Who to replace Pickett at Cytosport?

[colt513]

Since Pickett is injured who do you think will replace him in the RS Spyder for the rest of the season?

Personally I hope it is Lucas Luhr. I always thought that he was a good racer. Unfortunately he didnt get a drive in the R15's this year. But since he is a Works Audi driver they can loan him to Porsche (a reverse of what happened at le mans with Timo and Romain).

This would also be good because Luhr has previous experience with the RS Spyder.

Any other thoughts? I was also thinking either Timo or Romain, but I have a feeling they will be the ones running the Porsche 911 Hybrid at petit this year.

- Colt

I also want to wish Greg Pickett a speedy recovery!

[dj4monie]

Originally Posted by colt513

Since Pickett is injured who do you think will replace him in the RS Spyder for the rest of the season?

Personally I hope it is Lucas Luhr. I always thought that he was a good racer. Unfortunately he didnt get a drive in the R15's this year. But since he is a Works Audi driver they can loan him to Porsche (a reverse of what happened at le mans with Timo and Romain).

This would also be good because Luhr has previous experience with the RS Spyder.

Any other thoughts? I was also thinking either Timo or Romain, but I have a feeling they will be the ones running the Porsche 911 Hybrid at petit this year.

- Colt

I also want to wish Greg Pickett a speedy recovery!

I doubt Audi would loan our Luhr he hasn't driven the car in years. Timo and the rest of them have recently as 2008, the car's current configuration is 2008 spec without the DFI engine.

I'm sure Porsche will loosen somebody. I'm sure they feel they can win this Championship still. I wish Greg a full and speedy recovery but to be honest this might have been this best thing to happen to this Championship, its going to be full attack mode the rest of the way, should make for an exciting final 3 races.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by colt513

I also want to wish Greg Pickett a speedy recovery!

+1

...and while we're here....
I am naive about the dealings of teams and factories so apologize for the simpleton questions, but....

what kind of support does Cytosport get from Porsche?
And can any pro team that runs Porsches request a facorty driver?

Porsche "Factory" teams and factory drivers has always been a source of confusing for me...

[The Badger]

I reckon Saasha Maassen would be a good bet . Heaps of experiance with the RS Spyder , knows the team , aint a works driver no more , available too , and very quick .

[carsten66]

Originally Posted by The Badger

I reckon Saasha Maassen would be a good bet . Heaps of experiance with the RS Spyder , knows the team , aint a works driver no more , available too , and very quick .

No, so far Sascha Maassen isn't available for the next two ALMS races... he already is racing the weekends the Carrera Cup in Zandvoort and Supercup in Spa...

[mountainstar]

Do they have a spare car? I thought the one crashed was a write off.

[NightStalk3r]

Originally Posted by mountainstar

Do they have a spare car? I thought the one crashed was a write off.

Porsche already had a new tub on the plane to Cytosport on the day of the Mid-Ohio race.

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by colt513

Any other thoughts? I was also thinking either Timo or Romain, but I have a feeling they will be the ones running the Porsche 911 Hybrid at petit this year.

Maassen will be available at PLM, so that's possible.

Even though he had a horrible race at Laguna, Memo Gidley has been the teams regular third driver.

[NightStalk3r]

Dumas is with Felbermayr Proton in the LMS on the Weekend of Road America, so it wont be him.

[merlot brougham]

Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Porsche already had a new tub on the plane to Cytosport on the day of the Mid-Ohio race.

I had read that it is the ONLY tub left. Can anyone confirm or deny that?

[cbbrit]

According to Porsche Motorsport PR people at Mid Ohio, it is the last existing new tub.

[chernaudi]

It's not even known if the Mid Ohio tub is a write off-Audi dinged two tubs at Mosport and Detroit in '08, and Dallara repaired both and both were probably raced again. The tub on the #3 Peugeot at Le Mans that broke was the car that was trashed at Silverstone in '08 and was repaired due to similar damage.

Porsche has plenty of other tubs, as no RS Spyder has been written off in a race-the car that Porsche had at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in '08 was a never raced reserve/R&D car.

[TWK]

Porsche follows championships standings just like we do. It won't be lost on them that Porsche could still win the ALMS prototype championship. Given that, it makes no difference what their prior arrangements with Cytosport have been. They'll step up to ensure a competitive driver is in that seat. It will be the cheapest (most cost-effective) "factory program" they've ever done.

23 points behind is a tall order, but a little luck and a Bernhard-type partner for Klaus and it's possible. The high-speed tracks left are not the Honda's (why fool with this "HPD" stuff) favorites.

[HORNDAWG]

Originally Posted by TWK

(why fool with this "HPD" stuff)

This from a man who uses a pseudonym and works pretty diligently to make sure that the 'difference' is very clear!




L.P.

[TWK]

Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

This from a man who uses a pseudonym and works pretty diligently to make sure that the 'difference' is very clear!

L.P.

What next, HORNDAWG, you going to take a chisel to poor Sam Clemens' headstone?

Among works published under a pseudonym are The Federalist Papers, , now known to be written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. They are considered the third most important document in the development of the US government, after the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution / Bill of Rights.

Here's one I like: Man Without a Spleen (Anton Chekhov) Or this one, simple and elegant: Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)

By demonstrating humanity's flaws, foibles, and virtues as exhibited by animals, stories that feature anthropomorphized characters-- that is, talking animals-- can provide readers with a greater understanding of human psychology and behavior.

