IMSA Race Petit Le Mans

[HORNDAWG]

....……........ • Motul Petit Le Mans •
......…………..... Oct. 4th – Oct. 7th

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Qualifying: Friday October 6th, 4:20pm/16:20 local EDST ( GMT -4 )



L.P.

[HORNDAWG]

GTLM and GTD BoP ...

GTLM Ferrari gets weight ....

https://competitors.imsa.com/sites/d...nd_gtd_bop.pdf







L.P.

[HORNDAWG]

Penske to enter Petit with an Oreca 07, drivers will be Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud.

http://www.teampenske.com/news/index..._Petit_Le_Mans






L.P.

[HORNDAWG]

Rebellion drivers for Petit will be Gustavo Menezes, Nick Heidfeld and Mathias Beche.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/0...-at-petit.html







L.P.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

Penske to enter Petit with an Oreca 07, drivers will be Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud.

http://www.teampenske.com/news/index..._Petit_Le_Mans






L.P.

Good news!

[MaskedRacer]

The teams know that with the closely matched cars and full course yellows that everybody will still be on the lead lap as the race heads into darkness unless they run into contact or mechanical problems. Even penalties and spins you can recover from now if you are fast enough. Just like the #24 BMW M6 at Laguna Seca.

I expect the daylight portion to have a couple yellows but not that many as teams will race hard but smart. Even if you go 3 hours of green flag straight the cars are evenly matched enough so that unless you hit a problem you probably won't go more than 1 lap down, which is enough to get that wave around to get back on the lead lap during the yellow.

I'm kind of telling you what I predict will happen at the Petit Le Mans, but also in a ways still griping about the full course yellow wave around procedure which is fine during the non-NAEC races. But for the endurance races I think IMSA needs to take a hard look at it. I hope that the nature of the endurance race can be protected a bit more.

With that said the Petit Le Mans always produces at least 1 winning team that has not won a race all year. I could see several possible contenders for that such as the #92 Porsche of Bruni/Vanthor/Bamber also the #62 Risi Ferari. In prototype I think the guest entries of Rebellion and Penske will for sure contend with the Caddys. I really like the Land Audi's chances in GTD a lot. They are my pick in GTD for sure. Also note that the Mercedes got a slight air restrictor break that could allow the #33 to contend now.

[Articus]

Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

Penske to enter Petit with an Oreca 07, drivers will be Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud.

http://www.teampenske.com/news/index..._Petit_Le_Mans

L.P.

Wow. That is a formidabble lineup. Simon Pagenaud? JPM? Pagenaud will put it on pole that's for sure.

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

The teams know that with the closely matched cars and full course yellows that everybody will still be on the lead lap as the race heads into darkness unless they run into contact or mechanical problems. Even penalties and spins you can recover from now if you are fast enough. Just like the #24 BMW M6 at Laguna Seca.

I expect the daylight portion to have a couple yellows but not that many as teams will race hard but smart. Even if you go 3 hours of green flag straight the cars are evenly matched enough so that unless you hit a problem you probably won't go more than 1 lap down, which is enough to get that wave around to get back on the lead lap during the yellow.

I'm kind of telling you what I predict will happen at the Petit Le Mans, but also in a ways still griping about the full course yellow wave around procedure which is fine during the non-NAEC races. But for the endurance races I think IMSA needs to take a hard look at it. I hope that the nature of the endurance race can be protected a bit more.

With that said the Petit Le Mans always produces at least 1 winning team that has not won a race all year. I could see several possible contenders for that such as the #92 Porsche of Bruni/Vanthor/Bamber also the #62 Risi Ferari. In prototype I think the guest entries of Rebellion and Penske will for sure contend with the Caddys. I really like the Land Audi's chances in GTD a lot. They are my pick in GTD for sure. Also note that the Mercedes got a slight air restrictor break that could allow the #33 to contend now.

