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Bottom post of the previous page:

Frijns and Engel now up on the back of Mortara.

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Mortara wins from Frijns, Engel, Farfus and Mostert.
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Quite (pleasantly) surprised that race did not end with a red....

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Great result for Frijns, 2nd on his first visit to Macau.

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Antonov wrote: 6 years ago Has there always been a permanent yellow at the hairpin?

What game has the best version of Macau?
Anyone? :blush:
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For cars, yes. For motorcycles,no
In regard of computer games you better ask someone else
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So how did the races go this morning?
I'm sorry but I was fully worn last night and crashed out.
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The bike race wasn't restarted.

The local series car race ended because of a two-car crash blocking the track. WTCC was uneventful. The GT race was more so.

I just drove a race on RFactor around Macau and it was a pretty good rendition (complete with a 40 car grid capacity) although graphically dated.
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Damn, them grid girls...
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What animals are those?
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Lions.
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theracer120 wrote: 6 years ago The bike race wasn't restarted.

The local series car race ended because of a two-car crash blocking the track. WTCC was uneventful. The GT race was more so.

I just drove a race on RFactor around Macau and it was a pretty good rendition (complete with a 40 car grid capacity) although graphically dated.
Yeah I knew about the bike race. It never was going to be restarted. That was what had me worn out because the road racing family is a pretty tight knitted group and I became part of it. It means, that you gonna be there for and with your mates.

And coverages of crashes like the one yesterday do not bode well inside this community.
It was sick to zoom in on the fallen, full stop. What made it worse for most including me, was that at least one marshal at the scene pulled his mobile and filmed it.

For me, it would have been much more interesting to see, how he actually lost it, given that the red flags were already displayed and tv had the chance to not do what it did.
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F3 race on the warmup lap.

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Track is dry.

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Interesting to see how Norris fares from his lowly start position (7th)

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I don't think we know what actually caused him to lose it but the amateur vid shows that the back end kicked out as he was entering the corner in a big way (which leads me to believe that maybe he locked up or something broke in the rear) and the rest was history.

The GP is underway!
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