On the warm up lap you'd use it to generate extra heat from the brakes which then puts extra heat into the tires.

The cars literally say “Hypercar” on them.

Porsche’s press release says they will be competing, as an LMDh, against LMH cars, which is correct.  Both these rulesets will be present in the Hypercar class in the WEC/Le Mans.

“Hypercar” is the name of the top class replacing LMP1. It is comprised of cars meeting LMH regulations, grandfathered LMP1 regulations, and in 2022 will allow LMDh regulations. These three rulesets are balanced through BOP.

I agree.  The most egregious part is the "F1 wing" style nose, from a company whose F1 team was a failure nearly a decade ago.

But the surface isn’t “mixed”. The track hasn’t changed.  It is the same track lap after lap. The bumps are in the exact same spots.

The surface is not unsafe. Being tricky does not make something unsafe. I can see the video, he’s driving it like anyone else does. And he’s breaking records doing it. In fact, most accidents at Turn 17 aren’t caused by bumps, they are caused by two cars hitting each other in a pass attempt.

I disagree that it needs to be repaved. The track is not physically falling apart nor is in disrepair. The problem is the concrete surface, so “paving it” will not generate anything akin to what Sebring is now.

Sebring is literally FIA Grade 2 and hosts World Championship standard events. It’s not needing of an…

The 12 Hours isn’t irrelevant. The simple fact that Europeans teams continue to come to it shows its relevance.

Anyone watching the rest of the LMP season knows how much these “carbon tubs” abuse sausage curbs and track limits. They aren’t dainty little things.  To call the racing “bad” is clearly someone who hasn’t…

So are you upset every time a race is decided by an equipment failure? By a chance caution? By a backmarker?

This is the wrong take.

I guarantee that the yellow lights are not turn signals, those are the flashing strobe lights that the current LLVs also use.  They are meant to be visible to oncoming traffic.

To be fair the bus stop was altered around 2000 when the longer bus stop chicane was replaced with the current shorter bus stop.  That’s why there is still that paved runoff in the 2nd half of the chicane, that’s where it used to go.

Hardly anything new.  Japanese drivers getting a seat in the last race of the year is actually common.  Renault even got rid of Trulli early and replaced him with Villeneuve a few seasons after Villeneuve’s dumping.

They replaced him at the Japanese GP only, and it was the end of the season. His contract with BAR was up, so he only missed out on one race. And he was already being beaten by his teammate Button.  And Sato immediately scored points in his debut, while Villeneuve had only scored points twice all season.

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No one starts in F2 or F3. I’m meaning Formula Ford and the like. Even karts. Beginning series.

No way any racing driver gets a shot in F1, LMP1, or WRC just because they are fast in a junior formula. Absolutely no one is arguing that sim racers are on par with World Champions. This is a poor take on the argument. This point is that sim racing and real world racing go hand in hand in today’s world. Lacking a few…

Nearly every winner of Gran Turismo’s GT Academy has gone on to various successes in sports car racing, as well as even a few formula racing.

Le Mans has multiple classes.  Andretti won his class.

Surprisingly, that first one is not a Lola at all, it is based on a very old Leyton House/March F3 car if I remember correctly.