2010 Rolex 24 at Daytona

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Great pictures LSX:tup:

The Camaro's look just great, I hope at least one of them does well, but its tough racing with a new car. It normally takes a year to figure out what going to break.

More pictures of the Subaru STI's please!

I was down for the Daytona race two years ago and had a great time. Watched the race from turn one on Saturday, and from the stands between the two infield horseshoes on Sunday.

Respectfully,
GTsail290
 
Cale
Did the STi run ST class? The ST Legacies were awesome. (and fast!)
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No, it ran GS and was alllll over the Mustangs and everything else, that thing really had lot's of grip out of the corners.

CAMikaze
Continental as in Continental Tires who replaces Koni as the main sponsor of the support series.
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Haha. I see makes more sense now. :lol:

GTsail290
Great pictures LSX

The Camaro's look just great, I hope at least one of them does well, but its tough racing with a new car. It normally takes a year to figure out what going to break.

More pictures of the Subaru STI's please!

I was down for the Daytona race two years ago and had a great time. Watched the race from turn one on Saturday, and from the stands between the two infield horseshoes on Sunday.

Respectfully,
GTsail290
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Thanks. I'll look and see if I have any more of the Subaru, I may. But if not, I won't be able to do any better, because the Continental Tire cars had to be packed and haulers out by 7:30PM.

Yeah, the Camaro's looked good out there, I'm going to try and get more shots of the GT Camaro's tomorrow, I did get one, but it's blocked by the Orange DP. I will say that none of the American V8 cars came close to the V8 M3's, those Bimmers sounded unreal. wahhhhh POP!! wah wahhhhhh POP POP POP!!!! I was all :D :scared: :drool:!

I was in the stands by the kink today, then I moved to the outside of the second hairpin, between Nascar 1 and the road course. The damn Speed TV camera guy was spitting sun flower seeds all around us. I was about to turn his generator off. :lol:
 
GOD I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT THERE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!

Great pics LSX. And on Monday ill be sure to upload all the pics I take to an album for the guys unable to attend and will be following along on TV.
 
Nice to see the Crawford still exists. Seems like after 06, they never were competitive or seen ever again and I was starting to think there were gonna be no more Crawfords since the new one is a failure and the old just can't keep up with anything. Also, does anyone else feel that this series will never be respected? I mean when they had the Sports Prototypes and the GT cars, most saw it as nothing more then an ALMS ripoff and even now people don't like it purely because it doesn't have the same cars as the ALMS. Hell, I even see that someone apparently wants it to "painfully die a slow death". Somehow its okay for a sportscar series, in america mind you, centered around a certain race in france to be made, but not one around one of America's biggest races?
 
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If anyone has British Eurosport 2 like last year they are showing the Daytona 24 Hours race live at inter times during the race. I have listed the timings below in GMT/UK Time if you want to catch up according to the TV Schedule on British Eurosport's website but times may vary.

Saturday 30th January
British Eurosport 2: 9:00pm-11:00pm (UK Time)

Sunday 31st January
British Eurosport 2: 6:45pm-9:00pm (UK Time)
 
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Go Porsche! I'm rooting for Brumos & TRG/Flying Lizards...

BTW, only 30 mins until green flag. I'd like to see some rain to make this even more interesting...Hehehe!

RACECAR
Also, does anyone else feel that this series will never be respected? I mean when they had the Sports Prototypes and the GT cars, most saw it as nothing more then an ALMS ripoff and even now people don't like it purely because it doesn't have the same cars as the ALMS. Hell, I even see that someone apparently wants it to "painfully die a slow death". Somehow its okay for a sportscar series, in america mind you, centered around a certain race in france to be made, but not one around one of America's biggest races?
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I'm guessing you're referring to me...There are several reasons I don't particularly like Grand Am.

1) It's association to the ISC & NASCAR.
2) It's almost a spec series
3) DPs are not as interesting as its LMP contemporaries
4) Tube framed GTs (Mazda, Pontiac) racing against Porsche GT3 Cups? Yeah...

Anyway, having 2 different sports car series means smaller grids for both. So yeah, I want it to die a quick & painful death.

On a positive note, if this gets Jimmie Johnson interested in sports car racing and would want to join Corvette Racing for Le Mans, then that would be awesome!
 
arvin charles
I'm guessing you're referring to me...There are several reasons I don't particularly like Grand Am.

1) It's association to the ISC & NASCAR.
2) It's almost a spec series
3) DPs are not as interesting as its LMP contemporaries
4) Tube framed GTs (Mazda, Pontiac) racing against Porsche GT3 Cups? Yeah...

Anyway, having 2 different sports car series means smaller grids for both. So yeah, I want it to die a quick & painful death.
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1) It was only recently (as of 08) that Nascar actually aquired it. Beforehand, it was independent and was also under the failed administration of what was the USRRC before 2000. BTW, ISC is seperate company from Nascar and only owns a majority of the tracks, including Watkins Glen.
2) How is it almost a spec series? Just there is only four willing(keyword here) Contructors in DP?
3) Subjective so I won't even bother, even though I want to point out names like Riley, Dallara, Lola and (formally) Fabcar were actually (and still are) the ones that made those LMPs.
4) Porsche GT3s are everywhere so I don't get it. Also, what is wrong is with tube framed cars? Super GT has tube framed cars as did Trans-Am.

