Sportscars 2024: IMSA Battle on the Bricks Sunday Sept 22

[elfenix 34075]

big sportscar weekend with 2 major races.  first, IMSA is paired up with Indycar at Long Beach for a sprint (still longer than an F1 race), then WEC is at the autodromo enzo e dino ferrari for the 6 hours imola and the debut of the winged 9X8 evo.

[elfenix 34075]

Another double weekend in sports cars with IMSA at Laguna Seca and WEC at Spa on the 11th and 12th.

 

IMSA Laguna Seca entry list

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/34-entries-for-laguna-seca/

Edited May 3 by elfenix

[utee94 15709]

The son of my good friends is racing in FR Americas at Laguna Seca this weekend, check it out if you can.  Usually at least some of it gets streamed on YouTube through Speedtour.

https://ryanshehan.com/

[wood 10904]

On 3/18/2024 at 5:52 AM, Hawndoh said:

The Ferrari Challenge has been around since the 90s.

All Ferrari race, not the prototypes or anything, just actual Ferraris. Lots of owner-drivers, etc. was originally created to give Ferrari owners a chance to race their cars.

Lamborghini and Porsche have their own similar series. They all fall under the IMSA banner.

Yeah, you wanna see a whole bunch of torn up Ferraris - go to a Ferrari Challenge weekend. Pure carnage.

[utee94 15709]

2 hours ago, wood said:

Yeah, you wanna see a whole bunch of torn up Ferraris - go to a Ferrari Challenge weekend. Pure carnage.

Every time they smash into one another, I just can't help but think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars coming out of private pockets.  They can afford it, I guess, but nevertheless it causes me great pain and consternation on their behalf.

 

[wood 10904]

4 hours ago, utee94 said:

Every time they smash into one another, I just can't help but think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars coming out of private pockets.  They can afford it, I guess, but nevertheless it causes me great pain and consternation on their behalf.

 

Yeah the guys out at Cotton Bowl and Heart of Texas care more about their cars than those dudes do. It's crazy.

[wood 10904]

Damn, that GT America/GT World Challenge lineup for COTA next Saturday though. Drool.

7:00AM GATES OPEN
8:00 - 8:15 AM GT AMERICA POWERED BY AWS QUALIFYING
8:30 - 8:45 AM TC AMERICA POWERED BY SKIP BARBER QUALIFYING
9:00 - 9:35 AM FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE AMERICA POWERED BY AWS QUALIFYING
9:50 -10:05 AM TGRNA GR CUP QUALIFYING
10:20 - 10:35 AM PIRELLI GT4 AMERICA QUALIFYING
10:50 - 11:30 AM TC AMERICA POWERED BY SKIP BARBER RACE 1
11:30 - 12:15 PM PARADE LAPS AND HOT LAPS
11:45 - 12:15 AM PIRELLI GT4 AMERICA AUTOGRAPH SESSION MEDIA CENTER
12:30 - 2:00 PM FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE AMERICA POWERED BY AWS RACE 1
2:25 - 3:10 PM TGRNA GR CUP RACE 1
3:00 - 3:30 PM GT WORLD CHALLENGE AND TC AMERICA AUTOGRAPH SESSION MEDIA CENTER
3:25 - 4:05 PM GT AMERICA POWERED BY AWS RACE 1
4:20 - 4:45 PM GT1 SPORTSCLUB POWERED BY CURBSTONE
5:00 - 8:00 PM PIRELLI GT4 AMERICA RACE 

Edited May 10 by wood

[elfenix 34075]

motortrend app was supposed to keep having WEC but i sure as fuck can't find it there.  the races get posted on youtube a week in arrears so fuck paying $20 for max + b/r add on. 

 

 

 

 

[otisdog 358]

MotorTrend TV has been showing the first and last 1.5 hours of the WEC races live.

[elfenix 34075]

imsa at detroit with indycar this weekend, GTP and GTD Pro cars only on the tight streets of downtown detroit.  first time out for these cars at this track.  qualifying is at 3:40 pm today and the race goes green at 3:10 pm tomorrow.

