Yes, it is most unfortunate for Mercedes-AMG that BMW manages to win at it's first season.Ganxxta wrote:There you go, BMW made it =D>
First year back, won everything
Poor Mercedes, failed here too
The V8supercars will not be joining this combined dtm/supergt championship because they don't need to. The v8supercars cars cost a fraction of both of these series. A new car cost only A$500,000.00 to build. With all the carbon fibre in a DTM vehicle I'm going to assume that it is going to cost at least 10 times that to build. Maybe someone can provide figures that dispute this but they are extremely expensive vehicles that we can't afford in Australia.ESPImperium wrote:The new DTM cars are also in line to be adopted by the Ausie V8 guys as well, and there has been talk of a new NASCAR-2 formula to replace the Nationwide Series that also has had talk of coming into the USA.
All this talk has also made the South American TC 2000 championship has also thought about coming into the same common regulations.
This has led to talk over a new common World TDM championship with 2 or 3 car teams ran by as many as 6 or 7 diffrent manufacturers, and a localised DTM chamionship as well. So in effect there would be 2 tiers to DTM;
World DTM Championship - 12-15 races on the F1 off weekend, supporting some F1 events in some places (Brazil, Canada, Japan, China and Austrailia for example)
DTM Euro Series - 8 races
NASCAR-2 America - Supporting NASCAR
DTM Asia - 8 to 10 races
TC 2000 South America - 8 races
V8 Supercars (Austrailia) - 26 to 30 races (They do 2 races a wekend typically)
Personaly i think this would lead to a really strong tin top series. Lets face it, there isnt a strong tin top series out side of America, and would really would enjoy watching a strong series regionally and internationally.
The FIA and ACO are trying to make a strong endurance championship now, and i welcome this, but watching about 8 to 10 endurance races every year could become tedious, Le Mans is fine for me, but i like watching the rest in about a 60 to 90 minuite programme. However a DTM series that had races that lasted 50 to 90 minuites once or twice a weekend (if there was a sprint and feature race format, sprint on the Saturday, Feature on the sunday) is something id think id like to watch.
does look like those V8 land yachts provide some nice racing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjwunmNqyEcarisi2k wrote:The V8supercars will not be joining this combined dtm/supergt championship because they don't need to. The v8supercars cars cost a fraction of both of these series. A new car cost only A$500,000.00 to build. With all the carbon fibre in a DTM vehicle I'm going to assume that it is going to cost at least 10 times that to build. Maybe someone can provide figures that dispute this but they are extremely expensive vehicles that we can't afford in Australia.ESPImperium wrote:The new DTM cars are also in line to be adopted by the Ausie V8 guys as well, and there has been talk of a new NASCAR-2 formula to replace the Nationwide Series that also has had talk of coming into the USA.
All this talk has also made the South American TC 2000 championship has also thought about coming into the same common regulations.
This has led to talk over a new common World TDM championship with 2 or 3 car teams ran by as many as 6 or 7 diffrent manufacturers, and a localised DTM chamionship as well. So in effect there would be 2 tiers to DTM;
World DTM Championship - 12-15 races on the F1 off weekend, supporting some F1 events in some places (Brazil, Canada, Japan, China and Austrailia for example)
DTM Euro Series - 8 races
NASCAR-2 America - Supporting NASCAR
DTM Asia - 8 to 10 races
TC 2000 South America - 8 races
V8 Supercars (Austrailia) - 26 to 30 races (They do 2 races a wekend typically)
Personaly i think this would lead to a really strong tin top series. Lets face it, there isnt a strong tin top series out side of America, and would really would enjoy watching a strong series regionally and internationally.
The FIA and ACO are trying to make a strong endurance championship now, and i welcome this, but watching about 8 to 10 endurance races every year could become tedious, Le Mans is fine for me, but i like watching the rest in about a 60 to 90 minuite programme. However a DTM series that had races that lasted 50 to 90 minuites once or twice a weekend (if there was a sprint and feature race format, sprint on the Saturday, Feature on the sunday) is something id think id like to watch.
