2016 Pirelli World Challenge Rounds 3 & 4: St. Petersburg

Mechanic Z · 7 Mar 2016, 18:39 (Ref:3620963)

Only one week after the season opening event at Circuit of the Americas, the GT classes of the Pirelli World Challenge head to the streets of St. Petersburg for Rounds 3 & 4 of the championship.
This will be particularly challenging for EFFORT Racing, who are in a race against time to have their #31 Porsche 911 GT3-R (wrecked heavily in Round 2) rebuilt in time to practice on Thursday.

Schedule

Entry List

Live Stream (world-challenge.com)

Live Stream (motortrendondemand.com)

Live Timing and Scoring

Track Map

Weather (racecastweather.com)

Weather (National Weather Service)

Series Twitter Account

Speed-King · 7 Mar 2016, 18:44 (Ref:3620968)

C360R bringing back their Audi TT

http://c360r.com/entries/entry/pwc_c360r_gts_audi_ttrs

Mechanic Z · 7 Mar 2016, 18:44 (Ref:3620969)

Should bring a bit of added variety to the GTS class!

Coach Ep · 8 Mar 2016, 15:16 (Ref:3621236)

Pfff, really disappointing numbers so far...

Akrapovic · 8 Mar 2016, 16:08 (Ref:3621254)

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Originally Posted by Coach Ep

Pfff, really disappointing numbers so far...

That's probably a blessing. Last years race was hands down, the worst race I've seen of any series for a good decade or so. Everybody spent the 5 minutes of green flag running driving into each other and ignoring yellows. Then it took about half an hour of an hour race to clear up the mess because there wasn't enough trucks dotted around the circuit.

So reduced numbers might be a good thing for this circuit.

Mike Hedlund · 8 Mar 2016, 16:13 (Ref:3621257)

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Originally Posted by Akrapovic

That's probably a blessing. Last years race was hands down, the worst race I've seen of any series for a good decade or so. Everybody spent the 5 minutes of green flag running driving into each other and ignoring yellows. Then it took about half an hour of an hour race to clear up the mess because there wasn't enough trucks dotted around the circuit.

So reduced numbers might be a good thing for this circuit.

Worse than Long Beach?

-mike

Mark0994 · 8 Mar 2016, 17:52 (Ref:3621267)

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Originally Posted by Mike Hedlund

Worse than Long Beach?

-mike

Nothing is worst than Long Beach last year
First race of 2015 i was watching, it was like NASCAR.

merak1974 · 8 Mar 2016, 22:15 (Ref:3621352)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

That's probably a blessing. Last years race was hands down, the worst race I've seen of any series for a good decade or so. Everybody spent the 5 minutes of green flag running driving into each other and ignoring yellows. Then it took about half an hour of an hour race to clear up the mess because there wasn't enough trucks dotted around the circuit.

So reduced numbers might be a good thing for this circuit.

Rodger Davies · 8 Mar 2016, 22:53 (Ref:3621362)

Interesting that the Acuras are called TLX-GT3s on the entry list.

MaskedRacer · 9 Mar 2016, 00:24 (Ref:3621381)

Did I read the schedule right? No practice sessions at all for PWC. You have qualifying and 2 races and thats it?

Mechanic Z · 9 Mar 2016, 00:33 (Ref:3621382)

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Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

Did I read the schedule right? No practice sessions at all for PWC. You have qualifying and 2 races and thats it?

Practice and test sessions are listed on Thursday.

Akrapovic · 9 Mar 2016, 08:06 (Ref:3621452)

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Originally Posted by Mike Hedlund

Worse than Long Beach?

-mike

Long Beach was after St Petes so I didn't see it. I took a break after St Petes as I wasn't spending my time watching that mess. Sounds like LB was even worse then.

Coach Ep · 9 Mar 2016, 13:44 (Ref:3621557)

And St. Pete has always been a yellowfest anyway so not expecting anything else this year. Less awesome cars is an extra disappointment.

We'll see if the series can keep their momentum up, next year the schedule needs some tweaking to avoid back-to-back events like this year (bringing CotA forward a week or two would be the sensible thing to do), something PWC is very much aware of themselves.

nasportscar · 9 Mar 2016, 14:24 (Ref:3621563)

St Pete Pick 'ems http://nasportscar.com/pwc-pick-em/

cbbrit · 9 Mar 2016, 16:01 (Ref:3621585)

Next year the St. Pete race weekend will revert back to its traditional date of the last weekend of March. The date was moved forward this year due to the clash with Easter Sunday being on March 27th. So CoTA does not need to move its date. The other back-to back race weekends this year are CTMP (May 19-22) and LRP (May 26-28) and Greg Gil has already said that this won't happen next year!

