>Thursday, October 9 (all times ET)2:05 PM: MX-5 Cup, Rd 13/14, 'Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Race #1', Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA>Friday, October 109:30 AM: MX-5 Cup, Rd 14/14, 'Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Race #2', Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA (Season Final)12:40 PM: IMSA Pilot, Rd 10/10, 'FOX Factory 120', Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA (Season Final)>Saturday, October 112:00 AM: Super Formula, Rd 9/12, 'Fuji #1', Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan12:00 PM: IMSA, Rd 11/11, 'Motul Petit Le Mans', Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA (Season Final)7:30 PM: NASCAR Xfinity, Rd 30/33, 'Focused Health 302', Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada,, USA8:45 PM: Supercars, Rd 27/34, 'Bathurst 1000', Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia>Sunday, October 122:00 AM: Super Formula, Rd 10/12, 'Fuji #2', Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan9:00 AM: GTWC Europe, Rd 10/10, 'Barcelona (3H)', Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain (Season Final)5:30 PM: NASCAR Cup, Rd 33/36, 'South Point 400', Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada, USASpreadsheet:https://pastebin.com/D9ZzLBrvMore races and times at:https://raceday.watchPrevious thread:>>151062404
>>151195397>>151195975Damn, I was out for the Argentine and Brazilian races today and it looks like they were pretty fun. I'll try to be here for them next week. Thanks for posting them, lads!
updated: https://pastebin.com/D9ZzLBrv
>>151207950Thanks, bro.
dont forget to have fun
Night racinghttps://youtu.be/s7ZTmsZreFI
>>151210351Sports car racing is best car racing.
I miss Bentley
>>151210351Speaking of that does anybody have the webm's of the two spooky merc logo's being cut in from that race last year?
>>151212949Got you there buddy
>>151212949BUY MERCEDES
>>151210178
>>151213098how does that works, I can barely afford a fiat
How is SVG so much better than the field at conserving tires on road courses? He wasn't the fastest car by any means today, but after 10 laps he was in his own zip code. It's mind boggling how impressive he is at this.
>>151213098>>151213073Thanks!
>>151216387Just how hes been shit on ovals compared to the rest of the field hes literally driven hundreds more road and street circuits then the rest of the field. Its why he was a backmarker on ovals cause even the other back markers had thousands of laps on him.
>>151216568Fair point, but I'd argue he's catching the field on ovals quite a bit faster than they're catching him on road courses.
reminder that rick hendrick whacked a guy
>>151216861if SVG and ross were given proper cars that arent tied to ECR or hendrick shit, things would be different today.By the way, Pennis Gay in Me is already crying that "is not my fault" again
>>151219207I agree, and I think Justin would be wise to switch to Dodge and be their main Cup team. They'll always been secondary with Chevy. Would make a lot of sense with Kaulig as a satellite and development program.
>>151216568The rest of the field has been racing stock cars on road courses for years and years and stopped getting beaten by road course ringers otherwise a long time ago, even Ambrose did not have nearly this level of success in the days when the Cup drivers should have been worse on road courses, and I know you want to say RPM cars were shitboxes but they weren't -that- bad.>>151216387Basically everyone in the NASCAR system these days is clutchless downshifting and shocking the rear tires every time they don't rev match perfectly, Supercars is the only analogous series of heavy undertired shitboxes with manual downshifting but unlike Cup they've had 6 speed gearboxes and more stop go tracks for a long time while say a lap around Watkins Glen in a gen 6 car had about 4 downshifts for the entire lap. So the guys who are good in those races are nursing the downshifts with the clutch which is just not a technique anyone else ever considered if they started driving with the modern transmissions between the lower influence and the higher rate of cautions with the old cars.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gjH06HpNh5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOdwQ-vpuA
Indycar sprints would go so fucking hardWec sprints too
>>151219276Dodge doesn't even have an engine program, they wanted to partner with a team that already develops engines. It's probably going to be way worse than ECR.>>151219323Kligerman said on his podcast that right foot brake + left foot clutch is completely at odds with how American racers have been taught for the last 25 years and he couldn't do it when he tried.
>>151220565That's a bit of an exaggeration because even as pro racing goes you still need to do it in MX-5 Cup for example let alone most club cars. Kligerman himself was taught to drive in a Skip Barber car that you had to do it funnily enough.
have a great week!keep on vrooming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGjAgEOiP8 Not sure if it's anyone's cup of tea but here's a stream of a Nascar hauler going from NC to LV.
