The_Bad_Loser
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Jan 26, 2018 22:18:15 GMT
Okay, so who is ready for some paint trading? Schedule:Race | Track | Date | Rolex 24 at Daytona | Daytona International Speedway | January 27-28 | Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring | Sebring International Raceway | March 17 | BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach | Long Beach Street Circuit | April 14 | Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
| May 6 | Chevrolet Sports Car Classic | The Raceway on Belle Isle
| June 2 | Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen | Watkins Glen International
| July 1 | Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix | Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
| July 8 | Northeast Grand Prix | Lime Rock Park
| July 21 | Continental Tire Road Race Showcase | Road America
| August 5 | Michelin GT Challenge at VIR | Virginia International Raceway
| August 19 | Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix | Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
| September 9 | Motul Petit Le Mans | Road Atlanta
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Links: Last season was the first season that I really watched. I've always been on the casual side with my fandom, but I'm excited for this season. I've always favored Corvette Racing in GTLM, so I'm hopeful they have a good season, even though their chassis is a little long in the tooth compared to the rest of the field. Visit Florida/Spirit of Daytona would be my Prototype favorite, and hopefully they have a little more luck this season. The GT Daytona field is super packed, and I don't think I can pick a favorite. Anyone else in here a fan of the series?
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Post by KurdtMcQueen on Feb 1, 2018 14:25:53 GMT
Hey yeah I have been a fan since the ALMS days. I usually go the Road America round. My favorites are Mazda team Joest for DPi and JDC Miller and Performance Tech in prototype. In GTLM I root for Porsche GT Team and GTD I want Christina Nielsen to get her third Championship with Pat Long at Wright Motorsports, also a Porsche.
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Feb 8, 2018 15:23:08 GMT
Hey yeah I have been a fan since the ALMS days. I usually go the Road America round. My favorites are Mazda team Joest for DPi and JDC Miller and Performance Tech in prototype. In GTLM I root for Porsche GT Team and GTD I want Christina Nielsen to get her third Championship with Pat Long at Wright Motorsports, also a Porsche. I'd love to see Road America in person. Joest had a rough outing in Daytona, but I have a feeling they'll get stronger as the season progresses. I'm curious to see how Penske does too. Porsche might have done better had there been more cautions, but they just didn't seem to have the long distance pace. Then again, no one could keep up with the Fords. It'll be tough for her to repeat. I was surprised she left Ferrari. Overall, it was a surprisingly uneventful race as far as cautions are concerned. What did you think of the Land Motosport penalty?
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Post by KurdtMcQueen on Feb 8, 2018 15:44:03 GMT
I thought Land got robbed. They found a clever way to gain an advantage that was within the rules. Plus the penalty was way too much, IMSA should have just held them long enough to put them on the same lap as second place. Neilson got forced out by Cooper Mcneal and his Weathertech money. Her and Pat Long will do well. Joest will hopefully get it sorted out. they wont be in the running for the championship but hopefully they get a win somewhere along the way. Its hard for a "new" car and team when the first race is 24hrs on a track that has you wide open for 95% of the lap.
I actually liked the low number of FCY. It let the strategies play out more naturally. Penske is going to be fast in the regular distance races. They look to be the strongest challengers of the cadys.
What did you think of Wayne Taylor pulling their car out of the race? Do you think teams where not following Conti's recommendations or did Conti not bring the right tire?
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Feb 9, 2018 19:58:36 GMT
I agree that Joest will have the largest hurdles to overcome. I can see the first half of the season being more about getting rid of gremlins than actual competition. Isn't Penske's Acura a new chassis as well, or am I imagining that?
The penalty did seem excessive. I'm not even sure I understand their reasoning for it. If the re-fueling system was calibrated and sealed by IMSA, then Land didn't take advantage of anything other than IMSA's error. If they miscalculated the calibration, then the penalty should have sought to rectify that, not punish them.
So many teams plan for those cautions that it really shifted the focus to raw speed. If you didn't push early in the race, then you weren't there for the end. That said, I'm glad there weren't too many cautions, for safety's sake.
It's a rough way to open your title defense, but it really seemed like they were just having too many issues. Ultimately it seemed like they felt they couldn't keep the car out there safely. There's always a bit of bickering between teams and tire manufacturers when punctures happen. Manufacturers say that teams run the tires out of spec, and teams complain that the tires aren't living up to the manufacturer's claims. In the end, it's probably a bit of both.
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Post by nrainier on Feb 10, 2018 14:59:37 GMT
Hello guys, just found this thread about the IMSA championship and it is my favorite to watch. I saw the Daytona 24 on livestream and it was very good but it was also very different by recent years. We use to got a lot of cautions and people have a tendency of be more lean back on this race and push only at the end because they know if they are on the lead lap on the final hour they can wn the race. But this year was completely different and we only got 6 yellows? I don't remember but was a lot less and we were getting like the 2nd place car 2 laps even more before the half of the race because they were not pushing hard enough thing that would be yellows and they would recover their laps. I like this way, less cautions more raw speed, i like that. maybe for next year people will start to think better. One thing that helped a lot was that we haven't the PC class this year and that was the class that cause the most number of yellows.
