[Formula One & motorsport] Le Mans 24 Hours: Please stop crashing into Sophia Flörsch

Jazz

Added Official Virtual F1 to OP, and updated Hot Laps information and made a couple of other very minor tweaks.

Jazz

Quoting for BOTP'd:

Jazz wrote: »

Virtual Bahrain GP updates.

Bad news:

Update: F1 race drivers who will not take part

Sebastian Vettel
Charles Leclerc
Max Verstappen
Alexander Albon
Daniel Ricciardo
Esteban Ocon
Romain Grosjean
Kevin Magnussen
Daniil Kvyat
Pierre Gasly
Sergio Perez
Lance Stroll

So, basically, not Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault, Haas, AlphaTauri or Racing Point drivers.

Verstappen:

“I don’t play that game and I would have to adapt to it,” said Verstappen. “That would take a few days, and that doesn’t make much sense as I’m busy with other things, other games. I would have to switch too much, and that doesn’t work.”

“I would be running around the back, and I don’t enjoy that,” he added.

Good news:

Drivers confirmed for Virtual Bahrain Grand Prix

(Excuse the shit formatting, middle column is driver numbers which is why most are TBC)

Mercedes TBC Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes TBC Esteban Gutierrez
Ferrari TBC Robert Shwartzman
Ferrari TBC Dino Beganovic
Red Bull TBC Philip Eng
Red Bull TBC Chris Hoy
McLaren TBC TBC
McLaren TBC TBC
Renault TBC Guanyu Zhou
Renault TBC Ian Poulter
Alpha Tauri TBC TBC
Alpha Tauri TBC TBC
Racing Point TBC Jimmy Broadbent
Racing Point TBC TBC
Alfa Romeo TBC TBC
Alfa Romeo TBC TBC
Haas TBC TBC
Haas TBC TBC
Williams 6 Nicholas Latifi
Williams TBC TBC

Nico Hulkenberg, Anthony Davidson and Johnny Herbert will also participate, but the teams they will drive for have not yet been confirmed.

So you Jimmy Broadbent fans can get excited now! And good old Chris Hoy, top bloke.

Woohoo Hulkenberg, Ant Davidson, holy shit, Johnny Herbert! Absolute legend! Awesome! I'm now officially a bit stoked.

davidsdurions

https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1241450574261809152?s=21

Jazz

Niiice.

Noticing Gabe's wallpaper on his desktop, too.

oldmanken

I may have sent a reply indicating we have a competition going on over here. Not expecting a reply, but you know... Why not.

Jazz

oldmanken wrote: »

I may have sent a reply indicating we have a competition going on over here. Not expecting a reply, but you know... Why not.

I noticed it in the replies Worth a try!

Veevee

If F1 needs another driver, I'm not doing anything else later today...

Drovek

Now that this has been my "sim-drive all the things" weekend marathon, I decided to give the Automobilista 2 Beta a spin. Formula Vee's are as fun to drive as always, given that you get used to the idea of not going exactly the same way you're pointing on a regular basis. Haven't tried the weather system just yet, but hopefully it's nice.

Jazz

Veloce Esports (who hosted NotTheAusGP last weekend) are also hosting a NotTheBahGP today at 6pm GMT, two hours before the official Virtual Bahrain GP. Lando Norris, Stoffel Vandoorne, and Nicholas Latifi are confirmed for that so far.

Veevee

I expect to see Lando's name as part of every virtual race for next couple months. If he's not in the virtual NASCAR series I will be disappointed.

Jazz

Veevee wrote: »

I expect to see Lando's name as part of every virtual race for next couple months. If he's not in the virtual NASCAR series I will be disappointed.

Seems odd that he's not confirmed for the Virtual Bahrain GP yet: https://www.racefans.net/2020/03/20/every-f1-driver-invited-to-virtual-bahrain-grand-prix-but-who-will-enter/

Jazz

I say that, and the list of all drivers is published.

Mercedes TBC Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes TBC Esteban Gutierrez
Ferrari TBC Robert Shwartzman
Ferrari TBC Dino Beganovic
Red Bull TBC Philip Eng
Red Bull TBC Chris Hoy
McLaren TBC Lando Norris
McLaren TBC Nicolas Hamilton
Renault TBC Guanyu Zhou
Renault TBC Ian Poulter
Alpha Tauri TBC Matthew Trivett
Alpha Tauri TBC Luca Salvadori
Racing Point TBC Nico Hulkenberg
Racing Point TBC Jimmy Broadbent
Alfa Romeo TBC Johnny Herbert
Alfa Romeo TBC ‘Cyanide’
Haas TBC Anthony Davidson
Haas TBC ‘Redeye’
Williams 6 Nicholas Latifi
Williams TBC Liam Payne

Veevee

Apparently there was a series of rFactor 2 races at Indy Road Course yesterday with a good mix of racers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_RV5UY8mk

Max Verstappen
Neel Jani
Nico Hulkenberg
Nicki Thiim
Ed Jones
Antonio Felix Da Costa
Juan Pablo Montoya
Sebas Montoya
Philip Eng
Charlie Eastwood
Maximilian Günther
Harry Tincknell
Johnny Adam
Ross Gunn
Nelson Piquet Jnr
Dani Juncadella
Jann Mardenborough
Nick Cassidy
Wolfgang Reip
Rudy Van Buren
James Baldwin
Jimmy Broadbent
Steve Alvarez Brown
Dries Vanthoor
Abbie Eaton
James Davison
Callum Ilot
Felix Rosenqvist
Tony Kanaan
Paul O'Neil
Devlin De Francesco
Lachlan De Francesco
Tom Dillmann
Bradley Smith
Adam Christodoulou
Juan Manuel Correra

Sim racers confirmed:
Aurélien Mallet
Bono Huis
Brendon Leigh
Erhan Jajovski
Jernej Simoncic
Kamil Pawłowski
Kevin Siggy
Lucas Blakely
Mitchell de Jong
Sebastian Job

Comms: Jack Nicholls and Jolyon Palmer

Jazz

Abbie Eaton, hells yeah!

Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLTdi4BtPE

Veevee

Lando's stream, if you're interested in that kind of thing



Or Stoffel Vandorne


Or Louis Delatraz

Drovek

Somebody tell that race director that T13 has received sustained abuse of track limits.

oldmanken

Man, Drovek, you are speedy on that track. I got myself down to 1:25.613, and really got the 3/4 turns down finally (though am braking a little early). Need to carry speed better in the 11/12 combo as well.

Jazz

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsySLIMOGA

They're sitting too close together grrrrrrr

Elderlycrawfish

Nascar did an iracing thing and it was....fine? They had the Fox commentators and stuff and basically treated it like a regular race, and Alex Bowman's dog drove the caution laps when he went to the bathroom (probably not really but he was joking about having his dog do it)

First time in a while that the stands were full, I guess that's a plus. :P

TheBigEasy

So I finally finished Drive to Survive 2. Best line of the whole season? Raikonnen at the very end "Well, this is basically just a hobby for me, I don't need to do that" with a deadpan look at the camera.

Nova_C

Someone built an F1 car using the rarest materials available:

Veevee

Hahaha, Lando just called Carlos Sainz Jr., and Carlos had no idea who he was. Amazing.

Edit: And now George Russel is telling him to dive bomb turn 1 to win from the back.

Edit2: And now his game crashed. hahaha, oh man.

Drovek

Ok, this second race just became much more entertaining than the previous one.

Edit: So turns out F1 is awesome if the cars are competitive and can overtake. :lol

Veevee

I wonder what difficulty they have the AI controlled cars at, and also wonder how much shit Lando will get for this race.

Drovek

Latifi on Salvadori, Gutierrez on Hulkenberg.

Fucking awesome fights.

TheBigEasy

The first corner crashes were kinda bad, but there were some great fights in there in the end.

Jazz

Hulkenberg with an excellent pre-race interview as well.

Thoroughly good entertainment.

Dirtyboy

That was pretty fun (past the turn 1 carnage).

https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1241833435875991554

Drovek

TheBigEasy wrote: »

The first corner crashes were kinda bad, but there were some great fights in there in the end.

"Johnny Herbert on the lead!!!" is one hell of a T1.

To bad about the track cutting, though.

Veevee

So... anyone for some F1 2019?

TeeMan

The race is won at turn 1

Jazz

Veevee wrote: »

So... anyone for some F1 2019?

I'd love to but I'm bloody exhausted after a long day. How are the next few days looking for you (and anyone else interested)?

Veevee

Jazz wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

So... anyone for some F1 2019?

I'd love to but I'm bloody exhausted after a long day. How are the next few days looking for you (and anyone else interested)?

Tuesday/Thursday I am available for a race pretty much whenever, MWF after 7pm GMT

oldmanken

Jazz wrote: »

Veevee wrote: »

So... anyone for some F1 2019?

I'd love to but I'm bloody exhausted after a long day. How are the next few days looking for you (and anyone else interested)?

So, I was thinking of taking a day or two off this week to look after the kiddo. She does however have a pretty lengthy nap in the afternoons, from 1-2:30 CST. Just ping me on here if y'all are doing a race.

Jazz

I had a little more of a prod around and Gabe has got heavily into motor racing in a very, very short span of time (something like the last couple of weeks, tops?). I've started watching the VOD on Twitch of him and Tycho with Motorsport Manager, embedded here: https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2020/03/14/motorsport-manager-

And a scant few minutes in I'm a) reminded of the original episodes of the DLC podcast that whiled away a few happy hours at work in the late '00s, and b) fascinated by seeing it all through the eyes of someone who's recently done a deep dive, and someone who knows almost nothing, but also with it being Mike & Jerry and the way they talk it's just... I may need to sit and digest this.

Drovek

oldmanken wrote: »

Man, Drovek, you are speedy on that track. I got myself down to 1:25.613, and really got the 3/4 turns down finally (though am braking a little early). Need to carry speed better in the 11/12 combo as well.

Well, my secret is that it's one of my favorite tracks and I've hotlapped around it more times than I can remember, at least sine F1 2013. I expect my performance to sharply drop off on most other tracks.

One final time for tonight. Would need to toy around more with the setup to try to get that to below 1:24, because it's borderline unstable in a couple of corners.

Dhalphir

The really impressive part of your screenshot there is not so much the time, although props, but mostly that you're consistently within a tenth of your previous times, lap after lap. Time consistency is so important.

I've been working on Brands Hatch in ACC and been working on that exact thing, when I started my times varied by a full second but now I've got the variance down to 3-4 tenths.

davidsdurions

That F1 race from earlier is #3 trending on YouTube now. It’s pretty great! I hope they (FIA and the teams and drivers) take notice of how popular it could be to do this sort of thing during downtimes.

Also I’m hoping to get some track time in tomorrow. Gotta at least close the gap a bit.

oldmanken

Annnnnndddd... Azerbaijan is postponed.

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1242045233472339970?s=19