2012 Racing Season: NASCAR, Indy, F1, and more

I’d really love to see Loeb jump into WTCC with a Chevrolet, if that move actually happens...

The Race of Champions is hitting Bangkok from December 14th to the 16th... here’s the lineup of drivers I'm looking forward to seeing:

Michael Schumacher (7-time F1 Champion)
Sebastian Vettel (F1 3-time Champion)
Ryan Hunter-Reay (IndyCar Champion)
Jamie Whincup (4-time NASCAR Champion)
Mick Doohan (5-time MotoGP Champion)
David Coulthard (F1 & NASCAR)
Jorge Lorenzo (2-time MotoGP Champion)
Tom Kristensen (8-time Le Mans Champion)
Andy Priaulx (4-time WTCC Champion)
Sébastien Ogier (WRC)
Romain Grosjean (F1)

http://www.raceofchampions.com/LiveR...ivetiming.aspx

😕


Why isn't ESPN showing the Race of Champions in their lineup when the official ROC site says they're broadcasting it?🤷

Who knows? Maybe they pulled the plug at the very last second. I mean, without any decent advertising behind it, who’s actually going to tune in? It feels like that's becoming the norm for most of the programming on the sports networks lately...

It’s finally kicking off... honestly, it would be about time if the old man managed to clinch 😍
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http://www.vipbox.tv/motorsports/114...am-online.html

Grosjean absolutely tore through them—leaving both Vettel and Schumacher in the dust. 😢

hiddenridge99 said:Grosjean absolutely tore through them—leaving both Vettel and Schumacher in the dust. 😢

He managed to grab a few wins, I suppose, 😉
but he didn't actually beat Kimi. It was more like Maldonado snatched the title away through a series of penalties... 😬

Sebastian Vettel totally botched that wheel🤣
If you're driving in Brazil, you manage to limp that car across the finish line even after a hit like that, but in Bangkok, you smash the wall and send the Harley-Davidson straight to the scrapyard😬

BTW, this is a massive win for Daisy. At least nobody was breathing down her neck at the start...😁
I guess if there's no competition, everything's fine, right?🤣

Just a little something to lighten the mood as we wrap up the year! I figured this was the perfect way to sign off on this thread before I go ahead and spin up a brand-new one for 2013...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHqQ5De7gjM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1lRw...layer_embedded

neonfox65 said:I’d really love to see Loeb jump into WTCC with a Chevrolet, if that move actually happens...

Well, consider it done. Your wish has been granted... 😁.... :

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104749

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104749

☕

Good luck Loeb in his new ventures☕

neonfox65 said:I’ve officially stopped watching NASCAR—it’s just getting too boring for me. Personally, I think NASCAR is way better... and the same goes for WTCC.

Man, that European V8 Superstars series is actually killer—not sure if you caught the season finale at Indy

Those last two races were insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47LqTnB3ddA

V8 Superstars could really blow up in the next few years—could become the American version of NASCAR, you know? Tons of racing, plenty of drivers (still needs work there), and loads of wrecks

I haven't caught that yet, but I see it's on MotorTrend so I'll have to check it out once it drops. Which car manufacturers are showing up?

Found it!

http://www.superstarsworld.com/Super...--Drivers.aspx

Looks like some former F1 drivers are jumping in too: Liuzzi, Herbert, Klien, salo, and Fisichella.

Since there's zero racing to watch during this winter slump, your favorite Aristocrat is here to give you a little history lesson.

If you click the link, you'll see what the Can-Am series was all about—it wasn't just endurance stuff, but sprint races lasting maybe two or two and a half hours, pretty much like the Grand Prix races back in the day. You’re gonna spot a ton of legends from the GP world here. We're talking Bruce McLaren, John Surtees, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart—guys who basically drove anything with wheels, from Formula 1 cars to sports cars, endurance races, Indianapolis, the Tasman Cup, and this Can-Am series. Once, they actually asked Jochen Rindt— "What do you do, Mr. Rindt, once the Grand Prix season wraps up?" —and Rindt just shot back: "I race!" Times have changed, though. Nowadays, guys like Alonso and Vettel—total bottom-of-the-deck players (moderators, chill—calling them "bottom-of-the-deck" isn't an insult, it's just a way of saying they don't measure up to names like Rindt, Clark, or Hill in ruggedhawk20's eyes, obviously)—are probably busy hitting some spas or chilling at a ski resort. Forty or fifty years ago, their predecessors were out there actually racing. Anyway, enjoy the clips.

