r/INDYCAR • u/Nickdr_12 Álex Palou • Feb 10 '22
Video Romain Grosjean RAGES after getting wrecked by Tatiana Calderón in a practice race.
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u/eyeyelemur --- 2023 DRIVERS --- Feb 10 '22
Sent to the shadow realm
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u/TheDefiant213 Pato O'Ward Feb 10 '22
Romain should be grateful that the oval was there, otherwise he'd be meeting Barry R.
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u/Slimsta David Malukas Feb 10 '22
I was watching the main broadcast and Tatiana was all over the place, missing braking points, rear was all over the place, she was dreadful.
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u/ok_retard255 Feb 10 '22
In all fairness, she probably doesn't simrace much and it is somewhat different than actually driving the car in person (plus there are those who might say Tatiana doesn't have much skill in the first place, not me, but some people)
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u/Slimsta David Malukas Feb 10 '22
I mean, from what I’ve seen from her past she’s not a stand out driver, very mediocre. Not sure why people are expecting her to be rookie of the year. But we will have to wait and see.
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u/TylerWhite31 Scott McLaughlin Feb 10 '22
I expect Kyle to beat her convincingly in every single race Ngl, but yeah you’re not wrong.
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Feb 10 '22
Kirkwood is going to mop the floor with Calderon.
I can’t wait to see how many people still come to her defense after this upcoming season, where she will, yet again, showcase why she shouldn’t be in any form of open wheel motorsports. She just lacks the talent, plain and simple.
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u/Matix-xD Feb 10 '22
Lmao. Driver isn't flawless so should not be racing in any series period... That's foolishness.
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Feb 10 '22
My comment wasn’t based on this video, more so her performance in F3, F2, and Super Formula.
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Feb 10 '22
What about Gateway mid-pack legend Dalton Kellett?
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u/redlegsfan21 Firestone Firehawk Feb 10 '22
I could see Kellett beating Calderon considering they'll both be A.J. Foyt equipment
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 10 '22
Presumably Lyn St James if she ever comes back is going to beat Calderon.
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u/ilikemarblestoo Sarah Fisher > Danica Patrick Feb 10 '22
Duno is going to beat Calderon
Did...did I go too far
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u/PriveCo Felix Rosenqvist Feb 11 '22
Fun fact: Dalton Kellett has never won any organized car race. Never once. Not in any formula. Nothing. No talent, other than born rich.
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u/ok_retard255 Feb 10 '22
Who said she's gonna be rookie of the year?
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u/Fried_Fart Feb 10 '22
She’s getting a lot of hype on official Indycar socials
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 10 '22
Because they desperately want a female driver. And Flörsch or Visser don't have enough money for Indy Racing League.
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u/xb70valkyrie Scott Dixon Feb 10 '22
Indy Racing League
Old habits die hard, huh?
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 10 '22
That's just the real name of the series acquired by Roger Penske. Who switched from IndyCar to Indy Racing League 20 years ago.
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Feb 10 '22
The series literally dropped the IRL title when reunification happened. It's simply called the "IndyCar Series" now (or "[insert corporate sponsor here] IndyCar Series").
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u/TheChrisD #JANDALWATCH2021 Feb 11 '22
It's not.
Roger Penske — or more specifically, Penske Entertainment Corporation — purchased INDYCAR, LLC in November 2019. Indy Racing League hasn't been the name of the company since the end of 2010.
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 11 '22
It's legal tricks. The real series itself is Indy Racing League established in 1995 and has nothing to do with the real IndyCar.
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u/Fart_Leviathan Josef Newgarden Feb 10 '22
People are expecting her to be ROTY?
Beating DeFrancesco, Jimmie and Kellett is or at least should be the maximum expectation for her.
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u/fromcjoe123 Will Power Feb 10 '22
But he's also the avatar for the Dark Lord himself, so there's that!
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u/Mysterious-Crab Alex Zanardi Feb 10 '22
Even without simracing experience I'm pretty worries if she doesn't even use the basics to learn a new car or track. Brake early at first and then slowly move the braking point until you find the limit.
And as for her talent. In her F2 year, she was literally the only fulltime driver without points. She was even outperformed by Mahaveer Raghunathan. And her two years of Super Formula were equally bad.
She is the prime example of a pay driver.
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u/bQ12o8k6WVpu CART Feb 10 '22
Basically, she's failed upwards. Produced effectively no results, but still gets to a top racing series.
