This weekend's highlights: -NASCAR series is at Atlanta -World Superbikes kick off their season at Phillip Island
Schedules: NASCAR series (All times are U.S. EST. EST is GMT-5) >Friday, Feb. 23 11:35 a.m.-12:55 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series first practice, FS1 1:05 p.m.-1:55 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series first practice, FS1 2:05 p.m.-2:55 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series first practice, FS1 3:05 p.m.-3:55 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series final practice, FS1 4:05 p.m.-4:55 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series final practice, FS1 5:15 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, FS1 >Saturday, Feb. 24 9:10 a.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying, FS1 10:35 a.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying, FS1 12 p.m.-1:20 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice, FS1 2 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity Series Rinnai 250 (163 laps, 251.02 miles), FS1 4:30 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Active Pest Control 200 benefiting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (130 laps, 200.2 miles), FS1 >Sunday, Feb. 25 1 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (325 laps, 500.5 miles), FOX
Upcoming events: -3 Mar: Supercars starts the season at Adelaide -11 Mar: Indy starts the season at St. Petersberg -17 Mar: IMSA 12 hours of Sebring -18 Mar: MotoGP starts their season at Qatar
FYI, cup start time on sunday has been moved forward to 1pm
Anthony Cook
/indy/
Chase Rivera
>last thread archived at 100 replies ;-;
Christian Flores
quit letting these die on Friday nights you lazy fucks
Justin Ross
I feel bad when I post too much. I had like 25 of the posts in the last thread
Mason Gray
>KWL again
James Cox
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Carter Garcia
>That Silverstone attendance >Bongs constantly asshurt that more series don't go there
Brody Parker
>Tony Kanaan will make a return visit to the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, despite having switched IndyCar teams, with the Brazilian confirmed in the team’s four-car lineup for the race.
>Kanaan has been named to the No. 67 Ford GT alongside full-season FIA World Endurance Championship drivers Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell, replacing Pipo Derani in the lineup.
B A S E D A S E D
Liam Gonzalez
Spa is the only one I'll watch too....
William Ross
Good deal. Hopefully he'll give some Lambo's and Ferrari's the boot along the way.
Matthew King
...
Aaron Lewis
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tyler Gutierrez
Let's merge our thread(s) with the F1 thread. Including Nascar, Indy, Imsa and everything else and just post there in the future.
Hudson Ortiz
Kill yourself
Ryan Fisher
based newman fastest in final practice
Lucas Bailey
Yeah, I can't wait to have all my motorsports discussion littered with waifu/gimi/autism posting.
Grayson Myers
Anyone got a working stream?
Daniel Sanders
>merge our thread(s) with the F1 thread. Fuck off. F1 is pure cancer.
Ian King
>90% of thread is F1 Yeah nah
Oliver Torres
Xfin race thread
Cameron Clark
Fuyck no keep faggotcar in it's containment thread. The indy 500 last year was fucking terrible, those autistic fucks totally ruined it.
Anthony Smith
Who wins in St. Petersburg?
How do the new teams fare?
Isaac Hughes
Meme winner will be Ed jones
Gabriel Rogers
Truck race about to start.
Still using this thread for it:
Hudson Wood
fuck you, there's nothing to post about until IndyCar starts
NASCAR is fucking gay
Anthony Sullivan
NO having to deal with ASSCAR is bad enough
Leo Reyes
ROSSI O S S I
Dylan Cruz
fuck that noise F1 is a containment thread and serves its purpose motor/sp/ort is for real racing
Isaac Kelly
...
Juan Lopez
>stages >"""""""""""real"""""""""" racing
Nathan Davis
Perhaps soccer would be a better choice for you...
Liam Thomas
When and why did NASCAR peak out?
Was it one thing or a shitstorm of multiple issues the fans had?
And do you think it will ever approach it's former glory? It seems to have bottomed out.
Eli Russell
nah how about the many other racing series that don't artificially stop the race in the middle of the race to bunch the cars back up? stages ruined NASCAR it will never be the same
Julian Davis
>doesn't enjoy seeing racers race for stage points Yea, soccer would be better for you.
Blake Hill
AHHHHHHHAHAHA just saw the end of the truck race where Kyle's wheel fell off. My fucking sides.
Robert Reed
who here /mudbikes/?
Cooper Turner
It has been a long time coming. Plate Racing Green White Checkered Stages Heavy dependence on aero dynamics.
NASCAR has found a method of manufacturing the things that people remembered most about racing and made them commonplace. Rubbn' Crashn' Close Racn' Passn' fur da lead Close Finishn'
But they forgot that the things that made them special were the infrequency of them. When it did happen, it was a big deal. When a crash happened, you had to worry for a driver's life. When a pass for the lead occurred, it was consequential since it wasn't like the leader was going to simply be taken out after a late caution. When two cars touched, you had to wonder if the drivers would be pissed at each other since a crash could have meant their death. Close finishes happen all the time at plate races because the cars are close all the time and can't escape, everyone packs up and crashes together. Not much to say except that close finishes really don't matter if you raced that way. Anyone with any amount of forethought could have expected that if the whole field was covered by 2 seconds, they'd probably all finish within that margin.