Talking animals, regardless of their current or past literary popularity or lack thereof have had a long and distinguished history in both children's and adult storytelling. Typically, stories that feature talking animals portray these characters with human attitudes and thoughts, anxieties and troubles. This category of narrative is far from being a new or exclusively Western construct. Creation myths and folklore from the world over are rife with animals and people communicating in a common language as well as animals taking on the role of surrogate human-- often in didactic morality tales-- in a human-like society.- Eugie Foster

Since we're on the topic, here is one of my favorites, and in our very own (racing) sport:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/themol...orgy-lie,76766

Other notable pseudenyms:

A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner, one of several he published under)
Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
Æ (George William Russell)
Alan Gould (Victor Canning)
Alan Smithee (name used by American film directors under certain circumstances)
Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
Alexander Kent (Douglas Reeman) (Author of Richard Bolitho Novels and Others)
Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz)
Andrej Zivor (Andrej Tisma)
Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
Alcofribas Nasier (François Rabelais)
Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
Andrew MacDonald (William Luther Pierce)
Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum)
AzorÃ*n (José MartÃ*nez Ruiz)
Banaphool (Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy)
Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
Bob Hart or Clem Watts (Al Trace)
Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
Boz (Charles Dickens)
Boz (Raymond "Boz" Burrell)
Branislav NuÅ¡ić (Ben Akiba)
Bruno Traven
Brynjolf Bjarme (Henrik Ibsen)
Carter Dickson (also Carr Dickson: John Dickson Carr)
Chad von Tyler (Angelito H. Legaspi Jr.)
Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
Dan Crow (Ernest Aris)
Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
David Axton (Dean Koontz)
David Agnew (Doctor Who producers and script editors)
David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Diablo Cody (Brook Busey) (screen writer)
Diedrich Knickerbocker (Washington Irving)
Douglas Spaulding (Ray Bradbury)
Doctor A (Isaac Asimov)
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Ed McBain (Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino)
Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Tarō)
Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
Elia (Charles Lamb)
Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley)
Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
Erin Hunter (Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, and Victoria Holmes)
Euphrosyne (Julia Nyberg)
Fergie (Stacy Ferguson)
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
Gerald Wiley (Ronnie Barker)
Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
Guillaume Maguire (John Spencer)
Guy d'Obonner (Marion D. Farell)
H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
Hergé (Georges Remi)
Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell)
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
Jonathan Oldstyle (Washington Irving)
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
Julia Quinn (Julia Pottinger)
Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
Keno (Eric Killinger)
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano )
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Lu Lung (Alicia Garcia)
M. Barnard Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw)
Maarten Maartens (Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz)
Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis)
Man Without a Spleen (Anton Chekhov)
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Cameron Schwartz)
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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Martin Roberts (Ralph de Vore)
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Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Natsume Sōseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
Nicci French (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French)
Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
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Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
Onceler Lorax (Zachary Bass)
Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
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Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
Paul French Isaac Asimov
Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos)
Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz)
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Rafael Lefort, anagram of "a real effort", Idries Shah
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)
Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
Robin A Hood (Ernest Aris)
Roger Fairbairn (John Dickson Carr)
Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
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Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Salomėja Nėris (Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė)
Sannois (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)
Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber)
Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
Stein Riverton (Sven Elvestad, born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen)
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Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
Ted L. Nancy (Currently unknown, possibly Jerry Seinfeld. Creator of the "Letters from a Nut.")
The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
Tite Kubo (Noriaki Kubo)
TM Maple (Jim Burke)
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker)
Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock)
Uanhenga Xitu (Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho)
Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili)
Vera Haij (Tove Jansson)
Vercors (Jean Bruller)
Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)

[JHamilton]

Guys, c'mon. I come here to get away from the real world BS for a while and chat racing. This forum has become increasingly advisarial over the last few weeks and I would like it to stop.

[HORNDAWG]

There is nothing wrong with using a psuedonym! Even one of a stuffed animal.
That is not what the issue was, but I am sure you know that.






L.P.

[The Badger]

Ok then , how about Kevin McGaritty . He is blindingly fast and available too .

[TWK]

Actually, I have no idea what the point was. So let me restate. My phrase "it makes no difference," refers to a post above that wondered what "the relationship" (contractual, I assume), between Porsche an Cytosport was. I guess, it was thought to be relevant in the question of who might replace Pickett.

My point was really pretty simple: Regardless of the existing relationship, Porsche will probably make the best driver possible available to the team to finish the season...even if they are not a "factory supported" team.

Whether that is true or not, I hope it is...since I want the best possible racing among the few prototypes in the ALMS.

[TWK]

Originally Posted by JHamilton

Guys, c'mon. I come here to get away from the real world BS for a while and chat racing. This forum has become increasingly advisarial over the last few weeks and I would like it to stop.

No one in the real world would go on about pseudonyms, pro or con, or just as a matter of knowledge, would they?

Only in a forum. Not on topic? Whoops. Sorry.

Here's an idea for the dawgie: In responding to my post, how about references to anything other than the topic are extraneous and unwelcome?

[TWK]

I hope Graf is joined by a Porsche payroll pilot. Timo would be my choice. Is he available?

[HORNDAWG]

Originally Posted by TWK

No one in the real world would go on about pseudonyms, pro or con, or just as a matter of knowledge, would they?

Only in a forum. Not on topic? Whoops. Sorry.

Here's an idea for the dawgie: In responding to my post, how about references to anything other than the topic are extraneous and unwelcome?

Then not putting anything extraneous in the post and staying on topic might be advisable. As to being unwelcome .

The attempt at obfuscating the double standard displayed does not change it!

L.P.

[cbbrit]

The best driver available, and who knows the car intimately when he drove the same car for Dyson Racing, is Butch Leitzinger and he's currently without a drive! Let's hope that Butch gets the call!

[Fiorentina 1]

Jos Verstappen!

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by cbbrit

The best driver available, and who knows the car intimately when he drove the same car for Dyson Racing, is Butch Leitzinger and he's currently without a drive! Let's hope that Butch gets the call!

Good call!