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Blue flags are for lapped cars or slower classes to indicate they're about to be overtaken. That means stay your line and let the faster car go around, or slow a little as not to impede faster traffic. You have the same thing on the highway with 'passing lanes'.
 
Not ones I've seen, the ones I've seen Involve the lapped car moving aside for the faster car.

I never liked it because it kind of lacks skill for the faster the driver and the lapping car cannot defend his opportunity of not being lapped.
 
Not ones I've seen, the ones I've seen Involve the lapped car moving aside for the faster car.

I never liked it because it kind of lacks skill for the faster the driver and the lapping car cannot defend his opportunity of not being lapped.

But in the context of multiclass racing, why would a GT driver be worried about being on the same lap as a DP or LMP driver?
 
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Not ones I've seen, the ones I've seen Involve the lapped car moving aside for the faster car.

I never liked it because it kind of lacks skill for the faster the driver and the lapping car cannot defend his opportunity of not being lapped.

If I'm driving at Le Mans in a GT car, and a Audi prototype is coming right at me... I'm gonna get outta the way!

I agree with you Seth about the technologies being up to the minute in the prototypes, I love learning about that type of stuff!

And guys, school got canceled today (shouldn't have been..) so I may practice some!
 
If I'm driving at Le Mans in a GT car, and a Audi prototype is coming right at me... I'm gonna get outta the way!

I agree with you Seth about the technologies being up to the minute in the prototypes, I love learning about that type of stuff!

And guys, school got canceled today (shouldn't have been..) so I may practice some!
Let me know if you are and I'll join you. Might not be in the same class but practicing on my own is boring haha.
 
freshseth83
So because manufacturers spend money on a technology and to be up front where they rightfully belong by spending the money, you think the races are boring? Maybe if it's Audi vs. privateers. But not Audi vs. Toyota. You should probably pay more attention to the WEC and LeMans if you thought it was boring and over after one turn. There's fuel strategy, tire conservation, wheel to wheel action, multi-classes, state of the art tech that you don't see on cars now but will in the future. What do you get with DP? A mock up Corvette not even close to the street Corvette. If you like GT type cars, you have a GTE class with Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Corvette, Viper and BMW. You can't tell from watching the race they have traction control. You can't tell they don't have ABS. But you can definitely tell LMP's are only 10 seconds a lap slower than F1's best. And the Audi is part time 4wd. They can't run their front hybrid power until after 120kmh. And the power is limited to 500kilojoules (about 200hp for 4-5 seconds).

State of the art tech? If those cars were really like that, the driver would be a computer programmer. He would program the car how to make laps. From there he sits back and enjoys the ride. Racing used to be a great way to showcase technology. Hybrids have been on the streets for decades. They're just now showing up in LMP. Diesel has been around for decades. Just now showing up about 5 years ago in LMP. Gte is good racing. They pass each other. They have double digit grids. Lots of variety. That's all I could ever want in a gt class. Its really expensive to run, however. That's why I don't like gte. Same with LMP except they only have ~4 cars. Plus LMP drivers have to be almost timid around each other because almost any accidental contact will usually destroy the car. I don't like seeing million dollar cars getting destroyed. Oh yea...since when are fuel and tire strategy superior to passing and close racing?
 
If it starts with a green flag and ends with a checkered, I'm down
 
A F1 commentator agrees with me. NASCAR doesn't have blue flags: You can't explain that. If I was 2 laps in the lead I would need something to entertain me, how? by overtaking everyone I'm laping and counting how many people I can propaly lap.

Also, LM24 Regulations state that each driver must have at least 1-2 hour rest after every -2 hour session.

NASCAR does use blue flags, but I don't think they are used anywhere except start/finish. That's NASCAR though, they don't even have local yellows on road courses anymore. I think that if a driver has that kind of lead they are more worried about not making a mistake and getting stuck in the gravel or crashing and being out of the race instead of how many cars they can lap.
 
It's a tricky track, real hard on the tires. Should be fun.:)

Hard on DP tires from what I've tested. I'm not going to give times because they're miserably slow right now. I have a lot of setup work to be done.
 
What were you driving? I need setups BAD lol

Audi R8. I could just give you my setup, but a lot of it really has to do with driving style. It's just a lot of testing and trying different things. But a good place to start is the differential. Obviously, with awd, you have to focus on reducing understeer and getting the rear end to rotate around corners. This way the front tires don't have to work so hard. So the more power you put to the rear the better.
 
