This weekend (All times ET):>Thursday, November 6WRC, Rd 13/14, 'Rally Japan', Toyota, Japan>Saturday, November 86:00 AM: WEC, Rd 8/8, '8 Hours of Bahrain', Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain (Season Final)9:00 AM: Formula 1, Rd 21-S/24, 'São Paulo Grand Prix (Sprint)', Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos), São Paulo, Brazil10:00 AM: MotoGP, Rd 21-S/22, 'Grande Prémio de Portugal (Sprint)', Algarve International Circuit, Portimão, Portugal>Sunday, November 98:00 AM: Formula 1, Rd 21/24, 'São Paulo Grand Prix', Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos), São Paulo, Brazil12:00 PM: MotoGP, Rd 21/22, 'Grande Prémio de Portugal', Algarve International Circuit, Portimão, PortugalSpreadsheet:https://pastebin.com/D9ZzLBrv (embed)More races and times at:https://raceday.watchPrevious thread:>>151650771
>>151789047nice color
I miss Bentley
canapino this year>5 pole positions>7 qualy race wins>5 final race wins
>>151788954I dont get whats the problem, they wanted to go to a film poster aesthetic (honestly this reminds me to some western movie posters) and well, they achieved itIt's far from the best LM24 poster but far from the worst, its in the MEH middle groubd
rally neeuuuz of last few days> Cyril wants to retain TanakThis basically underlines that tanak is in talks with somebody other than hyundaihttps://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/abiteboul-urges-tanak-to-stay-with-hyundai-in-2026/> You can ask the FIA tech advisor at dirtfishhttps://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/ask-the-fia-your-wrc-questions/> Aberdeen secures a 1.5m GBP support package for a Rally UK bid> Seb Loeb trying to compete at select WRC event in the coming yearsI only saw this at a turkis site so take it with a grain of salt> Janni Hussi will be part of the Toyota gravel crew again this weekend
>>151789750forgot the rally GB linkhttps://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/cost-hosting-world-rally-championships-10616711?
>>151789698Alt poster.
Lmaohttps://x.com/Noah_Lewis1/status/1985067844615475303
>>151789698I get your point, it's just that line >Inspired by the design of a cult movie visual...Come on, seriously?If only we could have some cool poster like IMSA
>>151789750where could ott go? he's defo not going back to toyota and ford would be career suicide (again)>>151789814basdf autism
>>151789814Nascar even brought in the wnba thots for the ship
>>151789814He may be a no-talent silver spoon driver, but Autism can be a funny guy sometimes.
>>151789814
Why are Kryle and Bread even still racing at all when they're both washed-up old farts who can't even race as well as the eternal choker Dennis can? At least Brad has the excuse of being an owner-driver. They both need to get the fuck out of the way and let younger talent from trucks/Xfinity get seats
>>151790321Bread is still competitive, though this year isn't the best example since all of RFK struggled. But he's won as recently as last year. So he's still got hope, that's why he's still here.Kryle is a harder explanation. RCR is definitely inferior to the competition, but Autism can still seal the deal on races, including this year. Kryle, meanwhile, appears to be operating under some kind of curse. Maybe, in the midst of their ugly breakup, Joe Gibbs hired and Etsy witch to put a hex on him. Whatever it is, I think he badly wants at least one more win, but he does seem kinda delusional right now.
I feel bad for zillisch. But not hamlin. And I dont really feel bad for zillisch. Zilisch is obviously way more talented than SVG from a nascar perspective. But even than its like the same sorta bullshit. Im taking away from Connors year but the stats become less impressive(still good) when you take away the road course domination. 10 wins is 10 wins regardless. But what bothers me about this manufactured outrage is like the same people crying about Connor deserving a championship are super quite about the a dude like heim who won 10 and the championship but dosent a fill time xfinity or cup ride. Hes stuck in trucks. Thats the travesty for me. The dude who performed all year round and went 7 wide for the win may not ever even make it to cup. When realistically he could shit all over half the field. Its silly. Theres no way zillisch deserves a championship more than heim deserves a promotion. Zillisch does deserve a championship but is exactly because he dominated all year or is it because hes a fun social media presence. Its the same shit with denny. Denny won a couple more races. Kyle had the better year. But Kyle dosent have a dying dad and a podcast so who cares. Just ignore the 11 crew fucking themselves despite having prime postion to make the right call. You know how this shit works Dennis gwc overtime playoffs blah blah blah. Save me with the format fucked him. Do these parasocial relationship having morons realize denny hamlin has had an opportunity to win a champion across 3 different iterations of the shit and has nothing to show for it. At what point do these fucking fools realize emotions are not reality. Whats fair is what happens. You dont get cry after the fact when I didnt work for the millionth time for you. Thats no nascar fucking you over. Thats universe telling you this just aint for you bud. Great driver. One of the best to it. Hes never gonna win a championship. Its not meant to be. It was in the 11 crews hands and it slipped away.