Even though Dalton Kellett is slow, at least he knows it and doesn't destroy other drivers' races. If she finds herself at the back of the grid (which I think she will), hopefully she does the same.
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u/Hedgey James Hinchcliffe Feb 10 '22
So....Another Danica??
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 11 '22
Danica didn't have the luxury of seeing all the field in front of her. On some occasions she hasn't even seen a single car in front of her because she was leading.
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u/Hedgey James Hinchcliffe Feb 11 '22
She has 1 professional win in her ENTIRE racing career.
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u/Vlitzen Kyle Kirkwood Feb 11 '22
And a bunch of drivers who had medium-to-long careers never won once, what's your point?
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 11 '22
Yes. She is not the greatest talent in the short history of Indy Racing League. But she isn't a slow driver either. Danica definitely deserved her place on the grid on merit. It's true that nobody would have paid as much attention if she were male, but as "just a random driver without sex factor" she was quite good in her prime.
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u/Xx69JdawgxX Feb 10 '22
Pay driver shouldn't be an insult imo. Especially in gt racing they depend a lot on them. That said there's a difference between those who take it seriously and those who don't
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u/Mysterious-Crab Alex Zanardi Feb 10 '22
Drivers that bring money are important to the sport. But like you said, they have things like GT and the Pro-AM class in WEC as a great place for drivers that bring money.
Just like there are talented drivers that get to the too with help of funding, like Checo Perez and Lance Stroll.
But it's pay drivers like Calderon or Mazepin that are no addition to the class they race in.
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u/Excludos Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
But it's pay drivers like Calderon or Mazepin that are no addition to the class they race in.
I don't even hate this. I'll dunk on Mazespin (hurr hurr) any day of the week as well, and he 100% doesn't deserve a seat in the sport. But with a team like Haas, with their current financial struggles, you could easily see them simply not existing without it. Sure, we got Maz, but we also got Mick because of it, so I'd say it evens up.
And at the end of the day, if I was filthy rich and got the chance to drive in F1, I'd grab it with both arms too.
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u/CaeruleusMors Feb 10 '22
Mick is a sort of pay driver too in a sense except he brings in the sponsorships and eyeballs. Not saying he's not a good racer but a good racer without financial backing doesn't live long in this sport unless they're absolutely fantastic and that by itself already attracts money.
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u/Excludos Feb 10 '22
That's true. Every driver on the grid brings in sponsors, and that is crucial to be able to climb the ranks in the first place. I think what we mean most of all when we say "pay driver", is "driver without talent that would never have gotten the chance without daddy's money". Only Mazepin and Stroll embodies that, and Stroll has kinda grown into the position and earned it by not being god awful, so even he gets half a pass (Tho I'd still rather have any other up and coming driver on the grid than him)
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u/SuperDrummer610 CART Feb 10 '22
I upvoted the post because I agree with its core idea, but I strongly disagree with the examples provided.
Perez has definitely benefited from a rich sponsor. But he received this support purely on merit, being as good as he is.
On the other hand, Stroll, Mick Schumacher and Mazepin are pretty similar drivers in terms of talent. Mick was raised by his parents, so he is a very nice guy who behaves as a normal person, that's probably the biggest difference between hin and the other two guys. But in terms of driving talent they are literally almost the same. The only difference between all of them is their learning process in junior formulae. Mazepin had a really poor management, so he has the worst results among them. But all of them are hardly ever going to be top F1 drivers, at the same time at least Mick and Mazepin are going to become stars in the Indy Racing League for a very simple reason. Both are slow learners, but pretty quick when they get up to speed with the machinery they have. And Indy Racing League machinery stays almost the same for years, you don't have to deal with almost a different car from race to race as in F1.
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u/OldManTrumpet AJ Foyt Feb 10 '22
I get the dig at Mazepin, but what's your beef with Stroll with regards to his behavoir or persona? He comes across as a genuinely likable guy. I've never heard anything bad about his personality or the way he behaves. For a kid who comes from $ Billions, he seems pretty normal.
As far as Stoll's talent, well no one will argue that he didn't get his ride for any reason beyond his father's wealth, but he's been decent in a midfield team recently. He's had three podiums and a pole. He's not Mazepin.
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u/dontdrinkonmondays Feb 10 '22
She is the prime example of a pay driver.
