/f1/ - Formula One

>>10986

One less car to get confused with an Audi, I suppose.

Are these the cars that are more technologically advanced than F1?

I've heard this is more technologically advanced than F1.

Did you know that WEC is more technologically advanced than F1?

>>10987

Only Toyota can save us form the VAG monopoly of the poduims.

>>10991

Watching VAG pretending to race itself is more pleb than anything that in F1.

>>10988

WEC is a fucking joke too, just in some of the same and some different ways.

oh man I can't wait for those hot french grid girls, best moment of my life all year

the only thing I've had to look forward to since my dog got cancer and had to be euthanized

>>11003

Uh.

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/04/world-endurance-championship-drops-grid-girls/

>"From Silverstone next week, you will see that for any race we will do - no grid girls like in the past," said WEC CEO Gerard Neveu to Reuters. "For me that is the past. The condition of women is a little bit different now."

Sorry for both your losses.

>>11015

How progressive. He's effectively saying:

>Women aren't allowed to be grid girls if they want

>Women are only allowed to do what we allow them to do

>>11015

>No race promoters/sponsors because you are still a relatively poor small series

>Have to start jewing with the stream because no broadcaster gives a shit about sportscars

>Having to pay for grid girls at each race

>Don't want to pay the expense and so axe them under the guise of being a progressive

If a sponsor offered to sponsor a race and asked to be allowed to use grid girls like in other motorsports they would bend over in a second.

>>11020

>Relatively poor/small series

The FIA fucked everyone out of the phenomenal rules that composed the group c world sports car championship. That raised costs, reduced performance, and ruined prestige for the second largest motorsport of the world.

This is the FIAs fault and bullshit can the FIA not afford grid girls when the WEC has become popular through f1 being fucked over. They never cited cost, they cited muh sexism. Don't defend them for reasons they haven't cited.

>>11036

>she's on the dole now

I hope she can get retraining this late in life, perhaps in phlebotomy or dental reception

Do read up on Group C though. The rules had a maximum internal fuel capacity (100 liters) and 5 allowable fuel stops. You could have any engine or chassis (as long as it was with in the correct size category and closeroofed/covered wheeled) that was capable of doing this.

This would be a shitty rule set for f1 because f1 is sprint and thus displacement based racing, but for endurance racing, this made perfect sense. The cars were incredibly fast and asymmetry of performance allowed for cars with very different strengths and weaknesses. They harmonized the rule set with IMSA GTP, and created an amazing set of series with enormous manufacturer involvement.

Then the FIA decided that it was bad and needed to end, so they applied a displacement based formula ( 3.5 liters ) which is not the way to go for endurance racing. World sports car eventually collapsed under the costs that the significantly more restrictive formula created.

This is how I, and others on this board know that restriction on development increases, not decreases costs beyond the obvious.

The WEC iPad app is damn nice.

>There is growing talk about the new round of LMP1 regulations, which are due for a refresh in 2017, and the possibility of allowing additional technology beyond what’s currently featured in the class. It’s understood at least one prospective new manufacturer is pushing for the allowance of Fuel Cells.

Who do you think it is?

>>12592

Hyundai. Next to honda and toyota, haven't they spent the most money on hydrogen?

Also bring back group C. The FIA LITERALLY killed endurance racing when they got rid of it.

>>12594

Interesting I guess. Even hydrogen cars (fuel cell or combustion) would be allowed under group c. The other guy wasn't kidding there wasn't a world sports car championship for years after 1992 (the FIA really did kill endurance racing by ending group c)

>>12598

I never thought the lancia d50 was an attractive car, especially because of the askew engine and vestigial cabin configuration (still very broad and similar to the two seated bugattis). After seeing that picture, I really do think its a good looking car.

Have you watched the supercharger grand prix cars documentary in the documentary thread? Its very interesting and on similar pre war cars.

>>12594

I'd love to see that thing in a heavy crash

>KABOOM

>>12598

Better to have the tanks outside than have the cockpit turn into a bathtub.

>>12594

I just thought of a better way to store that, chemically bond all the hydrogen in the tanks with carbon

like maybe eight carbons for every eighteen hydrogens

>>12608

you might think that sounds retarded, but metal hydrides have been entertained as hydrogen storage methods. They'll still catch fire though.

I dont understand the hysteria of hydrogen car fires beyond muh hindenberg, gasoline is flammable too, and that's not lighter than air and will coat the whole car in flame if it leaks.

Porsche to take Quali and Audi #8 to find a miracle way to win.

Either way, VAG wins lol.

Nissan might have an okay showing, but Toyota is going to suffer against the Germans.

>>12610

agreed, I've been pumping my lawnmower tank to 700 bar for years and it's never once turned me into a scattering of small chunky bits

>>12610

Rupture a gasoline fuel cell, and the foam filled bladder won't spill a drop.

Rupture a hydrogen cylinder…

four hours of free practice starting

radio le mans video stream of them standing around speaking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXO3sqqd6fc

just the audio: http://direct.sharp-stream.com/radioshow.mp3

Practice is also being shown on Eurosport 2.

