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14 Mar 2003, 14:25 (Ref:536102)
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Bentley's Qualifying Time Disallowed
Yesterday's 12 Hours of Sebring qualifying ended up having the Bentleys who took the top 2 positions were disqualified due to techincal infractions which means that Biela in an Audi takes the pole. Meaning the Bentleys will go to the back of the field.
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14 Mar 2003, 14:32 (Ref:536112)
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Yep , we knew this already, see the other threads. Kinda annoying that we have an Audi on pole though. As much as it's a nice car, i'm fed up with seeing it doing so well. It's time the began to bite the dust with that one. I sincerely hope it doesn't win...
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14 Mar 2003, 14:55 (Ref:536130)
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audi is just a bang up good car, it doesn't have the same romance in its dominance as the Ferrari's in F1, and look even they faltered at the opening round-anything can happen. i grumble at the lister stuck at the tail end, oh man they have a job- and James weaver! what a qualifying run for the man, brilliant, can this be the year for the 675, he out qualified Max Papis in the panoz, oh boy oh boy its gonna be good, and thomas enge making gts interesting this is a great sebring!, course i have to work saturday until the avo so i will only see the final laps, pooh.
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14 Mar 2003, 15:33 (Ref:536165)
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although Audi is at the front (again) and the Bentleys are at the back just think about the time, 12 hours, thats 720 minutes or 43200 seconds. Thats a long long time.
P.S, please correct me if my maths are wrong which they are likley to be, i was trying to do it in my head. |
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14 Mar 2003, 18:58 (Ref:536309)
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Very very sad for the start pic, at least
 Hope they won't do the same at LM... What did they do to deserve this dehonor ? |
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14 Mar 2003, 19:09 (Ref:536317)
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As I understand it, the rear diffuser was between 1-4 mm out of the height spec for both cars. The discrepency was noted in the first inspection and Bentley assured IMSA it would be fixed. Apparently they didn't and IMSA threw the book at them.
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14 Mar 2003, 20:17 (Ref:536359)
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Sounds like the whole bookcase, not just the book....
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14 Mar 2003, 20:51 (Ref:536392)
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I know one thing I for one will not be missing the first hour because those Bentley's will be flying through the field ! ! !
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14 Mar 2003, 21:54 (Ref:536439)
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That's when you'll really see some passing, especially on the long straight that eventully goes into the big right-hand corner that brings the cars to the main straight and the starting line...
That big straight is bumpy (a big runway from the air field days), but it is very wide.... lots of room for Bentley to pick off lots of backmarkers in big chunks... |
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15 Mar 2003, 00:50 (Ref:536557)
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Back in the 80s a Mirage that was driven by Andretti had a tech problem too...if I remember correctly, it was over the size of teh "luggage" box or the location of the rear wing
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15 Mar 2003, 00:58 (Ref:536564)
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good, i hope an audi wins simply because there will be no other exp speed 8s besides sebring and lemans. and there will be 2-3 r8s in the alms
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15 Mar 2003, 07:38 (Ref:536690)
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Bentleys Boys business won't be so easy ; at the opposite of the long track of LM, Sebring track is short... and busy ! You can imagine the risks the Bentleys drivers will have to take to pass over the slower cars, and some of them at the top of the grid are not so slow (the speed gap plays less than in les Hunaudières, I assume)...
It's a shame that no european TV give the pics live ; we'll have a report on Eurosport one or two weeks later... darn
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15 Mar 2003, 08:28 (Ref:536719)
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What time is the race today? (GMT)
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15 Mar 2003, 10:09 (Ref:536789)
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??? Why? Haven't they won enough already.....
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15 Mar 2003, 10:27 (Ref:536799)
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Indeed. I'm sick to death of hearing. Biela wins, Kristensen wins
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15 Mar 2003, 11:17 (Ref:536823)
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15 Mar 2003, 14:49 (Ref:536962)
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b: i dont like cars that appear for lemans and one other race then dissappear until next year |
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