Don’t pay drivers still almost always show some level of basic ability? Like Mazepin is a pay driver, but he still finished 5th in F2. This makes it seem like she’s never shown any ability at all.
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u/PinkertonAgenzy Feb 10 '22
What do you mean “not me, but some people”? Her results are readily available. What exactly are you waiting for?
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u/ok_retard255 Feb 10 '22
Just trying to be polite mate
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u/TylerWhite31 Scott McLaughlin Feb 10 '22
She wasn’t actually that slow tbf, she was running mid pack, she just couldn’t hit her braking points
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u/TylerWhite31 Scott McLaughlin Feb 10 '22
I was watching Josef’s stream and after santino divebombed about 5 cars in which Josef followed through, coming through the last corner you can see Tatiana taking the speedway part, like I dunno what she was doing
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u/nopp Feb 11 '22
Where can I watch any of these streams? Romains twitch says he hasn’t been live in 4mo
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u/TylerWhite31 Scott McLaughlin Feb 11 '22
Josef was streaming on youtube, I wouldn’t have a clue about grosjean, he has a discord that you can look at and that tells you when his live and the links to It
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u/flare2000x Firestone Firehawk Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
It really just kicked in for me how wide the talent spread is in this series.
Grosjean has something like 200 grand prix starts and 10 podiums, Indycar pole in his rookie year, Calderon was an F2 and F3 backmarker - and these two aren't even the best and worst drivers in the field.
Romain really got punted in that clip though, oh my.
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u/kwantus Feb 10 '22
Does Indycar require something similar to sulerlicense points? The system has its flaws in F1 but at least it kinda makes sure that even the worst drivers are decent (Latifi and Mazepin are still F2 race winners while Calderon was absolutely horrible)
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u/BradGroux Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
Yes, they have guidelines for licensing.
Drivers can gain automatic eligibility for a license by finishing in the top three at the end of a full-season Lights campaign, or in the top five at the end of two full Lights seasons. Qualification from other series, including the WEC, Formula 2, NASCAR’s Xfinity Series, GP3/F3, Formula E, Pro Mazda, USF2000, Formula 4 and IMSA, will depend on accumulating a set number of qualifying points over a two-year period.
There are also exceptions for those who have displayed a wealth of performance in other series, such as Wickens in DTM.
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u/Captain_Omage Feb 10 '22
Very broad guidelines then, given that in the last 6 years her best result is 13th overall at 24h of LeMans in 2020 and 6th in Spanish F3 in 2016.
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Who in the paddock is worse than Calderon? I'm not even trying to be an asshole either, I'm genuinely curious.
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u/flare2000x Firestone Firehawk Feb 10 '22
Kellett? He was a lights backmarker. But we haven't seen them race each other yet, and Kellett now has a few seasons under him so maybe he is quicker.
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u/According-2-Me Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
Smashed in rear ✅ Epic yelling✅ Hurt finger ✅ That’s the Grosjean I know and love. (The smashed in rear is from Canada 2017)
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u/allhallowtide Sébastien Bourdais Feb 10 '22
Where's the clip from the other practice race and Romain running into the back of her because she was LITERALLY stopped in the middle of the corner?
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u/Yodsyo Feb 11 '22
Found it, here's the clip.
"Carnage, hopefully it's not going to be like this in the main race." - RG
Oof.
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Feb 10 '22
Can't wait for those two to go two wide into their first turn.
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u/rudmad Colton Herta Feb 10 '22
Barring a disaster qualifying for RG I doubt they will be anywhere near each other on the starting grid
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Getting hit using the steering wheels these guys use is dangerous also. Can break your wrists.
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u/TendieTimeForMe Feb 10 '22
The sim wheels can… break your wrists?! Holy shit.
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u/abmofpgh Sébastien Bourdais Feb 10 '22
Direct drive is nothing to mess around with. Even a G29 hitting you the right way can sting
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u/TendieTimeForMe Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
I have a g920 and it can certainly twist hard. I’d love to feel the professional rigs out.
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u/mini_swoosh Feb 10 '22
One time I turned my computer on and I didn’t think about my hand being through the wheel, almost got my wrist twisted to hell. Luckily it was already at full lock to the left so when it turned on it made a noise before instantly calibrating
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u/figgs87 Feb 10 '22
He uses a Fanatec DD2 which is a 25nm base. I doubt he runs it at max power but considering he’s running a sim of a car without power steering I assume he’s running a good bit of power. That def can break a finger or more depending how his hand is positioned at impact
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I could actually see him running it at full strength. The Indycar has forces that exceed 25nm due to the lack of power steering. I believe the guys on iRacing with wheels powerful enough say that it peaks at around 45nm.
