Donington: directed by Michael Bay

... or Sylvester Stallone

I always think it's odd to name something the Car of Tomorrow or the Next Generation Touring Car... because it sounds silly when it's actually racing

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Notice the use of the word "when", as in when they shut down enough sites and seize their cash they can roll around in a pool full of money.

Nah, it works for China, shut down anything you feel like and take their money. When you consider they have the fastest growing economy and are the greatest country when it comes to capitalism (who'd have though "communists" could pull that off?). Clearly we all have a lesson to learn from China.

only 3.21111x10^17 sites to go then!

China's economy is growing so fast because of their massive resources. As is India's. That has absolutely no bearing on whether they shut down websites or not

y u trollin?

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

This case will generate at least 3bn for the US gov't. The more sites/bank accounts they seize the more revenue they can generate to go towards the 170trillion debt. Facebook is worth a 30billion at least, if they seize Facebook, that is even more revenue.

this is so far out there it's past Racer X territory. It doesn't even make sense on any level.

first off, 30 billion is ~0.000176470588% of 170 trillion. yeah, that's gonna do a whole lot

also, how is the US government even supposedly getting this money from the seizing? From the court case of tax evasion? Then that is supposed to be their money anyways, plus fines for breaking the ****ing law. IRS and FBI won't take anyone down until they are very sure they have a winnable case.

how could they seize FB? FB would have to be demonstrably breaking laws

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Never happen, this is how the US will pay off debt..

exactly how is this going to work?

Quote from Cornys :

I don't think there's any doubt in anybody's mind that the US government is corrutpt though.

I don't think there's any doubt that there is some corruption in every government. Power breeds corruption and abuse.

Quote from baSh0r :

i wonder if they really go out loud about this.

I think this loses something in translation?
who goes 'out loud'?

Quote from RasmusL :

All this bullshit about money laundering. It's about the same as G.W. Bush said when they invaded Iraq.

The real reason is probably that USA is eliminating their competition.
They legalize gambling (where the state earns the money) just days before closing all major poker sites.

That was one district. Not even a state. They wouldn't care to shut down the sites for DC's sake, no one actually cares about DC itself

Quote from BreadC :

petrov to go uber offensive drive round the outside of everyone? xD

petrov to go uber offensive fly right over the top of everyone

Quote from Kova. :

Oh, and poor Webber, I'm sure there is ex-Raikkonen black cat in his car.

and then he went and exited in FP1

he'll have to barge his way through on Sunday

Quote from lizardfolk :

Yeah it's a screenplay. Not sure whether it'll be a movie or tv series yet as I'm probably thinking of launching a webseries that focuses on racing as I'm sick of retarded movies like Days of Thunder or Driven ruining racing in screenplay.

I approve this message.
keep fighting the good fight carry on!

Quote from lizardfolk :

I have a question. I'm writing a racing script

I'm curious now... tell me more about what you mean by racing script.

Something to simulate racing as in computer script? or like a screenplay script?

EDIT now that I think about it, looking for specific cases of drama sounds like a TV or play script type of thing.

Quote from Swiss-Spirit :

I heard how the first round was so great. Was it? I can't watch it... If there was a stream from someone...

Blakehoo88 put up the last 2 races on YouTube, but the link to the first race that I put up has been deleted

Race 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... CCKME&feature=related
Race 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK_RgUOjo4

Johnny Herbert had three rounds I think too, and wasn't able to thrash everyone else by any means.

and Jim Clark is conspicuously missing from that list.

Last edited by RiseAgainstMe!, Wed, 6 Apr 2011 04:33.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Sport is supposed to be done by professionals, anyone can rock up to BTCC and win. But it never used to be like that before S2000.....

See I come from the exact opposite mindset. I grew up in the paddock of SCCA club racing events, where no one is a professional. For me, working out of your garage is where the true passion and spirit of the sport comes from. Plus, I'm all about the variety of the cars.

