World Endurance Championship at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; Indycar at Watkins Glen; Nascar Xfinity and Sprint Cup at Darlington, Camping World Trucks at Mosport; WTCC at Motegi; VLN; 24h Series at Catalunya; GP2 and GP3 at Monza
>Dale sitting out rest of 2016, schedule released for 88 drivers >Toyota shrekt itself in P1 at Mexico >Benoit Treluyer will sit out Mexico after feeling uncomfortable in cockpit due to biking back injury in July
Saturday, September 3 >24h Series Race 0600 ET/1000 UTC >NXS final practice 0900 ET/1300 UTC >CWTS first practice 0930 ET/1330 UTC >GP2 Race 1 0940 ET/1340 UTC >NSCS practice, CNBC 1100 ET/1500 UTC >GP3 Race 1 1115 ET/1515 UTC >CWTS final practice 1135 ET/1535 UTC >NSCS final practice, NBCSN 1330 ET/1730 UTC >WEC Race 6 Hours of Mexico 1430 ET/1830 UTC >ICS Quali 1500 ET/1900 UTC >NXS VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 (147 laps, 200.8 miles), NBC 1530 ET/1930 UTC >CWTS Keystone Light Pole Qualifying, FS2 1745 ET/2145 UTC
Sunday, September 4 >WTCC Race 1 0135 ET/0535 UTC >WTCC Race 2 0250 ET/0650 UTC >GP3 Race 2 0315 ET/0715 UTC >GP2 Race 2 0425 ET/0825 UTC >CWTS Chevrolet Silverado 250 (64 laps, 157.37 miles), FS1 1430 ET/1830 UTC >ICS Race Grand Prix at the Glen 1437 ET/1837 UTC >NSCS Bojangles' Southern 500 (367 laps, 501.3 miles), NBC 1800 ET/2200 UTC
>Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon was the only driver to dip below the 1m23s mark at Watkins Glen on Friday at the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series champion covered the field with a staggering lap of 1m22.8740s. Measured against Ryan Briscoe's qualifying lap record of 1m29.1322 set in 2009, the Kiwi's best was a full 5.2582s below Briscoe's mark. we're gonna have a fast one
Sebastian White
>WEC isn't at the ass crack of dawn Niceee.
Daniel Allen
I got tickets to go to Darlington for 35$. Woohoo
Carson Reed
who /missdale/ here
Adam Howard
>tfw he will retire from cup next season to have the chance to race in his own team in xfinity before the health issues sideline him permanently
Mason Miller
Nice.
Jose Murphy
moonman is in nascar top kek
Parker Jones
>f1 and motogp on at the same time
who allowed this?
Chase Russell
And rallycross too! Damn'it
Carter Ortiz
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Jaxson Murphy
>no live ARCA coverage Oh well
Robert Anderson
So I'm going to the Nascar K&N race on Monday. Any decent drivers that I should look out for?
Joshua Hill
...
Adam Morales
K&N is basically a win-buying division, probably going to be Haley, Gragson, or Benjamin
... So how long will it be before Kinoshita commits seppuku?
Chase Martinez
Didn't notice that L'Equipe was airing this.Too bad they cut from 10 to midnight.
Asher Collins
Getting commentary now.
They must've been on a lunch break or something.
Camden Mitchell
is there a WEC thread I can't find one
Hudson Adams
This is the WEC thread.
Nobody really cares about WEC races outside this thread unless it's LM24.
Michael White
Is there even any point in watching the rest of the Xfinity season?
The races I've seen are fine, but it's such a clusterfuck it is hard to stay interested, especially with so much other racing on
Jeremiah Murphy
The more this has gone on the more I'm convinced Jr was actually suspended for something.
If it really is a concussion, then he'll retire. But I don't buy that at all, NASCAR just didn't want to embarrass their most popular driver.
Maybe drinking night before and still had some in his system for early morning practice?
