nudge

Haha, saw you complaining on FB

You're going to Fortuna match on Monday?

Stay strong I'll do the opposite. I intend to spend the next few days under my rock, ordering food delivery and not getting out of bed.

Makes sense, but I can't really see Ferrari being McLaren's engine supplier at any case, and if Mercedes were to, they wouldn't provide the same spec to McLaren either way. What are their other options? Sticking with Honda, hoping they'd solve their issues? Renault?

So I suppose McClaren could now hope for Mercedes deal and ditch Honda too, haha.

With the whole automotive industry moving towards 100% electrification, it's easy to understand why Formula E is suddenly gaining more and more attention from manufacturers in favour of other series,; it's surely a good part of marketing for them in order to test new improvements and, in the end, to sell more electric cars. However, even with the ongoing technology advances, it will take at least 20-30 years for Formula E to even get close to challenging F1, in my opinion. I'm not much of a fan of prototype racing altogether, but I think LMP1 could have continued to play an important role in racing if ACO had realised lack of competitiveness issues early on and opened up the regs a bit to allow more manufacturers as well as privateers in. As it stands now, the cars are too complex and expensive to be run by anyone other than factory teams. At any case, I don't think it's fair to compare Le Mans Prototypes with F1; one is built for endurance the other for sprint, it's two completely different racing cultures serving different purposes, in my opinion. Technically, LMP cars are not even single-seaters. I personally prefer GT endurance racing due to more competitiveness and parity, more action, more varied grids and differences between the cars in general, more diverse engineering solutions and the fact that technology used is of much more relevance to road cars. Still enjoy F1 though. I just wonder what happens with motorsports in general once ICEs get completely banned, as we're definitely moving towards it?...

Porsche now consider exiting Le Mans too...We need rule simplification and cost-cutting to attract more manufacturers and teams to LMP1, the current hybrid technology is too expensive, too unreliable, and too pointless. I personally prefer GTE class anyway, but without LMP1, Le Mans will surely lose a lot of appeal and prestige. Everyone seems to be switching to stupid Formula E

24 hours of Spa taking place 27-30th July, free HD stream of pre-qualifying, qualifying and the race available here: https://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/blancpain-gt-series-live-stream

Sauber have just officially announced the termination of the planned 2018 Honda deal, will announce new engine suppliers shortly.

He got married

But of course! You missed all the fun And yes, that was Joel sporting that motto.

It was a revolution

Finally, you found this place too. Welcome back!

It's a pity, hope someone else will step in instead of Mercedes, there are apparently talks ongoing already with interested manufacturers. I also heard that at least one of Asian brands (Toyota?) could be interested in joining in 2019, once DTM implements new engine and chassis rules. Either that, or we will have a joint DTM-Japanese Super GT-American IMSA international series instead...

can't relate, I don't

a vegetarian would never be able to understand it anyway

ENEOS 1006 km race in Palanga, LT took place this weekend. I attended it numerous times in the past, and it must be one of the craziest events I've ever witnessed haha. The track lies on the intersection of two highways with a Suzuka-style crossover and the drivers use an ordinary petrol station to refuel The grid is usually very varied, with some weird choices like this custom LADA 2104 Turbo with a 3.7l Ford Mustang engine here: It's a great fun. Motors TV did a report on the race in 2016:

I had so much Gulasch 2 years ago that I never want to see it again

Why the name though?

Gulasch Alt?

Ribéry? Absolutely not captain material. Robben? Slightly better, but still very questionable. I think it should be someone who identifies with the club 100%, so it automatically rules out those two, and most foreigners in general, to be honest.

He's been busy travelling for work lately.

it can, if it's beer

They won't stop until they have a glutenfree-vegan-nongenderspecific-disabled-homosexual-minority replacing every established character in TV, are they now

I thought it was a pretty decent performance; not impressive, but effective and got the job done, especially considering we fielded quite a few youngsters today (Jojo Eggestein, Käuper, Volkmer, Schmidt, Zhang, Manneh, Zetterer and Plogmann in goal). 3 goals against Osnabrück who are already starting their season next week and even more importantly, we kept a clean sheet. Eeeeew, Prosecco