IMSA Race 2017 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix(IMSA @ Mosport) - July 07-09

[Matt]

IMSA goes North of the Border a week after the 6 hour for a 2 hour, 40 minute contest in Bowmanville Ontario, at the circuit formerly known as Mosport. Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, and IMSA Prototype Challenge make up the IMSA sanctioned support package.

The race will be broadcast Sunday Live on FS1, starting at 12p EDT.

Essentials:

IMSA Radio

IMSA WSC/CTSCC Spotter Guide

Entry List for WSC(36 cars)

Entry List for CTSCC(33 cars)

Entry list for IMSA Prototype Challenge(20 cars)

Event Schedule(at bottom of page)

Bowmanville, ON Weekend Weather

Event History

Track Layout:

Track Graphics c/o RacingCircuits.info

Last Years Race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F4S1SMztLs

[Maelochs]

" ...formerly known as ..."?

"No longer officially called Mosport ... "

I will call it CTSMPCTC or whatever right after I start calling Conti, CTSCC.

TH for the thread, though ... I would have missed most of the action expecting nothing until Friday.

[joeb]

I quite like the logo on the race poster. That is a slick looking proto!

[skycafe]

Originally Posted by Maelochs

" ...formerly known as ..."?
.

I need to get purple and wear it for this race. I just have must

[skycafe]

And Matt, you are carrying on fine traditions of great race thread intros! Awesome job dude!

[HighParker]

The promo thing they've been doing in downtown Toronto for the last few years has now apparently been moved to the parking lot of a Canadian Tire store in Bowmanville on Wednesday afternoon.
http://canadiantiremotorsportpark.co...nto-clarington

[Matt]

Originally Posted by skycafe

And Matt, you are carrying on fine traditions of great race thread intros! Awesome job dude!

Appreciate it. Just trying to fuel the passion for the series that I absolutely love.

[AoB Special Stage]

Originally Posted by Maelochs

" ...formerly known as ..."?

"No longer officially called Mosport ... "

I will call it CTSMPCTC or whatever right after I start calling Conti, CTSCC.

CNDNTRMTRSPRTPRK

[champcarman]

Originally Posted by AoB Special Stage

CNDNTRMTRSPRTPRK

An awesome race track whatever you want to call it. Had the pleasure of seeing my son win a F2000 race there in 1995 and one day I will visit "Mosport" again.

[HighParker]

The promo thing was today in the parking lot of some big box stores in Bowmanville.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by HighParker

The promo thing was today in the parking lot of some big box stores in Bowmanville.

That Park Place car is just pretty!

[joeb]

Don't expect a repeat performance from the PR1 car this week. They are debuting new drivers

http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/al...iasen-at-ctmp/

[Matt]

go banana boat go

[Jonerz]

Originally Posted by joeb

Don't expect a repeat performance from the PR1 car this week. They are debuting new drivers

http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/al...iasen-at-ctmp/

I'll miss Olivier Pla, for sure. That dude is excitement in a Ligier. Joey Guts has been a really pleasant surprise this year, as well.

Ostella might surprise, outside of Tony Burgess, I've always expected Canadians to run well at Mosport. In the junior and club racing scene in Ontario and eastern Canada you wind up getting a lot of laps at CTMP.

On the other hand, I know very little about Nick Boulle.

Chris

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Jonerz

I'll miss Olivier Pla, for sure. That dude is excitement in a Ligier. Joey Guts has been a really pleasant surprise this year, as well.

Ostella might surprise, outside of Tony Burgess, I've always expected Canadians to run well at Mosport. In the junior and club racing scene in Ontario and eastern Canada you wind up getting a lot of laps at CTMP.

On the other hand, I know very little about Nick Boulle.

Chris

It is the lack of prototype experience that sends me to the low expectations camp. They both could be great drivers, but with never having raced a machine with this level of down force it is going to be a learning experience. I do wish them the best though and would love to seem them perform their best.

[MaskedRacer]

I will be cheering big time for Porsche this week in both GT classes. The GTLM Porsche team needs to close the deal for once. They have underperformed in what is an awesome car. In GTD it seems that the Porsches are falling behind the rest of the competition. Lets see if they can recover at CTMP. I am picking an easy win for the Taylors in DPI.

[chernaudi]

ESM because of Brown's back problems already had an all-pro line up in both cars at Watkins Glen, though that was more by force majure than anything else. And guess what? The race still went to crap for them. Granted, this race is 2:45 vs 6 hours, and it was more due to mechanical issues, but ESM still have a lot of bugs to work out. Not to mention that the PR1 Ligier basically almost has an all-am line up.

JDC should hopefully be able to contend based on Watkins Glen if luck and strategy work out, and Mosport should suit the LMP2 cars.

I'm in agreement with most of the improvements that Ron Fellows and his group have made to Mosport after they bought the track from Don Panoz a few years ago, but it's still a track that will scare the hell out of the unweary if you get it wrong. If you think Watkins Glen or even Le Mans is scary, most of the track at Mosport is like the Porsche Curves or WG's Esses, but with less run off room.

If you want to see what Mosport was like in the early days of the ALMS, look at videos that IMSA has been pimping on Facebook and You Tube from 1999 when Panoz got a 1-2 after BMW withdrew citing safety issues with the track, and 2000 with a mixed condition race where an Audi on old rain tires held off a BMW on new slicks on the last lap in what is still one of the closest finishes in ALMS/WTSCS history.

[Matt]

As predicted, PR1 is last in the P class, slower than even the quickest PC car.

http://results.imsa.com/Results/17_2...03_Results.PDF

[fergus_r]

Originally Posted by chernaudi

I'm in agreement with most of the improvements that Ron Fellows and his group have made to Mosport after they bought the track from Don Panoz a few years ago, but it's still a track that will scare the hell out of the unweary if you get it wrong. If you think Watkins Glen or even Le Mans is scary, most of the track at Mosport is like the Porsche Curves or WG's Esses, but with less run off room.

Plenty of drivers have experienced that in practice already...sounded like quite a destructive day.

[Articus]

Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

I will be cheering big time for Porsche this week in both GT classes. The GTLM Porsche team needs to close the deal for once. They have underperformed in what is an awesome car. In GTD it seems that the Porsches are falling behind the rest of the competition. Lets see if they can recover at CTMP. I am picking an easy win for the Taylors in DPI.

You picked the right weekend. Porsche looking strong in GTLM. They tested here at Mosport earlier in the year with the new car and Laurens Vanthoor is driving out of his mind right now (because typically Patrick Pilet has been the hot shot in that team). The car is quick and they have topped both practice sessions. They will go for broke in qualy because track position is so critical here. If those Porsche's get out in front, I find it hard to see where anyone can get by them cleanly. They are strong on the brakes and rolling through the corners quicker than anyone else. Has been noticed all year really.

[joeb]

So, it looks like we have a chance of rain for race day. Who does this advantage? Riley, Porsche? I'll admit I'd be pretty excited to see a wet race from Mosport.

[Damian Baldi]

Eight cars in a second. It looks good.

[chernaudi]

There's races from the wet at Mosport from 2000 and 2001 on You Tube. 2006 also has practice in the wet.

[Maelochs]

I'd say Porsche will be in good shape wet or dry.

[Akrapovic]

The Porsche sounds phenomenal.