ALMS Rnd 10: Laguna Seca 19-21 Oct 2006 - Page 5

vorsprung · 22 Oct 2006, 00:59 (Ref:1744494)

Luhr spins!

courageous · 22 Oct 2006, 00:59 (Ref:1744495)

Luhr off the road & playing dirty IMO!!!

vorsprung · 22 Oct 2006, 01:13 (Ref:1744499)

Great GT1 battle

Hindy is awesome commentator.

russ250575 · 22 Oct 2006, 01:19 (Ref:1744501)

in your opinion

(about the comentator)

vorsprung · 22 Oct 2006, 01:28 (Ref:1744506)

Salo less than a second behind Bergmeister. The gap was ~25 seconds after the penalty.

russ250575 · 22 Oct 2006, 01:28 (Ref:1744507)

Quote:

Originally Posted by vorsprung

Great GT1 battle

Hindy is awesome commentator.

GT2 BAttles not bad either

russ250575 · 22 Oct 2006, 01:34 (Ref:1744509)

Mcnish low on fuel according to commentators on motors/speed

vorsprung · 22 Oct 2006, 01:47 (Ref:1744512)

Audi was lucky with the safety cars, they spent more time in the pits than the rest of the top prototypes. The best lap times for the top 7 were between 14.1 and 15.1.

SALEEN S7R · 22 Oct 2006, 02:40 (Ref:1744520)

Once again another cracking race, action non stop all through the race. At 1 point for a short time I thought Audi might not win, still I guess that was just wishful thinking. At least they had to work for it today though, nice to see Aston Martin winning in GT1 again too.

I cant wait for the 2007 season, Sebring will be fantastic with the new cars that are on the way.

falcons707 · 22 Oct 2006, 07:33 (Ref:1744662)

I went to the race sat. and it was a good one.Action all the way.It looked to be a good crowd better then last year.I sat at turn 4 and there was not much for empty seats.Great race!

chrisp2006 · 22 Oct 2006, 09:34 (Ref:1744747)

too many penalties, too many safety cars breaking up the flow. Still a good race though

The Badger · 22 Oct 2006, 10:55 (Ref:1744841)

What was the rumour about a mazda press release ..... did i miss something ?

vorsprung · 22 Oct 2006, 11:32 (Ref:1744874)

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Originally Posted by The Badger

What was the rumour about a mazda press release ..... did i miss something ?

They've moved the announcement to LA autoshow, december 1-10.

**Bentley03** · 22 Oct 2006, 11:41 (Ref:1744888)

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Originally Posted by vorsprung

They've moved the announcement to LA autoshow, december 1-10.

That should coincide with the Audi announcement at Essen.

**FIRE** · 22 Oct 2006, 15:10 (Ref:1745044)

What problems had the Radicals?

cmk · 22 Oct 2006, 15:17 (Ref:1745049)

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Originally Posted by FIRE

What problems had the Radicals?

Water leak for the works car, accident damage for the VdS car after Gunnar seemed to decide that hitting a cone would be terrible (it probably wouldn't have been) and jumped on the brakes at the crest of the main straight hill, right in front of the #45 Porsche, destroying any hope of Van Overbeek's championship.

JAG · 23 Oct 2006, 00:51 (Ref:1745618)

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Originally Posted by courageous

Anything that stops a car being undefeated can only be a good thing - but I wish it would be a Creation or Zytek, not a secondary class car.

Creation and Zytek only have themselves to blame..............again!

Suze · 23 Oct 2006, 09:49 (Ref:1745925)

How did Adam P (can't say his name, let alone spell it) do in the LMP2 Radical on his debut? Heard he was running.

brielga · 23 Oct 2006, 09:50 (Ref:1745927)

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Originally Posted by JAG

Creation and Zytek only have themselves to blame..............again!

Indeed... the mistake of getting into the pits when they were closed killed the Zytek race, it was a huge shame!
In the case of Creation clearly Primat had trouble getting in the rhythm spinning repeatedly until McNish rammed him from behind. However Minassian was up there again after the cautions finishing in the same lap. It was pretty close but it was in their own hands as JAG states.

chocmonster7 · 23 Oct 2006, 12:35 (Ref:1746152)

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Originally Posted by brielga

Indeed... the mistake of getting into the pits when they were closed killed the Zytek race, it was a huge shame!

From what I heard they were due to pit anyway, if they'd stayed out they would have run out of fuel on track and caused more hassle for everyone.

jhansen · 23 Oct 2006, 13:23 (Ref:1746201)

I have one question regarding the Creation car. And I would have asked them directly, but they were a bit busy when I was by their garage. How is it that the Creation car can match the Zytek for pace around a place like Laguna with wheels that are not as wide? It seemed like many were saying that they could use more grip around Laguna, yet Creation were spot in qualifying and fairly close to Zytek for race pace. Interesting. Hopefully they can move up to the wider wheels for next year.

JAG · 23 Oct 2006, 18:26 (Ref:1746582)

I don't think grips the problem, it's durability.

jhansen · 23 Oct 2006, 18:32 (Ref:1746588)

Well no I agree. But I thought that fact interesting. Although wider tires would help them double stint tires, which would keep them out of the pits.

neiltbag · 23 Oct 2006, 20:04 (Ref:1746689)

No substitute for horsepower, and the Creation's bigger engine certainly seemed to help it in the stretches between turns 11 and 2, and turns 4 and 5. It actually pulled away from the Audis on both straights, so no surprise that it would be quicker than the Zytek given the Zytek's smaller engine.

I have to say, it was a terrific weekend of racing, and I'm glad I went on Friday as well as Saturday. Beautiful weather, decent crowd (not too big), close racing, open paddock with good access to drivers, and all those fabulous cars....

jhansen · 23 Oct 2006, 20:52 (Ref:1746763)

Ah yes, the crowd, thanks for the reminder. Am I wrong in thinking that the turnout looked a bit smaller this year? I could mistaken, as I'm not so good at estimating that. Guess we'll see what the official estimate was.

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