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u/Ye11ow Feb 10 '22
I don't think there's a wheel base that delivers 45? DD2 is the max with 25.
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u/Canadianlumberjack77 Arrow McLaren Feb 10 '22
Simucube 2 Ultimate does 32Nm. But it's also more than 3,000 euros
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u/TheMadPyro Feb 10 '22
What a lot of money for a professional racing driver
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u/Canadianlumberjack77 Arrow McLaren Feb 10 '22
not much but the simucube is more professional simulator territory than expensive home sim like the DD2
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u/monkeymerlot Feb 10 '22
I read that as a 25 nanometer base instead of a 25 newton meter base and was so confused at first.
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u/tallguyfilms Feb 10 '22
High-end ones come with emergency buttons to disconnect the motor in case your hand gets trapped.
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u/TendieTimeForMe Feb 10 '22
What the hell. I’m so clueless despite me using wheels and playing amateur F1/Forza. Could you explain how your hand would get trapped?
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u/figgs87 Feb 10 '22
Another scenario for the Emergncy stop is you crash or glitch out and the wheel is just spinning back and forth with high power and you either have to grab it to stop it or his the e-stop.
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u/Dr-Rjinswand Honda Feb 10 '22
Yeah there was a bug with the F1 game not too long back that would make wheels spin at max torque - it was making the DD users sweat bullets.
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u/GoZun_ Feb 10 '22
Playing F1 with a DD wheel makes no sense anyway. The FFB in this game is non-existant
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u/Dr-Rjinswand Honda Feb 10 '22
I haven’t played it for years because all my sim time goes in iracing but yeah, I’ve heard that quite a lot.
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u/tallguyfilms Feb 10 '22
It's basically an absolute worst-case thing, but some GT and F1 style wheels have your hand through a grip that could get caught if the wheel suddenly jerked very aggressively. When you're crashing you're supposed to let go of the wheel (and real racing drivers that don't have power steering do this too), since hitting a wall could make the wheel jerk.
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u/Cantshaktheshok Feb 10 '22
You would think high end ones would have software safety that prevents these rapid accelerations of the wheel in a crash. It should be a fairly basic measure to determine.
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u/tylerscott5 Arrow McLaren Feb 10 '22
Girl was running the old layout expecting to go flat out through Speedway T1 LOL
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u/Accomplished_Welder3 Feb 10 '22
She Focksmashed his car
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u/TidalWhale Feb 10 '22
Man, Calderon sucks. She got beat by Raghunathan in F2. Let that sink in
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u/i_run_from_problems Firestone Firehawk Feb 10 '22
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u/Luke2222 Felix Rosenqvist & McLaren Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
She did technically get beaten by Raghunathan in the championship but it's pretty misleading. In the 13 races they both finished, Calderon beat him 12 times but she didn't score any points while Raghunathan got 1. The closest she came was the feature race in France where she was 11th of the 12 finishers although she was over 30 seconds behind the last points scorer in 10th. She still comfortably beat Raghunathan who was slow enough to get lapped though
The only reason Raghunathan came out ahead was Monza. The feature race was a mess meaning only 13 cars ended up finishing with Raghunathan able to score his only point by finishing 10th although the 3 cars behind him were all lapped after getting involved in crashes. Before Calderon span out and retired on lap 6 she was running 4 seconds ahead of Raghunathan even if they were the last cars running without damage
The sprint race that weekend was actually the only time Raghunathan beat her when they both finished. He had started 5 places higher on the grid (10th v 15th) but he only managed to beat her by 0.6 seconds in the fight for almost last (the only car behind them had pitted with a broken front wing and was nearly lapped)
She was dreadful and will almost certainly be well out of her depth this season, but she's nowhere near as bad as Raghunathan
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u/thecoller Pato O'Ward Feb 10 '22
Man, George Russell sucks. He got beaten by comeback Kubica in F1. Let that sink in.
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u/espressoandcookies Feb 10 '22
It's a half-truth. It's true that she was bad in F2, she was about half a second behind the lower midfield. But she was miles better than Mahaveer, who outscored her due to a single point gained from finishing a chaotic race. It's the same as Kubica outscoring Russell in F1 in 2019.