St. Jovite (New York City) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUT5mDCwNYI

Stardust (Las Vegas) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsNPg6gGkJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKCcKGBtuXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyreqM0crw

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Chicago) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x29XpIg0E

I wouldn't even be posting this if my private thread hadn't been shut down, so please, dear and enlightened moderators, just reopen it and move this over there.

ruggedhawk20 said:Since there's zero racing to watch during this winter slump, your favorite Aristocrat is here to give you a little history lesson.

If you click the link, you'll see what the Can-Am series was all about—it wasn't just endurance stuff, but sprint races lasting maybe two or two and a half hours, pretty much like the Grand Prix races back in the day. You’re gonna spot a ton of legends from the GP world here. We're talking Bruce McLaren, John Surtees, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart—guys who basically drove anything with wheels, from Formula 1 cars to sports cars, endurance races, Indianapolis, the Tasman Cup, and this Can-Am series. Once, they actually asked Jochen Rindt— "What do you do, Mr. Rindt, once the Grand Prix season wraps up?" —and Rindt just shot back: "I race!" Times have changed, though. Nowadays, guys like Alonso and Vettel—total bottom-of-the-deck players (moderators, chill—calling them "bottom-of-the-deck" isn't an insult, it's just a way of saying they don't measure up to names like Rindt, Clark, or Hill in ruggedhawk20's eyes, obviously)—are probably busy hitting some spas or chilling at a ski resort. Forty or fifty years ago, their predecessors were out there actually racing. Anyway, enjoy the clips.

St. Jovite (New York City) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUT5mDCwNYI

Stardust (Las Vegas) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsNPg6gGkJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKCcKGBtuXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyreqM0crw

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Chicago) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x29XpIg0E

I wouldn't even be posting this if my private thread hadn't been shut down, so please, dear and enlightened moderators, just reopen it and move this over there.

By that logic, Vettel, Schumacher, Grosjean, and Karthikeyan would be the heavy hitters, not the bottom of the deck... 🤷 because those four definitely drove something even after their Formula 1 seasons ended.
😉
The rest of them? Nothing. So they’d be the ones landing in that "bottom of the deck" group. 🤔

ruggedhawk20 said:Since there's zero racing to watch during this winter slump, your favorite Aristocrat is here to give you a little history lesson.

If you click the link, you'll see what the Can-Am series was all about—it wasn't just endurance stuff, but sprint races lasting maybe two or two and a half hours, pretty much like the Grand Prix races back in the day. You’re gonna spot a ton of legends from the GP world here. We're talking Bruce McLaren, John Surtees, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart—guys who basically drove anything with wheels, from Formula 1 cars to sports cars, endurance races, Indianapolis, the Tasman Cup, and this Can-Am series. Once, they actually asked Jochen Rindt— "What do you do, Mr. Rindt, once the Grand Prix season wraps up?" —and Rindt just shot back: "I race!" Times have changed, though. Nowadays, guys like Alonso and Vettel—total bottom-of-the-deck players (moderators, chill—calling them "bottom-of-the-deck" isn't an insult, it's just a way of saying they don't measure up to names like Rindt, Clark, or Hill in ruggedhawk20's eyes, obviously)—are probably busy hitting some spas or chilling at a ski resort. Forty or fifty years ago, their predecessors were out there actually racing. Anyway, enjoy the clips.

St. Jovite (New York City) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUT5mDCwNYI

Stardust (Las Vegas) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsNPg6gGkJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKCcKGBtuXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyreqM0crw

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Chicago) 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x29XpIg0E

I wouldn't even be posting this if my private thread hadn't been shut down, so please, dear and enlightened moderators, just reopen it and move this over there.

As has already been made perfectly clear to you: insults aren't judged by your personal set of rules. So, rather than wasting time drafting disclaimers, perhaps you should focus more on actually watching what you write.

William Bennett53 said:As has already been made perfectly clear to you: insults aren't judged by your personal set of rules. So, rather than wasting time drafting disclaimers, perhaps you should focus more on actually watching what you write.

Yeah, I get it, but that’s just how I roll—it’s my whole vibe. If you take that away, you might as well take everything. Fine, I promise I won't go after the users here, but poking fun at drivers, mechanics, designers, or team bosses—in a classy, stylistic way—is a compromise I’m totally willing to make.

Anyway, stop nitpicking and just watch some Can-Am 🙂

Give me a break.