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The idea of a new racetrack is both exciting and daunting. Especially when the schedule is tight — three-and-a-half hours of testing before qualifying in the case of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s first visit to the 1.654-mile, nine-turn downtown street circuit — there’s not a lot of time to get acclimated, to set up the car, and find the right references for a consistent, fast lap.

https://racer.com/2024/05/30/imsa-drivers-ready-to-race-into-the-unknown-on-detroits-streets/

Edited May 31 by elfenix

[elfenix 34075]

nurburgring 24 starts at 9 am tomorrow june 1 and runs through 9 am sunday, june 2. 

qualy:

 

[elfenix 34075]

this is a dumb tiny ugly narrow bumpy go kart track but turn 3 makes for more overtakes for the lead than a season of F1. 

Edited June 1 by elfenix

[elfenix 34075]

Le Mans BoP and high speed power gain/loss (an effort to equalize the top speeds) are out

 

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/power-gain-implemented-in-le-mans-hypercar-bop/

Edited June 8 by elfenix

[elfenix 34075]

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

Love it. Greatest race in the world.

 

 

[elfenix 34075]

(#3 Caddy was second in Hyperpole but got a 5 place grid penalty for causing a red flag at Spa)

 

[elfenix 34075]

ferraris racy to start, moved up to 1-2 and 5.

[Hawndoh 2331]

Ben Keating beached in the gravel.

[elfenix 34075]

4 minutes ago, Hawndoh said:

Ben Keating beached in the gravel.

surprised aggy hasn't put his LM wins up on the wall

 

 

 

[Hawndoh 2331]

Rain expected soon, not sure how much

[elfenix 34075]

teams that gambled on staying on slicks won that bet

[Hawndoh 2331]

Yeah the #6 really lost out on that one.

[Hawndoh 2331]

Not quite 4 hours in but it sure seems like the Porsche cars have nothing to bring in a fight with the Ferraris. 

[Hawndoh 2331]

When the French lady pit lane reporter interviews Koboyashi I have to feel for whoever is doing the English live closed captioning.

Between the two of them I think I caught about 10% of that.

[Hawndoh 2331]

Caddy not having a great afternoon 

[Hawndoh 2331]

An Alpine blew an engine. 

[elfenix 34075]

boop

[wood 10904]

LMAO DeVries. That guy is such a fucking joke. He probably should have stuck with the slow Formula E cars.

Edited June 15 by wood

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

https://24h-lemans.tv/page/6655a2c4d9988d6eb74a8e17

 

Live timing

I would love to see Penske win this

Edited June 15 by PittsburghTiger

[wood 10904]

Get some, 46.

[elfenix 34075]

not having an intermediate is leading to interesting strategy calls, at least.

[elfenix 34075]

proton mechanic seems nice

[Hawndoh 2331]

Possible big penalty upcoming for the race leader??? That was a bit sloppy

Ohhhh first safety car

[elfenix 34075]

dog on track!

[wood 10904]

STFU aggy. (Keating)

[Hawndoh 2331]

Kubica does get a big penalty. 30 second stop and go.

[Updawg 2245]

That’s a pretty harsh penalty but I didn’t see the incident

[Hawndoh 2331]

The #5 Penske has made the worst tire calls at least twice now.

The Toyotas and the 83 Ferrari have done well.

[Texzilla588 765]

I like seeing Cadillac in racing.

[elfenix 34075]

wetter than south austin's mom right now

 

this safety car period is so long they're now needing to pit

Edited June 16 by elfenix

[ChickenSandwich 9760]

Was about to ask if the pace car has to pit 

[elfenix 34075]

About to go racing again

[elfenix 34075]

boogity boogity boogity

[Updawg 2245]

I hope

[Hawndoh 2331]

The 83, after being so strong looks to be dead. Some kind of hybrid electrical problem.

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

16 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

https://24h-lemans.tv/page/6655a2c4d9988d6eb74a8e17

 

Live timing

I would love to see Penske win this

The live timing really adds to the enjoyment of watching. It’s awesome to see where cars are on the track.

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

Ho Lee Fuk, a Jardiance dancing fat people commercial during the break.

It was the new dancing gal, not the short-round gal.

[Hawndoh 2331]

I've been streaming on MAX. Haven't seen a single commercial the entire time.

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

6 minutes ago, Hawndoh said:

I've been streaming on MAX. Haven't seen a single commercial the entire time.

Well, you’ve missed out on some great commercials!

[PittsburghTiger 6067]

A bit of rain coming in a few minutes.