The screaming Ferrari p2 at 9:07... 😙🤌

Rad thanks!

Series I watch regularly & follow:

• IMSA SportsCar Championship
• FIA World Endurance Championship
• European Le Mans Series
• Asian Le Mans Series
• Intercontinental GT Championship
• GT World Challenge America
• GT America
• GT World Challenge Europe
• GT World Challenge Asia
• Trans-Am Series
• Ultimate GT Sprint Cup

Series I watch occasionally & follow:

• International GT Open
• Formula One

The sidebar already lists "This is the place to share anything you find interesting in the world of motorsports!" :)

Nice, thanks for the input!

F1 and Indycar are built into the bot already. The earliest build of the bot had MotoGP added in but I wasn't sure if that was going to fit in a community called "Auto Racing" so I took it back out in a later build. I'm not opposed to adding it back in but it makes me wonder if maybe a community relaunch/rename would work better at that point. Something like "Motorsports" would work better for a community that covers bikes too I think, but maybe I'm overthinking it. Anyway...

The bot is offline while I'm working on some major revisions to the way adding channels and tags is done so it's easier to expand in the future. I was hoping to have it back up this past weekend but other things came up. It should be back online soon ™️.

F1, MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, Indycar :)

In case anyone was wondering I shut the bot down for this community while I'm testing the next round of changes on the test instance. I'm playing with the live stream detection to try and get more consistent live event posting. Some channels post the events days or even weeks in advance and others post them just before they start which is making it harder for the bot to classify the videos and post them on time. I'm hoping to have a new build posting here before the weekend.

WOW what a drive to take the win. Well deserved and what a show with some of those passes.

Ouch, hard hits for both of them.

That's awesome! Definitely looking forward to seeing some sportscar posts in the feed!

All of the channels/series you mentioned should now be monitored and eligible for posting by the bot. There were a lot of other code changes made at the same time so I can't promise you it's working perfectly just yet, but the functionality is there now.

Pushed a major update out for the bot.

Major changes- Proper handling of livestreams on youtube, updates to posting logic.

Minor updates- The Porsche, Lamborghini, and some other channels are now being monitored and I fixed some tagging issues with some channels.

The bot is back to running full time again.

I'm working on updating the bot to properly handle streams on youtube, posting them closer to when they go live. The difference in publishing date and when the videos actually go live causes problems for the current bot logic, so it's taking a bigger re-write than I expected to get it working properly. Hoping to have a new build of the bot running sometime today.

FYI I got geoblocked with a VPN location inside the US. Changing it to Canada got the video working for me.

This change led to the discovery of a new bug- The bot doesn't identify live streams as valid videos to post if they were posted days ahead of the event. There's a DTM practice going on now that the bot isn't able to see. I'll work on a fix for this, hopefully it won't be too big of a deal.

EDIT: I figured out the issue here. The api calls are different for livestreams, oops. Working on adding that in now in the same build that I was working on the Porsche series additions and whatnot. I'll try to get a build out with the livestream fix and the new channels sometime this weekend.

Updated the bot config to scan/post more often to help with live event posting. The goal is to post them while they're still live, not necessarily right when they start. I also reduced the number of posts per run so the posting won't be too ridiculous when there are multiple events running at the same time. Hopefully. ™️

Always interesting to see how real life fits into being a professional driver at such a young age.

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This video just barely passes for posting with the current bot config. On a busier day or with stricter filtering this video would be posted last, or not at all. The main reason it's being posted is because the interviews are with drivers and not just media personalities talking about them.

If this isn't the kind of content you're interested in when racing is slow please let me know so I can make adjustments to the bot filters and posting logic.

Tbh my experience is that video posts on the threadiverse have difficulties with gaining traction and conversations, probably because some people come here to quickly look at posts and dont want to watch entire videos. But hopefully yes!

So far so good after a little more than 48 hours running here. The only error in the logs was a connection error and it was handled correctly by the bot. Looking ahead there are lots of live events coming up on the channels the bot follows, so we should see a nice uptick in content as the weekend approaches.

I'm working on adding support for the Porsche series and some other channels now. Realistically it'll probably be next week before those changes get pushed to the live version of the bot. I'd like to see how the api quota holds up when the channels get busier with content before adding anything new. The current config is using less than 30% of it's daily quota so we should have plenty of room for expanding and more frequent posting before I have to worry about things like multi api support, but I'd rather start slow and build on success and stability.

Thanks! I really hope it can be a jump-off point for racing enthusiasts on Lemmy to start chatting.

Interesting concept!

You can really sense the level of respect he has for the skill it takes but the way he puts it all into words is pretty special. He does a great job of translating between driver and layperson.

Thought that was a great little interview. I love the Hamster.

A bit of a tangent but that doesn't mean it's unwelcome. Thanks for sharing mate!

What a cool story. It must've been such a thrill to find a hidden gem in the wild like that.

https://www.theautopian.com/the-real-story-behind-paul-newmans-long-lost-v8-volvo-and-the-mystery-of-the-unknown-6th-wagon/

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Paul Newman was a rival of McQueen on the race track and the silver screen.

Newman had modified several Volvo station wagons so he could smash the speed limit without looking like a racer.