All I know is as quiet as he's been, and as mysterious as this whole thing is....yea not buying the concussion story.
Lucas Morgan
The tires are too hard in Xfinity because the team owners arent gonna want to have to go through a million sets.
That coupled with the car having a massive tapered spacer makes them too easy to drive.
Sadly they are the best looking oval stock cars
Sebastian Gomez
Xfinity thread?
Joshua Peterson
Jr used to do his best work in the early 2000's hung over and sleeping 2-3 hours before races.
If the NFL didn't get in so much heat from CTE likely nobody else would give a shit. Look at hockey, unless you were completely brain dead (Eric Lindros/Mark Savard ) you shook off concussions and kept playing.
Eric Boogard killed himself likely from CTE and nobody batted an eye.
If this was 10-20 year ago Jr is racing through the concussion.
Everything isn't a fucking conspiracy. Sup Forums needs to stop with the autistic Sup Forums trumpfag mentality that it is.
Eli Rivera
desu im pretty sure they diagnosed jr with the autism and he's just too nervous to drive anymore
Hudson Russell
>no Xfinity thread
Jayden Lewis
> Max Chilton just made the fast 6
Jack Peterson
Xfinity
Jeremiah Wilson
>tfw I need to buy a suit and will miss both f1 and motogp
Caleb Edwards
>implying there's anything to "miss" in F1 user pls.
Juan Baker
>what is DVR
Netherlands pls
Ethan Wood
Has anyone talked about how wacky it is that Naturally Aspirated cars btfo turbo cars in GTE?
Considering the elevation of Autodromo Hermanos, makes absolutely no sense. I'm guessing BOP fuckery was involved?
Joseph Hill
>I'm guessing BOP fuckery was involved?
When is it not?
Bentley Rogers
That's BoP for you. Can't have AMR crying anymore, no sir.
Juan Wood
Atmospheric equalization precedes modern BoP fuckery. If you're limiting boost against normally aspirated cars it only makes sense to compensate for altitude.
Levi Butler
>AMR whining in GTE War. War never changes.
Ryder Clark
>Atmospheric equalization I've been following sports cars for 5 years now and didn't know that was a thing. Huh.
Kevin Hernandez
>FERD
Jose James
FOOOOOORRRDD
Ryder Diaz
Haven't paid attention to the new regulations, how did petrol engines manage to beat diesel engines?
Did they just gimped diesel cars/give petrol cars insane advantages to make petrol cars more competitive?
Mason Williams
Kind of, the rules try to equalize every aspect of performance between petrol and diesel, but diesel will always be more powerful and heavier, so Audi has more ICE power but less hybrid boost. In traffic it's the instant hybrid power that matters.
Kayden Gray
Diesels never had an inherent advantage, they were given favourable rules to encourage manufacturer involvement. As soon as Peugeot was kill and Toyota came back with a petrol hybrid the rules were made to only favour hybrid cars of any kind and not diesels.
There was also that GT1 engine restrictor break that made the factory Aston Martins more competitive than other petrol cars for a little while.
Michael Phillips
Diesel engines provide more torque are significantly more fuel efficient.
Samuel Bell
Big Go is this weekend.
Wyatt Garcia
>more fuel efficient Not really, but there is more energy in a liter of diesel than a liter of petrol. It's my understanding that that is why Audi ended up going to a diesel; they were allowed to have the same size fuel tank as petrol powered cars, but it would take them significantly further.
Carson Morales
Drag racing is fucking boring.
Logan Roberts
Agreed. An insane spectacle worth seeing in person I imagine, but how you make that a compelling SPORT to watch on TV? No idea
Jackson Bailey
That makes sense. But now Audi take longer to fill a smaller tank that doesn't go as far as the petrol cars, and because of muh hybrid they lose out there as well.
It's a shame we're not going to see Audi go back to petrol.
