Baltimore

[FalkenALMS]

Originally Posted by The Badger

.... GT in 4th !!! ..... Delighted for Falken , but whats going on ?

Baltimore is a tough course to pass on, and some drivers had better passing results than others. Needless to say, we think Bryan and Wolf have this track figured out.

[FalkenALMS]

*Finally* caught up on all of the messages.

Thanks so much to everyone who sent their congrats. Two years in a row--wow! Keeping up with all of the tweets, emails, texts, phone calls and forums has taken four days, but that's a great problem to have. The team is still overjoyed and on cloud nine. It was an incredible weekend.

Like the pro he is, Wolf worked his way up from seventh to lead before handing the car off to Bryan who fought like no other to keep it from Oliver Gavin. For those who got fed up and turned off the race, you missed out on one of the best battles all season.

Today the crew is setting up at Road Atlanta to get some tire testing done in preparation for Petit Le Mans. Blog coming soon!

Press release: http://bit.ly/NJhmZf
Pics: http://on.fb.me/UlAEZy

[Simmi]

Couldn't be happier for Falken.

I also think for your next youtube vid you guys should just do a loop of Wolf pronouncing the world 'Falken' - entitled 'Our facken tyres'.

[TrueBlueFlyer]

the TV coverage didn't do the pile up at turn 1 justice


this is what actually happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOximmAh-8

[Articus]

Originally Posted by TrueBlueFlyer

the TV coverage didn't do the pile up at turn 1 justice


this is what actually happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyOximmAh-8

that just about looks like Prat Street Traffic on a normal day!! GTE gridlock! Talk about race on Sunday sell on Monday! GT cars in traffic. The sweet irony.

[TrueBlueFlyer]

Originally Posted by Articus

that just about looks like Prat Street Traffic on a normal day!! GTE gridlock! Talk about race on Sunday sell on Monday! GT cars in traffic. The sweet irony.

that's exactly what traffic was like on Thursday when I attempted to drive to the Marriott for registration/credential collection.

about three blocks away, after moving an inch through a few traffic light changes, I decided to pull over, park it and walk the rest of the way.

I'm quite impressed how cleanly the incident cleared itself, though if I were to work rescue I'd have the tow truck hook the car from the back, would have saved a few laps... instead it danced around back/front, then lined up blocking traffic... ugh - time wasted

PS. after watching the race on www.alms.com I do agree with the sentiment shared here... holy cow, how about showing the actual racing instead of all those infomercials? even the new SCCA agreement to talk more about marshals was unnecessary

[joeb]

Originally Posted by TrueBlueFlyer

PS. after watching the race on www.alms.com I do agree with the sentiment shared here... holy cow, how about showing the actual racing instead of all those infomercials? even the new SCCA agreement to talk more about marshals was unnecessary

I only saw the race on ABC, and it was the same stream. I can't even follow the races when they are shown like that. Most passes are missed, and pit stops and I never know who is leading in class or if they are on same pit strategy.

[pach233]

Originally Posted by joeb

I only saw the race on ABC, and it was the same stream. I can't even follow the races when they are shown like that. Most passes are missed, and pit stops and I never know who is leading in class or if they are on same pit strategy.

Not to mention for some reason this race did not show the normal scroll on top showing places and time remaining. Meant I had absolutely no idea what was going beyond what Till and Johnny O said and what I could decipher from my own experience with these types of races. I hadn't watched the stream live and just watched the ABC broadcast so it was really hard to follow. I can't imagine what the "casual" fan must think if he somehow stumbled onto ABC for a couple of hours.

[FstrthnU]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BRy...&feature=g-u-u
Well well, what do we have here? About damn time the ALMS did this

[joeb]

Originally Posted by FstrthnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BRy...&feature=g-u-u
Well well, what do we have here? About damn time the ALMS did this

Amazing! they put the whole race on youtube!

[Purist]

I'd certainly be happy if they just did that for the whole season up to this point.

Hopefully they at least do the same for VIR and PLM coming up. And I have REALLY been looking forward to seeing LMPs at VIR!

[Simmi]

Good move by the ALMS. Someone else will upload it anyway so it might as well be them.

[FalkenALMS]

Originally Posted by Purist

I'd certainly be happy if they just did that for the whole season up to this point.

Hopefully they at least do the same for VIR and PLM coming up. And I have REALLY been looking forward to seeing LMPs at VIR!

If that's the case, then I encourage users to go to that YouTube video and add your positive comments about the upload. ALMS has a great marketing team who work their tails off and as we all know, most people only give feedback when something is wrong. I suggest you tell them what a good move it was, and maybe they'll keep it up!

[skycafe]

Originally Posted by FalkenALMS

ALMS has a great marketing team who work their tails off and as we all know, most people only give feedback when something is wrong. I suggest you tell them what a good move it was, and maybe they'll keep it up!

That is a good mention. I imagine they have been limited in a lot of ways, from budget to infastructure, to get things accomplished.