…and live timing http://live.fiawec.com/

>murphy

serves them right for employing karun chandhok

>>12617

>Practice is also being shown on Eurosport 2.

http://crichd.tv/update/euro2.php

Or in VLC if you have a good connection:

>Change language by Audio > Audio Track

ES1, 1080p, Russia:

http://hlsstr04.svc.iptv.rt.ru/hls/CH_C02_EUROSPORTHD/bw3000000/variant.m3u8?version=2

ES1, SD, audio track 2 = English:

http://hlsstr01.svc.iptv.rt.ru/hls/CH_EUROSPORT/bw1500000/variant.m3u8?version=2

ES2, SD, audio track 2 = English:

http://hlsstr02.svc.iptv.rt.ru/hls/CH_EUROSPORT2/bw1500000/variant.m3u8?version=2

>>12621

looks like you can use any of

bw1500000 bw900000 bw480000

for different qualities, although even on bw480000 it keeps stalling for me

>>12621

I don't understand those VLC streams. Not even using half my connection and yet they all lag a fucking lot. Even the 480kbit one. It just stops receiving data for no fucking reason, then VLC proceeds to loop the last 10 seconds of audio like the faggot VLC is.

>>12623

do they work with mpc-hc? because that's the better player imo.

>>12626

I don't think that would change anything, it seems to be something with the server just sort of stopping every once in a while despite bandwidth just like >>12623 says. Playing with the buffer doesn't really do anything except change how long it takes to recover from a stall.

You should also be able to watch any of the potato crichd streams with mpc-hc or another player via rtmpdump

>>12639

>watch any of the potato crichd streams with mpc-hc

How do?

>>12642

Oh derp, read that wrong.

I thought you meant natively with MPC-HC, and that other players needed rtmpdump.

>>12643

yeah I probably could've worded that better

fwiw

//Eurosport 2
	  rtmpdump -r "rtmp://rtmp.popeoftheplayers.eu:1935/redirect" -a "redirect" -f "WIN 17,0,0,134" -W "http://popeoftheplayers.eu/atdedead.swf" -p "http://popeoftheplayers.eu/crichd.php?id=10&width=600&height=450" -y "10" -T "#atd%#$ZH" | "C:\Program Files\foo\bar.exe" -

substituting ones own player path at the end obviously

change id= and -y for other channels e.g. ES1 is 9 and SkyF1 is 6 etc

>>12644

>>12645

Actually, do you have the dump for http://cricfree.sx/update/skysf1.php ?

(I remember you saying you did it a while ago)

CricHD SkyF1 has had shit audio for a few weeks now

>>12646

 rtmpdump -r "rtmp://178.18.31.53:443/liverepeater" -a "liverepeater" -f "WIN 17,0,0,134" -W "http://bernardotv.club/player6.swf" -p "http://biggestplayer.me/streamcr.php?id=195088&width=620&height=490" -y "195088" -T "deadsoon%%7" -v | "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -

>>12648

also you probably noticed already if you take >>12647 but change the id and y,

Eurosport 1 is 195089

Eurosport 2 is 195090

and you can pick from a few different IPs in that range 178.18.31.52 thru .55 at least. IDK how high it goes, maybe to .62 I couldn't get the automatic redirect to work

Qually session in 15 bings

Coverage is go:

http://cricfree.sx/update/euro.php

>Jan Magnussen

>>12657

They keep claiming the car is very close to the production model, isn't it much smaller displacement though?

>>12659

Haven't paid much attention to be honest.

I assume they mean from a technical point of view, ie same chassis, base suspension, and running gear. So a drop of displacement on the same engine could still be justified as "very close".

>>12662

something something something pushrods cant into motorracing.

>>12666

>In the US and europe there are laws that force cars to have extremely high hoods and high beltlines, and this (coupled with the fact that there are few longitudinal rear drive cars on the market) makes spending money on minimizing the dohc engines pointless.

IIRC, the hood height laws actually are relative to the highest point of the engine (for pedestrian safety), so a more compact engine would allow a lower hood, which then allows a lower beltline.

>>12668

Doesn't explain why cars from the mid 2000s that were also covered under these regulations that had pushrod engines also had enormously high hoods (chevy malibu maxx comes to mind). I see that there are laws that require space on top of the highest point of the engine, but there are also regulations that specify a high hood implicitly.

Requiring a high beltline, implicitly requires a high hood for structural and stylistic continuity.

I don't remember well now, but I read through the full US FMVSS when I thought it would be possible to import a car (it's not) and it's got something for everything.

Who do you want to win Volkswagen group: The race?

>>12670

mah dream Le Mans 2015

>many mechanical DNFs

>many crash DNFs

>only one Porsche remains

>only one Audi remains

>no Toyota's remain

>hour 23

>Porsche and Audi on same lap

>racing each other for the lead

>they crash, and take each other out of the race

>only the Nissan remains

>but it's so slow that it's behind the top 3 LMP2 cars

>LMP2 cars fill the podium

>Nissan made to look like amateurs

>VAG wastes a shit ton of money

>>12669

There's a better article I've read before, but I can't find it.

>EU legislation calling for three full inches of clearance between the underside of the hood and engine/suspension components

http://www.wired.com/2007/11/will-pedestrian/

>>12671

That's beautiful

>>12673

>Will Pedestrian-Safety Laws Kill the Beautiful Car?

Already did honeybabe, already did.

>>12677

Even my mother knows cars look like shit now. She points out that new cars have tiny windows, you cant put your arm up on the sill, and that they all have weird shapes on the sides to make you think it's lower than it is (by drawing your eyes down).