Nathaniel Diaz
>fuel efficiency [noun] UK US NATURAL RESOURCES >a measure of how much energy is produced by an engine in relation to the amount of fuel that it uses: >Diesel engines generally have better fuel efficiency than gas ones. >dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fuel-efficiency
Parker Garcia
>BMW wants to bring a hydrogen fuel cell car into LMP1 Fuck I want to believe this will happen, and BMW won't completely fuck it up Nii-sann style.
But I know better.
Xavier Nguyen
>luck stomp
Jaxson Ross
Diesels can't rev for shit and thus on equal ground will make less top end power, plus they're heavy as shit, which matters more when there's not enough tire grip to use all that low-to-mid range torque anyways.
From the 2009 rules
>4000cc turbocharged gasoline engine with more than 2 valves per cylinder: 47.5mm air restrictor, 1500mbar boost pressure >4000cc turbocharged diesel engine: 53.0mm air restrictor, 3620mbar boost pressure
Angel Moore
>linking to a dictionary I'm not sure why you think we're arguing. All I'm saying is the difference is the Diesel FUEL is more energy dense. There are too many factors in engine design to say as a whole diesel engines are more efficient. A badly designed diesel won't inherently be more efficient than a modern direct injection gas car, for example.
Colton Morgan
>French commenters debating about what the Kill button might do switching to RLM right now
Julian Nelson
I say Diesels are more fuel efficient, you say "not really" and then go on to describe what could be seen as "fuel efficiency" per the aforementioned definition. I provided this definition from a reputable source in order to highlight the latter as I didn't feel like digging up a motorsport.com or racecar-engineering.com article on diesel engines.
The last part of your post is irrelevant.
Andrew Miller
There is more than one person in Canada.
Flags were a mistake.
Dominic Kelly
How exactly is the last part of my post irrelevant?
:^)
Elijah Ross
Rain, apparently
Aaron Lewis
RAIN IN FIVE
Joseph Anderson
Rain in 5, lads
Alexander Ortiz
>the rain actually came in 5 minutes
Ayden Cox
Damn these P1 cars are fast off of turns.
Charles Ward
>#1 under investigation
Brandon Bailey
>all these collisions and investigations Wew lads
Camden Wood
>And rain again in 5 jesus lads. Its happening
Bentley Cook
>SMP
Robert Reyes
>almost FERRRAARRRRIIIIIII
Wew, didn't know Ferraris were targetting barriers as well now
Joshua Davis
RAIN WILL GET HARDER IN 5 MINUTES
Samuel Reed
I'm already hard.
Jack Jackson
How is this so much less exciting at the front without a competitive Toyota, lads? I really don'n't get it. I would've loved this race two years ago.
Anthony Davis
Gonna need a webm of that one, lads. lel
RAIN NOW, STALKER
Nolan Perez
Watching VW go up against VW isn't as exciting as watching Audi or Porsche vs Toyota
Anthony Smith
Because the Audi is ugly as shit
Henry Perry
>How is this so much less exciting at the front without a competitive Toyota
Because it's a Audi with a V6 vs Audi with a V4.
This is why people say LMP is a dying spec.
Leo Davis
>audi
Carson Davis
>AUDI
Jayden Kelly
>Muh V8 wahh Typical burger.
I actually rather like the sounds of the Audi and Porsche, in their own ways. The Porsche has always sounded nice to me; its a high rpm ripper.
The Audi doesn't sound as good now; i miss the frantic squealing of their flywheel hybrid system. But in person all you can hear is the turbo; its very quiet, which is cool in its own weird way. The onboards pickup all the diesel nastiness, which i still like.
All that said, I actually agree with you. The TS040 is my favorite modern prototype.
Parker Roberts
>audi Slicktermediates btfo
Chase Green
>Slick tyres on wet track
Bravo Audi, brabo
William Hernandez
>>Muh V8 wahh
What? I said nothing about V8s.
Ryan Ortiz
Ah, missed the fact you said >audi vs audi Sorry, lad. Had a bit of /alotion potion/ today m8