Racing Discussion Thread

talk about rough on tires.lol

Help Hinchcliffe get on GoDaddy's home page instead of Danica...

http://videos.godaddy.com/vote/race-for-the-homepage.aspx?ci=60431

All 2012 Trans-Am races will be streamed live on GoRacingTv.com starting this weekend at MoSport.

Andretti Autosport could be heading into NASCAR with Dodge.

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story/Could-Michael-Andretti-expand-to-NASCAR-Cup-ranks-051712

The more Dodge teams for 2013 the better.

That would be...interesting.

Pics of the pit road incident that started the fight last week:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.240741116030145.43720.159531020817822&type=1

My night's been brought down. From the sounds of it, there's been a very serious accident at Auburndale Speedway tonight in the kids club (4 or 6 cyl car, I'm not sure). A kid crashed head on into the wall and had to be airlifted from the track. There are conflicting reports on his current condition but it doesn't look good at this moment.

TheShermanator wrote:

My night's been brought down. From the sounds of it, there's been a very serious accident at Auburndale Speedway tonight in the kids club (4 or 6 cyl car, I'm not sure). A kid crashed head on into the wall and had to be airlifted from the track. There are conflicting reports on his current condition but it doesn't look good at this moment.

dude that's terrible. Thoughts and prayers go out to the kid and his/her family

Kid's name Is Tyler Morr

Yep, here's a news article
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/5/19/child_injured_in_cra.html

Tyler Morr has passed away from his injuries.

Still severely conflicting reports. Family members are now saying he is still alive.

This is a helmet cam image from the NasKart wreck saturday at thunderhill...Keep in mind this is at 75 MPH.

R.I.P. Tyler Morr

http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/may/23/arcadia-boy-injured-in-speedway-race-dies-ar-407115/

TBK has discovered a possible flaw in the new Indycar. If you look closely at the Brian Clauson wreck, when he started going backwards towards the wall, the front tires were the only ones skidding, because the rear tires were starting to come off the ground NASCAR style. We've already seen that this car has no issue floating. The same can be seen very briefly in Servia's wreck.

Well thats better than the car instantly lifting half the time like before.

Wetz taking things out of context?

DW41183 wrote:

If you look at stills or slow the video before Claussen hits the wall, only the front tires are skidding because the rears are a few inches off the ground, then the car his the wall. However I wonder if given more room and time if the back wouldn't end up lifting off like a NASCAR style wreck. I honestly would have thought Kimball and Carpenter going up on the side were due to the fact that the left front hit the wall first and swung the back into it and then got rebounded off the safer barrier. I certainly applaud Dallara and hope we have a great and safe race!

nah, never

Of course, TBK over analyzes every inch of air so

"TBK has discovered a possible flaw in the new Indycar."

That's more what I was referring to. But yeah, any kind of airbournez instantly gets analyzed by the aero engineers that come out of the wood work at TBK

implying every kinda race car doesnt have a flaw, like the nascar cup car for one

Auburndale keeps going down. Apparently they just fired their announcer for being gay according to the rants and raves facebook page.


And the track photographer is threatening legal action about the people using his Tyler Morr photo in tributes...What a joke.

Another fun fact, the flagman was charged but not convicted for child molestation some years back.

trbfan wrote:

Auburndale keeps going down. Apparently they just fired their announcer for being gay according to the rants and raves facebook page.


And the track photographer is threatening legal action about the people using his Tyler Morr photo in tributes...What a joke.

Didn't see anything about the announcer getting fired, but true about the track photographer.

This track is small enough. This is the shit that will send it down the tubes. Fuck.