>>12678

The enormous A-pillars (for rollover protection) are what piss me off the most.

I drove current model Commodore SS (Chevrolet SS, in American terms), and I couldn't see shit. I even literally found myself moving my head to the middle of the car on a few occasions so I could actually see corners/obstacles.

I honestly prefer my 20 year old piece of shit E36 BMW

>>12644

>>12647

>>12651

Thanks again for this, anon.

So much nicer being able to put VLC always on top and watch as I browse.

>>12679

OH shit, I do the same thing. I drove a new acura ILX and I felt like I was in a NASCAR style roll cage and needed a spotter to tell me who was in my mirrors.

The ultimate irony, is that I am certain that more people crash because whole fucking cube trucks can hide in your A and C pillars (and your convergence of vision makes a picture of the area around the pillar and you think you aren't missing anything).

That's why back in the day, before these retarded regulations, Volvo made pillars thinner than the distance between your eyes so that they didnt fuck with your convergence and you could see "through" them so to speak.

>>12686

I'm more inclined to chalk it up to a fuckup, but you're not wrong.

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>>12689

confession

how do you do the bidirectional redtext like that?

>>12690

well, I meant to phrase it as a confession that I dont know how

>>12695

I hope Vadim Kogay is there this weekend.

>but I doubt it

>>12699

>being this bad

>thinking that's okay

lolol I read the name and remembered this infamous tard.

>>12699

>John Watson auhouwlllll wrouuung

Also, couldn't rebellion theoretically beat nissan in lmp1 despite the rules being rigged against non hybrids?

>>12702

They are, by 12 and seconds a lap

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119413

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time
1	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m16.887s
2	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m17.767s
3	LMP1	N.Hulkenberg, E.Bamber, N.Tandy	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m19.297s
4	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m19.866s
5	LMP1	F.Albuquerque, M.Bonanomi, R.Rast	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m21.081s
6	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m21.839s
7	LMP1	A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway	Toyota Racing	Toyota	3m23.543s
8	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Racing	Toyota	3m23.767s
9	LMP1	N.Prost, M.Beche, N.Heidfeld	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	3m26.874s
10	LMP1	A.Imperatori, D.Kraihamer, D.Abt	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	3m31.933s
11	LMP2	M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Lapierre	KCMG	ORECA/Nissan	3m38.032s
12	LMP1	O.Pla, J.Mardenborough, M.Chilton	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	3m38.468s

>>12702

>by 12 and seconds a lap

Derp.

>Was going to say 12 and 15 seconds, as in the sister car is even slower, but thought it was fairer to compare fastest to fastest.

LMAO

Commentary said that there is a 110% rule for qualifying (per class).

Porsche did a 3m16.8

+10% = 3m35.6

Nissan did a 3m38.4

No way it will be enforced. Unfortunately.

>>12704

That's beautiful.

>>12705

We can only dream

Nissan should stop being pussies, go back to their original 1500hp plan, and do something like this:

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/5221/WM-P88-Peugeot.html

>tfw motorsport will never allow crazy happenings again

>>12724

Holy shit, that's stock block too. 2.8 liters holy shit. That's like CART Buick pushrod 3.8 liter engine insane.

RACE START TIME CONVERTER

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?p1=1271&iso=20150613T15&msg=Le%20Mans%2024hr%20start&sort=1

>>12724

>TFW all motorsport is spec, or near spec shit meant to appeal to greenies that don't watch it.

>tfw 3 liters is small displacement by american standards

>tfw the fia chose v6s that were only .8 liters less displacement because they knew the hybrid driving crowd is stupid enough to think that cylinders determine the fuel efficiency and size of the engine.

>>12737

EVEN FUCKING NASCAR which is spec chassis is on the precipice of going to spec engines http://www.motorsport.com/arca/news/is-it-time-for-nascar-to-consider-a-spec-engine/

>>12741

ok that was actually worth a kek.

>>12740

ARCA isn't NASCAR, ARCA is ARCA

It's like F4 being a spec series.

There is just no way I can imagine the manufacturers involved in NASCAR to allow it to go spec and lose out all that advertising. Especially after the changes for Gen 6 in allowing the manufacturers more freedom in the looks of the car

It doesn't help either party.

>>12752

I know ARCA isn't nascar, and that ARCA doesn't even have a spec engine. I said that pressure to go that way is mounting.

I don't even see the need for having a spec engine in arca. It's cheap as hell to run a team in arca.

>>12752

f4 is a spec series, f3 is a spec series, proposed f2 is a spec series, gp2 is a spec series, wsr is a spec series, gp3 is a spec series, super formula is a spec series, indy lights is a spec series, IRL is a spec series, formula atlantic is a spec series, Tudor is basically a spec series.

This is a living hell.

>>12764

>f4 is a spec series, f3 is a spec series, proposed f2 is a spec series, gp2 is a spec series

F1 feeder series being spec is acceptable.

Driver's are meant to be proving their talent, not teams proving who has the most money.

>>12778

And while that is true, f3, f2, f3000, super formula, indy lights, and formula atlantic (feeder series) were not spec in the past. Before you accuse me of being a nostalgist, recognize that this did 3 major important things (by no means limited to these).

1. Non-spec feeder series trained more technical drivers that could develop cars more effectively and were more complete at an earlier stage in their career.

