Real Life Racing / News Thread

[Deb]

So funny!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[little P]

Ricky Bobby... what a legend! Loved this Deb xD

 

[Deb]

The Hankook 24 Hours of COTA starts today. AMG has the top 3 grid positions for GT3 and pole for GT4. Should be a good race. There is a live stream here:

It is not a straight 24 hour race but divided in two segments. @Kenadian, wouldn't you love to do 24 Hours of COTA

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Blancpain and SRO Motorsports announced today that they are parting ways.

The Blaincpain GT Series will be renamed the "GT World Challenge Europe" and, along with the "GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup", will join the global GT World Challenge for the first time in 2020.

 

[Kenadian]

I read this and a few other articles and it appears amicable, just Blancpain not renewing the partnership.

Apparently they've not ruled out future partnerships but whom that can be and when is anyone's best guess at this point.

 

[Deb]

A pretty interesting video on what it costs to race IRL:

Great Technics collection in the background too

 

[Ogami Itto]

Deb, was that you passing him during practice..."My Line!"

 

[Deb]

 

[Jes_971]

A heads up about IMSA coverage for those of us in the United States. NBC Sports Gold has a new "Track Pass" subscription this year. There is a "All-Access" plan that you can choose or you can subscribe to anyone of the three single plans.

All races with be available to watch live and will be available for on-demand replay.

Overview:

IMSA plan - IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship, IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, IMSA Prototype Challenge, IMSA Porsche GT3 Challenge TBD - $19.99/year or $2.99/month

All-Access covers - American Flat Track, ARCA, Whelen Modifieds, IMSA, NASCAR, and NASCARS Pinty's - $44.99/year or $4.99/month

NASCAR Roots plan - NASCAR, ARCA, Whelen Mods, Pinty's - $19.99/year or $2.99/month

American Flat Track plan - American Flat Track - $10.99/year or $1.99/month

 

[Skid_Marc_]

BRACE YOURSELVES!!!

Okay, maybe not the most surprising news, as the ACO has opened up the last couple years to the possibility of this merge, but hopefully we're going to be waking up to some real big news about the future direction of Prototypes tomorrow!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220438822850301953

 

[Brainling]

Hopefully it leads to the formula stability required for iRacing to add a modern P2.

 

[Jes_971]

Great field of 51 cars for the BMW Endurance Challenge today. Hopefully they do something so the entries increase for the 24 next year. Car count has decreased every year for the last couple.

 

[Brainling]

Watching Daytona qualifying. It can happen to the pros too:

Glad he walked away from that. I bet we've all had that exact wreck at the bus stop before.

 

[Jes_971]

Watched this live today on WRC+ and almost shit myself when it happened. Ott Tanak likes to run his ride height pretty low. Today it bit him.
Driver and co-driver were unharmed in the accident.

 

[little P]

Oh man that WRC accident... amazing how they can have these accidents and walk away unharmed. I'd imagine a change of underwear would be necessary though

 

[Brainling]

Wow. That's incredible. I think even ten years ago that might be both driver and co-driver dead. The engineering for safety that's put in to these cars is amazing.

 

[Jes_971]

I made a "Daytona 24 Watch Party" channel on TS if anyone is watching it. If you want to chat on Discord instead just let me know.

 

[Nejtun]

don't forget IMSA tv broadcast the entire race here for free, just remember to disable adblocker if you run it as you won't be able to see all the camera views and shiz

 

[Nejtun]

Oh and pretty sure @Jes_971 just got himself a mention live on the broadcast

 

[Jes_971]

@Nejtun Yea I did!!!! I love John Hindhaugh and crew. John is always on it with the social media call outs. I signed up to twitter for one reason. Last year I wanted to get a call out from John on the Nurburgring 24 broadcast. He did and made my day!