This week's highlights: >NASCAR - All 3 series will be racing in Phoenix in the final race to determine who will compete for the championship at Homestead. >MOTOGP - racing in Spain for the final race of the season with Marc Márquez 21 points ahead of Andrea Dovizioso >Super GT - Final race of the season in Motegi Japan >Endurance racing - Inaugural Hankook 24H Circuit of the America's race will be ran in Austin, Texas this weekend
Weekend schedule: (note - all times are in EST except where specified)
FRIDAY, NOV. 10 >1100: Camping World Truck Series final practice, FS2 >1300: Cup Series practice, NBCSN >1430: XFINITY Series practice, NBCSN >1600: 24 hours of COTA Qualifying >1630: XFINITY Series final practice, NBC Sports App >1730: Camping World Truck Series Keystone Light Pole Qualifying, FS1 >1845: Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, NBCSN >2030: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 (150 laps, 150 miles), FS1 SATURDAY, NOV. 11 >0000: Super GT qualifying 1 - 2 >0800: 24 hours of COTA race start >0810: MOTOGP qualifying >1130: Cup Series practice NBCSN >1235: XFINITY Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, NBCSN >1400: Cup Series final practice, NBCSN >1530: XFINITY Series Ticket Galaxy 200, NBC (200 laps, 200 miles) >2200: 24 hours of COTA race part 1 ends >2330: Super GT final race SUNDAY, NOV. 12 >0700: 24 hours of COTA race part 2 start >0800: MOTOGP - final race at Valencia GP >1430: Cup Series Can-Am 500, NBC (312 laps, 312 miles) >1700: 24 hours of COTA race completion
>yfw he crashes but Slowvi still just waddles around in 3th
Robert Anderson
The hell's going on in here?
Ian Green
So who has what it takes to earn that last spot at Homestead?
>Jimmie has ran like shit throughout the chase >Chase is always getting cucked out of a victory >Brad hasn't seemed to have consistent speed >Blaney makes a lot of stupid mistakes >Denny is his own worst enemy
I think the race will be won by either Troox, Kyle Bush, or Hurvick, and Brad will sneak in because his team will make the fewest mistakes during the race of all the remaining chase dudes.
Christopher Anderson
namefag probably got a ban
Owen Williams
It would be interesting if the 4 contenderget involved in an accident, is the only way i think that race will be interesting
Angel Morgan
Contenders*
Juan Ross
>Won the Indy 500 >Met with two world leaders >Is just a likable person in general
>Kryle wins Phoenix >all the contenders involved in a crash except Chase >Kryle, Troox, Hurvick all crashed out of Homestead in the big one >Chase doesn't win Homestead but finishes the race 5 laps down and wins the championship without winning a single race all season
This is what I want to happen.
Christopher Wood
Gimmie backing into the 8th championship after running like ass for almost the entirety of the season seems like the most amusing possibility so I'll cheer for that I guess.
That one is good too. >proceeds to keep choking away every shot at his first win for the next 15 years before retiring
The only important thing is that if the #11 is in any position to advance someone absolutely fucking destroys him.
Thomas Nelson
>Truex gets pole and leads every lap >Caution for 95 car blowing a tire as he comes to the white >Harvick bumps Troox out of the way on the restart
Matthew Clark
>if the #11 is in any position to advance someone absolutely fucking destroys him. You KNOW Denny is wrecking motherfuckers this weekend. He already showed his hand with Chase, and this is a do or die race.
Logan Rivera
Going to my first truck race tomorrow.
Gabriel Butler
our guy
Parker Davis
It made them LMP1 tier sanic though which is awesome
Jonathan Mitchell
>Chase finishes what newman started That would surely create another playoff format Gimmie winning would be glorious, just imagine the butthurt This one would create a lot of butthurt too If he advances he won't give a fuck about the other toyotas, he's running out of time and Bell is coming in a couple of years, out of all the contenders Denny is perhaps the one with the most pressure nice, take some photos
Jaxon Young
keep us updated mate
Jordan Rogers
ANGERY BOAT
Anthony Mitchell
MORE COOLINGS
Anthony Johnson
MORE DOWNFORCE SO ITS HARD TO OVERTAKE WHEN YOURE FOLLOWING SOMEONE
Leo Fisher
I tend to not think about taking pictures but I'll see what I can get. Won't upload until I get back home
Jackson Lewis
>Denny is perhaps the one with the most pressure Definitely the one most willing and desperate to wall somebody of the remaining dudes.
Isaac Bennett
Hard to overtake this car or hard to overtake while driving this car?
Adrian Gray
>"Actually I don't think we have a differing view to Ferrari," Carey said. "I'm not trying to be derogatory to NASCAR, but we don't plan to be NASCAR either.
>"We don't want to standardise the cars. We don't want 20 identical cars going round the track, and the only difference is the driver.
