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Oh crap...that's right....I forgot about the COTA round...that's gonna be miserable.....I feel the flu coming on.
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Yeah Matt......April would be beautiful up there....both for machinery and the people that work on and drive them......not to mention the fans who suffer as well.
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Does that mean you never get into 6th at Lime Rock?
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Very true.....New England is the leaf-change paradise of the US...late Sep would indeed be spectacular (and temperate).
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When you get to the street circuits the GTLM cars seem to be on pace with the P2/PC cars just about. Especially Balitmore. John Edwards you guys should target OVERALL victory when you get to that race later in the year. Or at least top overall non P1 car.
So I guess the main thing that makes the LMPC cars faster than the GT cars is the straightaway speed then? I suppose LMPC has those extra 10 mm resctrictor reduced right now to help them get more pop on the straights? |
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Correct. T1-T4 is all 3rd gear. T5 (chicane) is 2nd. T6-7 is 4th gear.
Here's some in-car from Friday's practice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-csOZXAqOQ -mike |
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In car of the Cosmo/Briscoe incident. I can't believe Briscoe kept the win after this. |
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Fair enough, thanks for the clarification. It was the wrong call though, and you can't set such a precedent. Terrible.
Heck of a message to send out. We'll give you basically the points you were going to get anyway, but if you punt out the guy ahead of you, you can take and keep the glory of the win for you and your sponsors. Awesome. |
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Mike, I like the way you think. This whole thing is embarrassing.
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While the technical infraction deserves penalty, it isn't as unsporting as turfing someone off the track, in order to get a win. People aren't going to get up in arms about a second place finish, because nobody really cares, and the fashion of it is such that it isn't a big deal. Either way, Falken shouldn't have been rewarded second, and L5 shouldn't have kept the win. That is why results used to be provisional. You cheat, or are accidentally outside of the rules, you shouldn't keep your spot. Stupid rule, fix it. |
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"In order to retain the podium finishing order of the cars as televised and experienced by the spectators of an
Event, the finishing order of such cars that are subject to imposition of a post-Race penalty shall remain as the cars crossed the Finish Line. The finishing order of cars in fourth place or lower shall be adjusted as required to implement any penalty imposed and the points and awards adjusted accordingly. 6.21.3 Cars receiving a penalty applied post-race that would impact the finishing position order shall result in all other cars elevated in the finishing order and the points and awards order. Cars finishing in the top three positions in class (or overall, if an Event is so scored), shall retain their Race finishing position in the published results order regardless of penalty applied. Example: A class-winning car penalized one lap postrace for an on-track incident shall have their points and awards adjusted commensurately and all other competitors advanced as applicable in the awards but shall remain listed as the first place finisher" Grand Am has been doing this for years, and NASCAR has done this forever, too. NASCAR has gotten to Walker and Elkins for sure now... Between USCR/IMSA delaying releasing the technical regs for '14 as far as delivering them on time and this, they're starting to make the FIA and the ACO seem sane, which has been pretty hard to do at times. And with the armco issues at LM this year and the BOP done going into LM this year, that was hard to do this year, too. USCR's screwing the pooch here. I'm holding out hope for better, but I'm not holding my breath, either... |
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Unfortunately, the rule that let us keep our second place finish at Laguna is the same rule that let L5 keep their win at LRP. Both of us were stripped of our points and prize money.
In our case, there was no foul play. Our car DID stall in post-race tech, just not as fast as the officials preferred. We can't say too much about what happened, but know that the team still fought hard and clean to stay at the font and earned that second place finish and there was no foul play involved. It was not a case like Lime Rock when those penalized made a questionable sportsmanship move to take out a competitor. As for the rule change, from a PR perspective, post-race penalties are a nightmare, especially when the TV broadcast is done and every media outlet worldwide has already posted the results. To re-release new results creates a mess. Not to mention all podium pictures are rendered useless, media lose out on money because they can't sell the photos, the podiums can't be re-shot and no interviews can be redone once the event is over. Not saying that's why the rule was made, just offering another view of the mess it creates. It may seem like a small task to others, but believe me, it's a nightmare. |
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Taking a competitor out vs. post-race tech failure.... I think the two should be handled separately in the future. In the case of someone gaining an advantage from avoidable contact, I don't see why there isn't enough time to administer a penalty and adjust the results before the podium happens. Seems to me like they could have taken an extra 5 or 10 minutes in race control and processed this through and made the announcement before the podium ceremony. In this particular incident, the pit reporter even prefaced the interview with Briscoe that "there may be a penalty coming", so that would cover the TV portion of it. |
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