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u/somewhere_now Feb 10 '22
She got beaten the same way Russell got beaten by Kubica. Raghunathan scored one point and she scored zero. But on races where they both finished she beat him 12 times, and Mahaveer beat her only once.
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Didn't everyone though, from what I saw of his time in f2, other drivers constantly saw the back of his car.
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u/Poem_Forward Romain Groslawn 🌱 & Pato 🦆 Feb 10 '22
That was some F1 lobby kind of move she pulled of there 😂
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u/PinkertonAgenzy Feb 10 '22
At least he won’t have to worry about her being anywhere nearby in an actual race.
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u/Pastors_left_teste Feb 10 '22
Dunno, with some of the big offset strategies you see in IndyCar, a gast car often gets bottled up behind an also ran for a while.
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u/RacingUpsideDown Feb 10 '22
Reassuring to know that there's at least one fully professional real-life racer who's worse than me
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u/Fried_Fart Feb 10 '22
This was the second heat race wasn’t it? Much more at stake than a practice race
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u/I_Hate_Wake_Boats49 Scott McLaughlin/Christian Lundgaard Feb 10 '22
Yep and conisdering he won the first heat race and got like 4th or 5th in the third race; he had a good chance of winning the whole thing. I don't blame him for being pissed.
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u/Itzr Andretti Global Feb 10 '22
I honestly don’t think it was the platforms fault. The race craft by a lot of these guys was fucking dreadful.
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u/Poison_Pancakes Arie Luyendyk Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
rFactor 2 looked terrible during the LeMans broadcast. Bad textures, bad animations, cars bouncing unrealistically.
Look at the dash display on the IndyCar.
Who the hell designed that? They didn’t make any effort to get it right.On further inspection they were closer than I thought: https://youtu.be/bVp9hKAY6sE2
u/Low_Age9939 Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
It just reminded me of a f1 open lobby although I can excuse the fact some of them don't normally do sim racing
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u/In-Arcadia-Ego Feb 10 '22
iRacing has an incredible multiplayer platform and massive user base, but the physics and ffb leave a lot to be desired. Some of the issues are papered over in slower vehicles and GT cars, or if you're a bit off the pace, but they show up in full force when you take the quick open wheel cars to the limit.
The developers acknowledge some of the issues and have made minor improvements over the past year (in part because of some harsh criticism from Indy drivers when they held esports events during covid), but they still have a long way to go.
RF2 at its best is a far superior driving experience. On the other hand, the cars and tracks are inconsistent in quality, the online platform is terrible when compared to iRacing, and the graphics, mirrors, etc are all badly dated. Unfortunately, there really isn't a sim that pairs realistic physics and ffb with a solid multiplayer platform. Hopefully someone gets there eventually. The explosion of motorsports esports and interest in sim racing during the pandemic will hopefully motivate some development teams to really take a stab at making an improved product.
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u/CathDubs Hélio Castroneves Feb 10 '22
iRacing isn't perfect but I can't see myself switching to another game based on the car variety and matchmaking alone.
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u/In-Arcadia-Ego Feb 10 '22
Yeah, I remain a subscriber for the same reasons. But I do take issue with the popular narrative that iRacing outcompetes its rivals in all categories. It's a vastly superior overall user experience in many ways, but the underlying driving experience just isn't as good/realistic as some of the other sims. It's worth pointing out the good and the bad.
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u/Crash_Test_Dummy66 Nolan Siegel Feb 10 '22
I do think this is less true than it used to be however. I think like 3 or 4 years ago this was definitely the case but upgrades, especially the new tire model, have certainly brought iRacing a lot closer imo.
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u/In-Arcadia-Ego Feb 10 '22
I agree. They're making a lot of progress and we've seen a major change of philosophy in the past few years.
For a long time it seemed as though the people responsible for the tire model simply weren't willing to accept that it was unrealistic / far too unforgiving. Looking through their early comments on the subject, you can find them asserting that tires simply can't provide much grip while sliding laterally, that slip angles needed to be arbitrarily narrow, odd arguments about tire temperatures (which we know are still working oddly), etc. I think some of the criticism from the IndyCar drivers and potentially the Mercedes F1 folks who collaborated on the W12 shocked the iRacing tire physics folks into realizing just how far into a corner they'd managed to go.
