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Old 31 Jul 2019, 14:11 (Ref:3920541)   #651
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Just watched the first hour of the Eurosport 'coverage' from the weekend.

What a complete load of rubbish! Did they have any idea what was going on?

Mark Cole I can sort of put up with but, Tom Gaynor? So far out of his depth and I was not even sure that he was there!

The first question that he was asked by a viewer, was, 'which cars were likely to benefit more from running in the wet conditions' - a fairly sensibly question from a casual viewer - to which his answer was 'probably the Porsche but unlikely to be the front wheel drive Nissan!' PLEASE!

If Eurosport cannot be bothered to cover the event with people who at least have some idea about what they are taking about and cover at least the daylight hours of the race then just don't bother at all!
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Old 2 Aug 2019, 13:12 (Ref:3920826)   #652
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Full race replay is now on the GT World Youtube channnel, for anyone else like me who couldn't watch live - https://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world/videos
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Old 6 Aug 2019, 17:33 (Ref:3921715)   #653
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Hi friends, here are my (our) pics from the Spa 24h: https://gt.report/cDH6B

Hope there are some in there that you find half-decent.












MORE: https://gt.report/cDH6B
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Old 23 Aug 2019, 19:42 (Ref:3923913)   #654
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Old 28 Aug 2019, 18:33 (Ref:3924532)   #655
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Better late than never, here#s two large albums from the Spa 24:

Start to dusk: https://bit.ly/2NDCIAq
Night to finish: https://bit.ly/2NDcNck

The rain and gloom made photography a little trying, to say the least! However, rain does make for spectacular night pictures as the lights reflect off the track. The first half of the second album thus has what I reckon are the most interesting pictures here.

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Old 27 Sep 2019, 11:52 (Ref:3930369)   #656
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The SRO FCY -> SC system made a complete mess of the Road America race then.

https://sportscar365.com/sro/blancpa...pax-to-appeal/

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In the report, the stewards state that the race director instructed the clerk of the course to announce that the safety car would not be deployed, although the timing and scoring screen displayed the message “safety car” at the time.

Moments after Askew entered the pits, the clerk of the course, as directed by the race director, announced “green flag” which was also displayed on the timing screens.

The procedure countered what was communicated in the drivers’ meeting, in that a full course yellow would always lead to a safety car period in the series.

“The stewards recognize that the safety car message displayed on the timing screen may have caused some teams to believe that a safety car would be deployed, and also how the restart procedure would be implemented,” the statement read.

“The stewards acknowledge that some competitors may have responded more quickly than others to the green flag message, perhaps anticipating a green flag at each marshals post rather than at the start finish line, however article 46.4 states that ‘Once the problem is resolved, the track will return to green and the information will be given on the monitors and team radio’.”

Having considered the matter “at length” and having reviewed team communications, the stewards have determined that the full course yellow procedure was implemented in accordance with the regulations.
SRO really are a mess. They tell everyone, in official drivers meetings, that they WILL go to SC after a FCY. They mess that up in the race, announce a SC, but go to green. Teams are confused and ask wtf happened. SRO carry out an extensive investigation and say the competitors misinterpret the instructions and the restart was legal, despite race control making an error.

FCY -> SC needs to stop happening.
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Old 28 Sep 2019, 07:45 (Ref:3930538)   #657
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The SRO FCY -> SC system made a complete mess of the Road America race then.

https://sportscar365.com/sro/blancpa...pax-to-appeal/



SRO really are a mess. They tell everyone, in official drivers meetings, that they WILL go to SC after a FCY. They mess that up in the race, announce a SC, but go to green. Teams are confused and ask wtf happened. SRO carry out an extensive investigation and say the competitors misinterpret the instructions and the restart was legal, despite race control making an error.

FCY -> SC needs to stop happening.


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Old 28 Sep 2019, 17:03 (Ref:3930605)   #658
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Today SRO release their provisional calendars

http://vmail.vertouk.net/userfiles/s...ndars%2Dv5.pdf

Interesting to note that like last year Silverstone is provisionally listed as holding the European GT4 championship round instead of Brands Hatch.
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Old 28 Sep 2019, 18:55 (Ref:3930623)   #659
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Today SRO release their provisional calendars

http://vmail.vertouk.net/userfiles/s...ndars%2Dv5.pdf

Interesting to note that like last year Silverstone is provisionally listed as holding the European GT4 championship round instead of Brands Hatch.


This is actually the second iteration of provisional calendars, the first being released at spa.

Both sure if there’s any major changes since then
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:03 (Ref:3930802)   #660
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Yikes! The #333 Porsche has just rolled over on the opening lap.

#72 puncture, #52 stopped on track, one of the Grasser-supported Huracan's in the pits as well.
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:13 (Ref:3930804)   #661
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Yikes! The #333 Porsche has just rolled over on the opening lap.

#72 puncture, #52 stopped on track, one of the Grasser-supported Huracan's in the pits as well.
#54 Porsche

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So, you punish #563?
And what #4 did is all OK??

Mercedes fans over at SRO?
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:17 (Ref:3930806)   #662
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Can't start a 3 hour race without a big crash on the first lap...
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:23 (Ref:3930807)   #663
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#54 Porsche

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So, you punish #563?
And what #4 did is all OK??

Mercedes fans over at SRO?
Thanks for the correction.

And yes, even when SRO get it right, they get it badly wrong. The #563 should have been pulled up on going over pit exit, but that was because Engel was shoving Muller all the way from the last corner. Costa's tap was tiny and inconsequential in comparison.

It's probably confirmation bias, but Engel does seem to get away with nudges and bumps more than any driver I can think of.
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:27 (Ref:3930808)   #664
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:30 (Ref:3930809)   #665
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Old 29 Sep 2019, 13:34 (Ref:3930810)   #666
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He managed to be sexist whilst getting the original saying wrong anyway. He's a buffoon who needs to retire.
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SRO literally making this up as they go along. It's now a penalty for overtaking outside of track limits.
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All fine, it was clear that the #4 Mercedes had all 4 wheels on the track when cutting the chicane...

Ouch... this is going to get messy
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Official SRO Correction - We didn't get it wrong, you errrr, actually, ran off the track (yeah that's it), we don't care why, Maro Engel is our home boy, shut up and take the penalty.
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Sorry Alain, you can make keep making up excuses for why you penalized #563, if you let the #4 get away with this, then you still missed up.
But that's difficult to admit, isn't it ?


SRO messing up once more
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Nobody told the drivers we weren't going green, the SC lights were still out, so then everyone slams on the brakes coming up to the line.

Alain Adam is making an absolute arse of this race.

I've kinda gone off Blancpain. This is why.
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Meanwhile, they managed to curse the #25 Audi...
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Outrageous: #563 overtakes the favoured car.

What can we think of to have it hand back its position?


Another 2 cars in the gravel, another FCY, another SC
This is an excellent and typical Blancpain race.
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Outrageous: #563 overtakes the favoured car.

What can we think of to have it hand back its position?
We need a FCY and therefore a SC to allow the Mercedes to fight back.

Luckily, we have just that.
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Worst Blancpain race I have watched.
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