'10 LMS Round 1 • Castellet • April 9-11

[Taxi645]

Jorg Muller just slashing off 0.5s of the BMW's fastest lap.

[NightStalk3r]

96 pits again, they seem to be pitting not long after 77 and 76 start there stints.

[Taxi645]

Pace between Ferrari en Porsche seems competitive, but fuel economy seems to give Porsche the edge.

[The Badger]

Bet Arakis and his flock of goonies wont like the sound of that !!!

Hows Spyker doing ?

[skycafe]

Just got RML up and running, and I am just groovin on the sound the track mike is picking up!

Whang WHUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHANG WHUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would be nice to hear a big V8 thunder past.

robert

[Taxi645]

Originally Posted by The Badger

Bet Arakis and his flock of goonies wont like the sound of that !!!

Hows Spyker doing ?

Doing ok, car's 1 second off the pace compared to the Ferrari and Porsche, but drivers doing a very good job on keeping the times close. An earlier contact and resulting repairs messed up their race.

[911targa]

i wonder who will be the Michelin Green X Chanllenge winner this time

[911targa]

4 hours past,still 4 hours to go
anyway,we haven't see a Porsche 1-2 in GT2 class for a long time

[NightStalk3r]

Pillet seems to have pitted early.

[arakis]

Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Pillet seems to have pitted early.

famos porsche reliabilty

[911targa]

what happened to IMSA Porsche?

[Victor_RO]

"Ingested" something at the front apparently according to JH in the booth. So something's most likely gone and done some damage to the radiators.

[arakis]

read the post above

[Victor_RO]

Steering rack issue for #76, confirmed from the pits.

[Taxi645]

"Fault in the steering rack" for the IMSA.

EDIT: Beat me to it. BTW, Bruni did a 1.59.6 not to long ago, fastest GT2 lap AFAIK.

[911targa]

it's a pity,they did well in first 4 hours,probably they couldn't finish in top6 this time,and Raymond would say he has just dicovered how bad luck you can get in motorsports again.

[Danny_GT2]

As usual, timing breaks down half way through the race as does LMS website! Time for some FIFA!

[NightStalk3r]

Ferrari's are starting to panic now with the threat from the BMW.

[911targa]

Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Steering rack issue for #76, confirmed from the pits.

i think they should buy a 2010spec car.the car they are running is a 2009spec without updates
there's a rumor suggest that IMSA and Proton as well as Prospeed will get 997GT3 R even the Hybrid version next year.

[Victor_RO]

Confirmed, Schnitzer are trying to save a full pitstop over the others over the course of the race. And their pace over the race says that they never even bothered to go for any kind of qualifying setup/quali lap.


EDIT: #29 Racing Box Lola retired with a failure in the electrics.

[911targa]

Spyder has stay in pit for some time.are they suffering problems?

[Taxi645]

Seems Ferrari tries to reply with faster laps, two Ferrari under 2 minutes last lap. BMW might be efficient, but doesn't seem to be that much better than the Porsche in that regard. Spyker doesn't seem to be coming out of the pit according to the timing?

[arakis]

2 out of 3 top running porsche have mechanical failiure at the most important race in the LMS season. If I hear another word about how reliable porsches are I am going to laugh to death

[NightStalk3r]

Originally Posted by 911targa

rumor suggest that IMSA and Proton as well as Prospeed will get 997GT3 R even the Hybrid version next year.

GT3 R is a GT3 car, unless the ACO are going to replace GT2 with GT3 you wont be seeing the GT3 R in the LMS.

Oh and Prospeed already have 2 GT3 R's.

[Acid09]

I´m very pleased with how the M3 is running, especially since it's the first race with the LMS-spec car.