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20 Mar 2011, 02:30 (Ref:2849823)
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Great race, great to Oreca winning a big one...
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20 Mar 2011, 02:30 (Ref:2849822)
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And Hughes is tearing up-good on him and team at Oreca
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20 Mar 2011, 02:31 (Ref:2849824)
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Awww de Chaunac just went up tenfold in my estimation. Very happy for him. HPD held on for second well done to them.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:32 (Ref:2849826)
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HPD is beating Peugeot fair & square! They did an incredible job with that new car!
Remember the ARX-02 a debut here at Sebring 2 years ago to see the contrast... Congratulations to ORECA and HIGHCROFT! Two privateers on the two top spot! Thrilling! 
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20 Mar 2011, 02:33 (Ref:2849828)
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Very happy for de Chaunac after the big disappointment at Le Mans last year after their heroic effort.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:33 (Ref:2849829)
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Congratulations to Hugues De Chaunac and Oreca, RLL BMW, Level 5 and the rest. Definetely the most gripping Sebring since 2007, fantastic race it definetely bodes well for the rest of the years racing and things are looking good for Oreca.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:34 (Ref:2849830)
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Nice one, Oreca! What a fantastic motor race, sure the streaming was a bit frustrating at times but P1 and GT2 were brilliant... again.
One podium for vettes is tolerable I suppose, after all the issues. Good year coming. Last edited by Deleted; 20 Mar 2011 at 02:51. |
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20 Mar 2011, 02:34 (Ref:2849831)
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Wow. Love the emotion, its good to see people showing what it really means, hats off to RLR and Joey Hand, a great year gets even better for him.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:35 (Ref:2849832)
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Im delighted for ORECA ..... poetic justice ,
Very disapointed about P2 !!! Rock on for Irishman Faulkner with Black Swan ....... too tired to think about much more . Nite , sleep well |
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20 Mar 2011, 02:36 (Ref:2849833)
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How about old Tracey Krohn and his guys winning the GTE-Am category. Not bad for a hair-lip!
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20 Mar 2011, 02:36 (Ref:2849834)
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Who were the optimistic people that went with their hearts and so won the predictions contest? Might have hoped Oreca could challenge and HPD could finish but 1 and 2 is an amazing race ending. Hard to sell to casual fans who don't know either team but a good story if ESPN carries the result on Sportscenter
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20 Mar 2011, 02:37 (Ref:2849835)
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BMW won GT, and a Corvette is on the podium too. With that magnificent LMP1 podium it makes me a very happy guy!
 Now it's soon 4am for me so I'm going to bed. Good night everyone! |
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20 Mar 2011, 02:38 (Ref:2849836)
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For the past several years the P2 class was nearly a match for the P1 cars. Now, either due to engine tom-foolery or who knows what, the P2 is a joke. I watched, at one point, a GT car BLAST by a P2. Didn't we all see this last year at Mid Ohio when the SR9 was a rolling roadblock to the GTs?
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20 Mar 2011, 02:41 (Ref:2849838)
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What a fantastic race that "highcroft" HPD ARX-01e made!
Absolutely perfect without the slight incident... and very fast drivers too... In "normal" conditions they would be 6th position behind the Pugs and the Audis, but they had the chance of winning if the diesels had messed up a little more... ORECA MATMUT deserves it absolutely... and with a crippled car! fantastic!... means that ACO dosen't have to worry about competition because 2 more teams as professional as ORECA and wont be only "factory" teams winning.. and no more anti-sportive arbitrary rules! [EDIT: or "factory" teams winning most of the time!.. REAL good professional privateers on diesel! a prospect to looking forward] Last edited by Bentley03; 20 Mar 2011 at 11:16. Reason: Language!!! |
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20 Mar 2011, 02:43 (Ref:2849839)
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I'm really thrilled for the Dyson guys. After a 12 hour race on one of the toughest tracks in the world, they were only 8 laps behind the big bad diesels in a little 2-liter glorified P2 car. Not too shabby.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:46 (Ref:2849841)
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Also, a big thanks to RLM, Hindy and Shaw did a brilliant job with the commentary for the whole twelve hours. I'm off to bed now, it's been a fantastic day of sports car racing and I challenge anyone to say that endurance racing is boring after that race.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:51 (Ref:2849845)
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Of course, congratulations to Black Swan Racing, winners of GTC class.