>Marc Marquez is confirmed to miss the next two Grands Prix following further medical checks undertaken on his arrival home to Madrid. The newly crowed World Champion is confirmed to have suffered a fracture at the base of the coracoid process and a ligament injury to his right shoulder.>Clinical examination and radiological assessment have ruled out any connection with previous injuries and confirmed the absence of significant bone displacement.>The medical team (...) has therefore opted for a conservative treatment plan, involving rest and immobilization of the affected shoulder until it is fully healed and the fracture is clinically consolidated.https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2025/10/06/marc-marquez-to-miss-australian-and-malaysian-grands-prix/760716there's a lot of ligaments ligaments tied to that bone, medical report tries to not make a big deal of it but that could take a while
>>151225792Wouldn't mind seeing Bulega replace him for a race weekend on the factory bike, WSBK are racing this week and next so he could be available for Malaysia.
>>151204751>12:00 PM: IMSA, Rd 11/11, 'Motul Petit Le Mans', Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia, USA (Season Final)>8:45 PM: Supercars, Rd 27/34, 'Bathurst 1000', Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia>16h long piss-up from 6pm saturday to 10am sundayfun times
>>151226137after how well it went with fraudtista i doubt they'll take the risk, plus they can get a head start with pirro trying new parts at malaysia ahead of the winter test
>>151226931>pirroPlus it would give Pecco some company at the back for a few races
Does anyone have pictures of AJ Allmendinger crossing the line yesterday?
>>151227404
>>151226211plus 2 Super Formula races
>>151220875Damn, that niggas still on the road.
>>151226211Why are Petit le Mans and Bathurst always the same weekend?
>>151228808so we can watch both
>>151228808It's only happened a small number of times but the current reason like all IMSA scheduling issues is Roger Penske's 6 Hours of Shit being squeezed into the schedule by moving Petit back a week.
they're scared
>>151225536
>>151210351That first left turn onto the Nordschiefe lets you know everything is going tp alright.
>SVGwinslolNASCAR fans are already calling for Trump to deport him
>>151228081I wonder how that happened
Veekay to Juncos confirmed?!
>>151235942His 1st win in Chicago rekindled my interest in car racing, I could never hate him.
>>151238669>y2jhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDbWm4RPp10
>>151238669VGAY = Very Gay2J = JJ YeleyNascar with its rainbow colors and cars frequently touching each others ass was always sus for me tbdesu
>>151232344>We have always been open to a settlement where we get everything we want and the teams get nothing. This has been our policy since the beginning of the organization.
>>151232974What is this car? FIAT? Renault? Why does it have a "six chamber pots" sticker in the front?
I'm going to Zolder this weekend for Euronascar. I'll let you guys know how it was.
>>151240929before delving into researching it, I assume this is a seat, maybe their fiat 124 licence
>>151232974>>151240929>>151241883ah wow its a simca 1000 rallye
Porsche out of WEC but stays in IMSAhttps://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/porsche-pulls-plug-on-factory-hypercar-program/
>>151241931they think they can boost their ev sales through formulameme? lol
>>151241957also if nakajima has the brain, he should go hiring spree and refresh the toyota lineup with 2-3 porsche casualties
>>151241931>Porsche took a beating on their finances due to overcomitting to EV junk>instead of ditching Formula mEme, they end their WEC programGreenie lunatic Germans deserve all the hell coming their way
>>151241931Damn what a cuck
>>151242009they need to due to the forced ev mandates politicians made in the uk, eu, usa and other territories to grab the green and soiboi votes, so basically every car manufacturer has the only choice of doubling down on EVs and hoping that when people wont be allowed to buy new ICE cars, they will reap the benefits of not giving up on cuckmobiles
>>151241931
>>151242401eu wont get dissolved, the russoscum subversion is getting less and less, with some monke puppets getting their heads (sadly not literally) chopped off. The car manufacturers are lobbying the eu on the other hand for more reasonable ruling behind the scenes, to make hybrids, synthetic fuel and hydrogen also part of a less strict mandate. The states with mandates in land of the free are suing trump for trying to cut the mandates (and he is the same corpo cuck like any other pres previously were so in the end he will align with "their" intentions anyways)The whole new car maket is collapsing not just the evs, people realized a well maintained and equipped 2010-17 car is has everything one needs already not mentioning the hype around everything youngtimer. People still.love to drive they just dont want new cars
>>151242789case in point, a few years ago my ex's little brother at 18 was all about having a riced E46 coupe as his first car even though they are considered rich here with daddy running around in a fairly new bmw X7 and everybody else having premium suvs from mommy to the kids
>>151242401The whole EV thing is pushed by the chinks. They don't have the infrastructure or resources to be an oil empire like the others, but they have a shitload of precious metals, and no environmental laws handcuffing them from reaping them. US and EU it's basically illegal to mine them.
