FIA GT Race FIA GT Rnd 10: Dubai 6-8 Oct 2004

gwyllion · 6 Oct 2004, 11:36 (Ref:1116768)

Results of 1st practice session: here

gwyllion · 6 Oct 2004, 12:44 (Ref:1116863)

The 2 Maseratis are the fastest during practice 2.

LC2guy · 6 Oct 2004, 14:32 (Ref:1117003)

Hard to Sandbag, surrounded by so much sand !!!!!!!!!!!!

Fab · 7 Oct 2004, 07:33 (Ref:1117742)

Not easy for the "superballasted" cars.

Second sessions results on FIA-GT site...

And the Mazzas are one second faster...

917Addicted · 7 Oct 2004, 07:38 (Ref:1117750)

Hope they are sandbagging

If not, I would expect them to be 2 to 3 seconds faster

gwyllion · 7 Oct 2004, 08:54 (Ref:1117793)

Maserati 1 and 3 during the first qualifying session and #1 BMS Ferrari 2.

Result on FIA GT website

gwyllion · 7 Oct 2004, 12:41 (Ref:1117984)

#1 BMS Ferrari is on pole before the 2 Maseratis (that only did 4 laps in the qualifying 2; sandbagging?

)

simon c · 7 Oct 2004, 13:35 (Ref:1118028)

Don't assume sandbagging, the BMS 550 is a seriously fast machine

SALEEN S7R · 7 Oct 2004, 13:50 (Ref:1118034)

And here is the combinded qualifying times. http://www.crash.net/uk/en/news_view...d=8&nid=100880 Good to see BMS taking the fight to Maserati.

Fab · 7 Oct 2004, 14:23 (Ref:1118057)

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Originally posted by SALEEN S7R
Good to see BMS taking the fight to Maserati.

Yes, but what about the others ?

The GNM Saleen did a great job though... let's hope for some reliability...

SALEEN S7R · 7 Oct 2004, 14:27 (Ref:1118061)

Who cares about the others? The point is that everyone was all doom and gloom about the Maseratis joining the series and how they would be lapping 2-3 secs a lap faster than everyone else, and it hasnt happened. Sure its won a race, but so far I dont feel its done any harm to the series, in fact the opposite, and its certainly raised the profile of FIA GT.

gwyllion · 7 Oct 2004, 15:51 (Ref:1118143)

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Originally posted by SALEEN S7R
Who cares about the others? The point is that everyone was all doom and gloom about the Maseratis joining the series and how they would be lapping 2-3 secs a lap faster than everyone else, and it hasnt happened. Sure its won a race, but so far I dont feel its done any harm to the series, in fact the opposite, and its certainly raised the profile of FIA GT.

Look. Almost every car was faster during the second qualifying session. Why did the Maseratis do only 4 laps? Why didn't they try harder to improve their time?

And what would have happened when Maserati was allowed to run their cars unrestricted (without this tiny rear wing, ...)?

Fab · 7 Oct 2004, 15:53 (Ref:1118147)

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Originally posted by gwyllion
Why did the Maseratis do only 4 laps? Why didn't they try harder to improve their time?

pounetbf · 7 Oct 2004, 17:08 (Ref:1118231)

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Originally posted by gwyllion

And what would have happened when Maserati was allowed to run their cars unrestricted (without this tiny rear wing, ...)?

Right !
And with the standard restrictor...

Who knows the size of the restrictors used on the Maz and those of the 550, lambo or saleen ?

Bob Riebe · 7 Oct 2004, 17:35 (Ref:1118254)

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And what would have happened when Maserati was allowed to run their cars unrestricted (without this tiny rear wing, ...)? [/B]

TINY?
Oh please.
It is starting to look like the rules makers went to the Dodge Daytona school of wing design.

SALEEN S7R · 7 Oct 2004, 19:28 (Ref:1118311)

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Originally posted by pounetbf
Right !
And with the standard restrictor...

Who knows the size of the restrictors used on the Maz and those of the 550, lambo or saleen ?

Erm at a guess id say that Maserati are running the same size restrictors as everyone else, they are penalised enough by the smaller rear wing and the 60kg of ballast. Like it or not, anything that has been said about the Maserati sandbagging is completly unfounded.

Fab · 8 Oct 2004, 03:13 (Ref:1118530)

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Originally posted by Bob Riebe
TINY?
Oh please.
It is starting to look like the rules makers went to the Dodge Daytona school of wing design.

I was at LM the last week-end for the GT-FFSA races : I'm still amazed by the HUGE rearwing they putted on the Vipers and Porsches... the Mazza one looks very small in comparaison. Really.

Fab · 8 Oct 2004, 03:16 (Ref:1118536)

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Originally posted by SALEEN S7R
Erm at a guess id say that Maserati are running the same size restrictors as everyone else, they are penalised enough by the smaller rear wing and the 60kg of ballast. Like it or not, anything that has been said about the Maserati sandbagging is completly unfounded.

I thought that the Mazza's restrictors were 5% smaller than the others... + ballast + rearwing... my, this is a real achievement to get those results with those penalties...

This is a great car indeed, and I hope they'll find something to enter it ; in the idea to have a real balanced grid...

It makes us forget the Lambos... that I appreciate very too.

gwyllion · 8 Oct 2004, 07:52 (Ref:1118786)

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Originally posted by Fab
It makes us forget the Lambos... that I appreciate very too.

The #24 Lambo did quite nice during the warm-up: 3th fastest behind #34 Maserati and #1 BMS Ferrari. Nice to see DAMS is finding ways to show the true potential of the car.

Jeffrey-Lee · 8 Oct 2004, 09:18 (Ref:1118846)

Yeah the #24 did a faster lap in warm-up than it did in qualifying, this time would have put it in 9th place on the grid. Good to see them improving

gwyllion · 8 Oct 2004, 10:10 (Ref:1118864)

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Originally posted by Jeffrey-Lee
Yeah the #24 did a faster lap in warm-up than it did in qualifying, this time would have put it in 9th place on the grid. Good to see them improving

Maybe the performance of the car suffers from the heat; warm-up was in the morning.

Jeffrey-Lee · 8 Oct 2004, 11:58 (Ref:1118975)

Well it's doing pretty good in the race at the moment, 9th and in front of the vitaphone.

gwyllion · 8 Oct 2004, 14:10 (Ref:1119003)

The Maserati doesn't seem that reliable as we thought: the #33 is out with engine problems. The 2 Maseratis were 1 and 2 and the #34 Maserati is still leading.

Both Lamborghini are out

gwyllion · 8 Oct 2004, 14:51 (Ref:1119012)

The #34 Maserati lost the victory to the #1 BMS because of a very late pitstop (5 minutes before the end of the race). Maybe they misjudged the tire wear?

SALEEN S7R · 8 Oct 2004, 14:53 (Ref:1119013)

Here are the final results from the FIA GT http://www.mst-group.co.uk/result.as...nd=round10.gif Gee looks like Maserati really dominated once again huh... NOT as Ive said before they are not the fastest machines out there on outright pace at the moment and the fastest laps reflect this, as do the overall race results, the cars arent 100% reliable yet either, out of 3 races from 6 Maseratis we have had 2 DNF's so far.

Sorry Fab but looking at things at the moment id have to say things are pretty well balanceed IMO, 4 differnt kinds of car in the top 6 today, thats quite a lot of variety, in previous years ie 2000/2001 it was all Viper and Lister, now at least we have several differnt kinds of car at the front, oh and Im sorry but its not Lambourginis fault if DAMS cant run the Murcielago as well as Reiter can.

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