And finally, how is Grand-am causing the ALMS to have smaller fields? I've only seen three teams from ALMS competing in it (not even full time) so I don't see how its Grand-Am's fault that:

1. Corvette Racing killed GT1 (Might Kill GT2 as well)
2. Diesel is killing P1, while Acura and Porsche single handly kill P2

Big Manufacterers dominating classes and spending all that money developing cars that Priveteers can't most of the time beat are what was/is killing ALMS and anything Le Mans related, not Grand-Am. So you want the series to just be killed off for something not of their own doing?
 
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RACECAR
1) It was only recently (as of 08) that Nascar actually aquired it. Beforehand, it was independent and was also under the failed administration of what was the USRRC before 2000. BTW, ISC is seperate company from Nascar and only owns a majority of the tracks, including Watkins Glen.
2) How is it almost a spec series? Just there is only four willing(keyword here) Contructors in DP?
3) Subjective so I won't even bother, even though I want to point out names like Riley, Dallara, Lola and (formally) Fabcar were actually (and still are) the ones that made those LMPs.
4) Porsche GT3s are everywhere so I don't get it. Also, what is wrong is with tube framed cars? Super GT has tube framed cars as did Trans-Am.

And finally, how is Grand-am causing the ALMS to have smaller fields? I've only seen three teams from ALMS competing in it (not even full time) so I don't see how its Grand-Am's fault that:

1. Corvette Racing killed GT1 (Might Kill GT2 as well)
2. Diesel is killing P1, while Acura and Porsche single handly kill P2

Big Manufacterers dominating classes and spending all that money developing cars that Priveteers can't most of the time beat are what was/is killing ALMS and anything Le Mans related, not Grand-Am. So you want the series to just be killed off for something not of their own doing?
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Mazda is killing the gt1's also.
 
mazdaman
Mazda is killing the gt1's also.
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Mazda isn't in GT1, they only supply engines in LMP2. If your reffering to GT in Grand-Am, they aren't doing that either.
 
RACECAR
Mazda isn't in GT1, they only supply engines in LMP2. If your reffering to GT in Grand-Am, they aren't doing that either.
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the mazda's were king butt in the grand ams but i don't know happened.
 
mazdaman
the mazda's were king butt in the grand ams but i don't know happened.
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They did dominate, but then got beat by the Pontiacs. They only managed maybe one or two wins last year if I recall, everything else was won by a Porsche or a Pontiac.
 
I'm impressed by Johnson the more I watch him drive today. He's truly a great driver and a class act.
 
Someone set off the fireworks early, suprised it wasn't a full-course caution.
 
I'm impressed with Jimmie Johnson also. I'd like to see him do more sports car racing...

RACECAR
1) It was only recently (as of 08) that Nascar actually aquired it. Beforehand, it was independent and was also under the failed administration of what was the USRRC before 2000. BTW, ISC is seperate company from Nascar and only owns a majority of the tracks, including Watkins Glen.
2) How is it almost a spec series? Just there is only four willing(keyword here) Contructors in DP?
3) Subjective so I won't even bother, even though I want to point out names like Riley, Dallara, Lola and (formally) Fabcar were actually (and still are) the ones that made those LMPs.
4) Porsche GT3s are everywhere so I don't get it. Also, what is wrong is with tube framed cars? Super GT has tube framed cars as did Trans-Am.
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I don't want to make this an ALMS vs. GA thread, so this is the last thing I'm going to say about this. As I'm actually enjoying this year's race.

*NASCAR (the France family) had a controlling interest in GARRA pretty much since its inception.

*The DPs are castrated prototypes due to keeping costs down.

* Super GT cars all have the same type of chassis. You don't see anything wrong with tube framed cars racing against production based cars such as the GT3 Cup & the Ferraris?

BTW, is there a Eurosport stream that's covering the portion of the race that SPEED isn't?
 
I hate how Speed cuts the middle 33% of all the 24 hour races. When they come back on air at 7 am the race will most likely already be decided.

I'm watching live time and scoring right now, but does anyone have a stream?

Jimmie Johnson did a fine job racing, that move he put on Emanuel Collard was brilliant. Just a slight slip getting his foot caught on the throttle but hes put in very quick laps considering the #99 Chevrolet is visibly slower on the straights compared to the other cars.

A little disappointed in Bourdais' and Vasser's stints, both are obviously suffering from lack of seat time. Vasser has to pick it up, hes consistently the slowest DP going off of timing and scoring. He already has them a lap down now it seems.

And I pitty the fool Lucas Luhr thinking he could stop on Montoya like that before the start so he couldn't get a run on him
 
Pitracer100
Agreed.👍
Did anyone notice the USA Anthem was skipped with an interview.
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Yeah, I saw that. Speed got alot of backlash for it along with Pruett and Bell, although its not there fault the producer apparently decided to ignore it.
 
Yeah but now timing and scoring is froze at lap 247 at least for me.

I dont think I can do this for another 6 hours until SPEED comes back on air. But I'm so tempted, I just know the DPs are going to start running into mechanical problems at any time now

Also, Jon Fogarty and Jimmy Vasser are making Jimmie Johnson look really good...when Johnson was in the car it was one of the quickest now its one of if not the slowest DP. Jimmie looked mighty quick in the infield and on the exit of the backstretch chicane
 
#02 is out with a blown engine, apparently. This makes me very very very sad. :(

(live timing is stuck at 247 for me too)
 
4-Time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson tries to race the oval during the race :lol:. In reality he just got his foot caught on the throttle

 

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