>>151241931Roger, like Toyota, will never win Le Mans then
YOUZA DORKBRRT BRRT BRRT
>>151241931Called it about a year ago on here, said this tie up with Penske wasn't a real effort and was half arsed, For me its the right decision, WEC is a scam bop rigged globalism pushing series, plus with them announcing abandoning EV's says to me they have finally saw sense and are bailing on the whole globo homo project as its dead on arrival.Watch now as every other corporation abandons ship or goes down with it.
Hyundai wont revert to the previous car for CER and they turned up testing to 11
>>151241931love how everyone is throwing blame at the formula mEme program, the audi f1 program, general economic situation and so on, but whenever someone dares to mention the precious bop they bring out the pitchforks and torches
CHEVY POWER
>>151244951>Chevy Blazer>Chevy Blazer>CHEVY*CHEVROLETCHEVROLET is a trademark of GENERAL MOTORS LLC
>it's not financially viable for American motorsport to exist if the France family doesn't own 20 race tracks!Man the monopoly shilling is crazy
>>151241931Isn't Porsche the manufacturer that bitched the most about bop? Makes some sense even though they are not admitting it, still sucks to see them go.
hellofuck porschethat is all
>muh bopso manufacturers genuinely believed they could ask oreca/dallara/multimatic/ligier to slap some new body panels on an lmp2 and compete for championships consistently with zero effort thanks to bop?
>>151244469>>151244469one of the bit more knowledgeable hungarian jurno says porsche wanted some rule changes in wec (no word if its bop related or something else but supposedly some fundamental changes in the basic car rules and they went full nig/gypsy: > If we dont get what we want, we leaveACO-FIA looked at the 3 incoming and 10 other manufacturers already in wec, and went: > do it faggot
>>151245566toyota and pug bitched the most to the point that akio toyoda was even fined bc rules say that you are not allowed to use publicity bitching to influence the bop
>>151241931>Porsche out of WEC but stays in IMSA My child, you must choose. Muh "global relevance" or the American market.
>>151243878The check didn't clear.Simple as.
>>151244469>>151245915Porsche was the one brand that specifically criticized BoP AGAINST WEC's rule book. I'm a massively huge sport car fag and even I can admit that the FIA/ACO is fucking corrupt as hell. If nothing else, look at Toyota this year. >You get a shit BoP because you stuck with the series during the bad time and won a bunch. >It's her turn because we can't seem to rig the F1 rules for her.
>>151242401>Hopefully Orange Man finishes off these lunatic mandates for good and the EU gets dissolved.We need a global big Juan before we see any meaningful change. I don't much like it, but it's so bad you can't deny it.
>>151242900Hide Hungarian posts. It's just that simple.
>>151242964We should have listened to MacArthur. We would be racing in the northern part of Korea today if we had.
>>151245805I'd phrased it as FIA/ACO told manufacturers>You can spend a gorillion dollars (plus tip) to make a car we'll let winOr>You can spen half a gorillion dollar to make a car that *might* win.It's essentially government contracting in the guise of autosport.
>>151245915>ACO-FIA looked at the 3 incoming and 10 other manufacturers already in wec, and went: We're getting paid regardless.
>>151245915>ACO-FIA looked at the 3 incoming and 10 other manufacturers already in wec, and went: >we're getting paid anyway.
>>151246681Why do I still use Faggotfox?
>>151246851My body is ready. My gear is not.
>>151240929>>151241930there isn't much information about the driver and the year either, just some links to Facebook but I don't have an account
>Colin McRae, Gregoire de Mevius, Fernando Capdevila, Luis Monzón, Flavio Alonso y Mats Jonsonn.Robert del Rosario, Frederic Johnson, Michele Mouton, Hannu Mikkola, Ari Vatanen, Dario Cerrato, Armin Schwarz y Tommi Makinen.Didier Auriol, Juha Kankkunen, Carlos Sainz, Andrea Aghini, Mia Bardolet, Stig Blomqvits and Bjorn Waldegard
>>151247389>Facebook but I don't have an accountI do for car shopping. Paste the link and I will get my data raped for you, my fren. If I am not already on at least 35 lists, I am doing something wrong.