Henry Jones
semen slurping soccer loving spic
Angel Ross
DixonWinsLOL
Jordan Gutierrez
>t. Brian France
Kevin Lopez
monza is always great m8
Elijah Hernandez
Gonna be a Monday afternoon Atlanta race imo.
Ian Sanders
*blocks your path
Ethan Ross
It was definitely before this
Joshua Martinez
I just got back from the track, was working in the XFINITY garage for the first time ever the past two days. Anyone have anything they'd like to know?
Nicholas Murphy
What did you do?
Ryan Murphy
I was working with the #52 team as a volunteer. I helped some with social media (And also tried to pitch a story idea to traditional media), but ultimately I was an extra set of hands helping the crew - Carry this, push that, etc.
Adam Reyes
It'd probably be nice if I included photographic evidence of this. I got to help push the car out to the grid which is something I've ALWAYS wanted to do.
Tyler Perez
Degenerate weeb faggot
Logan Garcia
Cool, what did you do during the race?
Jaxon Wright
Be glad I didn't put any Anime shit on my phone or else I would have used it at some point.
Lincoln Richardson
Mostly Twitter updates on where we were running and who we were running with. Mobile was a pain and not everything went through, and by the time the race finished my phone was pretty much dead. I got to sit on the pitbox at intervals though.
I will say that in terms of "What is it like working on a race team", I was surprised by the amount of time spent sitting and waiting for the next thing to happen. During Truck qualifying and Cup practice we were all pretty much just chilling in the garage area so I spent that time doing some networking and meeting up with people I know who have FT jobs with teams.
Cooper Foster
>I got to help push the car out to the grid which is something I've ALWAYS wanted to do
how the hell did a faggot like you get a hard card
on a side note I really hope you aren't my half brother
Daniel Davis
I had an XFINITY SEL which is a paper credential. I'm not entirely sure NASCAR regulations allow for non-hard card guys to push equipment but the crew let me do it anyway. I think Wayne Auton spotted me at one point and gestured me to back off but it wasn't an issue otherwise.
Oliver Ross
thanks bob what time
Jordan Powell
I actually ran into Bob today for a quick handshake and J.J. Yeley who started the whole Bob Pockrass-lookalike thing. I honestly think it's hilarious.
>they call him Toprak because they can't pronounce Razgatlıoğlu kek. Confusing as fuck to find Raz on the scoring though.
Ethan Clark
This really is the most athletic form of motor/sp/ort No way anything else requires this much fill body skill
Grayson Cooper
The argentinian comentatots call him toprak as well
Charles Gonzalez
>63 seconds why this number?
Gabriel Lee
Nice.
Sebastian Richardson
It's not as impressive for movement and flexibility but motocross is really fucking demanding on physical endurance. You can make road races a fair bit longer if you have tire changes and refueling and they could still ride flat out but if you made motocross/supercross significantly longer they would either have to slow down or fucking die.
It's slightly longer than an optimal pit stop because these bikes aren't built for endurance racing so they don't want single sided swingarms to be an advantage and shit.
Gabriel Phillips
Motocross, dude.
Road racing is easy as fuck compared to motocross.
t. ex-road racer
Jacob Lopez
LEADERS CURSE STRIKES AGAIN
Caleb Torres
Lap 13 is live right? Or is the stream delayed.
Robert Walker
motorcross is crazy as fuck, just seemed the endurance aspect of these road bikes and being so on the edge on asphalt made it comparable
Nathaniel Gray
>Camier comes out of his pit stall ahead of everyone >slams on the brakes and ends up a second behind the pack Leon pls, I get you were worried about pit lane time but I'm pretty sure you didn't come in way the fuck back there so why did you do this
Joshua Carter
Half of lap 14 here on tv
Liam Lewis
Why did I have that as a reply? I'm so confused.
Henry Gray
Well part of the thing is that road racing bikes still can't put up with having the bag ridden off them all the time because 200hp through one tire is too much, so they're usually not right on the edge all race.
Adrian Harris
>superbikes running 1:30's >V8 supercar qualied with a 1:29
4 tires are better than 2...
Easton King
whoa breaking news everyone
Owen Diaz
150 kg bike vs 1500kg car
Gavin Johnson
What would the V8 do if you took off the fucking wing.
Bentley Davis
>Pirelli
Nice job, guys.
Henry Rogers
that said, slip steaming is a thing here. That makes it a nuanced art nonetheless