Auto Racing?
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- mg33
Any of you really into auto racing - F1, Grand Prix type racing? I just came across the Monaco GP practice on NBC Sports - pretty cool and far more interesting than oval track racing.
- fredddddd0
Watching cars drive is the last thing I want to see on TV.
- _me_0
best racetrack in the world; technical, fast and with so much history and glamour.
- Yeah, NASCAR certainly lacks in glamour. http://media1.break.…mg33
- monospaced0
I would love to learn how to "race" a car. Always been a wish of mine. I can watch car shows all day, but I don't watch racing because I find it sorta boring. Monaco on the other hand I agree is quite exciting.
- fredddddd0
- make a thread asking about the difference.oey
- Why, this seems like an appropriate place?fredddddd
- hehehehehe!oey
- the difference are the curves for example. the car design. i don't know that much. i don't consider this sports. i hate pollution. and war in Iraq.oey
- pollution and the war in iraq and all the sponsor shit and noise.oey
- What's the difference between a painter and a web designer?monospaced
- Paint?fredddddd
- HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH... @ Oeypango
- It's a metaphor. You should understandmonospaced
- mg330
Fredddddd,
The iso50 blog occasionally has some cool posts about race cars:
- JerseyRaindog0
The start of the GP2 race was interesting as usual.
Johnny Cecotto is an idiot.
- goldieboy0
F1 fan here. Weekend pass for Silverstone at the end of next month.
I hope that New Jersey street circuit gets the go ahead for 2015. Was meant to be 2014 but it looks like Ecclestone has canned it. I'll be over like a shot when it does happen.
Monaco's not the best for racing - not a huge amount of overtaking - but looks fantastic.- This will be the first year I havent been to Silverstone for 3 years. Really gonna miss it.JerseyRaindog
- So instead I'm going to the German GP the following weekend :)JerseyRaindog
- Last time I was there was 9 years ago. Can't wait. Germany's going be cool!goldieboy
- sine0
when i was 17 a friend of my dad took us to a track to watch his sponsored car compete (stock car, oval racing). i've always been fascinated by racing. he offered to allow me to come and get training and get take his car out on the track. my dad didn't like the idea and refused.
i could've been a racing driver...
- albums0
- Top: Lewis Hamilton 3.3-second Bottom: Mark Webber 2.05 secondsalbums
- Would be funny if the gas fill up took as long as a regular car.mg33
- I don't think there's a gas fill in either of these. it's still the slowest partalbums
- one bolt for each wheel?monospaced
- 1 nut that pulls a locking mechanism into placealbums
- Time difference: Hamilton changed his steering wheel!goldieboy
- What is that swing arm thing that moves slowly in the bottom gif?mg33
- front jack, just like the back, but he's moving out of the wayalbums
- oh, that arm... not surealbums
- There's one at the rear which swings too... Slightly different position though. I think it's attached to the jack swing arm?goldieboy
- Are they other cameras or timers or something official?monospaced
- boobs0
Going to road races, like F1, or the Indy car road races, in real life, is really fun. From television, you just have no idea how loud those cars are. When they go past you, when you're near the track, it just shakes your insides. It's really incredible.
And the acceleration is something you don't get a feel for from TV, either. When an F1 car comes out of a hairpin, it may be going only 20 or 30 MPH. When the driver punches it coming out, it makes enormous noise, produces flames and smoke and explosive noise, and the car just accelerates so fast you nearly hurt your neck trying to follow it.
On TV those cars look like sedate little toys. But in real life, they're like absolute beasts. It's hard to believe someone could stand to be inside a machine like that, because it's so completely over-the-top.
And after the race, when you can walk across the track, there are eraser and pebble sized hunks of rubber piled up like gravel everywhere on the track everywhere. You can scoop up a bunch of it in your hand, and it looks like you're holding a handful of coal pebbles. It's mind-blowing how those cars just destroy those huge tires in no time.
If you don't dig car racing, a trip to a big race at Laguna Seca, or Sears Point, or one of the road races in Detroit or Cleveland will completely change your mind. It's just barely controlled madness on a scale you never really see anywhere else.
- Great description. Sounds awesome. They have a GP track in Austin, TX now.mg33
- ZOOP0
Not a fan of oval track, but just about any other form of motorsports I'll watch, especially road courses; all four wheels sometimes airborne. In person the 1/4 mile is fun, get a pit pass and talk with the racers. My personal high was being invited as part of a pit crew for a 1,200hp pro stock, $250k machine... amazing engineering.
- TheGreatGlorpo0
Do they wear catheters or just hold it?
- Even if they pissed in the seat it's so warm in there it would evaporate before they got out. But they go before the racegoldieboy
- monospaced0
Where's that gymkhana guy? He posts some awesome rally vids here sometimes. Drifting is cool sometimes too.
- mg330
This is kind of cool. I've been up that road before. My mom was so nervous in the passenger seat she had to sit with her head between her legs.
- utopian0
- Ken Block - talented driver but only good for these gymkhana videos.goldieboy
- I'd LOVE to know how they got clearance to shut down so many streets there.mg33
- http://wheels.blogs.… Aha - 4 days of filming.mg33
- well good showdriver but no relevant score in real rally races - drifting costs seconds :)mekk
- mg330
I'm watching the Monaco Grand Prix right now and it's pretty crazy that they can service the cars as much as they want under a red flag.