Let me translate that for you >we want to be NASCAR, but not what I'm going to pretend NASCAR is to say we're not NASCAR
Actually I feel like this lie is what every series does when they make things spec shit. Like you have people absolutely convinced IndyCar is less spec than NASCAR when every Honda powered car is identical except for dampers, the steering wheel, and parts fitment, while a BK Racing Toyota is an absolute piece of shit with a different chassis, less aerodynamic body, and only a few common engine parts compared to a Gibbs one. But nah bro NASCAR is totally IROC because common templates, CoTs, and similar engine architecture lol. Now come buy into all the variety and competition of this BoP shit where you get DQ'd for having one part different than the team beside you goy.
Zachary Anderson
Never ceases to amaze me how many people that are in, and follow, motorsport seem to absolutely disdain competition. Why watch a "race" when the drivers don't matter?
Might as well just get rid of drivers altogether.
Kevin Russell
Car racing is kind of a shitty sport for pure driver competition because it's ultimately something a machine could do better than a human being. Frankly if I'm going to watch spec racing there is pretty much no reason to watch car racing over the outright higher skill sport of motorcycle racing unless I want to see fat rednecks bashing their cars into each other.
Like the only thing that will ever make F1 more interesting than MotoGP is how high tech and fast the cars are. You pretty much watch F1 to see which team can make their car+driver combo the best every weekend, something that's been made much less interesting by having a million flyaway races, much less track variety, tokens (thank fuck those are gone), parc ferme, multiple race engines and gearboxes, etc. so that the cars and their relative competitiveness change much less race to race.
Ryder Young
>Car racing is kind of a shitty sport for pure driver competition because it's ultimately something a machine could do better than a human being. Oval racing is far more dependent on driver skill than road racing, as the high sustained speeds of oval racing allow drivers to manipulate the draft to slow down their competition and achieve passing. Road racing is far more dependent on equipment, and the car capable of accelerating and braking better than the competition is usually going to win.
Check out some of the old school NASCAR IROC races where there's NASCAR oval drivers, some road racers, and drivers from a variety of series all competing using the same equipment. It's some of the best racing around, and you can see how the oval racers use the draft to make passes and slow down their peers.
>You pretty much watch F1 to see which team can make their car+driver combo the best every weekend No you don't, because that's pretty much decided at the beginning of the season. See: Mercedes F1 is a shitshow with only 1 or 2 teams capable of winning a race at any given time due to the technological and budgetary advantage achieved through stupid amounts of cash.
Regardless, MOTOGP racing is pretty bad ass.
Tyler Davis
>because that's pretty much decided at the beginning of the season Maybe you should read until the end of the sentence there Bubba. Brawn won its championship with what was like the 4th best car at the end of the season. Even this year the Ferrari was the faster car half the time or more and in 2014 and 2015 there was a few tracks where the Mercedes was really shitty and Ferrari or Red Bull were better and a couple races Williams should have won if they had even the vaguest fucking idea of race strategy.
Shit this year 3 teams have won races on pace and it isn't even a particularly competitive year. It's entirely possible next year could have 4 or 5 teams competing for wins if Renault's engine is worth a shit. (or one could win 20 races, who knows, that's the point)
Joshua White
>Brawn won its championship 8 years ago, and they haven't competed since.
Regardless, I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a F1 autist about competition, because they don't know what it is...
Logan Lewis
>me on the right
Easton Watson
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Jaxson Brown
>Motor/sp/ort
Cooper Bennett
Is that Kyle's ho?
Caleb Kelly
wah spooky
Jaxson Young
Lelgano won first stage and Chess won second stage at the Spring race. So Hendrick and Penske will be fast. Kryle was leading till the late race and Newman's meme strategy kept Larson from the win. Blaney is probably shit out of luck cause he's never put good results up in Phoenix. Jimmie's just too slow lately. Denny will probably have no one but JGR/FRR team mates helping him and that means they have to ride up front all day. It's going to be Chess or Bread but Chess will need an outright win because Bread will likely take a stage or two.
Jordan Bailey
BOTH
Chase Cruz
I'd like to inform you that machines are already better at riding bikes than humans.
Wyatt Hall
>Oval racing is far more dependent on driver skill than road racing
Jack Brown
Help! I'm being forced to orgasm against my will
William Williams
>Visser's heart attack and surgery will prevent him from being at Homestead Guess that'll be the storyline NBC will be pushing for the 78
Thomas Campbell
>oval racers are better at driving oval races than other drives
Julian Smith
at least they won't push the "muh cancer gf" and "muh small team" storyline so hard >captcha
Sebastian Gray
>Blaney is probably shit out of luck cause he's never put good results up in Phoenix When will you stop spouting lies? In 8 NASCAR starts at Phoenix Blaney only finished outside the top 10 once, which was this spring where he started second and spent most of the day in the top 10 before getting a speeding penalty late.
