2017 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship - General Season Discussion ThreadSports Cars 

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TheElbows
At least it sounds good...I was expecting something a lot different though. I know that stuff is mostly body-cladding, but this won't be a mid-engine sports car? Rather a front-engine GT-er? Curious choice for a LeMans attack.
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How so, Vette's win at Le Mans, a couple years ago the Aston won it (GTE-AM). Play the BoP right on your first year and game the system you're a shoe in to win, so long as la Sarthe doesn't determine otherwise in a 24 hour span. Like Ford did, then again this is BMW and they try gaming the system plenty of places they go, so I imagine they could do the Ford game better. Though I doubt we'll get the four car assault, three would probably be the max and even that seems unlikely.
 
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Mike458
So basically be Ford?
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Read as, "So basically be a complete **** face". ;)

If only BoP was as easy in real life as it is in various racing games (both sim and gamer style alike). :boggled: Terrible comparison I guess, but sometimes it can all feel a bit tiring. Eh, necessary evil we ha e to live with (otherwise costs would be even stupider :crazy: ).
 
Mike458
So basically be Ford?
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Or basically be BMW that brought us the illegal M3 GT2 and even more illegal V8 Z4 all of which got the passes to go race. I look forward to this new game of BMW next year.
 
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Did you see him dump the clutch in reverse and slam into the VFR car trying to get out of the tires? 3 races is a slap on the wrist.
 
Wiz
Anyone hear anything about why motorsport.com dropped their IMSA pages?
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I noticed that a few days ago, thought the site was bugged or I was losing my mind

Edit: I imagine it would have something to do with the gtlm class crashing into each other and ruining races but who knows.
 
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DesertPenguin09
I've only ever used motorsport.com. What should I bookmark for daily viewing?
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Racer as well, you should have more than one really. Because some are better than others. For F1, book mark the official site, cause they actually have a time converter for the GP weekend so you can follow it. I also use F1 fanatic. For this stuff, I use Racer and Motorsport, but also Radio Le Mans. Indy I use Racer more than anything else. Then there are various sites for other series I use as well. But those are the main ones.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Racer as well, you should have more than one really. Because some are better than others. For F1, book mark the official site, cause they actually have a time converter for the GP weekend so you can follow it. I also use F1 fanatic. For this stuff, I use Racer and Motorsport, but also Radio Le Mans. Indy I use Racer more than anything else. Then there are various sites for other series I use as well. But those are the main ones.
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To add, the lesser known sportscar365 does IMSA news pretty well I think so maybe save that one too if you like it.
 
Eh Team
To add, the lesser known sportscar365 does IMSA news pretty well I think so maybe save that one too if you like it.
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yeah I forgot about them, usually they all end up telling the same news at some point during the day of release. Just depends on which one gets it first, but yeah that is another useful one. I use them every once in a while, thanks for the reminder.
 
Curious, regarding the above Habul "tweets". They mentioned that his car had a broken rotor/split rim at the very beginning of the race - when it pitted early. That's one of the reasons why he was dead last and trying to stay on the lead lap. Is he saying another identical failure occured...that seems pretty iffy.
 
TheElbows
Curious, regarding the above Habul "tweets". They mentioned that his car had a broken rotor/split rim at the very beginning of the race - when it pitted early. That's one of the reasons why he was dead last and trying to stay on the lead lap. Is he saying another identical failure occured...that seems pretty iffy.
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I think there was a second one because all the paint was gone around either side of the split. That suggests to me that it was rubbing against the caliper which would happen for the next wheel to go on there, quite how that happens and goes completely unnoticed I have no clue. Since he was trying to keep on the lead lap I would hazard a guess that the team didn't fix whatever the problem was with the car on the initial break.
 
IforceV8
http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/141288-habul-vfr-team-clear-the-air-over-detroit-wreck
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I have far more respect for the driver, and at first when I saw his response to social media I didn't pay it any mind cause it seemed like others who get beat up and jump to an angry defense. But the fact that he actually did this and others have said that he had a mechanical issue, proves to me that IMSA and their coverage didn't do this guy any favors, and the net being the net went to town on the matter. Hope the best for both parties and glad they took the time to settle what some people still considered a dispute.

Hopefully all those who actually said something negative here will rescind those comments in light of the facts.
 

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