IMSA Race 2023 IMSA SportsCar Weekend Road America

[joeb]

First practice from Road America is live. It will be interesting to watch how the new track surface impacts lap times over the weekend.

There is also a chance of precipitation on Sunday for the race

[tomcug]

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/b...rica-practice/
Caddy 0.8 s away from DPi qualy track record in FP1, I can't imagine for it not to be broken.

[fergus_r]

Sounds like a typical Road America crash fest already….

Hard to tell from the report but doesn’t sound good for the #78 Lambo.

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

Sounds like a typical Road America crash fest already….

Hard to tell from the report but doesn’t sound good for the #78 Lambo.

Yes it's not a place where you can get away with many mistakes. Let's hope it calms down a bit and the #78 can be repaired, as that would be a shame if it ends the meeting for them

[tomcug]

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/d...-road-america/
Down to 1:47.9 in FP2, that's about a second away from the absolute prototype track record set in 2008 in Audi's R10 TDI. 1:46.935 is the time to beat but I have my doubts if they can go that fast in qualifying. No idea how repaved track compares to 2008 conditions but laptimes are impressive already.

[broadrun96]

GT times falling hit and fast this afternoon, already to 2:02s for Pro Riberas and Juncedella, Snow would be 3rd

[joeb]

GTD qualifying is on, 2:02.9 which is about 3 seconds slower than GTE times

[broadrun96]

23, 79 in a 2:02, Vette just over 03, Heart of Racing on pole again.

And Madison takes the 1 to pole, just slower than Taylor, Iribe and Montecalvo finish out top 3 GTDs

[broadrun96]

Some dudes in Oreca, Ligier class out and some used car salesman looking human this weekend in 5th

LMP3s can fly

[tomcug]

Pushed a bit too hard but we gotta appreciate that young man's effort, almost 1 second ahead of 2nd place in P3.

[broadrun96]

Braun in for new paving qualifying, could be interesting. But the Caddys appear to be the front runners for pole

Was the 60 penalized for something, getting held for a lap by the team. And both RLLs coming back in

[broadrun96]

Derani scooting and sounds like after his 47.7 he's still pushing on the next lap too

[tomcug]

Porsche finding pace out of nowhere.

[broadrun96]

Track getting FAST, Campbell only hundredths on Derani, only 2 in 47s. No one owns all the sector after Derani did for most of the session

[broadrun96]

Wow, 31 just scrubbed new tires only on 1 lap out and came in with a lap left on the clock. Think Bourdais was closest to taking it and he pitted so he's likely safe. Campbell went wide at 1 so his last lap would be tossed anyway

Derani barely keeps it ahead of the 7. Only Caddys are close, rest of the cars have one much faster than the others

[tomcug]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Only Caddys are close, rest of the cars have one much faster than the others

Acuras are also close, just 0.072 s difference.

[broadrun96]

Braun caught up later and somehow I missed his quickest second to last lap in there watching it. He took a minute to warm up turning over 50s multiple laps but so did Bourdais

[fergus_r]

Qualifying was fun - glad it stayed clean too.

Another big crash right now, this time for John Capestro-Dubets in the first Lamborghini race.

[GT3_Fan]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

Qualifying was fun - glad it stayed clean too.

Another big crash right now, this time for John Capestro-Dubets in the first Lamborghini race.

I think the GT3 Porsche's Daytona form (AKA..the slowest cars on the grid) has returned.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by GT3_Fan

I think the GT3 Porsche's Daytona form (AKA..the slowest cars on the grid) has returned.

Not really, not exactly the fastest teams in them in GTD and the 9 wasn't well behind the Pro crews. Don't really think you have a sample worthy of making the declaration

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

Qualifying was fun - glad it stayed clean too.

Another big crash right now, this time for John Capestro-Dubets in the first Lamborghini race.

That looked rough at the end, didn't see a replay and peacock crashed on me and now Replay Available Soon weirdly so I can't go back to see if they did. Was going between Lamborghini and TA2 race

[JoeW04]

What time does the race start today in the UK please?

[fergus_r]

The stream will go live at around 4pm.

[JoeW04]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

The stream will go live at around 4pm.

Thank you

[joeb]

Wish this didn't overlap with the indie race, I think I'm going to record rodamerica and watch indy live