still had to find the cash to pay the likes of Huffy, Estaban, Uncle Muller, etc.
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People laughed at Formula E. It has just declared its first profit...
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Le Mans is the answer. GT on the long circuit, TC and F4 on Bugatti circuit and Karting on the amazing international karting circuit.
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If they are really wanting the Motorsport Games to become a massively popular event (Festival of Speed size) then I think it definitely needs a circuit like that. Obviously though, being a partial street circuit Le Mans may prove a bit difficult! Spa would be good too, but then already holds a bunch of GT and TCR events.
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Pau would have been better.
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Definitely. I never really liked Vallelunga's layout before but actually now I think it's a pretty good circuit.
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Also if it didn't have the ridiculous run-off areas and honestly a pretty boring layout. For me it works much better as a test track (as intented) rather than for racing.
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