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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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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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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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23 Aug 2019, 19:42 (Ref:3923913) | #654 | ||
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Bernd Schneider is believed to retire at the Kyalami 9 Hours.
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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. Enjoy! |
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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/ Quote:
FCY -> SC needs to stop happening. |
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28 Sep 2019, 07:45 (Ref:3930538) | #657 | ||
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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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28 Sep 2019, 18:55 (Ref:3930623) | #659 | ||
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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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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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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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29 Sep 2019, 13:27 (Ref:3930808) | #664 | |
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Haven and Beckett as part of the commentary team. That's a good team.
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29 Sep 2019, 13:30 (Ref:3930809) | #665 | ||
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Yes John, casual sexism is exactly what motor sports needs in the 21st century
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29 Sep 2019, 13:36 (Ref:3930812) | #667 | |
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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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29 Sep 2019, 13:36 (Ref:3930813) | #668 | |
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All fine, it was clear that the #4 Mercedes had all 4 wheels on the track when cutting the chicane...
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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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29 Sep 2019, 13:37 (Ref:3930815) | #670 | ||
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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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29 Sep 2019, 13:38 (Ref:3930817) | #671 | |
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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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29 Sep 2019, 14:23 (Ref:3930843) | #673 | ||
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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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Worst Blancpain race I have watched.
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