Mechanic Z · 10 Mar 2016, 01:43 (Ref:3621741)

GT points going into St. Pete:
http://world-challenge.com/drivers/gt-drivers/

Johnny O leads over his teammate Cooper, followed by KPAX/Lizard drivers Thompson and Parente. Marcelli rounds out the top five.

GTS:
http://world-challenge.com/drivers/gts-drivers/
It's Aschenbach followed by Sandberg and Stacy in GTS. Partial season drivers Dollahite and Chase are fourth and fifth.

Coach Ep · 10 Mar 2016, 13:39 (Ref:3621856)

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Originally Posted by cbbrit

Next year the St. Pete race weekend will revert back to its traditional date of the last weekend of March. The date was moved forward this year due to the clash with Easter Sunday being on March 27th. So CoTA does not need to move its date. The other back-to back race weekends this year are CTMP (May 19-22) and LRP (May 26-28) and Greg Gil has already said that this won't happen next year!

Euhhh....

Quote:

Under the amendment, the dates for IndyCar's next three visits to the Florida street circuit have also been confirmed.
The race will be held on March 11-13 in 2016, March 9-12 in 2017, and March 8-11 in 2018

from http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/12...-deal-extended

TRspitfirefan · 11 Mar 2016, 02:59 (Ref:3622030)

http://sportscar365.com/gt/world-cha...sday-notebook/

Hopefully the EFFORT guys can finish repairing the #31 car in time for the race on Saturday. Looks like it's going to be close.

Auto racing = Team sport.
Go Effort Racing!

Ephaeton · 11 Mar 2016, 11:23 (Ref:3622105)

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Originally Posted by TRspitfirefan

http://sportscar365.com/gt/world-cha...sday-notebook/

Quote:

Originally Posted by ibidem

PWC’s new strictly enforced officiating process has been a hot topic in the GT paddock (...). The two most-talked about penalties(...) involved Andrew Palmer and Alvaro Parente(...).

It’s understood Chief Driving Steward Brian Till reached out to both Palmer and Parente on Thursday to provide video footage and explain the reasoning for the penalties.

TRspitfirefan · 11 Mar 2016, 15:15 (Ref:3622147)

#41 Porsche on pole!

nasportscar · 11 Mar 2016, 15:20 (Ref:3622152)

Top 14 cars were separated by less than 1 second as well! http://nasportscar.com/michael-lewis...le-in-st-pete/

Madkart · 11 Mar 2016, 18:03 (Ref:3622191)

So how about this GTS race? 14 cars in total but my goodness me this is some exciting stuff!

Ephaeton · 11 Mar 2016, 18:24 (Ref:3622196)

indeed, as jeremy would say... green flag running, (99%) clean stuff, that was an entertaining 52 minutes. Also always good to hear Jonny O in the booth (so long as there's no gunfighting involved

). Looking forward to more.

Mechanic Z · 11 Mar 2016, 19:00 (Ref:3622207)

Agreed, really fun GTS race 1. Great drive by Jack Roush Jr. Also really good to hear Johnny O and Jeremy Shaw calling the race, both were at their very best today.

In other news... EFFORT Racing's #31 Porsche is back at their garage!

Quote:

EFFORT Racing ‏@EFFORTRacing 44m44 minutes ago LIVE on #Periscope: She's back! @plmotorsport's car is being unloaded in the GP St Pete paddock @wcracing

https://www.periscope.tv/w/abGi2DE3M...6WnjZszTIiIwGd

Quote:

EFFORT Racing ‏@EFFORTRacing 40m40 minutes ago We can't thank #alexjobracing and @PorscheRaces enough for helping us get her here

TRspitfirefan · 11 Mar 2016, 19:12 (Ref:3622211)

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Originally Posted by Madkart

So how about this GTS race? 14 cars in total but my goodness me this is some exciting stuff!

+1. Awesome racing with an incredible variety of cars in the GTS class. Cool to see Roush Jr. take the Mustang to victory.

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