>>151246495i miss srx
>>151247749>i miss srxSo damn much, it's absolutely unreal. I can't think of a better wat to end a weekend of vrooms than falling asleep to a weekly Tony wins, lol All Star race with cartoon bodied late models. Plus, it was a huge boon to America's smaller short ovals and dirt tracks. The very idea that this level of kino failed is an indictment of the world that we live in. If the population doesn't see fit to support such excellence in entertainment, what is the point in perpetuating such a world?
>>151246378There's no choosing, there's just asking PCNA if they still want to spend money on this shit and there's not a lot else in the racing budget besides still bribing IMSA anyways.
1997 WRC 33rd Rallye Catalunya - Costa Brava - Rallye de Españahttps://youtu.be/qWvyrY7nRFY
>>151247903The North American market is the most globally relevant thing in the world.
>>151241931I dont like BoP but at the same time these companies have proven they cant be trusted to be given free reign and keep things interesting. One of the works teams would just out spend everybody to a 100% win rate and everybody else leaves till we have the dominant car and a few private punching bags like back in the late 2010's- and early 2020's.
>>151242273USA told those fags to suck a dick, who is doing that is EU and UK.Forget euro companies, they are cucked.
I agree with jr with this but also he stealthily throwing shots at ASSCAR screwing over Ross and other past rigging incidents https://x.com/DirtyMoMedia/status/1975719094977487171>>151244951Suarez learned how fucked up the roads here in shizil are courtesy of the 9 fingered thief and his 30 years of dictatorshipAlso Blazer sells a lot here in this hellhole, second only to the late Opel/Chevrolet Monza and the late Corsa Sedan>>151246495We are already into WW3 but is all proxy warfare.
i know you retards dont care about vrooms but theres endurance going on right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbRysujQleschink gts (shangai 8h)
>>151248584Maybe ask yourself why F1 has had consistent manufacturer presence for the last 30 years and not prototype sports car racing? They can actually write a rule book and keep to it except for safety improvements and maintaining the intent through a proper process while the ACO is in a perpetual state of making shit up to pander to one manufacturer (and no Hyperspurdo's fucked up performance window created by wildly changing the rules every time anyone showed any interest before it was introduced, development allowance favoritism, and wack ass BoP is not a change from that) You would never ever see Renault or Mercedes forced to provide engines for Red Bull and McLaren and their factory teams get cucked by customers in WEC, rather independent teams and boutique manufacturers are barely tolerated as explicit dedicated field filler even when there's only 2-4 major manufacturer cars. (and no IMSA is not different, look how LMP2s got fucked when DPi was "supposed" to be BoP'd to LMP2 speed and Daytona's entry list actually looked like a major global race for the first and last time in years)An inability to think big picture instead of shlonging one or two manufacturers is holding back a lot of motorsport, only Bernie really seemed to understand how to make money and not just extract wealth.
>>151251260wth why is it purple, this was blue in the originalhttps://x.com/inanobu117/status/1975512698118152310
>>151250664>ynr Sette Camara
>>1512512924chan strips metadata, including color profiles
Next year moto gp its gonna be insaneToprak, bezz, alex and mir are gonna be there the whole championship i am sure, i dont see marc dominating like this yearAnd i dont think factory ducatti is gonna be the best bike this time,Pecco and Jorge are done tho
need to get some snacks for this weekend
>>151250664
loving these chink liveries
>>151254579Hey, it's the Garfield car from the 12 hours of shouty Brit! I mean, sepang.
>>151250893>Maybe ask yourself why F1 has had consistent manufacturer presence for the last 30 yearshttps://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0
>>151251260That rotor glow
>>151254970the race is getting spicy
>>151252882A big bag of Gardetto's, garlic summer sausage, some cheese (I like habanero and colby jack, also string cheese) some pickles, black olives. Then for dinner, maybe a nice detroit style pizza or a deep dish. Ice cream for dessert.Oh, and Dr Pepper for the entire event. A 90 or 100 proof bourbon if I'm feeling in the mood for it.
>SUPER GT Planning Switch to One-Make Tires in 2027It's over
>>151225792>finally recovers from the crash that nearly ended his career>immediate potential career-ending crash
>>151241931Proton are still in.>WEC mandates at least two entries per manufacturerobvious intent of pricing out privateers
>make claim>refute claim
>>151246495>real world presentation of why they're called Suicide Doors
Ostberg steps back from full time rallying> againBut he will develop the Lancia Rally2 further
>>151258906I just hope that the current YarisWinsLOL in Rally2 gets a bit toned back
>>151259001The selected tracks are:> COTA> Bowman Gray> San Diego street race
>>151259001
(they also did this today to try to bury bad court news by the way)
Totally memoryholed there was a race this year in Mexico.Why Nascar wont go back next year ?Would happily sacrifice one fo the single file slurper tracks for the memes already
>>151259072care to elaborate on said court news ? I really don't follow this as in depth, I get my news on nascar from thixs thread lol (no joke)
>>151259082Take a look at the stands for a clue.
