Official Rolex 24 at Daytona Thread

Elmo187 · January 26th, 2008, 07:02 AM

Ganassi/Sabates will be running 2 Lexus Riley DP's with some of the biggest names in motorsports:

Dario Franchitti
Juan Pablo Montoya
Scott Pruett
Scott Dixon
Salvador Duran
Alex Lloyd
Dan Wheldon

http://chipganassiracing.com/photos/full/IMG_0362.JPG

famous Audi R10 ALMS LMP driver, Allan McNish will be piloting a Pontiac Riley DP this year.

http://www.grand-am.com/photos/full/082507ROL800_0002.jpg

Vision Racing and their Porsche Crawford DP will be arriving with some other big names of motorsports:

John Andretti
Ed Carpenter
A.J. Foyt IV (grandson)
Tony George
Vito Meira

http://www.visionracing.com/photos/full/Rolex%2024-Thursday%20005.jpg

Derek and son Justin Bell will be piloting a Pontiac Riley for RVO Motorsports.

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/grandam/2006/dt/grandam-2006-dt-jd-0328.jpg

Max Angelelli will be back to pilot the SunTrust Racing Pontiac Riley DP:

http://www.suntrust-racing.com/inThePit/photogalleryimages/EVENT268.jpg

Elmo187 · January 26th, 2008, 07:14 AM

famous sport car racer, Andy Wallace will be piloting the Ruby Tuesday Porsche Crawford:

http://www.teamcyberspeed.com/gallery/albums/ajr_08daytest/IMG_8917.jpg

not a whole lot of NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars this time around. Kurt Busch, A.J. Allmendinger, and JPM are the only ones.

famous Grey's Anatomy TV star, Patrick Dempsey (who's also been doing EXTREMELY well in the Koni Challenge Series) will be piloting a Mazda RX-8.

Andy Pilgrim and Jan Magnussen (Corvette Racing C6.R drivers) will be piloting both Pontiac GXP.R's.

Crash Override · January 27th, 2008, 02:58 AM

I was hoping that someone else was following this. Yeah Dempsey had those oops early on in his stint. The weather has been kinda wild. It's been pretty interesting, as a 24 hour race should. Go Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty (as well as Jimmy Vasser and Jimmie Johnson)!

ESPNSTI · January 27th, 2008, 03:09 AM

Such a big bummer that Derek Bell's car was out so early, now we don't get to see him race. images/smilies/cry.gif

Bugatti's Aftershave · January 27th, 2008, 05:23 AM

FYI, Speed picks up the race again at 3AM PST/6AM EST

And live timing/scoring is up at the Grand-Am site: http://www.grand-am.com/livetiming/

TBoneUs · January 27th, 2008, 06:13 AM

I got the eurosport torrent. But the guy who was supposed to have the Speed rip hasn't uploaded yet. So I am stuck watching the speed feed with the eurosport announcers. Not bad, but i miss the Speed channel so much. I feel deprived having to watch things delayed on torrent ever since school started.

Bugatti's Aftershave · January 27th, 2008, 06:17 AM

Excuse my ignorance, but where did you find the eurosport torrent? Will they have a part two?

Whappeh · January 27th, 2008, 06:32 AM

I was pondering driving over to check this out from Orlando, but the weather here made me be too lazy. I feel as if I missed something cool.

TBoneUs · January 27th, 2008, 06:34 AM

Yep, they have part 2, I am 33% done dling at about 160K, but my seed is maxed at 1mb/sec.
racing-underground dot com

Bugatti's Aftershave · January 27th, 2008, 06:42 AM

Brilliant Tbone, thanks.
Whappeh - It's pretty exciting, with the interesting weather a plus factor.

Pretty surprised to hear that Dempsey races. His team is 51st, 32nd in class.

Edit: Looks like they're doing track maintenance right now. Everybody is heading to the pits. Raining very hard.

Elmo187 · January 27th, 2008, 06:21 PM

Scott Pruett and Ganassi/Sabates take the #01 TelMex/Target Lexus Riley DP to victory lane for the 3rd time in a row.

Mazda also gets their first win in years of a winless drought beating out Porsche's and Ferrari's like they did in the old days. and even better, it was in an RX-8.

canehdianJ · January 27th, 2008, 08:24 PM

i saw this. it was awesome. but im still a little confused on the classes. i understand the gt class but was the rest of it nascar or le mans or something? ive never seen that body stye before

Bugatti's Aftershave · January 27th, 2008, 08:30 PM

It's called "Daytona Prototype". Looked bizarre to me, too.

Crash Override · January 27th, 2008, 09:39 PM

If you guys liked what you saw, the races are usually much closer than this (think first portion). It's a great series; I've been following it since the Daytona Prototype idea was thought of in 2003. Now only two months away until my next fix.

ESPNSTI · January 27th, 2008, 10:07 PM

For my money, this series and the American Le Mans Series was the best racing I watched last year by far.

jayhawk · January 27th, 2008, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ESPNSTI

For my money, this series and the American Le Mans Series was the best racing I watched last year by far.

