Mobil 1 62nd 12 hours of Sebring
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After Daytona and now this, the officials/organisers are really not showing themselves in the best light.
IMSA Officials Error Affects GTLM and GTD Results
As for the commentary on the IMSA stream from MRN.....
IMSA Officials Error Affects GTLM and GTD Results
As for the commentary on the IMSA stream from MRN.....
When under green flag, I thought it was a good race.
Sadly, IMSA love bunching the field up, and throw a FCY for a minor incident; the final FCY for example, probably cost ESM the race.
And as for the penalty against the Alex Job Racing Porsche, when it should have been the 912 was just Wrong!! Mistakes like that shouldn't happen.
Sadly, IMSA love bunching the field up, and throw a FCY for a minor incident; the final FCY for example, probably cost ESM the race.
And as for the penalty against the Alex Job Racing Porsche, when it should have been the 912 was just Wrong!! Mistakes like that shouldn't happen.
No mention of the red flag for at least 2 - 3 minutes whilst it was all on screen was a particular MRN highlight.
Daytona was awful, constant NASCAR advertising and references back to NASCAR (admittedly unsurprising when NASCAR is MRN's bread and butter), it just made you feel as though Sportscars were an inconvenience, especially when a pitlane reporter was totally baffled by a car without a roof. They did get in some more Sportscar-centric experts this time, but still not good in my book.
I should qualify by saying I'm not a rose tinted glasses Radio Le Mans fan boi, some of their stuff does grate (pitlane mainly), but for listener experience, I'd take RLM over MRN. Still, at least it wasn't Carlton Kirby....
Daytona was awful, constant NASCAR advertising and references back to NASCAR (admittedly unsurprising when NASCAR is MRN's bread and butter), it just made you feel as though Sportscars were an inconvenience, especially when a pitlane reporter was totally baffled by a car without a roof. They did get in some more Sportscar-centric experts this time, but still not good in my book.
I should qualify by saying I'm not a rose tinted glasses Radio Le Mans fan boi, some of their stuff does grate (pitlane mainly), but for listener experience, I'd take RLM over MRN. Still, at least it wasn't Carlton Kirby....
Altrezia said:
IMHO it should be P1, DP, GT, GTAm - I still don't understand why they lumped DP in with P2.
I guess their trouble is what regs do they run to? To retain a link to the ACO, P1 cars would need to be hybrids, ideally, or at least to the new ACO regs and there just isn't the apparent market in the US for them, whereas they had a good P2 field and the P2's are homologated until 2016. The problem is that the dominant (?) half of the merger favours the DP, maybe too much, so the P2 teams appear to be being regulated against, see Ryan Dalziel's comments after Sebring, very unhappy. Of course, if you tried to dump DP or P2 and just have one Prototype selection, you're putting a lot of teams up against it financially and thus would have essentially a GT championship. The GT sections do appear strong though. It'll be 2017 before it all settles down, one suspects.
Red Firecracker said:
No mention of the red flag for at least 2 - 3 minutes whilst it was all on screen was a particular MRN highlight.
Daytona was awful, constant NASCAR advertising and references back to NASCAR (admittedly unsurprising when NASCAR is MRN's bread and butter), it just made you feel as though Sportscars were an inconvenience, especially when a pitlane reporter was totally baffled by a car without a roof. They did get in some more Sportscar-centric experts this time, but still not good in my book.
I should qualify by saying I'm not a rose tinted glasses Radio Le Mans fan boi, some of their stuff does grate (pitlane mainly), but for listener experience, I'd take RLM over MRN. Still, at least it wasn't Carlton Kirby....
Carlton Kirby would have been a million times better than Martin Haven, who made so many mistakes on Saturday that it got beyond a joke. He even kept on forgetting things he had talked about a couple minutes before!Daytona was awful, constant NASCAR advertising and references back to NASCAR (admittedly unsurprising when NASCAR is MRN's bread and butter), it just made you feel as though Sportscars were an inconvenience, especially when a pitlane reporter was totally baffled by a car without a roof. They did get in some more Sportscar-centric experts this time, but still not good in my book.
I should qualify by saying I'm not a rose tinted glasses Radio Le Mans fan boi, some of their stuff does grate (pitlane mainly), but for listener experience, I'd take RLM over MRN. Still, at least it wasn't Carlton Kirby....
Altrezia said:
IMHO it should be P1, DP, GT, GTAm - I still don't understand why they lumped DP in with P2.
Because basically the Nascar owned Grand Am bought out the ALMS; And therefore they wanted their own DP's to remain competitive with the LMP2 cars. They kept the LMP's to keep a link with ACO type racing. On pure pace, the LMP2's would be miles faster than the prehistoric DP's - and that would never do. SO, the LMP2's are BoP/Handicapped to allow the DP's to be equal.We also have 2 GT classes; GTLM, and GTD; Le Mans class GT's, plus Daytona class GT's.
It's all still early; but if the DP's keep winning, I think the LMP2 teams will wonder about staying in; and I can't imagine any European based teams rushing to enter.
I was at the race this weekend and during the 7 hours of actual racing it was great, the 5 hours of safety car also allowed time to load photos in the media center and get some lunch, so not all bad.
I was in the photo shuttle when the Viper caught fire and as we came under the Corvette bridge could clearly see it so I leapt out and took some pics.
All my pics from the weekend are here including a few more of the #33 Viper fire:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202621...
I was also lucky enough to win a hot lap of the track with Johnny O'Connell in one of the Bondurant C7 Corvettes so the video of that is up here:
http://youtu.be/jERBQWf3mQs
I was in the photo shuttle when the Viper caught fire and as we came under the Corvette bridge could clearly see it so I leapt out and took some pics.
All my pics from the weekend are here including a few more of the #33 Viper fire:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202621...
I was also lucky enough to win a hot lap of the track with Johnny O'Connell in one of the Bondurant C7 Corvettes so the video of that is up here:
http://youtu.be/jERBQWf3mQs
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