2. Non-spec feeder series reduced costs when there were multiple customer chassis avaliable and multiple engines available.

3. Non-spec feeder series produced teams that would later go up to f1.

If you ran a gp2 team and intended to go up to f1 now, you'd be seen as a loon (ART gp would have enormous support from mclaren so it'd be like haas f1 in terms of being effectively a customer), but back when formula 3000/F2 was going strong, Jordan, Pacific, Onyx, March , Osella, AGS, Minardi, Coloni, Forti, and probably half of the historic F1 grid came up from lower series and knew how to design, construct, maintain, fix, and develop cars instead of buying a spec chassis and having that be the end of it.

>>12780

>Driver's are meant to be proving their talent, not teams proving who has the most money.

meant to say and while that is true.

I'm somewhat glad #17 Porsche isn't on pole. It's kind of been a poisoned chalice for them so far.

Nissan has been abysmal, though it is mainly down to their hybrid system but still.

>Being slower than an LMP2 car.

>>12783

>>12671

part of the future has been predicted.

Fuck front wheel drive.

>>12780

If they were smart, they'd design the F2 series as a feeder for constructors. Then again, expecting FIA to be sensible in this day and age is a futile task.

>>12705

>>12707

"The three Nissan LMP1s will start from the back of the Le Mans 24 Hour prototype field after failing to meet the 110 per cent qualifying minimum. Two of the GT-LM NISMOs qualified ahead of the best LMP2 contender and the third right behind it, but they will line up on the grid in 30th, 31st and 32nd positions. That puts them behind all but one of the 19-strong LMP2 field after they failed to set times within the minimum prescribed by the rules."

>>12793

bringing a chariot to a car race

>>12793

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This couldn't be better if it was scripted.

>Jann Memeborough and Maximum Chilton in the same Nissan

wow you can't make this shit up. who would you guys put in the 3rd seat to complete the dream team?

>>12801

Mick Schumacher

>>12801

Jacques Villenueve

>>12801

wait, I've changed my mind, it should be a chick

doesn't really matter which one actually

>>12792

yup

>>12793

yesyesyesyes

>>12801

I seem to remember that we had a discussion some time ago about how aside from Marc Gene (who is old as hell now) they literally could not have picked shittier drivers.

Mini-hamilnigger and Maximus Chilton. Wow.

>>12801

Vadim Kogay, you could even say he has experience in endurance racing on the press release.

Can't wait for all the Le Mans grid girls. 24 hours of sexy women walking around!!! Fuck yes.

>>12826

uh

>>11015

sorry

>>12848

why have cams in a racing engine at all

>>12848

I miss those Cosworth XFE's

>the sound

>methanol fumes stinging your eyes

>the huge BANG every time it cut spark for the shift without lift

>>12861

using magnetoheorical valves would make it smaller but extremely complicated. There's a common misconception that f1 engines have ever been camless. The fact that the technology to do it has been around, and people have thought of the idea (renault fucked around with it back when they were good in the 90s) but not used it seems to indicate that it's more trouble than it's worth right now.

>>12862

That's some some you had to be there experience– have you attended CART races?

>rip cart races at surfer's paradise.

>>12864

Used to go to the race at Surfers, until Champ Car died

>>12865

>rip cart

>rip good non spec motorsport not ruined by greenies and safety freaks

Does Alan Jones commentate on all motorsport in australia?

>>12867

Not really.

He used to do the studio intro/outro with a TV normie when it was on another network in the early 2000s.

Then it went to another network and they didn't take him.

Two? years ago, the new network figured they needed more credibility (because the F1 coverage studio bits were being done by bikefags) so they brought him in.

>>12866

>>rip good non spec motorsport

Anon, CART was pretty much spec…

>it was absolutely spec in the end

>>12871

after 2002 it became nearly spec. When it was CART and not Champ Car there were more than 9 chassis manufacturers, all of them were different, and at various points in time porsche, illmor, buick, alfa romeo, cosworth, honda, toyota, and others supplied engines.

2002 is when the bankruptcy (largely caused by the cancelled texas motor speedway 2001 race) happened.

>>12863

its worth a lot tho if they got a system working which is exactly what racing should be about

F1 should have gone for this and turbosteamer instead of MGU-H

>>12869

those dead of the night empty studio bits (channel 9?) are comfy as fuck on the old race torrents

>>12874

they should have just gone back to the 3 liter formula and let suppliers find their own way to more power.

>>12872

>>12873

Tl;DR fuck the IRL

>>12874

people will choose the better technology and the engines will get more advanced if they arent regulated to hell like they have been since 1994.

>le mans legends race 80% safety car

>>12878

don't people crash cars all the fucking time in the f1 historic gps?

>>12879

or they just break down

Eurosport 1 not showing this le mans support race but instead

>World Series by Renault - Round 4: Hungary - Race 1

in 20 bings. who watching? I don't see a FR3.5 thread in the cat

>>12883

>implying anyone watches WSR other than the parents of the kartingkids in it.

I would but i'm going to nap.