Isaiah Ortiz
>It's going to be Chess I think if Chase is in the lead on the final laps they'll just send him into the wall again. He's too big of a pussy off the track, and that never earns respect on the track.
Wyatt Harris
/missBP/ /missBestwick/
Ayden Howard
sticc
Josiah Stewart
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Ryder Howard
>Counting Xfinity and Truck starts Calm down Jon Wood
Carter Rogers
Would you look at that? Top 5 in practice
Parker Lopez
Source; unless between now and two weeks ago when Rossi btfo motobot again something changed.
Carter Allen
ALONSLOW TO WEC ALONSLOW TO WEC.
WILL RACE LE MANS WILL RACE SUPER SEASON.
JAPAN WILL FAIL HIM AGAIN LMAO.
I bet anything Slowpez is out after he wrecked his LMP1 car into the Porsche in Shanghai
>Alonso to race at LeMans Nice! >...for Toyota The fuck is he thinking?
Angel Brown
Shocking that Christopher Bel is on pole tonight
Dominic Turner
Phoenix quals on nbcsn right now. Important for the must winners.
Lincoln Robinson
>the sun >muh eyez!
Charles Gray
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Michael Thompson
I mean theoretically you could make some sort of motorcycle piloting robot that's not even humanoid that can do things a human being could physically never even execute as long as all of its bones are intact, so let's say you could put a dude in the driver's seat of a car and have a computer drive it better than the man while if you have a human being on a bike they will always significantly impact its performance.
>they haven't competed since. top lol
>they don't know what it is Is it Penskewinslol and Gibbswinslol? Fun fact, the same number of races have been won in F1 by a non-Mercedes team this year as a non-Penske team in IndyCar with only one more race run so far.
Matthew Peterson
post concessions user
Ayden Roberts
You must be lost. Let me help you, user. >>>
Robert Baker
Already on the track. It was just your basic restaurants and the team tailors. If I remember I'll take pics on the way out
Owen Thompson
oh my dear allah, he can't escape failure
Isaiah Murphy
(You)
Wyatt Wright
Blaney!
David Bell
Blaney to the pole
Levi Howard
Look he's on pole
Ayden James
Until you take any posts including NASCAR "racing" exclusively to their own thread you can fuck off.
Parker Jackson
Phoenix quals.
Brad sucking. Blaney looking good. Larsonsahn trying to exact revenge.
Benjamin Baker
You seem upset about something, user.
Justin Nguyen
He's probably thinking since the best driver Bernhard aren't driving the best Porsche ever made aren't going to be there and the competition is all privateer all he has to do for the Le Man win is a comfy night drive where Kobayashi and buemi carry him to an easy win.
I honestly think Hartly Bernhard Kobayashi and Buemi are all better than Alonso.
Cooper Flores
Lel I like Indy better but you are actually right.
Indy at least has more competition than F1. i've enjoyed F1 more in the past but not currently
Gabriel Sanders
You're probably right. Big gamble, though, considering the Toyota curse. It's like the race Gods hate them.
Chase Peterson
He should've gone to Jackie Chan. cap this post
Caleb Hughes
Jesus lads, what a shit show.
Have some interesting tidbits. >“We have introduced a lot of neat little features that we can’t fully discuss just yet,” says Dong, “but what I can say is that one of them minimizes the motivation for the teams to fiddle with the brakes to get the drag out of them on ovals. It’s a pad retraction system, and we first ran it at Chevrolet’s Phoenix test last month. >For the first time in who-knows-how-long, the drivers [Will Power, Ed Carpenter and Spencer Pigot] were having to brush the brakes at Phoenix because of the lack of downforce, and with this retraction system, the first little bit of travel in the brake pedal is to compensate for that. Then it behaves like a roadcourse brake system.
Also, JR Hildebrand talked about a time when ECR changed the settings in their Simulator so the 2015 Chevy Car has 900HP~ and ran virtual laps at Indy. He said they managed a 243mph average lap. He did clarify that simulators begin to do unusual things when outside of their designed parameters so that’s worth noting as one of many confounding factors. racer.com/indycar/item/145603-the-week-in-indycar-nov-9-with-jr-hildebrand
My only real problem with F1 this year besides passing being literally impossible a couple places is the championship being contested between Bieber's bottom bitch and the pissiest German since Hitler. That and "I made it to Q3 with 200hp less than the rest of the field in the snow uphill both ways while comforting a homeless baby girl and doing my taxes" every weekend from Alonso.
Then of course everyone had to jump on sucking Alonso's dick at Indy even though in the last few years we've seen Munoz, Busch, Allmendinger, Rossi, Jones, and others be comparably competitive their first time.