>>151259098God it's a pain in the ass but >there's a court ordered mediator assigned to try to reach a settlement rather than going to court>NASCAR stops engaging with the mediator and files to have a judicial settlement conference instead>judge orders them to participate in a conference with the current mediator
>>151259104Okay there are some empty ones (second straight) but the restr seemed pretty packed, it seems it's a half-houseOk IK nascar is only interested in padding the pockets of the france family, so everything not having a full return on day1 is a fail for them, but it could have been a great long term investment
>>151259184kek nice
>>151259001the tracks in question>>151259246problem was that of those (at best) 45k tickets, around half were sold and the rest were given through promotions and stuff, on the taco broadcast they were shilling the event and talking about discounts even the week before, that's part of the reason why indycar isn't going, the son of one of the promotors kwabin himself so hard that he got fired and his family pulling support in retaliation also didn't help but that's another topic>>151259184don't forget the part where they first filed the motion to have a mediator in the first place, and when the court assigned a guy who was involved in the lawsuit against the nba
>>151259702I honestly didn't expect Dover, Darlington, and Nashville, aren't those all on the same aero as 1.5s still
>>151257461Bridgestone? Super Taikyu uses Bridgestone, Super Formula uses Yokohama.
>>151259001>selectFUCK OFF, PHELPS. EVERY TRACK!
>>151259082Mexico is a single-file sluper.
>>151259184>ballsports fags want to ruin motorsport
>>151259702>it's literally just the list of tracks where Trucks are faster than Cup cars
The updated toyota on video at paul ric, testing with the old car https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPjZyYljNRc/>>151260797>ballsports fags want to ruin motorsporthow dare you talk about the france family like that
>>151259702Nashville and Gateway with 750 hp is going to be kino.
>>151260797>asscarnothing to ruin there
So if NASCAR loses this lawsuit, what happens? No charters, everyone gets a charter? Free Ice ceram for noncharter teams at every event? Also, is there any chance they will break up the track ownership cartel? It's infuriating that so many tracks sit idle every season and that some tracks only hose an event once a year. Honestly, that's my biggest issue. I'd like to see CARS Tour and ??? Other late model series running at Kentucky or any of the other unused tracks they are squatting on. I just want to see a competitor to NASCAR. That way, they actually have some pressure from the fans. I just don't think that's possible with the current situation.
>>151259001While Cup cars should be 1200HP V8 Hybrid monsters, IMO the most impactful thing NASCAR could do to make the racing better is to adjust the natural aero balance of the car to be less front-limited and more rear-limited.The way the rules currently are and how teams set up their cars, they're pretty balanced in clean air and super tight in traffic. If you move the aero balance forward adjust height rules as needed, you could in theory make the natural state of the car pretty balanced in traffic, but super loose in clean air. That way when someone gets clean air, the advantage they get is somewhat negated by drag from front downforce they don't need/can't use anyway. If anything it might fool some drivers into getting clean air and then immediately spinning out because they feel like superman for .2 seconds into the next corner.
>>151260797you would think the ballsportfags are the ones trying to make asscar stickandballish since the early 00s
>>151262267>So if NASCAR loses this lawsuit, what happens?they already said they'll go full scorched earth on the charter system, who knows what else they'll do in retaliation>is there any chance they will break up the track ownership cartel?for that, what needs to happen is >nascar must lose the lawsuit>an indycar style split needs to occur>smi must want to make business with the splitting factionand at the end of the day the judge will try to reach a middle ground so it is unlikely that this outcome will happen
>>151262571>hybridNo.
