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Do we need a separate thread for this event?

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From the Rolex thread.

What we're hoping to see in the future is event-specific threads. F1 races all get their own thread, and there's no reason other series can't do the same. With the new front-page approach of tying the comments to forum threads, this makes it a lot more approachable for readers that aren't intimately familiar with the forums. A thread on the overall season—which can and should exist alongside event-specific ones—can be a very unwieldy thing to navigate if someone is looking for info on the current race.

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It would be much easier to follow things specific to the event & the thread can be closed once we're all done.

What do we think mods?
No need to close the thread. It'll just fall off the front page eventually. That's the whole point though. Put the event in a thread, let it fall off, but if someone wants to refer back to a specific event, they need only search thread titles for what they're looking for.

It makes sense for large events like signature endurance a races.

What doesn't make sense to me is that its deemed ok to put the F1 thread titles in the native language of the host country (but only sometimes). I'll also add I was disappointed the Japanese GP didn't get an authentic title. That one would have been fun to search for 6 years from now.
 
It's been rumored/not-officially-reported for some time now. Most likely with him as a source to increase his leverage in the event he chose to stay.

If I was a talented racing car driver, I'd always be exploring my options, especially if another brand shows interest in me. It'd get boring doing too much of the same thing all the time.
 


Note the GT40 parked next to it.

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Ferrari looks pretty nice.


I am a BIG AF Corse fan AND recently I installed Kaspersky on my PC and so when I saw who they signed I was going cartwheels! James and Giancarlo are one of the most talented names in the stable at AF Corse for me and as for Cioci, I don't know too much about him except for the fact he will also be racing for the team in the GT Open with Pierguiseppi Perrazzini except for what I have just seen on driverdb.com where he scored four podiums, 1 fastest lap but no wins over ten 2016 races spent in the GTE class of the ELMS, Blancpain GT Sport Club and the GT Open, but he could be handy. So far of what I know about the entries I cannot see too many teams bothering them apart from M-Sport's Bentley Motorsport team where the addition of Olivier Jarvis to a settled set of drivers like Max Soulet and Steven Kane and Andy Soucek coukd make them hot contenders.
 
Hell yeah. The Taylor brothers are the nicest guys. Still not a fan of the Sprint-X format, but that's cool. ATS looks good in blue as well.
 
Sprint X is cool, it's like a taste of a mini endurance race. It's something I like to do with GT6 as well. Set up a medium length race and force a pit stop to mix things up. Fuel and tires last the whole race so it's just the strategy of making a gap and deciding when to come in. It works well and I've seen leads change in the pits to be battled out on track to the end of the race.
 
Sprint X is cool, it's like a taste of a mini endurance race. It's something I like to do with GT6 as well. Set up a medium length race and force a pit stop to mix things up. Fuel and tires last the whole race so it's just the strategy of making a gap and deciding when to come in. It works well and I've seen leads change in the pits to be battled out on track to the end of the race.
It's requiring a driver change and tire change in a race length that doesn't need it. Blancpain Sprint is the same way. Idk, un-neccessary additional costs in additional tires and all that too. Teams don't particularly like it, but they have to run it if they want to race more than 5 weekends a year to justify the programmes.

Is Sprint-X like ST-X, in Super Taikyu?

60min race w/ a tire and driver change as opposed to a normal PWC race which is 50min race with a single driver and no tire change.
 
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