Round 2: the Long Beach Grand Prix

[Mal]

Originally Posted by DeathOrGlory

I am seeing the replay on the ALMS website, and I was rather surprised not to hear Hindaugh and Shaw on the commentary.

Be patient it kicks in after a while

[Simmi]

Watching all the action late so just caught up with it now.

What was the reason for the caution? Coverage was a bit of a mess. But you had to laugh at some of the challenge class driving.

Was pretty impressed with David Heinemeier Hansson and his performance in the OAK. He's a pretty interesting guy if you look at his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson

Interesting to see him entered for OAK at Spa alongside a TBA. Still quite a places need filling in their cars so I wouldn't be surprised to see him make his Le Mans debut in June. Anyone know more?

[fanta4]

Originally Posted by WMUCarGuy

Did anyone else notice that there was a corner worker at T5 just waiving the green flag ALL day, in every shot. There were several incidents at that corner, but never did I see a yellow flag fly to warn drivers there was someone around the corner who'd spun. Pappas' incident was at T1/2, but still I'd say in general, the corner workers did a poor job at that race.

Yes. There was one particular incident with a car spun around 180 degrees, back against the wall, whilst the corner worker waved the green flag with reckless abandon. It actually looks like he pulled out the wrong flag, since the flag didn't come out until after the spin. Here's a screen cap for reference.

http://youtu.be/ttd0LpUoE_E

[Purist]

Did they change the curbing at Turn 5 (I think), or were the guys just using it more liberally this year than in the past?

[Breitling24]

Why weren't the leader lights working again?

[Great Dane]

Was pretty impressed with David Heinemeier Hansson and his performance in the OAK. He's a pretty interesting guy if you look at his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson

Interesting to see him entered for OAK at Spa alongside a TBA. Still quite a places need filling in their cars so I wouldn't be surprised to see him make his Le Mans debut in June. Anyone know more?

He was taken on by Jetalliance last year and they were very impressed with the way he applied himself and took in what the engineers said and improved... he was reputed to have been as quick as Karl Wendlinger at the race in Silverstone

[Dead-Eye]

Originally Posted by fanta4

Yes. There was one particular incident with a car spun around 180 degrees, back against the wall, whilst the corner worker waved the green flag with reckless abandon. It actually looks like he pulled out the wrong flag, since the flag didn't come out until after the spin. Here's a screen cap for reference.

http://youtu.be/ttd0LpUoE_E

You need to think about what you said there again. The corner worker is behind the incident, of course he's waving green. From that point on the track is clear, why would he wave yellow?

[cmk]

Originally Posted by Great Dane

Was pretty impressed with David Heinemeier Hansson and his performance in the OAK. He's a pretty interesting guy if you look at his wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson

Interesting to see him entered for OAK at Spa alongside a TBA. Still quite a places need filling in their cars so I wouldn't be surprised to see him make his Le Mans debut in June. Anyone know more?

He was taken on by Jetalliance last year and they were very impressed with the way he applied himself and took in what the engineers said and improved... he was reputed to have been as quick as Karl Wendlinger at the race in Silverstone

He's got potential as a fast gentleman for sure; he seems very bright and he's still quite young by monied driver standards. Both of those traits combined with an eagerness to learn can definitely help bring out whatever native ability he has.

[fanta4]

Originally Posted by Dead-Eye

You need to think about what you said there again. The corner worker is behind the incident, of course he's waving green. From that point on the track is clear, why would he wave yellow?

That corner worker is in view of cars coming into the blind corner where the incident occurred. After the car gets going again, it crosses the to other side of the track where it is NOT visible to oncoming traffic. The corner worker should be waving a local yellow to alert oncoming traffic of his presence coming back onto the racing line from a dead stop.

[DeathOrGlory]

Originally Posted by Mal

Be patient it kicks in after a while

Been watching for one hour, still having Bill Adam and O'Connell. Strange.

[gregtummer]

Is Corvette going to Grand Scam next year and leaving ALMS?

[Deleted]

They are already in GA. Not in pure official form but the teams running vette-boyworked DPs have connections and I think GM is happy enough with Camaros running in GT. There's also that old Marsh-run privateer Corvette that sees success every once and a while.

Corvette is of course staying in ALMS, especially as they'll be finally getting some domestic competition in form of Viper

It's a simple plan Chevrolet doesn't wanna break...
Cadillac in SCCA WC
Camaro in GA
Corvette in ALMS

[Dead-Eye]

Originally Posted by fanta4

That corner worker is in view of cars coming into the blind corner where the incident occurred. After the car gets going again, it crosses the to other side of the track where it is NOT visible to oncoming traffic. The corner worker should be waving a local yellow to alert oncoming traffic of his presence coming back onto the racing line from a dead stop.

That's why a yellow needs to be waved before the incident. Waving one after the fact is completely pointless.