Quote from BlueFlame :

They make a big deal about it, going over incidents, and moaning about tyres all the time, the S2000 and even turbo cars aren't hard on the tyres, the BTCC drivers just say that when they start making mistakes and screwing it up. When you have a driver like Collard of all people, rejoining the first race (after a collision on the warm up lap) with a rear wheel pointing in a different direction to all the other wheels on the car, then you do wonder about the professionalism of the BTCC (well you bloody should..).

If I understand correctly, it's not about the tyre wear, but the heat in the tyres which causes them to lose grip. They thrash those cars pretty good. That incident between Collard and Griffin was bad yes. but it's not like these type of incidents have never happened in F1 (or LMES this very same weekend. I really have to wonder about the professionalism of that series :tilt

Quote from BlueFlame :

Seriously, if you think the BTCC is good racing, you should really look elsewhere, to a degree I'd rather watch NASCAR, at least there's foreign drivers there and the wrecks there don't LOOK intentional.... the fact the BTCC is made up entirely of only drivers from the UK shows the amateur level that is BTCC now. Foreign drivers are a good indication that a series is popular for good reasons. Hence, F1, WTCC, DTM, EURO F3, Italian F3, World Series, GP2, GP3, Formula 2 the list goes on, Professional drivers, stewarding and professional racing, and it's a rare occasion to see an intentional wreck, or a ram to push another car wide but you know that nobody who goes into the BTCC is really gonna 'make it' in motor racing.

If there were foreign drivers, it wouldn't be the BTCC, it would be the ETCC or the WTCC. I'm all for the concept of having national champs that feed into a world champ, but they don't seem to have gotten it right yet For me this series is the very highest, most competitive pinnacle of the club racing that I love. I'm glad they actually cover this series, we don't even get SCCA Runoffs coverage anymore

The driving standards in terms of pushing aren't good, that I'll admit. I do not like the amount of pushing that goes on from the back. They need to enforce the standards better, but I don't mind a little contact. It IS touring cars after all.

But I think that quite a few of the young guys coming up are gonna 'make it' pretty well. The older 'gentlemen racers'... well they bring money to the sport, so it's hard to complain.

Last edited by RiseAgainstMe!, Wed, 6 Apr 2011 04:32.

yeah I hate it when tv stations get excited about good close racing

shame the audi never got out this weekend. will be interesting to see how the new NGTC cars (that are going through major teething problems right now) develop.

definitely still destroys the WTCC in terms of spectacle, and it still has my nod as most favoritest racing series in the world

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Anyone got the BTCC action from the weekend? ITV are shockingly bad at putting motorsport up on their ITV player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... igPJY&feature=related

oh yes, I has linky
not the greatest quality ever, but it does the trick in a pinch.

storylines everywhere from this weekend, and it's only gonna get more hectic

Quote from BlueFlame :

I'd rather have no touring car racing than without Super Touring regulations.

to each his own I guess, you're missing out big time! BTCC at least appears to be on the upswing. And I didn't like Super touring all that much by the end of it. but that was still better than no touring cars at all for sure.

... and why are we talking about touring cars in the LMES thread? :hide:

that's two awful start mishaps today then

Griffin and Collard somehow managed to break each other's suspensions before the race even began in BTCC.

Quote from boothy :

http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc ... ca2006&eventid=111341 ?

so why when I try to navigate to that page do I get this:

http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc ... ca2006&eventid=110943

EDIT: I'm an idiot. look at the dates silly

Quote from boothy :

testing results

how did you get to these through the site? I can't seem to pull any results at all up

only get it through links other people post

Quote from BlueFlame :

These are Germans we are talking about, they don't need to go flat out to know the outright pace of their car, with their mathematics skills they can use the telemetry as a reference.

ohhhh telemetry and math, shhhh don't tell Peugeot (or any other team) these things exist because they probably don't know

Quote from s14 drift :

and why has this suddenly appeared?

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