Porsche dominating Quali at Daytona - with bonus in-car vid
Porsche dominating Quali at Daytona - with bonus in-car vid
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fioran0

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2,410 posts

201 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Porsche seem to have dominated qualifying at Daytona. Pole in all the classes where it has a car.
The 997 has Pole in GS class ahead of the Cayman GT4 and GT350R-C, The Cayman has pole in the ST class ahead of the Mini and the Audi S3.
The GT3R has pole in the GTD class for the 24hr race, as does the RSR.
It was wet and wet again though..

As a bonus, here is onboard from Leh Keen's pole lap for the GTD class. That guy can drive.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_32OkT1vc

bigmowley

2,650 posts

205 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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What an awesome lap. Hats off to that man, totally committed especially the Harry flatters bit on the banking.

Harris_I

3,349 posts

288 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Gives me the heebee jeebies watching racers drive flat out in the rain.


Yellow491

3,392 posts

148 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Looks fun in the wet,the infield corners take a bit of getting used to as they are flat with no cambers.

graemel

7,225 posts

246 months

Friday 29th January 2016
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Makes it look all so easy. Top bloke. Did not really they had paddle shift now

Steve Rance

5,453 posts

260 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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Very nice. Car looks absolutely lovely to drive.

Trev450

6,742 posts

201 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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Superb. That car looks so well planted.

ChrisW.

8,130 posts

284 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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And how far off the wall was his tail happy car ??

That was very brave smile

I wonder where he qualified ?

Clickbait

2,324 posts

210 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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This is how wet it was during Quali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoNoyeIyu_w&t=...

by the way the 24hr race starts in 30mins you can watch it here http://www.imsa.com/camera/imsatv

majordad

3,630 posts

226 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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Thanks Clickbat for that link.

Steve Rance

5,453 posts

260 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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ChrisW. said:
And how far off the wall was his tail happy car ??

That was very brave smile

I wonder where he qualified ?
It's not that scary when you are driving. You are driving on feel and trying to get as much power down as you can. As soon as you break into oversteer you bank the rotational limit of adhesion in your brain, catch the oversteer and bleed off a little if you need to. For drivers at his level it is not difficult. The difficult bit is having the spare capacity for the strategising that is taking place in his brain at the same time.

Sandy59

2,733 posts

240 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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Steve Rance said:
It's not that scary when you are driving. You are driving on feel and trying to get as much power down as you can. As soon as you break into oversteer you bank the rotational limit of adhesion in your brain, catch the oversteer and bleed off a little if you need to. For drivers at his level it is not difficult. The difficult bit is having the spare capacity for the strategising that is taking place in his brain at the same time.
Interesting info, and makes perfect sense I guess if you're driving at this level as you say.

majordad

3,630 posts

226 months

Saturday 30th January 2016
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He's bluffing, he just made it up ! LOL, joking , He does know what he's saying. And he used a word I'd never seen in print before, strategising. Hope to see you at the Oulton RS Day 11th March.