>>151789843Ott back in toyota would mean evans will never win another rally again, i need it to happen
>>151790421I follow you, anon, but I would temper your praise for Heim by noting that lower series performance is not a guaranteed indicator of upper series performance. Just look at Ty Gibbs and Noah Gragson.On that subject, the real travesty is that Derbst, a guy who spent nearly his entire Xfinity career coming up short or choking in the big moments, has a Cup ride, and not somebody like Heim who shows actual potential. Derbst is one of the finest examples of nepotism currently in the sport, since Harrison Burton got demoted.
>>151790421i find hard to judge how good heim really is, tricon is the only full fledged factory team in the field and the talent pool is as deep as a puddle, i mean there must be a reason why despite the impressive numbers neither chevy or ford have bothered to look at him while toyota doesn't seem in a rush to move him up like they've done with other of their youngsters
>>151791929The difference between Heim and other guys that left (or stayed with) Toyota is that Heim signed a multi-year deal with a Toyota Cup team that isn't JGR.
>>151791929Ford is uninterested in talent development, they just find someone without a contract whenever a seat opens up.
>>151789814@thisperson@thatperson@thatfaggotoverthereI see you have to be clinically brain dead to be still on social media these days, who the fuck takes any of these idiots seriously?
https://racer.com/2025/11/03/keselowski-keen-to-bring-rfk-racing-back-to-imsaBase Bread
>>151790321I think Kyle is done winning but I don't think Brad is>>151790421Part of me wanted Hamlin to win because 1.) NASCAR hates him and it would make them seethe and that's funny and 2.) he'd probably retire. He might still, I dunno. But the call for 4 tires was obviously retarded, he probably would have been okay staying out entirely since Larson had two consecutive right-side tire only stops so it was very possible he'd blow one again
>>151789047
Remember the greatest moment of last year's Rally Japan?https://youtube.com/shorts/F1R2QXJyYNk?si=FAleS6e3lN3XVL7y
got laid off. Races for this feel?>>151789843estonian and italian media reported ott talked with JML about Toyota.Reminder He only left them because the car was a fast but unreliable shit when he was there (then became reliable when he left lol)
>>151789471don't trust actc
Weather for rally japan: Friday + Saturday will be drySunday: heavy rain>>151795475kek I remember
Fuck, I have been posting in the old if anyone gives a fuck to check it out.I'm too busy to keep up with this these days.
>>151789047Based, OP. I really miss the red, yellow and blue Cadillacs and Chip Ganassi operating them, although I don't like Chip very much.
Where are the best motorsport photo galleries?
>>151789818Man, looking back even at recent posters, most of them have a cool retro art style that kind of hints at the historic importance of the race. That new movie style poster is a jaring departure and it just doesn't invoke the emotion that the others do.>If only we could have some cool posters like IMSAIMSA has definitely had some very cool posters and I think IndyCar has been really killing it over the last few years.
>>151796064https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo.htmlhttps://www.mulsannescorner.com/
>>151796064Flickr probably has some good ones. Isn't there a board for photography here? I'd ask on there.There is an anon here that does photography pretty well, maybe he knows, but if I recall he was having difficulty sharing, so not sure about his knowlegde about the topic.
>trannies STILL seething over dennis choking away another title
>>151796254He still hasn't posted his Monday podcast. Almost 3 hours late now.
>>151796064motorsport images was great until getty bought them and closed the loophole where they could download hq photos without watermark.Also in the wrc threads its common knowledge but Toyota puts a shitload of high quality high res photos at every sportscar, wrc and other racing weekends on their box.com folder the folder structure handcrafted by THAT mana btw lol
>>151796178you can only download high res photos from pro accounts btw on flickr. Before that I gone and abused flickr api to download a loooooooot of sportscar images from a guy who was taking photos of lemans already in the 80s
>>151796254he got what he wanted, put people against Asscar.
