Remember back at the beginning of this, when we were (briefly) all watching those marble races. Well… Danish media just went and made an actual article about it. That's where we are now; serious media is making articles about marble racing…
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Remember back at the beginning of this, when we were (briefly) all watching those marble races. Well… Danish media just went and made an actual article about it. That's where we are now; serious media is making articles about marble racing…
Simple tastes: I see Cille, I click. I know I will be entertained.
I’ve been watching videos of old races when we’re at the appropriate spot in the racing calendar (so old RVV broadcasts on the scheduled weekend on 2020).
Watched the last 35 km of the 2012 Flèche Wallonne last evening, and was struck by two things:
1. It seemed like there was real racing going on from farther out than we typically get? Or perhaps I’ve gotten in
Argh, the server cut me off while composing the last post and kept cutting out every time I tried to edit. Anyways, observation #2:
How the heck did Purito NOT win more of these! He was regal in taking the win in 2012.
If the cars have to stay 6 feet apart for social distancing it just won’t be real NASCAR, since their normal distance is more like 6 inches!NASCAR'S coming back. Yeeeeehaaaah! Not really big in this house but sure someone's happy.
Formula 1 when I have the time. Watched the 1999 European GP yesterday from their youtube channel ( Oh Frentzen... ). There are some great full races in their channel, including the title deciders 1997 Europe and 2012 Brazil ( an absolutely epic race, but the result was massively disappointing for me as an Alonso fan, as I think he was the best driver of the year and his performance throughout the year was legendary ).
Yeah, I know that but don't have that much time. And the races I want to watch I generally find them on the net. Perhaps I can get the access if I can't find a race.You can get a month's access for free to F1TV.com which has a full archive of all previous Formula One races. I haven't really followed the sport particularly closely and not at all the later years but after having watched the Drive to Survive series on Netflix (which was awesome) I thought it was a good chance to get a sort of live sport experience as I have no idea who will win each individual Grand Prix (except the Hungarian one where I attended in the flash last August) - though I do know who ends up as the world champion but that was kind of a done deal pretty early in the season.
Didn't Button quit SuperGT at the end of last year? Personally my favourites apart from F1 are MotoGP and Endurance racing ( World Endurance Championship, 24h of Nordschleife, Spa and Daytona and don't forget 12h of Bathurst ). But there are so many, like WRC to DTM ( Kubica will be racing there in 2020 if the season goes ahead ) and when I stumble them on television I generally watch. ( By the way, Audi is quitting DTM, how do you think it will affect the series? My guess is that it will decline more )Super GT is the best motorsport to re-watch. You've got a perfect combination of sprint and endurance, multi-class racing with some incredibly fast silhouette cars that are almost as fast as Le Mans prototypes and feature some ex-F1 talent (Kovalainen, Button, Nakajima), and then there's GT300, which is just completely bat-guano crazy. They have three different ways to compete in GT300. Standard GT3 cars like you see all over the world fit in it, but then there's the "MC" cars (stands for Mother-Chassis) where you buy a bespoke chassis from Dome and then silhouette a racing version of a road car around it, and then there's the JAF GT regulations which are completely insane and lead to things like this:
In GT300 there are two cars where somebody looked at this:
...and decided, because it's still a Hybrid so it's still appropriate, to fit it with an engine from this:
...leading to this:
...jesus wept.
NASCAR'S coming back. Yeeeeehaaaah! Not really big in this house but sure someone's happy.