The Motorsport Thread 2016

EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote: sleeper wrote: EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote: Go Ricciardo, well second still do again At least he does not have cheaty engines  All engines are legal, it's hardly Mercedes fault that Renault and Honda have done a bad job (the Ferrari engine is actually pretty good, fairly close to the Merc on performance, they've just got a sh*t car). Congrats to Pagenaud, not surprised he's champion, the way he drove for Schmidt Peterson made it clear he was one of the top talents in the series. All engines are legal, it's hardly Mercedes fault Then why are they under scrutiny................

In 3 years of use of this engine there has never been any real rumours of them cheating in any way whatsoever. As for being under close scrutiny, they're the dominant team it would be very weird if they weren't but in this case it's looking for the details that have made theirs the best engine.

Bad luck for both Mercedes drivers today, but it's starting to look like Nico is more likely to win the championship.

Madness. Shame nico got spun there at the first corner...would've been a great points day. But a good drive nevertheless.

Go Ricciardo, winning is best

Now, this makes up for Monaco! Well, almost. LOL

^I can't wait for Bathurst!  The Superview feed better not crap out on me like some of the other races this season, though.

Suzuka this weekend, Rosberg was fastest by a small margin in practice today, still expect Hamilton to win though.

Newgarden has signed for Penske next year, replacing Montoya. Yet to be seen what JPM will do next year.

Pontiac's a dead brand, has been for a few years now. I'd at least expect the Holden name to stick around, haven't seen anything to suggest GM is killing that off at least, even if they are moving car production out of Australia.

sleeper wrote: Suzuka this weekend, Rosberg was fastest by a small margin in practice today, still expect Hamilton to win though. Newgarden has signed for Penske next year, replacing Montoya. Yet to be seen what JPM will do next year.

JPM will drive for Ganassi, or Ed Carpenter or Dale Coyne or... 

JJLehto wrote: Ah Bathurst...one helluva course. Sadly it's obscurer than obscure here. I only know about it all thanks to TOCA (a fairly obscure racing game lol) that had the track, loved it. Played it for the first time online and not knowing what to expect, (besides crashing around) I flew off the track flipping

Same.  The TOCA series was actually my introduction to the series as a whole, so you could say that I owe my love for Bathurst and the Supercars to Codies.   And yeah, I still can't quite figure the course out (the latest iteration in Project CARS).

BTW, The Great Race did not disappoint.  The first half was domination by Whincup and Dumbrell with zero safety cars, so not a whole lot going on.  Pretty much once the halfway point hit, boom, safety cars after safety car, and it changed the complexity of the race completely.  Fast forward to a handful of laps left when Whincup decides to dive bomb Scott McLaughlin, putting him off into the grass, while Garth Tander tried to take advantage, but unfortunately, Jamie decided to redress right in front of Tander, causing him to make to a move to avoid him, sending him into a merging McLaughlin and causing both to DNF.  Whincup was handed a 15 second post race penalty, and essentially set up for a shootout between Will Davison, the eventual winner, and Shane Van Gisbergen.  Great finish and racing all around, although it was a shame to see every driver I like have issues with Scotty being punted off at the end, Frosty having brake issues and Lowndsy with transmission issues early on.  Just happy that neither Whincup nor SVG got the win.


Edited by MillsLayne - October 09 2016 at 02:03