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Plus, watch NBCSN's schedule this week and weekend. They aren't showing the game but I'll bet most of the days are football preview and talk related. The years they get the actual game? Sorry, the Rolex24 is NOT getting on TV that Sunday at all |
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And a grand total of 7 more minutes of daylight makes that big of a difference? Nah. What's likely more debatable is the turnaround time to NASCAR speedweeks. They open for camping 11 days after the finish of the 24 (this year on Feb 7). I'm sure the employees at the world center of speed appreciate not having a mere 3 day to turnaround between the events. I don't know much about the prep work though. And I still don't understand WTF big deal of week to another. More eyes are on the sport with Fernando and NOT big up against Super Bowl weekend. These are helpful facts that we should all be okay with. |
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'Don't wanna sound like I "know more than anyone" and 'not "living in the past", just some info, but the 24 was always the opening race (major, not inclusive of practice and undercard races Thurs. and Fri.) that started Speedweeks (2 of 'em...weeks that is...) from '75 when I started attending 'til mid-2000s when they changed it to 3 weekends before the 500. Because of Superbowl?....'have no clue.
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Grasser, Land, and WRT all took the full time IMSA GTD teams to school on how to run GT3 endurance races. I don't think BoP was the best for the Lamborghini and Audi too.
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How exactly was that? Other than the wave arounds that let Grasser make up 2 penalties? Not exactly GT3 endurance rules for the other series if I recall
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I'd challenge you to come here and find anything functioning as usual on Super Bowl Sunday. Hell they don't want us working for the city Thursday or Friday even, it is that big a deal and yes, the overlap is MUCH larger than you want to admit. Most years they exclude the NFL games from the ratings for TV, otherwise the top 50 plus events are NFL games and no one looks good. You can debate all you'd like it's not an event, but sorry it is and the facts show you're either delusional, argumentative or just flat obnoxious but either way you'd find the egg coating your face.
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2014 for the Gidley crash, last weather stoppage was 2007. My brain doesn't really differentiate actual red flags from 3 hour safety car periods though. '11 and '13 had massively long fog FCYs and '16 had tons for rain, at least, so that's at least 4 years with large weather interruptions in the last 9.
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I was surprised at the number of safety car periods in this race with just 47 cars. Even before the big storm by 5:00 am there were 11 of them.
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Youve got to be kidding me, Land penalized post race and loses second place:
https://racer.com/2019/01/31/rolex-2...gtd-penalized/ They can't seem to run within the rules of IMSA |
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I'm thinking there won't be much more running from Land in IMSA after the last 2 24 Hours. It seems not to be their race, but they run well at the other events so who knows.
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I love reading the Racer comments especially after you get to recognizing posters. It's the worst kind of anger at the rules until it catches your guy then the rule makes are out to get <insert favorite driver here>.
Honestly I would have assumed any car not determined to be running, or had been withdrawn at the time they called the race would be excluded from the time penalty as they weren't running. But then the rule book isn't that short and there's probably a rule for every thing they could think of, and they likely missed things that actually happen |
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Two big albums of my wet and wonderful trip to Daytona.
Start to dusk: https://bit.ly/2UBHJtK Night to finish: https://bit.ly/2Smv1Bn Some caveats: - I'm a fan with a camera, not an expert photographer - I take a lot of photos, these are big albums! - All pics are cropped and resized but otherwise unedited The first album is a full 'circuit' of the spectator areas: pre-race and start from in the huge stand and then a walk around the infield, between 2pm and dusk at 6pm (plus some pics of the heritage laps earlier in the day). The second album is that same 'circuit' after dark, to about 10pm, then from 5am until I bailed out, soaked to the skin, at about 11am. In the very early hours between 5am and the first red flag just before dawn I was able to watch from a sheltered spot at the back of the lower tier of the stand just above turn one, watching car after car pirouette off. When racing resumed I braved the infield, but it was very hard to take pictures. I was woefully under-dressed and had my camera wrapped in a towel borrowed from my hotel! The rain was driving right into the lens. But you will certainly get an accurate impression of the truly miserable conditions - the pictures taken at 10am are gloomy and dark, visibility was awful and there was a lot of water on the track. Oddly enough I have a lot more sympathy for the drivers having gone through these photos than I did at the time! Next up, my first trip to Sebring :-) |
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Those cars look so good at night and in the wet. Thanks for sharing.
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I haven't looked at all of them, but I agree with the rest. These are good photos and I have been enjoying looking through them.
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