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Endurance racing, Formula E, feeder series. Occasionally F1. Doriane Pin fan account. Statistician by day, sometimes it shows up here too.
Really there are no bad outcomes here, either it works out for them or I can make a "Rodout" pun next year, I'm good with both of these.
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Really there are no bad outcomes here, either it works out for them or I can make a "Rodout" pun next year, I'm good with both of these.
Obviously they're not actually competent so their Youtube channel hasn't been touched since last year but when they remember they'll put the races up here live: www.youtube.com/@AsianLeMans...
Asian Le Mans Series
Created by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), the Asian Le Mans Series symbolises the Spirit of Le Mans, holding the same shared passion for creating world class endurance racing in Asia.
The Asia...
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Obviously they're not actually competent so their Youtube channel hasn't been touched since last year but when they remember they'll put the races up here live: www.youtube.com/@AsianLeMans...
In the Asian (and European) Le Mans Serieses, the LMP2 cars are the top class, so they're not artificially restricted like they are in IMSA. It's good to see them flat out at Sepang. I could go on even more but anyone still reading was probably planning to watch anyway tbh.
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In the Asian (and European) Le Mans Serieses, the LMP2 cars are the top class, so they're not artificially restricted like they are in IMSA. It's good to see them flat out at Sepang. I could go on even more but anyone still reading was probably planning to watch anyway tbh.
Not that LMP2 cars can't race. If there were Wonders of the Motorsport World, the Oreca 07 would be one. Fast enough through corners to look cool, able to race each other, and can be driven by everyone from F1 drivers to tech CEOs. The Pro/Am thing causes some to look down on the class. I love it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Not that LMP2 cars can't race. If there were Wonders of the Motorsport World, the Oreca 07 would be one. Fast enough through corners to look cool, able to race each other, and can be driven by everyone from F1 drivers to tech CEOs. The Pro/Am thing causes some to look down on the class. I love it.
Well, this sort of thing (clips still don't work on bluesky so this is just a timestamp). Slower GT cars create overtaking opportunities for faster ones to pass (faster cars sometimes create opportunities in GT, too...) youtu.be/SxWQF01CTMU?...
Race Highlights | 4 Hours of Portimão 2025 | ELMS
YouTube video by European Le Mans Series
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well, this sort of thing (clips still don't work on bluesky so this is just a timestamp). Slower GT cars create overtaking opportunities for faster ones to pass (faster cars sometimes create opportunities in GT, too...) youtu.be/SxWQF01CTMU?...
Secondly, it's a proper multiclass series, and there's not so many of those around. For the uninitiated, that means we've got LMP2 cars (who lap in about 1:53), LMP3 cars (which are about 7 seconds slower) and GT3 cars (about another 3 seconds slower) on the same track. What's good about that?
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Secondly, it's a proper multiclass series, and there's not so many of those around. For the uninitiated, that means we've got LMP2 cars (who lap in about 1:53), LMP3 cars (which are about 7 seconds slower) and GT3 cars (about another 3 seconds slower) on the same track. What's good about that?
Firstly, Sepang. Sepang is one of the best of Tilke's creations, so obviously F1 doesn't go there. AsLMS's LMP2 cars are about the fastest vehicles that race on it, and they look great swooping through the fast bits and fighting through Tilke's signature straight-hairpin-straight-snail combo.
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Firstly, Sepang. Sepang is one of the best of Tilke's creations, so obviously F1 doesn't go there. AsLMS's LMP2 cars are about the fastest vehicles that race on it, and they look great swooping through the fast bits and fighting through Tilke's signature straight-hairpin-straight-snail combo.
They do - mostly because they're supporting BTCC and British GT, respectively, which do use the full layout, so probably it'd be a big hassle to try and run events on different layouts on the same weekend. Even so, lap time is only just over two minutes so it's not that bad.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
They do - mostly because they're supporting BTCC and British GT, respectively, which do use the full layout, so probably it'd be a big hassle to try and run events on different layouts on the same weekend. Even so, lap time is only just over two minutes so it's not that bad.
Race craft are what they have in the E1 Series, right?
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Race craft are what they have in the E1 Series, right?
