Motorsports (NASCAR, F1, etc) Discussion Thread • Page 88

And you'd think now with the cost-cap rules that they'd find themselves closer to the front, but alas

 

I'm hoping that the fact that so many drivers are up for new contracts at the end of the season it'll add to some of the on-track drama as people vie for attention/points.

I find the Christian Horner drama exhausting. All these schemers think they're in Game of Thrones when they are all actually Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading.

 

Lap 4 and Red Bull 1-2 — sigh…..

 

Really thought the NASCAR race at Bristol was going to be a snoozefest as this car doesn't perform well on short tracks. But the race was really entertaining. A lot had to do with the massive amount of tire wear. It produced 54 lead changes.

 

It was so chaotic. It’s wild that the tire was the same compound as a previous Bristol race but somehow it wore like crazy this time around

 

I'm all for more of it. This season has been really good so far.

 

FP2 highlights

 

Good chance Vettel will be doing LeMans this year in a Porsche 963 - news just keeps getting better

Vettel to Test Penske Porsche 963 at Aragon – Sportscar365

 

It took max going out 3 laps into the race for them to not win a race and not even finish on the podium.

regardless f1 is still trash in its current state

 

Was nice to finally see a bit of variety, but yeah....

 

Did anyone watch the IndyCar "all-star race" at Thermal? What a disappointment. The on-track product and strategy was awful. Almost as bad as NBC reminding all of the viewers that we are poor and would never be allowed to step foot there.

 

Yeah I watched; pretty poor product overall. There was more talk about Herta's crazy "purposely drive slow in first half of race" strategy, than the racing product itself. Can't remember much of any passing going on. From a driver's perspective it looked like a fun track, but from a fan's perspective absolutely not a great experience. Almost no elevation change, just like Utah. Hopefully this is just a one-year deal. Even the Nascar race at COTA was more interesting than Indy's race.

 

The rare time where F1 was the best and most interesting race of the weekend

 

The one I didn't watch because ESPN's Instagram account spoiled it for me just after I woke up. So then I just went on to do other things in the morning.

 

Interesting combo for the headliners

 

Oh, look who's leading...

 

I feel sick with nerves for Lando right now

 

Finally a different winner

 

Max only won two in a row.

 

So happy for Lando.

 

Even if Lando hadn’t gotten extremely lucky with the timing of the caution, he probably would have caught Max’s car anyways