P- Action Express show a great performance and race pace even with the new 5.5 l Chevy engine and the torque on the traffic still amazing on this engine tbh. The new Penske's car, the Acura Oreca was doing great until have some problems what can happen for a new car that rely on turbos and a lot more new things going on. The good thing is: it show a good pace to battle the Cadillac/Dallara this year. And i think we going to have a great battle this year of the tittle if the cars don't dnf too much. The big disapointment was the Nissan/Jigier that was doing a great race and both of cars were out before half of the race. Team Joest will have a lot of work to do on the reliability part of the car because Mazda is very bad at it let's be honest. And the balance between DPI's and the global cars are not good.
GTLM- It's a Ford track. It was buid for high speeds corners and with the development they adapted for low/medium and race pace. When they find a race pace on that Ford, they are almost unbeatble on a track. They had on the past an advantage on BoP but not today. People just can't keep up on certain tracks with the Ford's and it will change over the course of the year. Will be more Ferrari tracks, Porsche tracks, etc. Ferrari was very bad at Daytona but i think thay got a power related with a eletrical problem with the ECU that theynever got fixed in time for the race. The Porsches, unfortunately, never had the pace, the Corvettes were doing good but when the Ford's start to pushing they got left to dust and the BMW's are too new and got their development delayed when they had to redesign a bottom of the car because of regulations.
GTD- I'm very happy because i'm a Lamborghini fan and that was the first 24 hours win for the brand. That have been said i'm sad for the penalty on Land Motorsport and what happened with Christina's car. Robert Renauer, Christina's teamate, lost the car and hit the wall on the formation lap for the race, they got 2 hours in the pit repairing the car. They finished the race way down the order. It's the worst nightmare of a driver. Make a mistake on a formation lap but it happens. And he's a pro driver so. It's unfortunatelly. The penalty on Land's Audi was one of the most disgusting things i've ever saw. What happened was the following: in order to gain an advantage on the refuelling process, Land modified an internal part of the fuel tank so despite don't change the flow of the fuel the refuelling process was faster than the IMSA officials were expecting for an Audi. The point is: there is no rule that saying that you had a minimum time to do to refuelling, neither that they can't change the internal component of the fuel tank for that. They got punished for a rule that don't exist. A rule that was created in the middle of the race. Camon now you got a penalty for a rule that don't exist? Just be sensible about it: a team found a breach on the rule book. Ok. It's a IMSA problem. For the next race change it. Don't punish a team in the middle of the race because you screw the rule book. It's what team does since forever to gain an advantage over others. Make it illegal but don't punish in the middle of the race. And they were not gaining huge amount of time like some other teams were claiming. Matter fact in a yellow flag pit stop they lost time so... this things cannot happened.
Other things: 1- Continental Tires punchures: too many right rears. Despite Wayne Taylor Racing come and saying: "We are not using excessive camber on it" it's quite suspicious that some of the same teams got more than one tires blowing up during the race and other team even had 1 problem. Some of these quotes are very political.
2- Christina was basically fired from Scuderia Corsa Ferrari, because Cooper Mcneil have the money from WhetherTech and they were not satisfied last year with Mercedes and Porsche performance from Riley Team then they moved to Scuderia Corsa with the pro driver Alessandro Balzan and kicked Christina Nilsen. Now she's drive along side Patrick Long in the Wright Motorsport's Porsche.
Cheers guys.
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Mar 20, 2018 15:30:05 GMT
Well, I didn't get a chance to watch any of the Sebring race, so I'm hoping IMSA uploads it to their YouTube channel. It seems as though there were some real shakeups in the P and GTLM classes.
Did anyone else get a chance to watch it?
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Post by hornetdriver1 on Apr 10, 2018 10:48:31 GMT
I like Mid Ohio as I live about 2 hours away. I watched the Sebring race, good race and bumpy as well
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Post by KurdtMcQueen on Apr 10, 2018 14:19:08 GMT
I saw half of it. Heartbreaking for Mazda to lose because of clutch issues on the final stop. glad to see Porsche win in GTLM. Nick Tandy adds another big endurance win to his trophy case. A good win by ESM, they have historically been strong there. Its unfortunate the #2 ESM needed to win the race in turn one and took themselves out.
It will be interesting to see if Cadillac can fix the engine problems they have. No idea how warm it will be in long beach. Spirit of Daytona wont be there which is too bad. That makes two years in a row they have had to miss rounds due to damages to their cars. I see all the DPi cars got pegged back to help bring them back to the WEC P2 cars. Mazda got really hammered though which I think is a little bizarre. Would have thought ESM would have had the bigger BOP penalties seeing as they won the last race.
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