Daytona 24hrs

[t1grm]

Surprisingly little mention of it on here. Anyone know what TV coverage it’s getting if any? Any US PH’ers going? It starts midday local time tomorrow (5:00 pm UK time I think).

>>> Edited by t1grm on Friday 4th February 10:42

[FourWheelDrift]

Probably little intrest because of the cars now raced there, nothing special, apart from the normal Porsche/BMW GT's the 'main' cars are purely ugly and look like a junior sportscar class.

[ettore]

Yep - I`ve lost interest in it since the introduction of those bl**dy awful cars. A GT3RS won outright recently.

[t1grm]

Yes I just noticed that whilst looking up the qualifying times. What class/formula are those cars built to? Formula Noddy? When did that change then? 2003’s race had 996 GT3’s, 360’s, Moslers, Corvettes and Saleens on the grid.

Edit: And didn't an Audi R8 win it a few years back?

>> Edited by t1grm on Friday 4th February 12:35

[FourWheelDrift]

This one is just vile. I think it's the American's wanting to dotheir own thing instead of all these European cars winning all the time so they changed the rules to only allow those designed by Jed Clampett and powered by moonshine.



Yes I know this one is powered by Lexus.....actually that says about all it needs to......Lexus, whooo there's a racing name to conjure with.....

[The DJ 27]

The Crawford DP03 (orange car in the first pic) doesn't look too bad from some angles, although it's far from pretty. The rest are vile. Why do the rooflines have to be so high? It's a sportscar FFS, not a bus. They only have about 410bhp as well. The 911 GT3's etc race in a pretty restricted form IIRC,so they don't have a chance of winning outright. In spite of all this, Grand Am seems to be taking it's toll on the ALMS. Stange bunch, Americans

[ErnestM]

I thought about going this year but couldn't convince the missus...

Truth be told, the only classes that I enjoy watching are the GT and GTR. All of the other classes are just "window dressing" in my opinion.


ErnestM

[john75]

Anyone know the link for the live timing

[Pastor Brian]

i was just watching it as a matter of fact. but then i got bored.

[FourWheelDrift]

john75 said:

Anyone know the link for the live timing

http://grandamerican.vfx.com/Rolex/GrandAmerican_800.asp

[john75]

Cheers I keeping an eye on the Franchitti pairing

[john75]

Franchitti's are out after collecting a Porsche