Audi R8. I could just give you my setup, but a lot of it really has to do with driving style. It's just a lot of testing and trying different things. But a good place to start is the differential. Obviously, with awd, you have to focus on reducing understeer and getting the rear end to rotate around corners. This way the front tires don't have to work so hard. So the more power you put to the rear the better.

I work with dirt bikes so I wouldn't know haha
 
I've never seen NASCAR use blue flags even though its the Home of crashes.

That is because no one pays attention to the little flag stand... Blue flags are used in most forms of racing, including NASCAR.
 
State of the art tech? If those cars were really like that, the driver would be a computer programmer. He would program the car how to make laps. From there he sits back and enjoys the ride. Racing used to be a great way to showcase technology. Hybrids have been on the streets for decades. They're just now showing up in LMP. Diesel has been around for decades. Just now showing up about 5 years ago in LMP. Gte is good racing. They pass each other. They have double digit grids. Lots of variety. That's all I could ever want in a gt class. Its really expensive to run, however. That's why I don't like gte. Same with LMP except they only have ~4 cars. Plus LMP drivers have to be almost timid around each other because almost any accidental contact will usually destroy the car. I don't like seeing million dollar cars getting destroyed. Oh yea...since when are fuel and tire strategy superior to passing and close racing?
Ahem, if you actually stick around to watch them, you'll agree.
I watched the V8s last week and a Driver had to pit and he was 20 seconds in the lead of a car that already pitted and his pit stop lasted for 19 seconds, Le mans is even better. Pit Stragety is so important in the races because you don't want to go in the pits continuesly.
 
Will be hosting practice session on Fuji on Saturday afternoon GMT Time, it'll be most likely be Me, Damu and Tez. If you want to join just add me on PSN. I'll announce accurate session time probably on Friday.

Only open to those participating in the Rolex Series, includes reserves. Thanks.
 
Will be hosting practice session on Fuji on Saturday afternoon GMT Time, it'll be most likely be Me, Damu and Tez. If you want to join just add me on PSN. I'll announce accurate session time probably on Friday.

Only open to those participating in the Rolex Series, includes reserves. Thanks.

I'll add you after school, I feel like doing an interview for some reason (any questions?).
 
OrangeSquash
Will be hosting practice session on Fuji on Saturday afternoon GMT Time, it'll be most likely be Me, Damu and Tez. If you want to join just add me on PSN. I'll announce accurate session time probably on Friday.

Only open to those participating in the Rolex Series, includes reserves. Thanks.

I'll be there!
 
Well pardon me trying to save the thread from going down the route of you saying Grand Am does no wrong...


Anyways, if Storm was running similar weights, and was that close without trying, we could possibly try that out for a spot race...
I was running the same weight on both; 1070 kg. I think I was running the Zonda with Stage 2 Turbo and nothing else, whereas with the Nissan it was full whack on the upgrades. Zonda wasn't broken in yet, either. Meh, only said about the Zonda R because its easily accessible; I wasn't thinking to much into the performance when I first proposed its possible use in Season 5.

With regards to the other topics, I am pretty gripped on any form of motorsport aside from bikes or boats. I'm hooked on the V8 Supercars, have watched F1 since I was a kid (with my late nan, the 🤬 legend, she'd be so glad to see Jenson Button at McLaren if she were around), I watch any WEC or RSCS I can get around to watching, I get pretty excited when the Porsche Cup is on, I'll watch any NASCAR race that requires the drivers to turn left AND right on the circuit, which doesn't include the pitlane.

I've not been as involved with motorsport as some people are here, so I probably have months of reading with regards to updating myself with the level of insight into each indiviual series. I'm almost restricted to "smile and nod" when you dig past the surface, so to speak. That said, for the discussion about blue flags... I'd prefer competitors to be alive, and if blue flags give people the prompt they need to stay that way instead of relying on perceptive abilities alone, then so be it.

As for Fuji, I'm going to stay quiet for the most part, other than to say that GT may need to improve on those 1:45's...
 
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I love all those things (V8s ftw), NASCAR is ok with me no matter what track there im, my brother only likes it 'cause of the crashes.
Not sure about Fuji?

Oh yeah...
SUPER GT, APRIL 7TH YEAH
 
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