|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
24 Mar 2009, 00:24 (Ref:2423215) | #1 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 8,919
|
'09 ALMS Round 2 • St. Pete April 3-4
...........
. Downtown Street Course, St. Petersburg, FL, USA. April 3 - April 4, 2009 . . Schedule . Entry List . Track Map . Timing & Scoring . Hindy/Radio . IMSA Site . Spotters Guide . Live "Q"ing Stream . Satellite . Weather . World Times L.P. Last edited by paul-collins; 27 Mar 2009 at 23:35. |
||
__________________
Probae esti in segetem sunt deteriorem datae fruges, tamen ipsae suaptae enitent |
24 Mar 2009, 00:45 (Ref:2423235) | #2 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2,437
|
Entry list isn't out yet, right? Your link doesn't work and IMSA's website doesn't have one that I can find.
|
||
__________________
Nulla Tenaci Invia Est Via |
24 Mar 2009, 01:05 (Ref:2423248) | #3 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 8,919
|
|||
__________________
Probae esti in segetem sunt deteriorem datae fruges, tamen ipsae suaptae enitent |
25 Mar 2009, 14:14 (Ref:2424481) | #4 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,630
|
|||
|
25 Mar 2009, 17:32 (Ref:2424609) | #5 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,491
|
|||
|
25 Mar 2009, 18:54 (Ref:2424659) | #6 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,793
|
If you've read Gordon Kirby's interview with Scott Atherton, they know exactly how pathetic it will be but he was definitely not embarrassed enough to sugar-coat it. It is the way it is, and they are doing their best to make the way it is as good as possible.
|
||
|
25 Mar 2009, 21:14 (Ref:2424756) | #7 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,630
|
Quote:
DK |
|||
|
25 Mar 2009, 21:26 (Ref:2424765) | #8 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,630
|
Quote:
http://www.americanlemans.com/images...eteEntries.pdf with only 16 cars on it! 3 P1s, 3P2s and the rest GT2s! This must rank as the smallest field ever in ALMS! DK |
|||
|
25 Mar 2009, 21:42 (Ref:2424772) | #9 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 2,348
|
Two cars for PTG? Was that known before?
|
|
|
25 Mar 2009, 21:46 (Ref:2424774) | #10 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2,437
|
2nd Panoz! Hopefully this is a boost brought on by their Sebring podium.
No VICI though, no 2nd Risi, and on LG Corvette. Why is van Overbeek not in the Flying Lizard Porsche? |
||
__________________
Nulla Tenaci Invia Est Via |
25 Mar 2009, 21:48 (Ref:2424776) | #11 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,299
|
That must be what Atherton meant when he said we would see existing teams add additional cars, I wonder if the Lizards and Risi will step up too? Between the second Esperante and talk of a new LMP1 Panoz, it appears Don is keen on doing all he can to help his series out. I was just flipping through my 2008 ALMS yearbook and the average grid size was around 30 cars, oh what a difference a year makes.
|
||
|
25 Mar 2009, 21:57 (Ref:2424784) | #12 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 13,763
|
Oh yeah ..... and dont forget ECO racing's Radical SR9 diesel too .
I would have thought this would be a brilliant idea for a European GT1 team to do the rest of the ALMS , their sure to win ..... Konrad could have won the championship with a semi decent S7R !!! |
||
|
25 Mar 2009, 22:02 (Ref:2424795) | #13 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 7,335
|
|||
|
25 Mar 2009, 22:08 (Ref:2424806) | #14 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 2,437
|
By my count, no ALMS race has had this low a car count, although the last two ELMS races had counts of 13 and 14.
I don't believe there's even been an ALMS race under 20 entries. |
||
__________________
Nulla Tenaci Invia Est Via |
25 Mar 2009, 23:44 (Ref:2424884) | #15 | |
Rookie
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 73
|
I thought I had heard something to the affect that they were trying to allow cars to run without the proper ac units to help car counts. If that happens, maybe a few of the old porsches can come play.
|
|
|
26 Mar 2009, 00:00 (Ref:2424894) | #16 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 2,348
|
It would have been the case for VICI had they showed up...
|
|
|
26 Mar 2009, 00:27 (Ref:2424905) | #17 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,491
|
|||
|
26 Mar 2009, 00:32 (Ref:2424908) | #18 | ||
Race Official
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,491
|
I can't find the link now, but Vici is waiting on new 2009 chassis. If I remember the article I think it said plural. But even in the wait they have the 2008 chassis that could be run if the rules were relaxed.
|
||
|
26 Mar 2009, 00:49 (Ref:2424920) | #19 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,793
|
Quote:
I think that they recognize that this is a very tough year for their product in North America, and probably for racing on the continent as a whole. I think just keeping the series stable this year is a worthy goal, and for now they seem to be succeeding. Great to see Ryan Phinney in the ALMS, too. That kid hustled the Matt Connelly Pontiac GTO-R around in GARRA last year far far quicker than a car of its age and low operating budget had any right to go. |
|||
|
26 Mar 2009, 00:53 (Ref:2424924) | #20 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 984
|
|||
__________________
Tim "Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse." Thomas Fuller |
26 Mar 2009, 02:32 (Ref:2424951) | #21 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,299
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
26 Mar 2009, 07:43 (Ref:2425027) | #22 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 545
|
The issue with Vici is definitely not depending on the availability of any car……
|
|
|
26 Mar 2009, 15:25 (Ref:2425339) | #23 | |||||
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 944
|
Quote:
Quote:
The complete lack of purse money has always been one of my long-time beefs with sportscar racing - whether it's IMSA/ALMS, ACO, PSCR, USRRC, or GARRA, and I will never understand people that think purse money is irrelevant toward the costs of competing, it's just an incredibly naive business model. Yes, I understand that the costs can't be completely covered due to the endurance nature of the event, but they can definitely help, and because they don't is one reason why car counts are going to drop down to less entrants in a 4-class race than the 1-class race held the next day St. Petersburg and Long Beach weekends. There is no semblance of a respectable business model that makes any sense unless you are a manufacturer treating the sport as one big marketing exercise, or you are just going to field a car for a couple millionaires racing for fun. Why does everyone think Kevin Buckler is racing David Gilliland in NASCAR and not a Porsche 911 at Sebring or St. Petersburg after all? He actually has a shot at covering the costs of racing in the former I imagine is one reason. This is Robin Miller's article from February 2007 where I took out the bits talking about sportscars. I imagine not much has changed in two years. http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...l_inequalities Quote:
|
|||||
|
26 Mar 2009, 16:07 (Ref:2425357) | #24 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,736
|
2 BMWs is a bit of a surprise. I had thought they struggled to get a 2nd just for Sebring.
|
|
|
26 Mar 2009, 16:22 (Ref:2425366) | #25 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 2,351
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
'09 ALMS Round One Sebring Mar.18-21 | HORNDAWG | North American Racing | 1052 | 3 Apr 2009 17:11 |
ALMS Round 3: Long Beach, April 18-20, 2008 | dxk1 | North American Racing | 159 | 24 Apr 2008 15:16 |
ALMS Round 2: St. Petersburg, April 4-5, 2008 (Spoilers) | dxk1 | North American Racing | 185 | 9 Apr 2008 02:53 |
ALMS Rnd 2: St.Pete 29-31 Mar 2007 | HORNDAWG | North American Racing | 315 | 5 Apr 2007 04:47 |
St. Pete May be Gone | Tim Northcutt | ChampCar World Series | 17 | 3 Sep 2004 17:30 |