The motorsport thread. (car, bike and sim motorsport)

So not sure if anyone else here likes motorsport.

Anyway this year I'm trying to expand my watching of motorsport beyond Formula 1, FIA Formula 2, GP3 and the occasional Supercars race.

Late last year I started watching FIA WEC and started watching Formula E at the start of the season in December. I plan to also watch the IMSA SportCar Championship which starts this weekend and features the new Daytona Prototype cars in addition to the Le Mans LMP2 cars.

For anyone that wants to watch this stuff...

Formula E streams free on their YouTube channel (you need a VPN to watch some of it) and puts up past broadcast there as well (no VPN required). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-D...OEk_5o1q4Ze-Fg

IMSA do free streaming outside the US, you can watch this weekends Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona there. https://imsatv.imsa.com/

FIA WEC stream on their web site but it's not free. http://www.fiawec.com/

F1, F2, GP3 and Supercars are all tied up with Foxtel with replays of F1 on Channel Ten.

I try to watch the FIA World Rally Championship every now and again

I'm into two wheels, though will watch four, even though I think four is two wheels too many. :p

Do you guys watch Moto GP? My understanding is that you can either watch on Fox Sports or buy a season pass on the Moto GP website and watch the exact same coverage there.

MotoGP is great, last season particularly. Can't wait for this year to start racing.

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

Do you guys watch Moto GP? My understanding is that you can either watch on Fox Sports or buy a season pass on the Moto GP website and watch the exact same coverage there.

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One broadcasts the main race only, so you're stuffed if you want to watch Moto 2 or 3.

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Originally Posted by gamblor916

MotoGP is great, last season particularly. Can't wait for this year to start racing.

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Absolutely fantastic season! Best one in a looonnnggg time!

I only watch Group B Rallying. Today's motorsport seems outright boring in comparison...

Anyone watching the 24 7 race at bathurst on 7mate this feb?

You mean the Bathurst 12 Hours? I think it's next weekend and yes I'll be watching.

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You mean the Bathurst 12 Hours? I think it's next weekend and yes I'll be watching.

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Yeah thats what i meant :p

New owners of Formula 1 announces the dedicated, committed, hard working grid girls will no longer be part of the event.

^ Yeah that's just stupid. Now all those women are out of a job.

Anyway I finished watching the Daytona 24 Hours last night. Good race to have on in the background while you're doing other stuff.

^ (I'm gonna regret asking but hey what the heck) Like, what other stuff?

Formula 1 for me, would like to get into MotoGP but I'm not sure I have the time

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Originally Posted by Galvatran

^ (I'm gonna regret asking but hey what the heck) Like, what other stuff?

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Playing a game, browsing the web, you know, stuff you might have a TV on in the background for.

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

Playing a game, browsing the web, you know, stuff you might have a TV on in the background for.

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Shhhhh. Keep it on the down low. We don't want our better half to know we can multi-task. That'll just open up a whole can of worms.

12 hour starts at 2.30am my time. Hope its a good race

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^ (I'm gonna regret asking but hey what the heck) Like, what other stuff?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYoj8_LBavQ

Just found an archive of the Bathurst 12 Hour thanks to Nissan/Nismo

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwLVSX1p_nM

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_dqPP1LZY

yeah i follow F1 and V8 supercars but less on the V8 front these days. Generally watch every F1 race but not so much V8s.

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I only watch Group B Rallying. Today's motorsport seems outright boring in comparison...

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Exhilarating as they were (i liked the audi quattro by the way) those cars were monsters that claimed lives.

Althoughi do not know much about these motorsports i just wath them, Hillclimb might be your thing they some go beyond 800hp

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Originally Posted by G1Optimal

Exhilarating as they were (i liked the audi quattro by the way) those cars were monsters that claimed lives.

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The same could be said about many forms of motorsport. I've watched a number of documentaries on Formula 1 car safety over the years. It's sickening what the organisers deemed to be ok in the past.

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

The same could be said about many forms of motorsport. I've watched a number of documentaries on Formula 1 car safety over the years. It's sickening what the organisers deemed to be ok in the past.

