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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Oct 17, 2013 23:49:28 GMT -5
Two things happen late at night when I refuse to work on stuff for Black Adder, choose not to think about the situation of the government or my massive amounts of debt, and when I'm at a point on the bike where I'm waiting on parts or money.
One, I get completely depressed over how American race heritage has been really slacking lately. American teams, cars, drivers, etc aren't much seen at the forefront of auto racing these days (Props to Corvette, by the way. I think the biggest reason for me to be any sort of fan boy for anything, would be Corvette Racing. Lol. I LOVE BMWs. I dig the Porsche RSR. But mother of DAMN do I love that Corvette in whatever spec they run it!).
Two, I get insanely motivated to change that someday in the future.
I was just curious if anyone gets that sentimental heritage vibe every once in a while haha.
Here's some facts about American racing involvement in... tonight we'll look at the 24 Hours of Le Mans I guess.
Last American driver to win the 24 hours of Le Mans overall: Davy Jones, 1996, TWR Porsche WSC-95
Last American team to win the 24 hours overall: ADT/Champion Racing, 2005, Audi R8
Last American race car to win the 24 hours overall: Ford GT40 MKI, 1969
It's been a long time since an American car/driver/team combo won... 1967 with Dan Gurney, AJ Foyt, Shelby Racing, and a Ford GT40.
-Travis
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Post by Daniel B Johnson on Oct 18, 2013 8:50:23 GMT -5
Part of that is that we have our own vibrant motorsports. We have Nascar which is doing an amazing job of putting on a great product week in and week out. And we also have Indycars they have their own history and are finally starting to grow back after years of sucking from the cart IRL split. We've got 2 amazing series, the rest of the world has F1, and enduros but I've been to 3 amazing races this year.
Also I think what NBC is doing is doing more for racing than anything Speed ever did. That leads to more fans which leads to more kids involved in auto racing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 9:33:58 GMT -5
Well said Mulnik. I guess America is similar to our measurement system. We put all our eggs into the imperial/us system and only dabble a little bit in the metric system. But as most American cars are moving to the global scale, most of their bolts are now metric (YES!!!!) so we're slowly seeing the switch over. So as Mulnik said, i'd expect the "euro" races (F1/le mans/touring cars) to gain more broadcast coverage and therefore more popularity which will create new American drivers and teams to compete.
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Post by Daniel B Johnson on Oct 18, 2013 9:59:50 GMT -5
What the hell do metric bolts have to do with American racing?! lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 19:00:39 GMT -5
lol d@mnit dan.....that was a good correlation!
imperial = america only = americans only involved in american racing metric = going global = more american involvement in global racing
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 10:47:05 GMT -5
Moving from Le Mans to F1.... Spa 1967 anyone?
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