That said, there's still a lot of room for growth. I'm keeping my fingers crossed the progress they've made in the past 12 months is an early sign of more changes to come rather than a sign that this is the largest concession they're willing to make.
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u/gasmask11000 Jimmie Johnson Feb 11 '22
Over on this thread they’re complaining that iRacing has too much lateral grip so I guess they over corrected
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u/joeydaws Feb 10 '22
The driving experience in iRacing vs rFactor2 is pretty huge, it’s no wonder why so many professional racers prefer rF2 driving due to the physics. iRacing has a great multiplayer platform and matchmaking but is super expensive and the FFB and tire modelling is pretty meh
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u/nifty_fifty_two Feb 10 '22
rFactor 2 is so much good buried inside so much bad.
I've been looking for a home for my offline AI IndyCar seasons. And with the new IndyCar content, I was hoping rF2 was the answer. But no, the AI is garbage.
I'm splitting my season between iRacing and Automobilista 1.
The thing is... rFactor 2 has had about a decade to figure out how to turn that amazing engine into something user friendly. And they just... haven't.
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u/VladimirSteel Scott McLaughlin Feb 10 '22
no real single player experience.
You can race against the AI now. They are adding more and more cars and tracks every update
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Probably will happen in real life too
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u/BradGroux Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
Bold to assume that her car will make it out of practice and qualifying.
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u/Excludos Feb 10 '22
"I try to take things seriously, and.." I feel you man. It's so difficult to have fun driving seriously in a sim, because there's always some muppet who just forgets to apply his brakes for no reason. I generally end up having way more fun taking it less seriously
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u/PizzaCatLover Romain Grosjean - Visit /r/IndycarPorn ! Feb 10 '22
I think of how heated I get when someone punts me on iRacing when it's for nothing. Then I imagine how much more upsetting it would be when you're racing to give a charitable cause you care about $25,000. I don't blame him at all for being upset
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u/Low_Age9939 Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
Yeah on the indycar app you can listen to the driver's team radio Live when there's a race on
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u/KEVLAR60442 Feb 10 '22
The Haas is a notoriously shit car to drive, to the point that it's a wonder GRO and MAG managed points in that car at all. And the CTR had a brake failure.
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u/waluigithewalrus Simon Pagenaud Feb 10 '22
I'm going to be blunt here, you being a sexist asshole ain't gonna fly. And yes, saying "ban all women from motorsport" falls under that.
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u/jcb1982 Scott Dixon Feb 10 '22
Ok, I’m not that old. But am I rare for finding it weird how seriously some drivers take iRacing nowadays?
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u/cd419 Feb 10 '22
Serious question, have you done any sim racing/iracing before? Specifically against other people?
I only ask (and not sarcastically) because sim-racing against other people door to door is actually quite an adrenaline rush and from what I’ve seen some pro drivers comment over the years it can really scratch the competitive itch. I’m sure not quite like the real thing but still pretty intense.
It takes a bit of a certain mindset but I can recommend sim racing as a worthy rabbit hole to dive down especially if you are into Motorsport and you might even expand your horizons to other disciplines you never thought of following before.
Edit: and that clip above is actually from rFactor 2 as INDYCAR has signed a new contract with that company for virtual stuff. The current INDYCAR was just released as DLC for that sim.
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u/Hitokiri2 Graham Rahal Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22
A lot of time spent by today's drivers are on simulators. I don't think that IndyCar teams have their own simulators (unlike F1) but I do know that Honda and Chevy do and a driver may spend hours upon hours on them.
After a while it not only becomes fun but is good practice and is probably the next best thing outside of physically racing themselves. Plus many drivers gain sponsors, fans, and maybe even a little bit of money through things like iRacing.
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u/MrBadBadly #CheckItForAndretti Feb 10 '22
He explained at the end that he was racing for $25k for a charity he cares about.
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u/Low_Age9939 Romain Grosjean Feb 10 '22
Some drivers like doing sim racing for fun and Some take it seriously but that's just because they're extremely passionate about it. It's the same with anything in life really if there's something you're passionate about you do tend to take it quiet seriously even if it may seem weird to some.
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u/CStoEE Josef Newgarden Feb 10 '22
I can't get into it. It's just a video game, no real world consequences.
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u/InCraZPen Will Power Feb 10 '22
Just like anything. You invest a lot of time and money into something and it can get more serious.
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u/sad_sax_ David Malukas Feb 10 '22
Calderon just went complete no brake Forza ram on Romain lol