>posting this again

RACE START TIME CONVERTER

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?p1=1271&iso=20150613T15&msg=Le%20Mans%2024hr%20start&sort=1

>that's 3 bongs, 40 bings from now

>>12885

tfw I timed my sleep pattern wrong

was supposed to sleep until just before the 24 started but now it's going to be a real struggle to stay up for the whole thing

only one corvette, they couldn't fix the other one

thanks obama

>>12891

such is the fate of the magnussens, doomed to be benchwarmers

lets collect some official streams

corvette stream: http://www.foxsports.com/motor/corvette-live-stream

audi stream: http://www.lemans.audi-motorsport.com/

porsche stream: http://www.porsche.com/international/motorsportandevents/motorsport/worksracing/raceseries/fiawec/livestreaming/

nissan stream: youtube on your ipad with your mom

>45 bings to go

Eurosport pre-race coverage is go

Potato stream:

http://cricfree.sx/update/euro.php

Non-potato stream:

http://henno.info

(no password this weekend)

>>12894

>>12895

thx

mcnish sighting on eurosport

nismo is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyrcKvv-4pE

bob varsha is doing the sportscasting on fox sports. Fuck yeah.

oh and justin bell too? cool, he's like his father in being likable

who did they just say missed the formation lap and is starting from pit? didn't catch the first part

grid girls

>>12901

I FUCKING TOLD YOU IT WASN'T ABOUT SEXISM

>>12904

>guy

did you even ask about her prounouns

>>12905

Worst

Trap

Ever

>>12901

>>12902

>>12903

>>12904

I thought they said they were no more?

>>12907

in normal WEC events

>in accordance with the french ban on alcohol sponsorship

wtf are you guys arabs now too?

all this formation tire warming is making me wet

Commentators:

>something something "…they want to peg them back"

>First thing I thought was about strapons.

I've been watching too much fetish porn.

>>12910

>The other races don't have any sponsors because no one gives a shit about them.

Because WEC is a pathetic shadow of what World SportsCar was.

>>12912

>too much fetish porn

there's no such thing

>>12912

please tell me you're at least watching good stuff like strapless dildo

>>12914

>german

you guys are blessed to actually understand what the slutty girls in the mydirtyhobby videos are saying.

lol kolles the cuck

>>12917

wait what?

all these cars look the same, and the liveries arent helping.

Morning gents.

>>12916

>mydirtyhobby

Probably the best porn out there.

FUCKING F1 app stream keeps dying.

>This freight train

>>12918

every team he gets involved with gets fucked

Did Hulk just got passed?

>>12925

http://live.fiawec.com/

>Hulkenberg

>Nissan

>>12922

The best part is the girls actually seem to have some agency and enjoy it. I'm not a smile fetishist, but let me tell you it makes a world of difference.

>>12924

oh i know, just i dont know what the kolles drama is this time

>Hulkenberg

lel

>>12928

they missed the 110%

>>12931

he probably had to reinstall opera

>>12931

Sorry to disappoint, I'm the other mexican

>>12919

It doesn't help now that the LMP2's can also be closed cockpit

>>12934

or that they did the porsches all different

>>12928

>The best part is the girls actually seem to have some agency and enjoy it.

That's because they're raised in a sex positive European culture, and actually are enjoying it.

As opposed to American porn, where the culture of sex is bad is spread by the church, and porn is bad is spread by feminists, so they feel bad about themselves for doing it.

>>12933

Can you install opera and act a bit daft?

>>12937

Opera died when they sold out to chrome.

Is it me or the Aston Martins look like angry squirrels?

>>12931

>>12933

Do you think he has realised we hit the bump limit in the previous thread?

Maybe he thinks we are all ded

>>12938

they've looked like YOU WANT PRAY GAME with lipstick for a few years now

>>12938

Or angry chinks

>>12939

Oh shit he probably didn't…

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Maybe Burger can edit the last post and put a link to the new thread in.

>>12936

That's reductionist. all education in the northeast us cities that isnt parochial is sex positive, it doesn't help. Things are worse. you're either a slut that acts like a prude, or a slut that has this Dadaist "we're all monkeys on a rock and nothing matters, lets do nothing with our lives and become fat stoners" attitude.

>>12941

frog, where the fuck are you for pretty much every other thread we ever have?

>>12941

That is more like it, yes.

AHAHA in the nissan stream, you can see all the other cars pulling away.

>>12944

Busy mourning over being reduced to follow F1 on twitter because shitty internets.

>>12947

oh that's shitty.

>>12928

The girl who posts as young-devotion is probably the best I've seen in porn.

How the fuck can the WEC website suck this hard? Get DHH out of his car and ask him to remake it.

>>12949

>The girl who posts as young-devotion is probably the best I've seen in porn.

Literally could not agree more. You have good taste.

>Nissan already in the pits

Nissan going tech support on the #23, turning it off and on again

>There are people in the nissan stream who claim that they are doing awesome dicing it up with the lmp2 cars

>nissan need to win against audi

An actual quote pulled from YT

>>12952

Oh no…. bet Chilton won't get to drive.

Finally my live streams are actually working for more than 30 seconds now.

hulk is gonna get passed by the third audi

>>12957

And by that I mean the official ones you pay for from WEC. Anyone else using those, or are you just using free streams?

>>12958

tragic

…or audi could pit

totally called that

>>12960

I may have payed the $10 for the official stream if my internet wasn't shit. But it is.

First Nissan will breakdown before dark

Y/N?

>I say yes

>>12964

I'm in the yea camp as well. Guarantee that they haven't solved the catastrophic transaxle failures.

