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Also, I think WC saw IMSA so caution happy, and they have gone too far in the other direction imo. I wasn't impressed with the 2 cars sitting with drivers in them at the end. The mustang especially. That should've been a yellow
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It was a yellow, they had the local yellow out there on that area which was good enough to letthe race finish on green. See this guys did the right call by using local yellows the way they are meant to be used, they no doubt had a real Drivers Meeting where they addressed all of the possible scenarios and they trusted the Professionals to act like Professionals and they did, it produced real natural racing where the fastest guy got the chance to do what he had to do to win it without the help of a Pace Car!
I applaud SCCA for their decission on the local yellow!
 
Jav
It was a yellow, they had the local yellow out there on that area which was good enough to letthe race finish on green. See this guys did the right call by using local yellows the way they are meant to be used, they no doubt had a real Drivers Meeting where they addressed all of the possible scenarios and they trusted the Professionals to act like Professionals and they did, it produced real natural racing where the fastest guy got the chance to do what he had to do to win it without the help of a Pace Car!
I applaud SCCA for their decission on the local yellow!
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Local yellow or not, those guys were going for it. Had someone else made a mistake, there would've been 2 or more badly torn up cars and likely injuries. I personally prefer the way PWC handles it over the caution happy IMSA method, but there should have been a full course caution there imo. A yellow there wouldn't be manufactured or wrong. It would've been an "oh crap, hate to see it end like that" yellow rather than an IMSA "OOOOOOO!!! car off track...YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW!!!"
 
I do see your point, but there's situations where as an official you need to trust your drivers and this was a real good example of this.
Just look at the Nurb 24 and the VLN events, they handle this situatios with a simple loval yellow and the drivers all follow the rules religiously, they stop the racing as soon as they come to the yellow and go at it as soon as their past. It works and it works great, keep in mind those are the same pros we see here plus a bunch of ammateurs on "the worlds most dangerous track" and it works.
 
Jav
I do see your point, but there's situations where as an official you need to trust your drivers and this was a real good example of this.
Just look at the Nurb 24 and the VLN events, they handle this situatios with a simple loval yellow and the drivers all follow the rules religiously, they stop the racing as soon as they come to the yellow and go at it as soon as their past. It works and it works great, keep in mind those are the same pros we see here plus a bunch of ammateurs on "the worlds most dangerous track" and it works.
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As far as officiating goes, I'm more worried about consistency of calls rather than the frequency of calls. If IMSA wants to throw 37 cautions for debris and one car incidents like NASCAR, then stay that way all season. If you're going to let em race and if the incidents cause more havoc then so be it, then stay that way all season. It's more exciting and a better race in my opinion to stay green, but if safety first is the policy, IMSA is doing a better job than SCCA through this far in the season albeit waaaaaay overkill
 
My point is that the officials need to start trusting the drivers a lot more, St.Pete was a great example. Street Circuit, 2 classes and a car to driver's right on a 5 lane wide street. They all managed to keep it clean for 15 minutes with good officiating and marshalling. Local yellows where displayed where needed along with the green to mark where the passing was to be resumed.
Drivers knew what they needed to do to keep it safe and they did, as a result they got good natural racing which is something that has been missing on these shores for a seemingly long time.
The moment you start treating your drivers like children and start taking them by the hand on the stupidest of circumstances is the moment they will rebel and do stupid crap.
 
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Jav
I do see your point, but there's situations where as an official you need to trust your drivers and this was a real good example of this.
Just look at the Nurb 24 and the VLN events, they handle this situatios with a simple loval yellow and the drivers all follow the rules religiously, they stop the racing as soon as they come to the yellow and go at it as soon as their past. It works and it works great, keep in mind those are the same pros we see here plus a bunch of ammateurs on "the worlds most dangerous track" and it works.
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The solution used on the Nürburgring originated from the unique length of the Nordschleife. At 20+km length, safety cars become very unreasonable as there are 19km worth of track where free racing can occur. As such they implemented the "double yellow" code 60 to great success to simulate the presence of a safety car. On minor off track events or spins, a single yellow "caution" flag is still applied.

The Dubai 24h also used a full track code 60 to great success and I really like the concept behind it. I'm eager to see how the LeMans code 60 ruling will be implemented, as the multiple safety car ruling from 2013 heavily influenced the racing depending on which safety car you got stuck behind.

I'm all for quick deployment of (single) yellow flags if a car goes off track. It should indicate that something happened and it is important information to all drivers. I also think that during racing the racer's respect for a yellow flag is lacking a lot. They go under the premise of losing too much time and less for the safety issue, which i find disheartening. What I'm against is too quick deployment of full course caution just for the sake of it. I feel cheated when the race gets artificially compressed at the end just to get a "spectacular" tv finish.
 
