Sebring IMSA race

[blacksheep-1]

Reception is really crappy here, just went green for GS race.

 

[honeybadger]

Good god, hopefully they get a chance to actually have some green flag racing ha

 

[blacksheep-1]

Still wrecking and trying to take us with them, I thought Pumpelly was better than that.

 

[Dave_W]

Have you seen this? Being a tire guy at Sebring, are you hearing any scuttlebut on what they were doing?

https://www.imsa.com/news/2023/03/08/no-60-gtp-team-penalized-for-daytona-infraction/

 

[blacksheep-1]

Have you seen this? Being a tire guy at Sebring, are you hearing any scuttlebut on what they were doing?

https://www.imsa.com/news/2023/03/08/no-60-gtp-team-penalized-for-daytona-infraction/

Yep, rumor has it they wrote a "shadow program" that showed TPMS data 2 psi higher than what they actually were. I'm not sure why they did that at this race, but they probably had it on the car in 22 when the temp was in the mid 20s and cars were being pulled in for "not adhering to Michelin's psi regulations". the sad thing is, it was not the tires, it's those POS BBS wheels that are causing all the problems with the tires pulling off the bead.
I had a long talk 2 days ago with Ford about their GT3 car and told them they were nuts if they homologated that with BBS wheels.
If all the cars were running Forgelines, this would have never been an issue.
You have to start the cars at like 14psi in order to get them to their optimal performance envelope, if not, they are over pressured, usually on just 1 end of the car, like Porsches, and the car is unbalanced, Those LMPs only have about 2 inches of suspension travel so tire psi is extremely important because you have no spring rate to work with, shock developement on those cars has stalled for the same reason, so tire psi is vital.

 

[blacksheep-1]

Well glad this cluster was over with, besides only about 30 minutes of racing in 2 hours, we got hit by an errant Porsche, then on the last lap snapped a steering link which put us into another car while running 13th, I think we finished about 22 or something.

 

[Dave_W]

TMO'ers can watch all the gory details March 25 at 11am Eastern on CNBC.

Sebring WEC race is on MotorTrend network now; looks like they're doing the full race live.

My beef with NBC continues, as apparently to watch the first 6 hours of tomorrow's IMSA Sebring 12-hour you have to pay for Peacock Premium if you're in the US. Because they don't want to bump Drone Racing League and repeats of Undercover Boss? Or that rugby will have more viewers than one of the most important endurance races of the year? Or maybe it's just that they think they can squeeze a few more bucks out of us race fans.

 

[Dave_W]

In WEC, at least the Ferrari driver waited until the second lap to roll the car in turn 1. In an eight hour race.

 

[blacksheep-1]

In WEC, at least the Ferrari driver waited until the second lap to roll the car in turn 1. In an eight hour race.

Lolol...

 

[blacksheep-1]

WEC SEBRING 2023 Ferrari 488 GTE EVO race crash

youtube.com

 

[12coBoss]

I’ll be there tomorrow, hopefully get to see some good action

 

[blacksheep-1]

I’ll be there tomorrow, hopefully get to see some good action

maybe you'll even get to see some racing.

 

[blacksheep-1]

Last hour of the 12 is a wreck fest along with some insane racing

 

[blacksheep-1]

Top 3 just took each other out

 

[Mike_FL]

Disaster!

 

[JeffV8]

I watched a lot of it. I taped the crash fest and watch the rest tonight at work tonight

 

[blacksheep-1]

They must have let the stupid out of the box for the last hour

 

[Mike_FL]

 

[Dave_W]

Yikes! When was the last time a DNF was on the podium?

 

[JDee]

That race proves once again that you don't have to be a good driver to race cars, you just need to have a hell of a deep bank account.