If you go a lap down to your class leader, you do not get that back from the wave around. The wave around is in reference to the overall leader only. There is no "lucky dog" in IMSA. These rules were put in place to keep from ruining the races in lower classes and must be kept in place.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by Articus

Wow. That is a formidabble lineup. Simon Pagenaud? JPM? Pagenaud will put it on pole that's for sure.

Crazy that Helio is easily a weak link on the team, eh? And that's a bloody strong weak link!

[canaglia]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Crazy that Helio is easily a weak link on the team, eh? And that's a bloody strong weak link!

Surely the one with less experience in a prototype, montoya drove riley dp2 and 3 under ganassi racing in recent past and pagenaud is a former peugeot work driver and drove corvette dp a few times. If memory helps, castroneves was the driver who crashed the testing oreca last week

[Jonerz]

Originally Posted by canaglia

Surely the one with less experience in a prototype, montoya drove riley dp2 and 3 under ganassi racing in recent past and pagenaud is a former peugeot work driver and drove corvette dp a few times. If memory helps, castroneves was the driver who crashed the testing oreca last week

Helio won Petit in the #5 Porsche RS Spyder in 2008.

Pags got recognized by Peugeot as a factory Acura/HPD driver in ALMS.

Chris

[J Jay]

Pagenaud in an LMP? What better opportunity to repost these two brilliant examples of what he can do.

Petit has never let me down for as long as I've been watching, but this year looks like a cracker.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by J Jay

Pagenaud in an LMP? What better opportunity to repost these two brilliant examples of what he can do.

Petit has never let me down for as long as I've been watching, but this year looks like a cracker.

That was an amazing drive through the field! It was really cool to hear and see all those old gt2 cars, the Ford's, the Jags, and Ferrari's.

[HORNDAWG]

Penske will run #6 on their Oreca 07 entry.





L.P.

[Dyson Mazda]

Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

Penske will run #6 on their Oreca 07 entry.





L.P.

I'm interested to see what their livery looks like. Penske Trucks?

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Dyson Mazda

I'm interested to see what their livery looks like. Penske Trucks?

We already have a yellow Oreca on the grid, hopefully it will be something else

[broadrun96]

I vote matte black like testing with the minimum IMSA required. But it's penske and he never pays when he can find someone else to for him

[HORNDAWG]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

I vote matte black like testing with the minimum IMSA required. But it's penske and he never pays when he can find someone else to for him

Penske Yellow w/ 2 tone blue racing stripes, a Penske (-Logistics) sticker, and it becomes a business write off.





L.P.

[pach233]

Shell V-Power like the Supercars livery would be way too cool.

[chernaudi]

Jeff Gordon will be a guest commentator for Fox Sport's PLM coverage.

[fieldodreams79]

Penske will likely be in the Shell is my thought.

I wouldn't mind seeing the plan red and white "Penske racing" colors...

Originally Posted by chernaudi

Jeff Gordon will be a guest commentator for Fox Sport's PLM coverage.

I'm sure he'll provide the great insight he brings to the "other series" coverage...

[chernaudi]

It's a couple of days out, but there's rain forecast for the evening on Saturday.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by chernaudi

It's a couple of days out, but there's rain forecast for the evening on Saturday.

30% and it's Wednesday; these things tend to change to being further out, unless it comes earlier or doesn't come at all. These things change is what I'm telling myself!! Hoping for none or very little after about 4 straight weeks of no rain......

[broadrun96]

Looks like the repairs at Turn 3 are not worn in yet. Lots of sliding and spinning for both GT3 cups and Lites cars, 2 Lites into the wall with heavy damage so far.

And the LMP3s sound great, MUCH better than the old Mazdas.

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[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Looks like the repairs at Turn 3 are not worn in yet. Lots of sliding and spinning for both GT3 cups and Lites cars, 2 Lites into the wall with heavy damage so far.

And the LMP3s sound great, MUCH better than the old Mazdas.

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Yeah, they are cool and so is T3 when it's slick. Hate to hear of attrition already, however.