Jav
My point is that the officials need to start trusting the drivers a lot more, St.Pete was a great example. Street Circuit, 2 classes and a car to driver's right on a 5 lane wide street. They all managed to keep it clean for 15 minutes with good officiating and marshalling. Local yellows where displayed where needed along with the green to mark where the passing was to be resumed.
Drivers knew what they needed to do to keep it safe and they did, as a result they got good natural racing which is something that has been missing on these shores for a seemingly long time.
The moment you start treating your drivers like children and start taking them by the hand on the stupidest of circumstances is the moment they will rebel and do stupid crap.
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Local yellows can end badly. Here's an example

Make sure you watch all the way to the end.

It depends on the track and the car volume I know, but street circuits being narrow by nature really can put the margin for error even less than it already is. There comes a point where driver safety needs to be first.

At a place like Nurb, there's no reason for a FCY unless it's super serious.


Common sense should prevail in these situations.
 
cnd01
Local yellows can end badly. Here's an example

Make sure you watch all the way to the end.

It depends on the track and the car volume I know, but street circuits being narrow by nature really can put the margin for error even less than it already is. There comes a point where driver safety needs to be first.

At a place like Nurb, there's no reason for a FCY unless it's super serious.


Common sense should prevail in these situations.
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An accident like the one posted on your video definitely called for a full course yellow, very high speed corner there and reason to suspect a striped yellow should've been used on that corner.
The innitial incident more than likely had brought out the double yellow, but that's a moment where the back markers push like hell to catch up to the leaders before they go green again, that's why the other guy spun into the wrecked car. I don't know if that the story behind that video, just speculating from personal experience...
 
http://www.speedcafe.com/2014/04/02/spa-replaces-le-mans-lowndes-plans/

“The timing of Spa works perfectly around the V8 Supercar calendar this year and gives us a good opportunity to build something big for next year. It’s the perfect scenario, really.“Unlike Le Mans, there are no prototypes at Spa, so we will be outright contenders in the 458.“But it will still obviously be a massive challenge, as a lot can happen going flat out around a place like Spa for 24 hours.”The Spa field is already confirmed to include an Australian entry from Roger Lago, who’ll share one of his Lamborghini’s with Steven Richards, David Russell and Steve Owen.Erebus Motorsport is also working on plans to join the event, while Nissan bosses have shown enthusiasm for getting one of their V8 Supercars stars to the race.
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Set to be an awesome season for Blancpain, can't wait!!
 
Really happy to see Alex Zanardi behind the wheel again, what an absolute legend.

Totally unrelated, but I can't be the only one who thinks the Jag F-Type Coupe would make a gorgeous GT car?
 
^ Yes, that would look very good.

44 entries for Monza. That's down from 70 or so in the last couple of seasons.
 
No Chevy Z06, but Chevy Camaro had made the FIA GT1 grid :sly:👍

Its on the tape above!
 
joetruckv8
No Chevy Z06, but Chevy Camaro had made the FIA GT1 grid :sly:👍

Its on the tape above!
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The Camaro GT3 is not made by Chevy however, it's a stand alone project from Reiter Engineering. It's been running a few events in the German ADAC GT Masters last season but never really performed. It will be interesting to see how it has improved (rumored to have ~750hp).
 
Third Reign
The Camaro GT3 is not made by Chevy however, it's a stand alone project from Reiter Engineering. It's been running a few events in the German ADAC GT Masters last season but never really performed. It will be interesting to see how it has improved (rumored to have ~750hp).
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Oh damn!!! How bad does a chasis has to be to have that kind of power on GT3!!!?
 
Qualifying race for this year's ADAC Zurich 24h Nürburgring is live here: http://www.24h-rennen.de/live
Kazunori Yamauchi is driving too, in the Schulze Nismo GT-R GT3 with the number 24.
Kinda stoked they're using "my" number this year, just turned 24 too. :D
 
G.T.Ace
Qualifying race for this year's ADAC Zurich 24h Nürburgring is live here: http://www.24h-rennen.de/live
Kazunori Yamauchi is driving too, in the Schulze Nismo GT-R GT3 with the number 24.
Kinda stoked they're using "my" number this year, just turned 24 too. :D
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BTCC drivers Rob Austin and Robb Holland are also in an SP8 Audi. Interestingly Austin this week thanks Gran Turismo for helping him learn the track...
 
So I'm expecting us to not be blocked online in the States for any of the blancpain races this year since no TV channel has purchased the rights?
 
Neovre
So I'm expecting us to not be blocked online in the States for any of the blancpain races this year since no TV channel has purchased the rights?
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Same here...
 
With the news that McLaren is ending production of the MP4-12c in order to focus on production of the 650s, could we see a 650s GT3 next year? All they really need to do is update the front fascia, since the rear of the car is essentially the same.
 
British GT support races are crappy.
 
Qualifying for Monza Blancpain Endurance starts in 32 minutes

UK only by the look of it. :dunce:

 
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