>>151262571>hybrid fucking what?>aeroI agree with this, and it should the true 'BOP' experience, but it's just too expensive to implement.
that's gotta hurt
WRChttps://youtu.be/eleIUt9f3uQ
>>151262571It doesn't matter whether the front, the back, or all 4 wheels are sliding, you're still going to go slower. As far as I know the current Cup car is engineered to have very little balance change in dirty air. Mandating ride heights to skew the aero balance is only an annoyance on ovals where there's (with minor exception) only one speed of corner on the track, you will just get super soft rear springs, massive front springs, massive front swaybars, super understeery geometry and/or ballast placement, etc. to get the balance back unless you want to just IROC the entire fucking thing, you don't need to worry about it understeering in the 1st gear hairpin with all of that because there isn't one.At any given moment 95% of the cars on track are in dirty air, so it's not like cars aren't already set up to handle in dirty air and it's not like you see them spinning out the moment they get out of traffic. In general you don't really hear complaints about the balance going away based on traffic/clean air like you did in the gen 4 or CoT days, just on the fastest tracks cars set up for low drag in hopes of qualifying well and staying out front not having enough downforce in traffic.
FIA and ACO can suck my balls>fucking asscar-owned IMSA is a better aports car governing body somehowI want to vomit
I think it was that insider interview with Jimmy a few months ago, but somewhere I heard that a large part of the reason they have the HP lowered on the current Cup cars is to increase engine life and therefore lower cost. Which actually makes sense because cost cutting was part of the reason behind this faggy new car. Anyway, I for one, welcome the power increase and it will be interesting to see how the engines hold up. I just wish it was every track.
>>151247967thanks, I always download them for my little archive>also where are all the photos of Tommi, Burns, Loix, and all the Mitsubishis? I've looked everywhere
>>151247712there's more than one, and they all seem to have little stories and anecdotes because the driver was also a hunter. If you're interested, just write: "Arturo de Oniz Sanz piloto"
I just realized that NASCAR may be about to, again, make two massive changes at once where one of them was only ever asked for because they were refusing to budge on the other and is completely pointless, if not actively detrimental, when that other one is made.Last time: reduction of 1.5mi triovals at the schedule at the same time as the introduction of the Gen7 car.This time: rotating final race at the same time as the championship format changes.
>tfw came back from Japan before the Asahi drought hitfeels good
>Kalle Rovanperä quits rally to pursue other driving related ambitionsWrc is dead
>>151270029Ott should go back to toyota
I will kill myself now
>>151262267if NASCAR loses control of the SMI/ISC, it would lead to the death of at least a dozen different tracks. Like it or not, places like Bristol and Richmond would absolutely not exist in 2025 if it weren't for the effective bottomless well of money that NASCAR can throw at them. the alternative to NASCAR owning them is the F1 model where NASCAR charges the tracks a fee for the privilege of hosting a race, which would instantly kill any event that isn't in a "desirable market". I prefer the current model to that.
Kalle, you what?!..
what the actual fuck
>>151269392The Phoenix meme has run its course regardless
>>151270029it was already clear he will either go full time on drifting or circuit racinghe was also critical on the mental burden of wrci hope he will be wdc and goes out with a bang
>>151270136>>151270133I guess he's gotten tired of WRC and the aim is Super License right now. Sad for WRC, but it's an interesting turn of events.
>>151270123NASCAR does not own Bristol faggot, and even when when ISC was a separate company it was paying sanctioning fees, although the tracks come out ahead on their cut of the TV rights fees anyways as far as I know.
>>151270136Its clear he has lost interest and the hankook tires probably sped up the process
Kalles new destination seems to be JP super formula
>>151270174Who takes his seat?Solberg?
>Kalle going to Super Formulahttps://x.com/KalleRovanpera/status/1976192080180326496?t=F_vIga_vsExADSZCekebkw&s=19Honestly pretty wild. Not a great look for the WRC. I guess we know Oliver has a fulltime Rally1 seat then.
>>151270221My guess now is that Toyota knew about this for a long time now, and that's why they gave Oliver the Estonia drive.
>>151270207>>151270230He also said on his YT channel that he will be in F2 in 2027
>>151270221TänakSolberg will share a car with Ogier
>>151270301>trying to switch to F1 in his late 20sbold
>>151270314It's the same as with Herta, there's a big manufacturer with F1 links that wants him in F1 as long as he's a decent prospect. He wouldn't do this without the Toyota-Haas partnership in place.
>>151270136hahaha rallying is cooked, not surprising since top level rallying is basically circuit racing with 50x the prep work and no wheel 2 wheel action nowadays, if this doesn't wake the sport up then its cooked for sure
>>151270310I doubt it. And if they do take Tänak then they'll probably demote Taka or even Sami to a part-time seat. Unlike those two Oliver is a rally winner after all.
Kalle just made room for Toyota having both Pajari and Solberg next year...>>151270174I'm sure they are a big factor
>>151270339They will take Tänak. I wonder what Hyundai do. Neuville/Fourmaux and no 3rd car?