I do also think the overall standard of the series has improved over the last few years but to some extent that's because a bunch of young drivers came in in the early 2020s and now they're mostly still there but they've got some more experience.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I do also think the overall standard of the series has improved over the last few years but to some extent that's because a bunch of young drivers came in in the early 2020s and now they're mostly still there but they've got some more experience.
Well one thing that has changed is the Dale Coyne rule, or whatever you want to call it, which does at least make the series look more competitive by increasing the likelihood drivers actually complete full seasons. Makes the series look more professional if nothing else.
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Well one thing that has changed is the Dale Coyne rule, or whatever you want to call it, which does at least make the series look more competitive by increasing the likelihood drivers actually complete full seasons. Makes the series look more professional if nothing else.
Doesn't actually matter, he's better off not using it (by "2023" I mean "for 2023", since that was the season Alpha Tauri were trying to recruit him for; ie counting 2020, 21 and 22) - he was 3rd/5th/10th which was 20 + 8 + 1 = 29 and is now 25 + 15 + 1 = 41
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Doesn't actually matter, he's better off not using it (by "2023" I mean "for 2023", since that was the season Alpha Tauri were trying to recruit him for; ie counting 2020, 21 and 22) - he was 3rd/5th/10th which was 20 + 8 + 1 = 29 and is now 25 + 15 + 1 = 41
Admittedly Silverstone probably won't be as much fun as it is in British F4 and GB4, since in those series they use the support pits and start on the old start line where T1 is Copse, meaning inevitably they're still 2-3 wide as they try to go through Maggotts which is highly entertaining.
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Admittedly Silverstone probably won't be as much fun as it is in British F4 and GB4, since in those series they use the support pits and start on the old start line where T1 is Copse, meaning inevitably they're still 2-3 wide as they try to go through Maggotts which is highly entertaining.
The point at which an F1 team actually wanted Herta, though, was 2023. And with this points system he'd have had 41 points in 2023. So it's a bit weird to claim that the change was specifically done so as not to create a talking point when it....does actually create that talking point.
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The point at which an F1 team actually wanted Herta, though, was 2023. And with this points system he'd have had 41 points in 2023. So it's a bit weird to claim that the change was specifically done so as not to create a talking point when it....does actually create that talking point.
Formula E should probably not award superlicence points at all, frankly. Or maybe it should award more than F2 does at this point, it's hard to tell until we see 2026-era F1 in action and how similar to FE it is. But the Formula E skillset in Gen3 has very little to do with anything seen in F1.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Formula E should probably not award superlicence points at all, frankly. Or maybe it should award more than F2 does at this point, it's hard to tell until we see 2026-era F1 in action and how similar to FE it is. But the Formula E skillset in Gen3 has very little to do with anything seen in F1.
It wouldn't matter anyway the change is not retroactive.
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It wouldn't matter anyway the change is not retroactive.
Though once the Prema team figured out how to set up an IndyCar he finished the year with a string of top-10 finishes, so it's not really clear this is a good example.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Though once the Prema team figured out how to set up an IndyCar he finished the year with a string of top-10 finishes, so it's not really clear this is a good example.
There's also the DSQ in Vegas and the technical DNF in Zandvoort of course - all of these are enough by themselves to lose Norris the title in this scenario, and they're all different people's fault. Or in other words, single incidents are not seasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
There's also the DSQ in Vegas and the technical DNF in Zandvoort of course - all of these are enough by themselves to lose Norris the title in this scenario, and they're all different people's fault. Or in other words, single incidents are not seasons.
But like moreover the point is that it's ridiculous to reduce the championship to single moments like this. Firstly, if Antonelli had kept it on the track Piastri would have handed second over at the last minute. But if he hadn't, would we blame Norris's brainfade in Canada? The pitstop in Baku?
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
But like moreover the point is that it's ridiculous to reduce the championship to single moments like this. Firstly, if Antonelli had kept it on the track Piastri would have handed second over at the last minute. But if he hadn't, would we blame Norris's brainfade in Canada? The pitstop in Baku?
If you were in, oh, the year 2000 or so, you might say something like "NASCAR without the France family is like F1 without Bernie Eccelstone".
And, y'know, look how *that* turned out.
And, y'know, look how *that* turned out.
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If you were in, oh, the year 2000 or so, you might say something like "NASCAR without the France family is like F1 without Bernie Eccelstone".
And, y'know, look how *that* turned out.
And, y'know, look how *that* turned out.