>>12960

I've been thinking of getting the WEC stream but I'm not sure it will work properly.

Right now I'm watching 4chin /o/'s stream. Looks like WEC + RLM

>>12964

Y.

All three Nissans will have unrelated retirements in the space of 10 laps

Alexandre Imperatori is such a porn name

>>12968

wow it really is

>>12966

How many swagfags, beaners, and tripfags are in it?

>>12969

Don't know, ustream chat is broken for me. So I use the embed player.

http://www.ustream.tv/embed/18270787

The worst thing about this stream is that RLM doesn't shut up over the race radio.

quality nissan doors

What's the story with kazuki Nakajima? Is he racing?

Also does anyone actually like sebastien buemi?

>Nissan

Extra downforce

>>12973

we have streams that dont have retards flapping their lips in them

>>12966

> but I'm not sure it will work properly.

Yeah at first I was pissed off because it kept dying every 30 seconds. They seem to have sorted that out now. It's $10, I'm not poor and trying to find a quality stream for free is too much work.

did anyone see the red porsche pass the tribute liveried nissan like it was a gt3 car?

>>12978

Haven't found them, but I'm a bit retarded.

I'm trying to get the WEC pass right now, but it doesn't even work.

I like how every year they talk about famous actor Patrick Dempsey racing

I've never seen anything he's acted in and would otherwise have no idea

>>12982

>>12895

>>12983

Not even that Transformers movie with the blonde?

>>12983

oh god, he once said that he could quit acting and race full time. What an insult to people with actual talent.

He wants to make a movie about phil hill, he wants to play phil hill.

>>12983

He was in a TV show called Grey's Anatomy which I have heard of, but never watched. It was a big show though apparently.

>>12986

nope, the only transformers movie I needed to see was the one with orson welles

>>12989

wait what?

>>12990

oh shit he was in the original one? wow

something dead

F I R E

I

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GT Porsche. Decent one too.

SAFETY CAR

I think it is funny that the guy who created Ruby on Rails is racing Le Mans (full time?) now.

Porsche pulling a Pinto

TRACTOR

>Lemans uses 3 safety cars because the track is so long

>The Nissans are so far behind that they'll probably be behind the second safety car

>>12995

He should be racing in F1 :^)

>>13000

shit, this board grew fast.

>>12999

He's probably too old, he's what 35, 36?

The commentators using every opportunity to hype the HybridFaggotry (c) is getting on my nerves.

>>13004

We actually had a really good series of posts about Group C and how the FIA actually killed (there was no world sports car championship for years after 1992) endurance racing.

Audi's on the prowl. Toyota got lucky with the safety car. Hopefully they can sick closer on this stint.

>"Don't talk to me through strategy calculations!"

>>13008

not so lucky for wurz

>Wurz

Andre Lotterer is really cute. No homo

muted the tv, cars are headache inducing electric whine.

all this action happening while eurosport is on commercial break

>thar r/wec screen when the guys are refreshing the stream

lel. it's sort of cute and stupid at the same time.

>>13013

Yeah that's gotten to me as well

>People thought that Andre and Audi weren't going to win this easily

>>13017

That #7 Audi is blessed by the Gods this year.

>>13013

>>13016

noise induced hearing loss ftw

>>13018

It won the Lottery

>>13020

Aren't you a lucky duck.

Probably not a good sign for the sport if that's a plus.

>>13013

>>13016

>>13020

>tfw don't really mind it at all

my ears must be fucked or something.

>the understeer in that nissan

lel

>>13021

did the #18 get b& and have to kneel to the jani

>>13023

That or you're delusional. Plenty of people are capable of training themselves to like terrible things.

>>13020

You mean, like in F1 years ago?

>>13024

There's your front wheel drive in action. Wonder if it also has bad torque steer.

>>13027

WHAT?

>>13027

Wasn't an electric shrill whine like a overloaded power supply in f1, and before Mosley made everyone have a partially spec v10 engine, the cars sounded different.

>>13029

Loud enough to make you actually deaf.

>>13031

yeah, but not a horrendous noise. plus wear earplugs like the pit crews do.

>>13031

YES I WANT SOME TAQUITOS

>>13030

Sound is secondary. I wouldn't mind the sound of current F1 cars if there was some good on track action.

>>13034

obviously the sport comes before the show, but we have neither right now because the rules and engines are terrible.

>>13027

In 2007 Renault did a F1 Road Show in Mexico, holy fuck that was loud and they only did some laps at low speed.

>>13037

and if it was 2007, that was with the 2.4 liter v8s, not even the loudest or most powerful formula.

>>13026

Nah I've never found it annoying.

Maybe it was the amount of RC cars I used to play with as a kid. Or the times I would take apart electronics with them plugged in.

Fucking hairdryers

>>13039

whatever it is (most likely the examples you just cited) it's definitely anomalous.

if you like loud you could always just go see gravedigger and truckasarus or whatever they call them nowadays

>>13041

I want to see a sport not a show. Monster trucks are cool, but the long lost magic of F1 is in competition at all levels with the highest technology, not trumpets on the back of the car to appease people who dont know what engine displacement is.

#64 vette kicking ass

>>13036

Yes. They could partially fix things by disabling DRS but it won't happen.