The Australian series is the best in the world and if anything the DTM and Super GT should be coming towards the v8supercar championship when it comes to the specifications. Our series welcomes manufacturer support but doesn't require it. The racing this 2014 year has been amazing with the Volvo s60 proving extremely competitive and the Nissan just claimed a podium at the Bathurst 1000 and have been getting stronger as the year goes on. The Erebus Mercedes has had a victory and several high finishing places this year as well.
The V8supercars has several huge events throughout the year and shares the pit lane with the F1 boys at the Australian GP. The series is the closest touring car series in the world with qualifying separating 1st to 25th by less then a second at many tracks this year. They are also the most spectacular cars, especially at the street events in Adelaide, Gold coast and Sydney.
I know where some real easy dead chicks are, since you're obiously into necro stuff.carisi2k wrote:The V8supercars will not be joining this combined dtm/supergt championship because they don't need to. The v8supercars cars cost a fraction of both of these series. A new car cost only A$500,000.00 to build. With all the carbon fibre in a DTM vehicle I'm going to assume that it is going to cost at least 10 times that to build. Maybe someone can provide figures that dispute this but they are extremely expensive vehicles that we can't afford in Australia.ESPImperium wrote:The new DTM cars are also in line to be adopted by the Ausie V8 guys as well, and there has been talk of a new NASCAR-2 formula to replace the Nationwide Series that also has had talk of coming into the USA.
All this talk has also made the South American TC 2000 championship has also thought about coming into the same common regulations.
This has led to talk over a new common World TDM championship with 2 or 3 car teams ran by as many as 6 or 7 diffrent manufacturers, and a localised DTM chamionship as well. So in effect there would be 2 tiers to DTM;
World DTM Championship - 12-15 races on the F1 off weekend, supporting some F1 events in some places (Brazil, Canada, Japan, China and Austrailia for example)
DTM Euro Series - 8 races
NASCAR-2 America - Supporting NASCAR
DTM Asia - 8 to 10 races
TC 2000 South America - 8 races
V8 Supercars (Austrailia) - 26 to 30 races (They do 2 races a wekend typically)
Personaly i think this would lead to a really strong tin top series. Lets face it, there isnt a strong tin top series out side of America, and would really would enjoy watching a strong series regionally and internationally.
The FIA and ACO are trying to make a strong endurance championship now, and i welcome this, but watching about 8 to 10 endurance races every year could become tedious, Le Mans is fine for me, but i like watching the rest in about a 60 to 90 minuite programme. However a DTM series that had races that lasted 50 to 90 minuites once or twice a weekend (if there was a sprint and feature race format, sprint on the Saturday, Feature on the sunday) is something id think id like to watch.
The Australian series is the best in the world and if anything the DTM and Super GT should be coming towards the v8supercar championship when it comes to the specifications. Our series welcomes manufacturer support but doesn't require it. The racing this 2014 year has been amazing with the Volvo s60 proving extremely competitive and the Nissan just claimed a podium at the Bathurst 1000 and have been getting stronger as the year goes on. The Erebus Mercedes has had a victory and several high finishing places this year as well.
The V8supercars has several huge events throughout the year and shares the pit lane with the F1 boys at the Australian GP. The series is the closest touring car series in the world with qualifying separating 1st to 25th by less then a second at many tracks this year. They are also the most spectacular cars, especially at the street events in Adelaide, Gold coast and Sydney.
Break Balancetimbo wrote:OK, bumped this old thread as I didn't think my question warranted a new one.
So, in cockpit they have this H-shaped lever. I've seen from onboards they turn it. What is it?
Interesting. F1 drivers tweak it quite often (Schumacher was noted for tweaking it almost every corner), I've seen DTM drivers tweaking it quite seldom. Do they adjust it to compensate for something? Like fuel level? Where do they have tanks? Or tyre wear?rscsr wrote:Break Balancetimbo wrote:OK, bumped this old thread as I didn't think my question warranted a new one.
So, in cockpit they have this H-shaped lever. I've seen from onboards they turn it. What is it?