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20 Mar 2011, 02:58 (Ref:2849848)
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I'm glad to see Houghes in tears of happiness for once! Fantastic job by his team.
Highcroft clearly earned sponsorship for the full season now! |
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20 Mar 2011, 03:00 (Ref:2849849)
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Was a great job by Hindy and Shaw, think I heard maybe 2 pauses with no sound but they need time to get a drink or bite to eat sometime. I think this could end up being a good race to sell to new fans tomorrow, if they happen to catch it when flipping the channels, if anyone actually does that anymore with channel guides everywhere now.
Glad Dyson could run the whole race but seemed like they disappeared and both Audis ended up back in front of them at the end. Did feel weird when I thought about it and realized I didn't hear Dyson or Intersport mentioned on ALMS coverage. I know Dyson was running but who many times did we see the car in the last hour? And the Intersport LMPC just isn't the same as Jon throwing the Lola around and passing everyone on track before either blowing the motor or grinding the tires to nothing. |
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20 Mar 2011, 03:03 (Ref:2849850)
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The quickest P2 ran 8 seconds quicker than GTE pole in a car that's basically just been rolled off the transporter. Other cars limping around are no more respresentative of P2 than the Panoz is of GTE. PS, great win for ORECA, bodes well for a fantastic season with petrol, diesel, new and grandfathered cars all looking competitive. Last edited by JAG; 20 Mar 2011 at 03:20. |
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20 Mar 2011, 03:21 (Ref:2849858)
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Ahhh. Good to see LMP2 back to its roots.
All we need is a bizarrely-shaped WR with a habbit of fluking finishes to win and we're back to the early noughties again! |
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20 Mar 2011, 04:15 (Ref:2849869)
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Very good race, that last hour had me on the edge of my seat. I think the ALMS should simplify things and just have LMP LMPC GT and GTC, we don't need three LMP classes. We saw today that the LMPC and LMP2 cars were for all intents and purposes equal, I hope IMSA gets it and just adds the Oreca 02 into LMP2, and just call the junior LMP class LMPC.
Once the Lamborghini gets it's upgraded engine it should be up there with the GT's, hopefully the racing will be closer in the sprint races. |
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20 Mar 2011, 04:25 (Ref:2849870)
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20 Mar 2011, 04:42 (Ref:2849873)
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20 Mar 2011, 08:14 (Ref:2849910)
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I was hoping for an Audi or Oreca win and Highcroft to do well.
Well, Oreca won, Highcroft finished 2nd, and Audi made a good points day out of a race they could've contended for if not for their issues. And like in previous races, little things did make a big difference: The punctures on the #1 Audi, the #2 Audi and #7 Pug taking each other out, and the busted louvers on the #8 Pug. Oreca had the most trouble free race and won on that account, but they had to execute when the time came to take advantage of those situlations. Only thing I worry about is if the ACO will try and performance ballance the Oreca 908 and other older LMP1s, as the pace was equal between it, the R15s and the new 908s, which is something that I'm not entirely sure that the ACO wants to see, but if I'm Peugeot, I wouldn't be whining now. And in a way, Justice has been served as Oreca ended up being Peugeot's best shot at a good result at LM, and I just like the Oreca guys better than the factory team. And as for Audi, at least they showed us why they've won so many races in the past, doing repairs in a few minutes that it would take most others to do in tens of minutes. I wonder how that might improve with the allegedly more modular R18? Or how much faster it could've been compared to the R15, but the latter two questions are more suited for a different thread. One interesting thing I read was that the #7 908 after it's accident may've had gearbox issues (I assume that was just a report). Could the car getting squirly over the bumps like that have caused such an issue if that had happened (not saying that it did, but a post here said that there were possibly gearbox issues). |
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