TVR QUALIFIES SOLIDLY FOR SEBRING 12 HOUR RACE
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Just in from TVR Engineering...
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It is easy to underestimate the scale of the task which TVR has undertaken in deciding to compete in international endurance racing in 2003. Even the scale of the logistics has dwarfed anything we have done before and getting a new car through scrutineering is tricky enough in its own right - you only have to see what has happened to the unfortunate Bentley team, who have had their car sent to the back of the grid for a diffuser height infringement, to see what I mean.
However we have been in long discussions with the superbly patient ACO, organisers of the Le Mans 24 hour race, and they have helped us get into tomorrow’s race.
Qualifying has already taken place, and despite the fact that we are in the slowest production based GTS Class, we lie in 42nd out of 55. This is in front of six 911 Porsches, the Ferrari 360 and the Dutch Spyker. It has to be said that this is a testament to the talent and dedication of the drivers and engineers.
It has not been easy, as the car is brand new, the drivers have not driven round Sebring before in anything other than a Play Station car and we are running smaller air restrictors than anyone else in the race which strangles the power of the engine. “We were warned that Sebring was tricky, said Richard Stanton earlier this morning, “but we were not prepared for a place so bumpy that it makes Castle Combe feel like Silverstone!”
His fellow driver, Richard Hay, felt more upbeat saying, “We are already as quick as anything through the twisty bits, if we can find a way to help the engine breathe more easily, we stand an excellent chance.”
However each hour long practice session sees at least 10 cars having to be towed back in after breakdowns or crashes. They are going to be a very long 12 hours …….
Ben Samuelson
.....Keep in there boys - excellent news, fingers crossed
>>> Edited by jamer on Friday 14th March 18:00
Quote:-
It is easy to underestimate the scale of the task which TVR has undertaken in deciding to compete in international endurance racing in 2003. Even the scale of the logistics has dwarfed anything we have done before and getting a new car through scrutineering is tricky enough in its own right - you only have to see what has happened to the unfortunate Bentley team, who have had their car sent to the back of the grid for a diffuser height infringement, to see what I mean.
However we have been in long discussions with the superbly patient ACO, organisers of the Le Mans 24 hour race, and they have helped us get into tomorrow’s race.
Qualifying has already taken place, and despite the fact that we are in the slowest production based GTS Class, we lie in 42nd out of 55. This is in front of six 911 Porsches, the Ferrari 360 and the Dutch Spyker. It has to be said that this is a testament to the talent and dedication of the drivers and engineers.
It has not been easy, as the car is brand new, the drivers have not driven round Sebring before in anything other than a Play Station car and we are running smaller air restrictors than anyone else in the race which strangles the power of the engine. “We were warned that Sebring was tricky, said Richard Stanton earlier this morning, “but we were not prepared for a place so bumpy that it makes Castle Combe feel like Silverstone!”
His fellow driver, Richard Hay, felt more upbeat saying, “We are already as quick as anything through the twisty bits, if we can find a way to help the engine breathe more easily, we stand an excellent chance.”
However each hour long practice session sees at least 10 cars having to be towed back in after breakdowns or crashes. They are going to be a very long 12 hours …….
Ben Samuelson
.....Keep in there boys - excellent news, fingers crossed
>>> Edited by jamer on Friday 14th March 18:00
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