I think the sound is particularly bad in the WEC streams because of the in car cameras. Even the freedom-mobile sounded like a supercharged RC car.

>>13042

No amount of massaging this turd of an f1 rule set will make it good.

>>13044

>disabling DRS but it won't happen.

There's a reason this keeps coming up in the press and the comments of drivers as well as in the gpda survey. This and trashing the current engine formula are very real things that can happen, just forcefully.

>>13043

Got mugged by Europe

>>13047

hax

>see two cars spinning each other

>background banner is forza

Perfect ad placement.

>patreon is now rolling stone

Group C jaguar noise, dub it over the stream.

>>13051

What music!

Oh GT, you always causing shenanigans

Hammer time for Andre

>>13054

Isn't he Belgian? Why does he have a German license?

I seriously wonder how much sleep the drivers can get, you'd want to be constantly checking the timings.

Can you imagine waking up and then finding out your team's car has been wrecked?

>>13056

Dude I can't fucking sleep when its dark and quiet. Does anyone else have their mind race at night and get immensely stressed out? Its an actual problem for me.

>>13055

He's begian-german

>>13058

It used to happen to me, but now I'm too tired. I usually fall asleep in mere minutes after laying down.

>>13058

>quiet

I don't understand how anyone can sleep without a fan or some background noise, literally every single fucking thing going on in the house and neighborhood wakes me up

>>13058

Sort of similar

When I was kid I asked my parents to let me have the room at the front of house so I would be closer to the road and not the field out back even though the room was tiny (only about a foot or two wider than the bed)

I just didn't like how quiet and empty it was.

>>13060

I used to sleep with my head between my girlfriend's breasts such that I could hear her heartbeat and that would slow me down enough to sleep, but now I no longer have a girlfriend so I just have panic attacks all night.

>>13058

>>13062

I wear ear plugs to sleep. I need silence to sleep every single thing wakes me up.

>>13058

I find it hard to sleep at a set time, but usually once I'm actually tired I'll sleep within minutes. If I have something important to wakeup for the following morning, I'll end up not being able to sleep at all.

So if I were in Le Mans, I'd have a hard time.

Just curios, is the guy who posts all the pictures of Bottas' girlfriend here?

>>13062

> how anyone can sleep without a fan

Good thing you're not Korean.

>>13065

hearing loss+tinnitus combo means if it gets too silent I get auditory hallucinations where my brain interprets random things as speech

>>13063

That sounds so quaint and English.

>>13064

Become a crazy engineer and make a breasts-pillow with built-in heartbeat sound generator. It doesn't even sound too hard to make.

>>13071

sounds like something J-List would sell

>>13071

You see, this is like the sport vs the show thing, even if both theoretically were able to produce the same end sensory result, I'd need it to be the real thing.

Just as f1 with fake noise and fake passing and fake perception of speed, and a shitty formula wouldn't do it for me, even sleeping with a shallow girl wouldn't do it for me.

And here I've over analysed your post.

>>13073

What is j list?

>>13073

Sold in combo with a tenga egg and a VR set

>>13075

place that sells onaholes

>>13076

And a free bottle of Tentacle Grape

Audi you lucky fucks

>duval

>>13079

Less unlucky

>>13079

NO.

>>13074

I totally understand you.

>>13075

The place where you buy usb controllers for your dick, porn weeb games, onaholes to get off and figurines to hot glue.

>>13069

I think the guy I saw last time was American. Do we have any hot wags for WEC?

>guard rail repair

oh well nothing going on for another hour then

>>13084

I really can't keep up with more than F1

>>13085

I don't understand why was the SC deployed. Can't they use Code 60 or whatever system they have to neutralise the area where repairs are needed and let people race on the rest of the track?

>>13088

Probably having to get vehicles from other parts of the circuit down to the barrier

>>13083

>USB controllers for your dick

Hahahah ok I get it. I appreciate your understanding as well

Hartley has +1 on everyone. Wew

>>13088

>>13089

yeah eduardo was on the radio saying heavy equipment

>>13085

Just like kimi at Silverstone, no racing until a part of the barrier that no one else is going to hit gets repaired.

>>13093

more than 20 hours left in this case though so they can't just ignore it really

>one of the achilles heels of the aston

that's not how achilles heel works buddy

also the second time I've heard that used this week wtf

>>12938

>Opera died when they sold out to chrome.

Haven't played with it much, but I heard the guy who created Opera has parted ways with the company and started his own browser called Vivaldi.

THEY ARE READING TWEETS

TWEEEEETS

>>13096

Well, all that really made it unique is gone now.

>>13098

I remember at once time (maybe still does), Opera had a damn bit torrent client built in haha. I wish they had just focussed on making a nice browser instead of being a jack of all trades.

I think this is a sign I should commence drinking

FIREEEE

flammable volkswagens this year

>Porsche

>>13100

What's your poison?

So, how long until the 919 catch fire and some drivers die in considerable pain?

>>13104

3 liter box wine for starters. "black box" red blend should get me well into the event

I keep a stocked liquor cabinet tho so I can upgrade

>>13106

hoo wee. Can't speak for the other guy, but i'm torn between some belgian abbey ale and a good bourbon. Might actually consider a gin and tonic considering how hot it's getting.

