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Nurburgring Qualifying about to start.
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Final Round of Blancpain Endurance series starts in 20 minutes.
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Interesting fact in the commentary that no-one has won twice in any class this year!
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This is a great battle between the GTR and the Bentley... Kane must be doing his nut..!
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Great race! 
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Would of liked to see if Kane in the Bentley had the pace to catch the McLaren if he got through with around half hour left as they lost over 10 seconds battling before Kane got past and then caught up by around 5 seconds.
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Just finished the replay. Wow! That was great! One of my favorite drivers takes the win, my favorite team takes the championship, and the underdog finishes first in class. Fantastic, absolutely awesome.
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I just finished as well. Great for the Nismo crew to bring home the drivers championship, and Kudos to the Jaguar for finally winning a race. Nice to see their hard work pay off.
On another note, manufacture based team orders at the end there were really quite ridiculous. That lapped Audi (#4?) holding up the Bentley and Nissan, which just looked like an idiot driver at first not getting out of the way, once they got by and he just moved out of the way for the #1 Audi who had caught them it was clear what he was doing. Then the lapped Ferrari at the end that was also clearly taking orders to help the 2nd place AM Ferrari. This is not racing.
On another note, manufacture based team orders at the end there were really quite ridiculous. That lapped Audi (#4?) holding up the Bentley and Nissan, which just looked like an idiot driver at first not getting out of the way, once they got by and he just moved out of the way for the #1 Audi who had caught them it was clear what he was doing. Then the lapped Ferrari at the end that was also clearly taking orders to help the 2nd place AM Ferrari. This is not racing.
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Agreed. That was kinda sad. I was half expecting the Ferrari to let off the throttle and move to block the Jag after the last corner. Glad that wasn't the case, but it will happen eventually.
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i just wonder there is nothing to see in the GTP News
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Sometimes it takes a day or two.
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I like how they won it through typical gran turismo fashion, get a team mate to take out your main rival and only go fast in a straight line.
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Hey if Audi and Ferrari want to play dirty, it's fair game. But saying the Always Evolving guys would intentionally take themselves out of the race they dominated at the start by hitting another car, is a stretch.
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Seems it was the GT3.
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Have to say my respect for the Bentley guys has went up greatly after seeing how the Nissan drivers have been behaving so far.
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Well one of them was forced to give back a position during the race and it wasn't the Nissan boys.
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Audi lapped car if I read right being a class A idiot?
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More like Audi team orders, but yeah.
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I think he's suffering memory lose as when that happened it was the ecurie ecosse BMW that held up the Nissan when the Bentley got past but seems to forget the Audi also held up the Bentley (after the other Nissan took out the other Audi) yet the Bentley drivers have enough self respect not to slag the driver all over the Internet and show integraty.
Suppose that's why he's on the ignore list.
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Ok was the Audi, is the rest really needed pal...
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I'm talking about the #4 Audi I believe it was that held up the Nissan and the Bentley for several laps so that the #1 Audi could catch up to them. When the two of them finally got a nose in to get by, it saw the #1 Audi there and just moved right on over like "here you go mate". Typical of Audi really, nothing new with them. Ferrari is no different.
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Yeah. 52:00 left in the race-2:36.41 on the video replay clock.
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http://www.speedcafe.com/2015/09/22/australian-gt-reveals-2016-sprint-enduro-dates/
Australian GT Endurance Series 2016 Schedule
Round 1: Phillip Island 101, May 29
Round 2: Sydney Motorsport Park, August 26-28
Round 3: Hampton Downs, October 28-30
Round 4: Highlands Park 101, November 13
Australian GT Sprint Series 2016 Schedule
Round 1: Clipsal 500, March 3-6
Round 2: Australian Grand Prix, March 31 – April 3 (TBC)
Round 3: Perth Super Sprint, May 6-8
Round 4: Phillip Island 101, May 27-28
Round 5: Castrol Edge Townsville 400, July 8-10
Round 6: Highlands Park 101, November, 11-12
Australian GT Endurance Series 2016 Schedule
Round 1: Phillip Island 101, May 29
Round 2: Sydney Motorsport Park, August 26-28
Round 3: Hampton Downs, October 28-30
Round 4: Highlands Park 101, November 13
Australian GT Sprint Series 2016 Schedule
Round 1: Clipsal 500, March 3-6
Round 2: Australian Grand Prix, March 31 – April 3 (TBC)
Round 3: Perth Super Sprint, May 6-8
Round 4: Phillip Island 101, May 27-28
Round 5: Castrol Edge Townsville 400, July 8-10
Round 6: Highlands Park 101, November, 11-12
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I don't know if I'd extend this issue to the manufacturers, as both Audis were part of Vincent Vosse's redoubtable WRT outift. Same with the Ferraris, they were both AF Corse cars. Audi are dicks, but I don't know if they deserve to be slagged for Sunday's team-specific coordinated blocking.
I thought the race's most egregious race steward decision was the one to give a driving standards flag (a warning in effect) to Vanthoor when he passed the #63 by blatantly pushing it off line under braking for turn 3. That he didn't need to return the place was appalling, the move was not legitimate at all. Kane's initial overtake on Buncombe was far more marginal.
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