>>151796295He's literally thinking of reasons that it wasn't his fault.
>>151796295Same energy.
> “Ford is building a Hypercar for 2027 that is going to compete at Le Mans and maybe the United States. And if it competes in the United States, I’d like to own that team” Bread about having an IMSA team as well
Also Bahrain BoP is out, FIACO went "Fuck you Porsche" with it lol
>>151801300is this true chat?
>>151801300wtf
>>151796085>IndyCar has been really killing it over the last few yearsDefinitely. If there's something to NOT change in Indycar, it's that one
>>151801812The amount of Elliot gear at Bristol is unreal. He's easily the most well represented driver there.
was the gen 4 really better or is it just nostalgia?
>>151802477well. it's tied to the last golden age of the championshipAnd IDC if it raced better or worse, early Gen4 is second to none aesthetically for me
>>151802477Better then the Gen7? Yes.Better than ALL subsequent generations? Aesthetically, at least.
>>151802477take in count the gen4 cars stayed for almost 20 years, when people talk about it the good days of the gen4 they aren't exactly referring to the twisted sisters era
>>151802805Twisted Sisters were the lowest era of Gen4, die cast companies probably had nightmares working on it because NASCAR stopped enforcing the straight shape.
YOUZA DORKBRRT BRET BRRT
>>151802835dieast compnies just made the cars look like they are not twisted as far as I remember
https://x.com/VincentJBruins/status/1985664079336198275NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>151803630Capybaras
>>151801300This is why Hendrick gets the favoritism it does btw.>>151802477Early gen 4 is probably the peak, but ill always have a soft spot for the gen 3's cause it was the last era with a true "wild west" feel to the rules to me. Not to mention the top speeds they got.
There is no such thing as a gen 3 or gen 4
>>151804211
Zilisch losing the xfinity championship cost him his WEC test at Bahrain because he didn't get enough loicense points from 2nd place.
>>151804341>NASCAR memeoffs have become an international incidentFIRE THESE MEN
>>151789047lol did she dress like rick bobby's wife on purpose?
>>151804341lol I didnt know superloicence is required for wec toohttps://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/connor-zilisch-loses-shot-at-wec-hypercar-test-drive-due-to-nascar-title-loss/10773694/those cars are slower than f2 or indy for fucks sake
>>151804429hard to tell bc early-mid 00s is the big fashion revival atm, soeven if she just wanted to dress for that trend she would look like her
>>151804577Not a Super Licence; A-Grade Licence is required for Hypercar.
>>151803630Total Honda death.
>>151804626ah okayhope he will get back his gt4 disc and can complete the licence tests before his next wec chance
>>151804764This picture reeks of skank.
i hope that the japan rally again will provide memes and drama.somehow even thouh the stages themselves mostly unremarkable, it always had a lot of big drama and meme habbenings
>>151804764What i miss from that era of style isnt the whale tail but just the very low cut jeans all girls wore. Tummy enjoyers never had it better.
>>151804764Im pretty sure I saw some, but you know It's always selective with these things. When the 80s revival was a thing everyone was kawasaki ninja neon retropuk but (for the better) everyone forgot how brown everything was in the early-mid 80s
>>151804800Yeah, isn't great? I miss the 90's and early 2000s.
>>151804809one of my favourite was when ogier got pirellid from the lead an he went on a weekend long tirade about how pirelli is always shit and already fully lost it at sunday pre rally interviews and after the powerstage he went even more kek
>>151804872unironically majority of things were better pre 2008 than now.Yeah even the internet which supposedly improved a lot lol
>>151804842Trends a decade is known for usually don't start along with the decade.The early '80s were very '70s.The early '90s were very '80s.
>>151804764The metadata for that image is dated August 22, 2006. It is absolutely a genuine artifact.
>>151803630bring back the NSX Honda you cowards
>>151795475He is on the entry list this year as well btw
The Vanthoor brothershttps://youtu.be/A1JWDY3ztFw
what did gimmie mean by this?
>>151808986Trugg
>>151804932>pre 2008My nigga, you should have seen 1998. I know everyone thinks thier coming of age time is the best, but it's pretty hard to beat the 1990s, at least with anything that's come since. You could smoke inside everywhere, rock and roll was still a thing, most major European cities were majority white, normalfags hardly even knew the internet existed and Half-Life came out. Oh, and you could buy a gallon of gasoline for $0.89, a house for $75,000 and a new Corvette for under $40k. Also, the GT1 arms race was in full swing.Everything was better before George Bush crashed his holograms into the Word Trade Center to justify America going to war with Israel's enemies.