Christ this must have been an hour long safety car…

>>13107

yeah I'm watching the sun coming in, it was dog daze here last weekend. if it gets too hot i'll g&t although I don't have any fresh limes so maybe margaritas. the deal with the red wine is it mixes well with energy drinks and I bought neutral lime energy drink (rockstar lime freeze) which gives me extra options with the booze

whats your good bourbon and whats your gin?

>still not racing yet

>>13106

You keep a stocked liquor cabinet? Wow, classy. You and I are part of a dying breed.

>>13108

About 45-50 minutes

>>13111

Yeah, found time to take a shower.

> ignore my flag change.

>>13109

Shit I don't have limes either…only lime juice. I wouldn't have thought the red would work well with the energy drink, but there you go.

For bourbon, lately I've been drinking angel's envy, Jeffersons, and makers 46.

For gin, I'm usually a tanqueray guy, but I like hendrick's and lately i've been drinking beefeater.

>>13110

it's called "living alone"

>>13114

Hahahaah. I guess I'm naive. Well, you can always spin it as classy for the girls.

>>13115

> for the girls

Can you make me a spritzer.

>>13116

That's should have been a quote. It has been said by every girl I've invited over.

>>13116

Sure.

>>13116

That's should have been a quote. It has been said by every girl I've invited over.

>>13113

noice. I keep bulleit and buffalo trace, plymouth and… well, seagram's. have you had the tanq rangpur? you might think its a gimmick flavored gin but its really good esp you don't have limes. beefeater tastes like hair spray to me now but I used to love it

just witness that vette dominating that poor yurop shoppng cart

>>13120

oh man. I had the bulleit 10 year and it's wild. Very rye for a bourbon, but the finish is so smooth and there's very little hangover because it's filtered.

I've actually never had buffalo trace or plymouth, segram's is…an old friend.

I've never had tanq rangpur but I was impressed by the fact that bombay sapphire is so sedate that i can nearly drink it straight.

Speaking of gimmicky gins, I got this Kosher for Passover gin from a local jewish place (that it was on clearance motivated that, as I am not a tribe member), and let me tell you, I was surprised. This no.209 gin was really really good. Sharp botanicals like tanqueray, but pleasantly spicy on finish and really a full profile of taste.

>>13119

Were they all lightweights, afraid of being drunk near you, or just 7 years old?

Just playing, spritzers can be done well

>>13122

>Kosher for Passover gin

thank goodness this exists because normal gin has huge chunks of pork

that cheeky Aston

>>13096

Vivaldi is also tied to chrome. But it has a couple of features over Opera that I like. Which is tab stacking and putting pages side by side.

Extensions are still not officially supported. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

>>13125

Its a special thing for a holiday where they don't eat grain, not a pork/meat and cheese thing in so far as I understand it, but I'm no expert.

did another porsche just die? in the pits

>>13131

any jew this observant isn't going to be a jew that needs to drink a whole bunch of gin over passover

>>13132

Apparently they've found a market niche.

>>13134

Arab-oil-money-no-talent.jpg

oh man I just realized anthony davidson is in the car and I completely missed the part in the pits where he holds his ittle booster seat waiting to get in

Toyota only in touch with the Porsche and Audi that have hit trouble. How embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as Nissas though.

>>13137

>check how they are doing compared to the Rebellions

>+3 Laps

>HEIDFELD Nick

I didn't realize he was here until now

>Davison

>manages to damage the car enough to require a pitstop in only 8 laps

>>13136

wait actually? the midget cuck has a booster seat?

>>13138

Heidfeld wins lol

>>13139

he should have >really opened up that corner

>>13140

it's a liner insert thing but yes a booster seat. I had a picture somewhere but I can't find it atm

Toyota mechanics aren't even in a hurry

>they suck, so don't give a fuck this year

>>13143

Williams said something during the 2013 season to the effect of "why practice pitstops when the car sucks" this reminded me of that.

also bruno senna sucks. this reminded me of that too.

>Davidson cost the team 13 minutes

>>13144

thank you. This is amazing.

Nakajima out for blood

Toyota nearly running over a rival mechanic

>>13144

I think that is just a seat change that a lot of the drivers do.

Though he probably sets the seat closer and higher up

Eurosport guest commentator going on an "in my day" rant.

Not sure if this or tweets are more annoying

>normally iot would easily be tweets, but they don't choose tweets to use as a proxy to bash people like Crofty does

What happened to DHH in the #30? It has been it the pits for ages, and is behind many GTE AM cars. Did he crash it harder than a rails app trying to serve more than 10 people?

>>13150

yeah that Audi pit stop just now you could see the standby driver was holding one (just barely missed capping it)

it's just funnier with ant because he is such a manlet his insert is gigantic and him holding it makes it look even bigger

>1600hp

>fdw

>anorexic rear wheels

Lol

>>13154

>>1600hp

Every PR release Nissan makes, that number goes up another 100hp

>>13155

I think it is inversely proportional to Honda's hp figures

>>13152

if I knew, I've forgotten already

#7 AUDI STOPPED

oh it's a picture on the wall

Nissan's LMP1 cars are running in:

>22nd, 10 laps down, behind 11 LMP2 cars

>40th, 14 laps down, behind 6 GTE AM cars

>45th, 16 laps down, behind 9 GTE AM cars

>>13158

Glad it wasn't just me.

If the Audi's can consistently quad stint the tyres, its going to be very difficult for Porsche