2016 Rolex Daytona 24 Hours
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Superb on-line coverage from IMSA, fantastic racing and fantastic cars - shows what F1 is missing.
Shame the Ford GTs struggled with some reliability as they looked very fast in the early hours of the race - hopefully they will get the niggles sorted in time for Sebring in March so we can have even better racing. I think too much was expected of a brand new car in its debut race, as all the testing in the world can't quite replicate real race conditions.
10/10 for the two Corvettes that fought to the last lap, too - so close after 24 hours of racing.
Who needs Ecclestone's Formula 1 comedy circus when you have this?
Shame the Ford GTs struggled with some reliability as they looked very fast in the early hours of the race - hopefully they will get the niggles sorted in time for Sebring in March so we can have even better racing. I think too much was expected of a brand new car in its debut race, as all the testing in the world can't quite replicate real race conditions.
10/10 for the two Corvettes that fought to the last lap, too - so close after 24 hours of racing.
Who needs Ecclestone's Formula 1 comedy circus when you have this?
Edited by MikeT66 on Monday 1st February 08:03
MikeT66 said:
Shame the Ford GTs struggled with some reliability as they looked very fast in the early hours of the race. "I think too much was expected of a brand new car in its debut race, as all the testing in the world can't quite replicate real race conditions."
THIS....However it was Fords attitude that was Bullish about how sorted the car was and the Winning formula! Audi know just how hard it is to win races and you also need a bit of luck 
I expect the People at Ford will be looking carefully to see what happened 
what a race eh?!
I had the IMSA broadcast up alongside the Magnus webcast, the volume battle was often won by the Magnus shenanigans, RLM used to be great when filled with TMS levels of irrelevance but now it's more talksport levels of faux-intrigue, serious business, oh and sponsors.
The last hour alone was epic, even more so watching the story unfold in the Magnus pits where all of a sudden it got a bit serious when they realised a win could be on the cards!
Shame the Deltawing went out early on, Legge's drive was awesome, it would be a shame when as a silver driver she doesn't get a LeMan's P2 ride.
I had the IMSA broadcast up alongside the Magnus webcast, the volume battle was often won by the Magnus shenanigans, RLM used to be great when filled with TMS levels of irrelevance but now it's more talksport levels of faux-intrigue, serious business, oh and sponsors.
The last hour alone was epic, even more so watching the story unfold in the Magnus pits where all of a sudden it got a bit serious when they realised a win could be on the cards!
Shame the Deltawing went out early on, Legge's drive was awesome, it would be a shame when as a silver driver she doesn't get a LeMan's P2 ride.
PW said:
fatboy18 said:
However it was Fords attitude that was Bullish about how sorted the car was and the Winning formula!
Was it that bad? I didn't read anything of what they were saying ahead of the race, but the car had been tested, was seemingly on the pace, Chip Ganassi running the cars with a good squad of drivers, coming from an overall win last year - I'd expect a degree of confidence. They were running reasonably well, reliability issues aside, no?Hardly on par with Nissan...
Just to add for the thread in general though:
The race was a big endorsement for the balance of performance in the GT3 class IMHO. 7 different models in the top 7 places in GTD must be considered great news for sportscar racing for this year.
Using the best lap during the race of the cars in classes, the LM GTE cars were also well matched (including the Ford, when it was working).
I have a 2016 IMSA season photographer pass which basically means I can go anywhere and photograph anything 
So I did.
A select few of the 2710 pictures I took over the 3 days I was there (I have a proper job which pays the bills so wasn't there for practice / qualifying)
GTLM Class was this close pretty much the whole 24 hours.
Grid
Closest finish ever
Johnny Mowlam made me laugh a lot
Eventual winner
Early leader
Ford GT
So I did.
A select few of the 2710 pictures I took over the 3 days I was there (I have a proper job which pays the bills so wasn't there for practice / qualifying)
GTLM Class was this close pretty much the whole 24 hours.
Grid
Closest finish ever
Johnny Mowlam made me laugh a lot
Eventual winner
Early leader
Ford GT
MartG said:
Brilliant pics - can we have some more please
I stick a lot of them on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10207464...
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