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Post by Gecko on Feb 7, 2023 11:39:30 GMT -5
With the Formula 1 season approaching, me thinks that it's time for a thread. F1 Season 2023
Bahrain | 03-05 March
| Saudi Arabia
| 17-19 March
| Australia | 31-02 March-April
| Azerbaijan | 28-30 April
| United States (Miami)
| 05-07 May
| Italy (Imola)
| 19-21 May
| Monaco | 26-28 May
| Spain | 02-04 June
| Canada | 16-18 June
| Austria | 30-02 June-July
| Great Britain
| 07-09 July
| Hungary | 21-23 July
| Belgium | 28-30 July
| Netherlands | 25-27 August
| Italy (Monza)
| 01-03 September
| Singapore
| 15-17 September
| Japan | 22-24 September
| Qatar | 06-08 October
| United States (Texas)
| 20-22 October
| Mexico | 27-29 October
| Brazil
| 03-05 November
| United States (Vegas)
| 16-18 November
| Abu Dhabi
| 24-26 November
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The F1 cars are starting to emerge from their hidden bunkers, have a look at Alfa Romeo's new car (compared to last year's)
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Post by Gecko on Feb 8, 2023 16:12:38 GMT -5
FIA President, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, is stepping back from direct involvement in F1 after a series of controversies such as:
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Gus Richlen Was Wrong
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Feb 9, 2023 23:18:50 GMT -5
Frankie Muniz is running full-time in the ARCA Menards Series this year.
Really.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Feb 10, 2023 0:36:01 GMT -5
The 2023 NHRA Season kicks off this year with the 53rd running of the Historic Gatornationals.
The Gatornationals have been known for major events in drag racing history.
1984: Joe Amato runs the first ever 260 MPH pass in Top Fuel. At the same event, Kenny Bernstein runs the first ever 260 MPH pass in Funny Car. 1986: "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, with the aerodynamic Swamp Rat XXX, becomes the first to run 270 MPH in Top Fuel. 1992: Kenny Bernstein becomes the first to run 300 MPH in Top Fuel. 2022: Karen Stoffer sets the National Record for Pro Stock Motorcycle twice, running 6.682 in Round One, then 6.665 in Round Two, on her way to win the Gatornationals.
1986 was also the return of Shirley Muldowney to Top Fuel, after her crash in Montreal in 1984 that nearly ended her racing career.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Feb 10, 2023 7:47:05 GMT -5
Frankie Muniz is running full-time in the ARCA Menards Series this year. Really. Kinda hoping he can put the sponsorship together to finagle his way into a truck race.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Feb 18, 2023 5:25:52 GMT -5
Zane Smith wins a rain-shortened truck series opener at Daytona. Between weather and the usual idiotic driving more than half the race was run under caution. Not a great start to the season.
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Feb 19, 2023 11:10:19 GMT -5
May this be the year Kyle Busch finally wins the Daytona 500.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Feb 19, 2023 13:11:32 GMT -5
IT'S DAYTONA DAY!!!
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Post by Lupin the Third on Feb 19, 2023 15:01:48 GMT -5
FAN, it's the 65th Annual Daytona 500. 500 miles, 200 MPH door to door racing. You strap in, put the foot to the floor, and scream the entire time. And when your spotter finally tells you to "QUIT SCREAMING", you're upside down going backwards in 3rd at the checkered flag.
So Reach Up and Pull those Belts Tight ONE MORE TIME!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Feb 19, 2023 15:16:20 GMT -5
BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!!! LET'S GO RACING BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Feb 19, 2023 18:37:32 GMT -5
THE BIG ONE!!!!
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Feb 19, 2023 18:55:32 GMT -5
We are going to the VAR
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Feb 19, 2023 18:55:47 GMT -5
RICKY STENHOUSE WINS THE 2023 DAYTONA 500!!!!!
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Feb 19, 2023 18:57:40 GMT -5
WRECKY SPINHOUSE???
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Post by Burst on Feb 19, 2023 19:16:07 GMT -5
Well, that was good until it wasn't. Happy for Ricky, wish the race had ended when the 99 spun out. I'm so sick of green-white-checkered at superspeedways and I'm frankly surprised you don't hear the team owners grousing about it more, particularly if you think of how many cars were wrecked entirely because of the GWC happening. It's beyond predictable that Daytona at least is going to end this way, and it put a sour finish on a race that I had honestly been enjoying to that point.
That was like, Mox and Kenny's exploding barbed wire death match levels of the finish taking the air out of everything up to that point.
Also, the Fox broadcast was ass even moreso than usual, from a production stand point at least. I don't mind the current booth, all things considered, but it's like they had all their production people go home after the engines were fired up. And again with the completely ignoring the safety status of drivers involved in a last-lap big one, when it would literally take five seconds to say that everybody got out or to show window nets down. It's pretty bad that Hendrick had to straight up tweet that Larson was OK because there was just zero acknowledgement from the broadcast. There's a part of me that's wondering if that's a NASCAR order, what with how oddly bad the safety denialism has gotten from the home office at least.
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Post by VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!! on Feb 26, 2023 15:49:52 GMT -5
A 5-wide parade lap for the final 2-mile race at Auto Club....
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 4, 2023 7:38:04 GMT -5
F1 back this weekend, with Bahrain qualifying later on. And we could be seeing the beginning of one of the great stories in the history of the sport as 41-year old Fernando Alonso is right in the mix with the Red Bulls in an Aston Martin that has improved out of sight since last year.
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Post by cornettesracket on Mar 4, 2023 7:40:04 GMT -5
F1 back this weekend, with Bahrain qualifying later on. And we could be seeing the beginning of one of the great stories in the history of the sport as 41-year old Fernando Alonso is right in the mix with the Red Bulls in an Aston Martin that has improved out of sight since last year. it’s great and lance Stroll who has looked bad due to surgery on his wrist, must be on strong painkillers as he looked much better in FP3.
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Gecko
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Post by Gecko on Mar 4, 2023 10:02:28 GMT -5
And the first proper F1 action starts with Qualifying now underway...
and one of the Ferraris is already falling apart.
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Post by cornettesracket on Mar 4, 2023 10:12:28 GMT -5
And the first proper F1 action starts with Qualifying now underway...
and one of the Ferraris is already falling apart.
Well it wouldn’t be an F1 season without Ferrari in bits.
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