>>151804967This music video distinctly marks the exact moment the 1990s began.https://youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg
Aaaaawww, who reported me 2000s hoes?
>>151809920This toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg
>>151810038I was going to post this.
>>151808986Gimmie full time on truggs for 2026 (I hope so).
>>151810038Yeah, that's arguably a better song and video, too. Mike Patton is like if LSD were a person. I really like how he is wearing a shirt from another one of his bands in the video.>>151808986>>151810131Is it Buschwacking when you are an old fart?I really enjoyed having him in IndyCar even if he did did get wrecked out by other drivers half the time. (The other half he was wrecking himself out.)
>>151805841fuck yes
seems the walls are closing in on NASCAR
>>151810551So what happens if NASCAR is determined to be a monopoly?
>>151810551Good.
>>151810619they would be broken up, but i would bet the teams don't want NASCAR to be broken up. they'd probably rather NASCAR just restructure and the teams get a bigger and more permanent part of the pie and NASCAR remain a monopoly because that would mean the pie their slice from remains bigger
>>151810619Ultimately depends on what the plaintiffs ask for as damages or remedies. But, it also sets a precedent. If NASCAR loses, then anyone else can file a different anti competition suit for another reason and point this this case as "persuasive authority".
>>151810685>they would be broken upBroke up how, though? The only major thing I can see is the track ownership.
>>151810685>>151810822They won't get broken up. It would take a much bigger case, like the federal government filing suit (and that won't happen, at least for 3 years). Or, there would probably have to be multiple anticompetition suits going on at the same time, from multiple parties, and NASCAR would have to lose catastrophically.For this case, it would probably result in some damages and maybe some orders saying what NASCAR can/cannot do anymore, things like certain terms in the contracts and stuff.
>>151810685nascar or it's monopoly can be broken up multiple ways>>151809855yes and no, i wrote a proper reply but this shitchan ate it up. I agree with you at least partially, but 911 made way less of a hit on the culture, car industry and state of motorsport (globally at least a lot of things did not even register 911 or bounced back pretty quickly) than the financial crack
>>151801300There's so much to comment on in here.>Chastain not the most popular driver in his home state>DC the only place in the country that likes Byron best>Hawaii the only place that likes Ty Gibbs best>that many Bubba states>any states where Blowman is the favorite>Texas and Alabama being on the wrong side of the Chase-on/Larson Line.
>>151803645Coconut doggy?
>>151810926This.Recall that the birth of the EV meme in the US came from bailing out Chevy and Chrysler in '08. The feds conditioned the bailout in part on them making new electric cars. Thus was born the fuck-ass ugly Chevy Volt.
rally cars with snorkels
>>151810926>>151811111If i am to guess, ASSCAR is going to sell tracks to other US ventures
>>151803630Being a Honda owner is so fucking embarrassing at this point.
>>151811866>at this pointYou're two decades late anon.
>>151811507i'm fully expecting him to announce his retirement on the spot when his turn to go up and speak comes up
catching up on the awards banquet after study and i kept hearing noises back here
>>151813197DON'T DO IT FLORIDA MANTHE SKINWALKERS WILL GET YOU
>>151811866They still make great normal cars.
>>151813197Skunk ape.
>>151804211Gen 4 begins when the teams no longer had to use factory sheetmetal, sometime between around 1992 and 1994.
>>151811111the Prius and Insight entered production in 1998.
>>151801300There is no way that map is accurate.
>>151814854Yes. The Japanese manufacturers were interested in exploring whether the market was interested in alternatives, and so they produced *hybrids.* Of these, the Prius succeeded and carved out a nice little niche for itself, and the Insight flopped. You'll see Insights every now and then, but they never succeeded the way the Prius did.The Big Three, however, had little interest in that. GM had tried a battery electric in the mid '90s, also a flop. To them, this was either a chunk of the market that was largely uninteresting, or just not worth the expense in R&D. But when you're begging for federal bailoutbux, the feds get a say in where that goes.
>>151815079my point was, the Obama bailouts didn't invent EVs or hybrids. Obama giving 7 billion dollars to Elon Musk certainly helped legitimise EVs but they existed beforehand (Tesla themselves had been making the Roadster since 2005 or something, back when they were just Lotus Elises with a battery pack swapped in).
