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This should tell you how much I follow auto racing nowadays.

His voice is literally the most relaxing sound on the planet. I live for his commentary. It’s always so personal and in-depth.

@heywoodu Is the IBSF commentator (forgot his name at the time of posting) commentating this race?

Robert Wickens is racing with a modified rig today! He’s on the team with Jimmy Broadbent, and it’s great to hear that Wickens’ health is good enough to do something like this.

Dutch internet must be terrible I feel like Verstappen is often plagued by connection issues.

Verstappen has lost the lead after crashing three times in one lap. First was just a little off, second time a car glitches into the back of him, third time he lost the backend of the car in the high speech Porsche Curves due to the damage he sustained earlier. The last hit was a hard one, and there will probably be a good amount of repair time applied during the pit stop.

Literally disconnected and crashed into a wall the minute after I posted this

Bykolles is doing better than they ever have at Le Mans

@mrv86 Are you still hanging around here?

Drivers joining in couldn’t see the other cars on track, and as you can imagine, that is a slight issue

Not when you’re a tail, slender endurance athlete like myself. I get blown about like a parachute.

Only downside to where I live is the 20-40mph winds that we get. Skating into a 40mph head wind is the worst! Humidity is absolutely worse then dry heat.

Damn, WEC has a nice studio for this race! Complete with commentary booth, race control, and multi camera broadcast booth! This really is a high value production for a virtual race.

Red flag from race control due to technical issues

According to the commentators, there’s just no reset to pits in this race. Basically you have to get the car back to pit lane yourself, but that’s possible under all circumstances except connection issues. So if you’re unfamiliar with sim racing, then you might have to retire because you don’t know how to reconnect your internet or reset your sim.

I know it’s more realistic for teams to be eliminated after incidents in a virtual 24hr, but it would be nice if they’d just let teams restart after a time penalty or something.

Slovakia has left the chat.

Y’all should come train with me in the 100F dry heat. You don’t need a Camelback when you just become the camel Hydration is honestly of the easiest things to forget and overlook before/during a big run, so just remember to plan ahead @Agger. I hope you run a fast race

It’s very watchable, which means that I’m actually trying to follow along (even though I joined 4 hours in).

The the WEC have put a lot of production value into this race. They seem to have cameras on most of the drivers, and the graphics are really cool. They have also been doing a couple of interviews with LeMans legends. rFactor2 is such a beautiful game. The camera shots feel much more realistic than the other sims.

He’s on a team with Jimmy Broadbent, so we can support the same team today

Yep, Guyana has yet to qualify in a team sport. They have some tradition in Football and Rugby, but they aren’t really good at either. They did qualify a 7s team for the Pan Ams, but they were pretty much destroyed by everyone else in the tournament. Guyana is the third best men’s team in the Americas. They beat Brazil twice during the 2018 Americas Challenge. They have also competed at the Mixed Doubles World Championships, but they haven’t had any significant results yet.

Hitting the bar with Seamus: under 5:45

So that’s how it’s going to be huh? Fine, then.

Coco might be one of my favorite movies honestly. I’m excited for Soul because the trailer looks really good (I’m thinking early contender for animated film at the Oscars). Disney has been really hit or miss over the past decade. PIXAR seems to be where all the talent is at the moment. Wall-E, Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Lion King, and Up are all very much childhood classics to me. I still enjoy them now, even though I watch movies in a much more critical, artistic manner. PIXAR’s golden age was the early 2000s in my opinion. They then had sort of a lull for decade or so, and then they really came on strong recently with this fresh material. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Big Hero 6 or Wreck-it-Ralph, but I did enjoy Zootopia. I would still place Coco, Up, and Finding Nemo as my favorites though.