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True

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

The same could be said about many forms of motorsport. I've watched a number of documentaries on Formula 1 car safety over the years. It's sickening what the organisers deemed to be ok in the past.

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Saw a doco called "Group B - The Killer Years" on BBC Knowledge about a year ago. It was about European rally championships during the 70's & early 80's. Man, the FIA did not give a flying rats arse about safety in those days, not about the drivers or the spectators. All they cared about was the ratings and lining their pockets. I will say though that the driving itself was epic. Those guys & girls were nucking futs :eek:

^ I think you're confusing two documentaries.

The Group B documentary is called "Madness On Wheels - Rallying's Craziest Years" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372307/

The Formula 1 documentary from the same people is called "Grand Prix - The Killer Years" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954483/

Both are easy enough to find on various streaming places on the internet. (note there is footage in both but especially in the Formula 1 documentary that's not appropriate for everyone)

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

^ I think you're confusing two documentaries.

The Group B documentary is called "Madness On Wheels - Rallying's Craziest Years" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372307/

The Formula 1 documentary from the same people is called "Grand Prix - The Killer Years" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954483/

Both are easy enough to find on various streaming places on the internet. (note there is footage in both but especially in the Formula 1 documentary that's not appropriate for everyone)

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Nope, "Madness On Wheels - Rallying's Craziest Years" & "Rallying - The Killer Years" are the same just different title. I just got the title wrong. The Grand Prix version is from the same doco series.

There's also a great documentary called "1" on Formula 1 safety, it focuses more on the positives. It's very hard to google thanks to the name being the arabic numeral 1. Here's a link to it in Google and iTunes.

https://play.google.com/store/movies...id=c0_mkUHFHtA

https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/1/id734421786

Just finished watching the Adelaide 500 using On Demand on Foxtel Now. Now I've got to catch up on the IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring and the IRL St Petersburg GP while not falling behind of the F1 Australian GP and round 2 of the Supercars. And the WEC doesn't even kick off till May.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to try and watch more motorsport this year.

Well that was an interesting race.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/4...6f2d2571_o.jpg

Yeah, that was an absolutely ridiculous decision by race direction!

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Something looks wrong there but I can't quite put my finger on it...:p

This mornings race in Bahrain was really cool. Lots of drivers from the back of the grid last year ended up in the top 10.

And Kimi Raikkonen tried to kill his own pit crew. Well not intentionally but one poor dudes leg looked like a dog's breakfast.

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Originally Posted by gamblor916

Well that was an interesting race.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/4...6f2d2571_o.jpg

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What happened there???

Google Argentina MotoGP.

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I only watch Group B Rallying. Today's motorsport seems outright boring in comparison...

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First found out about this sport through Colin McRae Rally 04 on PS2. There are four Group B cars to unlock:
1. Lancia 037
2. Peugeot 205
3. Ford RS200
4. Audi Quattro
The Audi can only be unlocked if you complete the hardest difficulty level and rightly so, these cars have F1-like engines and combined with their crap handling I can see the B in Group B stands for brutal.

By the way, rugby union says their sport is what is played in heaven. That's because Group B rally is way too violent for heaven.;)

Anyone that hasn't seen the F1 Chinese GP from yesterday you need to watch it if you have the means. The first half of the race is so-so. The second half is amazing.

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

Anyone that hasn't seen the F1 Chinese GP from yesterday you need to watch it if you have the means. The first half of the race is so-so. The second half is amazing.

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While I'm a Ferrari fan, I'm glad Ricciardo got the win - always good to see an Aussie on the podium not to mention him doing his trademark shoey!! :D

Great day for Aussies in the two biggest open wheel races in the world. Danny Ric won the Monaco GP and Will Power won the Indy 500.

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Great day for Aussies in the two biggest open wheel races in the world. Danny Ric won the Monaco GP and Will Power won the Indy 500.

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He won the Monaco GP?! Great news!!:eek::D

Here's the full replay of the FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa.

The WEC is fast becoming my favourite racing series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhRIxoVvhM

If anyone wants to watch this years 24 Hours of Le Mans for free it's now been put onto the Le Mans YouTube channel. Here's the link to the playlist of this years event including quali.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Yb...DB7H_C&index=4