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I forgot to mention the castle as one of the attractions of the area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburg_Castle
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And it should be noted that the Nurburgring/Eifel forest isn't too far away from the Dutch/Belgian Ardennes, which of course means that the Nurburgring isn't that far away from Spa.
The two tracks can't be much more different in character, though, comparing GP circuit to GP circuit--Nurburgring GP being a lot more compact in nature than Spa. |
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Surprised that there's not a Spa race weekend thread yet, seeing as how it's only a bit more than week away.
I already checked the weather forecast--a losing bet this far out if anything--but on both days, there's calling for a mix of sun and clouds, a slight chance of rain on Friday, and both days it won't even break 50F. |
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The only sure thing is that there will be weather at Spa.
This time last year the forecast had it barely making it above freezing, it was filthy on Friday (to the extent I watched qualifying in a pub in Spa rather than braving the track), and then despite worst fears conditions on Saturday couldn't be described as anything other than glorious. Pack for every eventuality and you'll be okay, doesn't help those pondering setup choices much though... |
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23 Apr 2015, 18:52 (Ref:3530307) | #1285 | ||
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Really off topic but I've just seen a picture of the green gt h2 anyone know what came of it?
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24 Apr 2015, 11:04 (Ref:3530435) | #1286 | ||
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The first 52 minute highlight package of the season dropped two days ago. It's a jump in quality from before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVCLyF8CwI I'm still not sold on those corny finger-pointing montages from the drivers trying to look like they're promoting a bout or something, but Louise Beckett comes across well. Also, gone is that Matt Berry sound-alike narrator in favour of narration from Louise before and after and commentary from Hindy in between. It's still not perfect, but it's no longer embarrassing and I think I'll end up watching these as a recap throughout the season. |
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It's not hard to be better than previous highlights but just 24 minutes of time devoted to the actual racing is disappointing. Far too much footage that they've obviously thought "we've gone to all this trouble filming these off-track pieces, we have to include it in the highlights".
Louise does a piece to camera before the track walk - why can't she start the highlights with that, then go over the entry list. Maybe an onboard lap with a driver commentating, pit of paddock/pit walk, show the grid and get on with the racing. Imagine sitting down and watching this at home - 22 mins + adverts into these highlights and you've not even see the start of the race yet! |
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First photos of the Ligier JS P2 in Patron livery: http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/les...a-magny-cours/
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Yes looks very similar scheme to the old p2 car but still very nice compared to some of the other cars
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Kairos expanding it's collaboration with Greaves for ELMS and Le Mans (and possibly Petit Le Mans). I wouldn't be surprised to see them (Greaves) coming back to the WEC as well - after Le Mans for a one or two off perhaps but I sure hope Jacob & Tim and all are being really careful and cautious after what happened with Morand/SARD earlier year (+ Millennium and ADR/Delta last year).
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It's good to have two Ligiers with Honda engines.
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It's interesting how the marketing works as well as in the Europe those Oak Coupes are listed as 'Ligier HPD', in the US they are first referred as 'Honda Ligier'
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The good thing about those engines, is that are v6 turbo instead normally aspirated v8s Nissan or Judd. At least for me, it makes it more interesting in long races. I will like to see these engines racing against Chevy and the Ecoboost in North America.
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F1 is delaying the start of the season until the beginning of April next season. I believe if the ACO moved up the WEC(/ELMS) season opener till end of March you could potentially generate larger viewing audience when the bigger masses are still waiting for the big circus to start and there's not much else going on in the circuit racing anyways.
The potential issues with this - and my counter arguments against them Unpredictable Silverstone weather even earlier than now? A) Would like two weeks earlier spot be the difference between horrible conditions and pleasant? Let's not fool ourselves, even the early April date can be rather wintery. B) Opener doesn't have to be Silverstone by law It would create bigger gap between WEC round 1 and round 2. A) So what, there are 3 month gaps and other breaks elsewhere in the calendar... B) There could be 3 pre-LM races no? There sure was in 2008 LMS! Teams seem to have issues gearing up to even early April, how does even earlier start help? A) We used to have Sebring in the past. So let's not get too comfortable. B) The end of the season could be brought tightened to earlier end to make the winter break longer as well as to help the inconsistent pacing of calendar's second half I thought we weren't supposed to make too many sportscars vs F1 arguments again... Organizing your racing not to conflict with F1 calendar, or attempting to increase the likelihood of people watching your championship in general isn't trying to compare the two, but rather to try to increase the max interest towards the product. Just as the ACO has outlawed F1 from having GP the same week as Le Mans. |
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Did you just conduct your own Q&A session?
Maybe they can start the wec with a race at Ricard? If not maybe somewhere in Spain? |
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Yeah l love arguing with myself I just wanted to make those points clear before someone said them.
Plenty of Southern Europe places. Or, you know, Kyalami |
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Bahrain or Abu Dhabi.
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