>>151270348A refreshed EP and Enni?
>>151270368ep said multiple times even like 2 weeks ago that he does not want to compete full time in a world championship anymore, he wants to be in finland with family and friends and this year was the first in a couple which he actually really enjoyed
>>151270348Hyundai does not have a junior, but maaaaybe they couldlure back Mikkelsen or Lindholm. Gryazin has no manufacturer ties, Virves seems like tied up with Skoda> Inb4 ex Hyundai junior Loubet returns lol
>>151270402>Loubetlol, they might as well get the king himself Philip AllenYohan isn't a candidate I guess, he's all in on Stellantis, especially if they go to the top class with Lancia for the '27 regs
>>151270423yeah I doubt Yohan, and also he is actively involved in the development of the Lancia, Ostberg will only join the development work next year AFAIK
I had to find through Facebook out of all places..
>>151270310if Ogier retires after winning the championship this year I can see it happen if not Tanak won't go to Toyota
>>151270522Ages at monte 2026:Seb 42Tanak 37Thierry 36Evans 36Tanak himself will retire possibly in a year or two
>>151270301Given F2 has world championship status, he would be the first man to win world championships in both rallying and single seaters. Having won world championship in 2 classes is done by JM Lopez recently but touring cars and sportscar prototypes are 2 way closer discipline
>>151270544Honestly I expect a lot of retirements in '27 when the speed of the cars gets massively cut. I doubt Thierry will want to drive something that's barely faster than Rally2.I don't think cheaper top class cars are the solution, you need the spectacle. Manufacturers would be far more interested if the WRC promoter would actually try to get eyes on the sport.
>>151270585>F2 has world championship statusIt doesn't.
>>151270647
>Porsche is leaving the WEC because of money issues>Their CEO is building a literal 500 meter tunnel for his personal direct access from his house to the nearby city
>>151270677his personal funds and the business funds are separate issues. besides, the cost of that tunnel is probably a pittance compared to running a WEC team.
>>151270647ah okay, somehow I thought it has
>>151270677>personal direct access from his house to the nearby cityThis sounds like something Batman would do.
>>151270717Probably played the EA F1 games and heard the commentator say "F2 world championship"?
>>151270768it used to be a world championship distinct from F1, but this was pre-1980s. the current "F2" is just rebranded GP2, a glorified feeder series for F1.
I guess solberg is getting that seat now.
>>151270814He deserves it
>>151270768nah I havent played an official game since the 2016 one lol. It was just an assumption from me
>>151270814we will see how he can fare under a full season pressure and not having a fairly stronger/more ideal package than the other competitors
>>151270136>>151270133Shit, I said that I expected him to be McLaren "mega" entry for the rookie Indy 500 ride, but that was the wildest guess I could've thought of, I never expected this.
>>151270701That money is taken directly from his own wagies' salary bumps to fund his ridiculous vanity projects, he has my respect
>>151271068that's not how it works. He's mostly paid in stock in the company, unrealised gains he can use as collateral in bank loans which is where he gets the vast majority of his actual real cash.
>>151270859And he has very limited experience on tarmac
>>151271116That's what they tell you
>>151271349their finances aren't hidden, they're required to be disclosed publicly.
why are zoomers so /weakmind/?
https://x.com/VenturiniMotor/status/1976255923334037894>"'End of an Era', Venturini Motorsports Bids Farewell After 43 Years in ARCA Competition">"Friday’s race will be a celebration of that legacy, with Jade Avedisian (No. 20 Mobil 1 Toyota), Taylor Reimer (No. 25 BuzzBallz Toyota), and Thomas Annunziata (No. 15 Venturini Motorsports Toyota) representing the final chapter of a family story written over four decades.">"Following the race, the team will officially transition to Nitro Motorsports, led by Nick Tucker, on October 16, 2025. The change marks not just the end of Venturini Motorsports, but the beginning of a new era inspired by its enduring impact."TL;DR: They will change name and ownership
>>151271007https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/rovanperas-ultimate-goal-is-formula-1/> I want to do all these big races. So yeah there are so many possibilities.well, the 500 might be on that list
>>151270029>>151270133>>151270136>>151270230KWABOTY
>>151270701>his personal funds and the business funds are separate issuesincorrect
>>151272047they are. Shareholders would flip their shit if the CEO was using company money for personal use. reminder: CEOs are employees hired by the board of directors, they're not Godemperor of the company.
