Auto Racing Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,141]

That's an anticlimactic 24 hour race

 

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Whoopsie.

 

 

[Olympian1010 7,976]

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Yeah, next year's side program around the GP's has taken quite a hit, with not a single GP (!) having both F2 and F3 anymore  

 

MotoGP has it's system up so much better with Moto3 and Moto2 travelling with them every race, and Red Bull Rookies Cup now and then. Hopefully at least the W Series will have grown a bit and be more interesting than the often quite dull 2019 season.

[Monzanator 4,503]

You can put Simona de Silvestro in F1 car like right now and spare everyone the PR stunts   I bet she wouldn't do much worse than Romain Grosjean in that Haas

[Monzanator 4,503]

At age 45 Helio Castroneves has finally won a championship (in WSCC)

[heywoodu 15,141]

4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

At age 45 Helio Castroneves 

This thing with the age mentioned first and then seeing his name scared the living shit out of me  

 

Good news though  

 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Payback for 2008 IRL as Oliver Jarvis caused a collision with Scott Dixon and cost Briscoe/van der Zande the title.

 

Castroneves should send Jarvis a box of chocolades at the very least

 

Castroneves didn't win a title even dating back to his IndyLights days where Tony Kanaan won the 1998 title IIRC.

[Monzanator 4,503]

Sure enough, Simona de Silvestro is back at Indy 500  

 

Spare me the diversity crap, Simona was making waves in IndyCar long before the politically correct morons ever bothered to take a look at her. It's not like Carmen Jorda or Milka Duno should ever be back driving a race car

 

https://eu.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2021/01/19/roger-penske-paretta-autosport-indy-500-simona-de-silvestro-diversity/4209355001/

[Olympian1010 7,976]

Saw some of the esports racers I follow were racing the e-version of the Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend. That served as a good reminder that the “real” race is scheduled to take place next weekend. I came across an early version of the start list. Lots of big names from IndyCar, NASCAR, and the various Endurance racing scenes will be at the start. There will be 5 classes (DPI, LMP2, LMP3, GTLM, GTD) contesting this years race (smallest is GT Le Mans with only 6 entires, largest is GT Daytona with 19), and there should be 49 entries in total. Here’s the start list I found: https://us.motorsport.com/imsa/news/rolex-24-hours-entry-list/4995538/