Pirelli World Challenge Rounds 3 & 4: St. Petersburg

[Lanky Turtle]

Originally Posted by ttdriver2009

The two races for GT were a disaster. There was so little green flag racing. SCCA needs to do something. They go to Long Beach and I can see that race being another 30 minutes of caution.

I thought IMSA cautions were long but SCCA needs figure something out because it seems like they just take their dear old time out there cleaning up the carnage. It looks like they are just experimenting. For Example: The second race had the Spec Porsche class take off later and thus plowed into some GT cars. What were they thinking? Is SCCA like those over at IMSA where they won't make a change to provide top notch racing?

Maybe SCCA needs to put the GTA and Porsche guys in their own race so they can provide the parade under a full course yellow. Let the pro guys do it right and give us what we all want. The best racing in North America with the most exciting cars. Just do it under green, not yellow.

I'm glad I didn't spend my money going to St. Pete. I'd like to hear from the rest of you who were there at the track, what were your thoughts?

I was there for the Saturday race and agree about the Porsche Cup cars. I'm really not sure why they even added them this year, as the GT field is plenty large and impressive as is. They seem out of place behind all those GT3 beasts. And they're too fast to run with the GTS cars, but there's not enough of them to run their own race, so I'm not really sure what PWC is trying to do with this one other than pull some away some IMSA Porsche Cup teams.

It was still worth attending for me because the cars are awesome and the racing is good once they get to it. For me, it was worth going just to stand in the paddock and see all the cars up close as they pulled on track to start the race. Plus there's racing all day long and I've never been one to just focus exclusively on one series, so I enjoyed the day and the 20 minutes of PWC racing.

Originally Posted by Mike Hedlund

The problem is the day is shared with IndyCar. When you're a support race you're given X amount of minutes to run your session, period. They don't adjust the schedule for you.

-mike

Yes, I remember last year when you guys got rained out on Saturday. Once the rains stopped, every other series got to run except PWC, which was the main race I had come to watch.