>>151271792I respect his desire to try something new, realistically he's achieved everything he could want in rallying and he's a really talented driver so doing something new is kinda cool actually
is it toyota's fault?
https://x.com/tukasa0204/status/1976076044689080525how can a man be so based and so cringe at the same time?
>>151272243Came here to say that. 20 years of rallying at age 25, achieved everything in WRC, youngest world champ twice back to back. He has the mindset of the champion - new peaks need to be conquered. He's burnt out on rallying after doing it his whole life, and what prospects could he see on the horizon in WRC? Fight against the same two guys and same two teams for the foreseeable years, in slower cars no less? Lmao, even viewers are tired of this shit and we only have to bust a weekend once a month, with our ass on the couch and a beer in our hand.Fuck I hope that *something* clicks in those knuckleheads minds in FIA, cause it clearly didn't when their fresh world champion did a half-season and the rest of the drivers and champs constantly shit on the state of WRC.Godspeed Galle, I'll miss your interviews.
>>151273327>two teamsOne team*. Hyundai.M-Sport Ford exists only to torture Rich Millener and give the rich boomers and their kids expensive thrills.
https://www.dailysportscar.com/2025/10/09/aco-fia-imsa-working-on-simpler-bop-system-for-2026.html>pls Porsche don't leave
IMSA sprint on???
Also RLM continue providing IMSA Radio
>>151273327everything depends on the new promoter, if they are not ready to shake things up and inject a big wad of cash into the wrc its ovah
New sponsorship mid race.
>>151273389graham goodwin is probably the biggest bop glazer in sportscar racing must have been physically painful for him to put this on his site
wtf is going on?! XD
>three signs in a rowkek
>>151273476>>151273535It's never not funny.
american media is very quiet on the whole palou vs mclaren case, wonder ((why)) that is, anyways the tl;dr is that zakary is trying to use every trickery in the book but he's starting to step in his own tailhttps://archive.ph/uBpGKhttps://archive.ph/qHEHKhttps://archive.ph/diriO
>>151273575I feel bad for Alex. He was chasing his F1 dream to a dead end but did break his contract. I don't think he's getting out of this unscathed.
>>151273705he's gonna have to pay something regardless, but nowhere near what mclaren is asking
Miata time, bros!
>>151273898i had no idea vp racing challenge ran mazdas
>>151273910Kek
>>151272243also someone mentioned this about harri on ylila
>>151271792>>151272243"I have no desire to go for the WRC champ record"That really said it all to me. Good on him desu.
>>151273327Everything projecting their issues and annoyances about FIA on the Kalle story, because it cant be that he is not interested in statpadding after achieving pretty much everything, even if he exactly said he does not care about records.It was already clear he will want to try full time other things sooner or later and as a lot of people pointed out for single seaters this might be the last timeframe he can jump inBack like 30-50 years ago it was pretty common for people to jump disciplines after achieving everything and not staying for statpadding and trying out as much racing as possible>>151272518no, they would have to somehow pursue him to go for recrds he already said he doesnt care about.it's like people crying that Ogier wants to spend time with his children instead of racing because he loves them. There is no team or rule change who would somehow turn these decisions around or prevent them.
>>151274171everything = everybody
>>151274171I doubt Galle would have even thought about leaving if he wasn't driving in the current era with the insane amount of prep work drivers put into a rally weekend, in circuit racing he can just hop in a car and drive after maybe doing a couple hours on the sim during the week
Galle trying to do a reverse Gimiwill he succeed?
What retards
Gonzalez just got giga fucked
checkers or wreckers faggots
Man, what a crap end to a good race
>>151274323f1 might be a stretch but I can see him driving in wec
>>151274265> I doubtKalle said he is not tired of rallying, he just wants to do more than doing thr same thing in all his life to increase some numbers in spreadsheets.He would have done it maybe later if it's the 90s because back then F1 drive entry age was considerably higher, but if he could he had done the switch bc it is driven by desire and not falling out with the sport, and you cant do it in single seaters as a part time shit if you want to suceed>>151274323he will try for sure on 100 percent. SF and F2 are pretty much already sure, depends on his F2 performance if he will be pushed forward. Given the current f1 driver maket, he will end up in a backmarker (haas is the one rumored bc of the toyota tie up and previous toyota driver tests)Galle will be more succesfull in single seaters than Gimi in rallying
>>151274880>Kalle said he is not tired of rallyingyeah he is tired of watching onboards for 100s of hours for an event not tired of driving the car that's been evident for the last couple years
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