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Post Daytona AoP (1-16-15) .. http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/fi...20%2315-06.pdf
Pre Sebring AoP for all classes (2-23-15) .. http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/fi...s/IMSA-TEC.PDF L.P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Schedule Entry List Track Info Weather Spotters Guides Radio Timing & Scoring Alternate FRC Last edited by joeb; 19 Mar 2015 at 14:56. |
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Bertolini will join Kaffer and Fisichella for Sebring In the Risi 458.
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A (pre) race thread? Excellent!
Looks like I won't be making the spring trek south this year, but looking forward to it nonetheless. |
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Dixon in with Pruett and Hand in the lone Ganassi.
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Scott Dixon will complete the CGR #01 lineup joining Pruett and Hand. No #02 it seems.
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Am I reading the GTLM Ferrari restrictor right? 41.2 compared to every else being around 30 and larger is better in this case?
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I've never been to Sebring but considering making the trip. Does anyone know where the best spots are to watch from? Are there grandstands? or are lawn chairs needed?
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There's all of one small grandstand, so lawn chairs are recommended. It's a long race, so you can wonder and watch the action from multiple locations.
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Thanks for the info! I'll make sure to grab the chairs! Do you know which part of the track has the small grandstand?
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On the airport side, by turn 14. Correction: Looks like they've added a grandstand at turn 7 as well since I was there in 2013.
The Sebring track map is here. It's 3 3/4 mile circuit, so it's a pretty big track: http://www.sebringraceway.com/fan-info/track-map |
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Outside Turn Seven is good. Either side around Three, Four, and Five is good ... cars sometimes pass in Three, and slide off the track exiting Five. Inside Turn Ten is ... special. Drivers' left between Six and Seven is good, because they are accelerating hard from Five to Seven, and you can wander down to outside Seven and all the way back to Three, Four, and Five, cross the footbridge between Six and Seven, and walk over to inside Ten and down towards Nine, which is basically a long curved straight—the cars appear from the trees and accelerate all the way to the braking zone for Ten.
Best bet is to go for a few days and walk a Lot the first day and figure out where you like to be. It's Not that long a race, I find. It seems long, but then suddenly the sun is setting. For late night I like outside Turn Seven because it is lit, but depending how close to the corner you get you can still see some nice brake-rotor glow if you are into that, and Seven is another overtaking/Oops zone. There are also a couple spots between Three and Five like that, where the cars come out of darkeness, into the light, and disappear into darkness ... if you like that sort of thing. |
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I probably wouldn't be doing Sebring this year, but Formula E Miami is the weekend before, makes for a perfect double race trip. Makes the long trip a lot more worth it! IndyCar at St Petersburg is the weekend after as well, which would make a perfect south Florida triple race trip but I can't afford to do them all. |
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What is the difference between attending the Daytona 24 vs the Sebring 12 hr? I guess the lack of grandstands is a biggie? You probably only can see 1 or 2 turns at the Sebring at a time compared to Daytona where you can see all the way around at times.
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The reason you can see so much at Daytona is because it’s a roval. Grandstands or not, you’re going to see a smaller percentage of the action at most natural-terrain road courses (and that's what Sebring effectively is these days). That's especially true at a track as long as Sebring.
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At Sebring you can't see the whole track at once but you can walk pretty much all of it. You can be close enough to smell the cars and feel the wind as they go by. It gets dark - they actually need the headlights. There are mounds spread around for viewing and several large screens. The atmosphere is very old world, much like Watkins Glen in the USGP days. Green park is full of drunks, but happy, not mean, drunks. Everybody is there to enjoy the event - even the officials. One year one of the parking attendants gave me her spot in an otherwise full lot! Also - it will undoubtedly be warm to hot! |
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This may sound like nannying, but that looks just moronic and dangerous drunken games. In Finland there'd sure be couple of arrests for action like that.
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It is more or less harmless drunken buffoonery. The only real problems with Green Park are sleeping (it is not allowed) and watching your beer stash (it will suddenly become someone else's if you turn your back.) Otherwise, yes there is some amount of loud, drunken revelry, and I wouldn't go to Turn Ten to ask about the running order, but just about everyone is having fun
I won't say it has never happened, but I haven't ever seen a fight at Sebring, and never heard anything about some large, drunken brawl. I have never heard about drunk fans hassling other fans, or about anybody being harassed. The far reaches of Green Park are not a place to camp if you want to sleep early and rise early, but a great place to watch the race. Inside Turn Ten from the entry to the corner and all the way down to Turn Eleven is a great spot to watch from day or night. Great action, and you can see which drivers have mastered the track surface (read: large, ill-placed bumps) and how close to the edge they are willing to push. Ten is a great overtaking zone and one of the corners where drivers have to hang it out a little for a good lap time. |
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I've never seen a fight and never have had beer stolen there. Funny enough, Ive also never have had trouble sleeping in GP.
It's such a cool place and awesome event. It's also the only place I've seen someone passed out at 10 am, sitting on a couch, beer in hand, on the third tier of scaffolding. Sorry. Pre-race thread for Sebring is turning into the Pre-Event thread, which that is what it is, an event. Wish I was going. |
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