Isn't that the truth, especially in ALMS, when Porsche jabbed a stick into Audi's bicycle spokes, so to say.

Elmo187 · January 27th, 2008, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayhawk

Isn't that the truth, especially in ALMS, when Porsche jabbed a stick into Audi's bicycle spokes, so to say.

they just couldn't pull it out at Sebring, LeMan, Road Atlanta, and Laguna even though they were up front the whole time.

Whappeh · January 28th, 2008, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elmo187

Scott Pruett and Ganassi/Sabates take the #01 TelMex/Target Lexus Riley DP to victory lane for the 3rd time in a row.

Mazda also gets their first win in years of a winless drought beating out Porsche's and Ferrari's like they did in the old days. and even better, it was in an RX-8.

Aw fuck. I'd of loved to see an RX8 win something.

YF19pilot · January 28th, 2008, 03:08 PM

I was there myself. Thought it was cool that they had a Pontiac G8 pace car (I have photos of the G8 that was on display in car sightings). Pretty fun stuff.

As for the LeMans guys, one of the Krohn Racing cars had one of the Aston Martin drivers and one of the Corvette guys driving it. Fun to see two guys who are normally at odds working to bring the same car home.

Mischief007 · January 28th, 2008, 09:04 PM

GXP.R

January 26th, 2008, 07:02 AM	#1
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January 26th, 2008, 07:14 AM	#2
Elmo187 Banned Joined: Oct 6th, 2006 Last Online: April 11th, 2008 Location: Brandon, FL, USA Age: 26 Posts: 1,055 Car: Cobalt SS/SC-SN95 5.0 Stang-Toyota Corolla AE86 Rep Power: 0	famous sport car racer, Andy Wallace will be piloting the Ruby Tuesday Porsche Crawford: not a whole lot of NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars this time around. Kurt Busch, A.J. Allmendinger, and JPM are the only ones. famous Grey's Anatomy TV star, Patrick Dempsey (who's also been doing EXTREMELY well in the Koni Challenge Series) will be piloting a Mazda RX-8. Andy Pilgrim and Jan Magnussen (Corvette Racing C6.R drivers) will be piloting both Pontiac GXP.R's.

January 27th, 2008, 02:58 AM	#3
Crash Override Joined: Feb 8th, 2007 Last Online: 09:25 PM Location: Alfred/Utica, NY Posts: 19 Car: 91 Infiniti G20 Rep Power: 0	I was hoping that someone else was following this. Yeah Dempsey had those oops early on in his stint. The weather has been kinda wild. It's been pretty interesting, as a 24 hour race should. Go Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty (as well as Jimmy Vasser and Jimmie Johnson)! __________________

January 27th, 2008, 03:09 AM	#4
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TBoneUs Joined: Oct 11th, 2007 Last Online: October 3rd, 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 104 Car: 2008 VW GTI Rep Power: 8	I got the eurosport torrent. But the guy who was supposed to have the Speed rip hasn't uploaded yet. So I am stuck watching the speed feed with the eurosport announcers. Not bad, but i miss the Speed channel so much. I feel deprived having to watch things delayed on torrent ever since school started.

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Bugatti's Aftershave Joined: Dec 28th, 2007 Last Online: 12:08 PM Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 213 Car: 2005 MB C240 4matic, 1977 Yam XT500 Rep Power: 13	Excuse my ignorance, but where did you find the eurosport torrent? Will they have a part two?

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TBoneUs Joined: Oct 11th, 2007 Last Online: October 3rd, 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 104 Car: 2008 VW GTI Rep Power: 8	Yep, they have part 2, I am 33% done dling at about 160K, but my seed is maxed at 1mb/sec. racing-underground dot com

January 27th, 2008, 06:42 AM	#10
Bugatti's Aftershave Joined: Dec 28th, 2007 Last Online: 12:08 PM Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 213 Car: 2005 MB C240 4matic, 1977 Yam XT500 Rep Power: 13	Brilliant Tbone, thanks. Whappeh - It's pretty exciting, with the interesting weather a plus factor. Pretty surprised to hear that Dempsey races. His team is 51st, 32nd in class. Edit: Looks like they're doing track maintenance right now. Everybody is heading to the pits. Raining very hard. Last edited by Bugatti's Aftershave; January 27th, 2008 at 07:38 AM.

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Elmo187 Banned Joined: Oct 6th, 2006 Last Online: April 11th, 2008 Location: Brandon, FL, USA Age: 26 Posts: 1,055 Car: Cobalt SS/SC-SN95 5.0 Stang-Toyota Corolla AE86 Rep Power: 0	Scott Pruett and Ganassi/Sabates take the #01 TelMex/Target Lexus Riley DP to victory lane for the 3rd time in a row. Mazda also gets their first win in years of a winless drought beating out Porsche's and Ferrari's like they did in the old days. and even better, it was in an RX-8.

January 27th, 2008, 08:24 PM	#12
canehdianJ Joined: Jan 27th, 2008 Last Online: January 27th, 2008 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	i saw this. it was awesome. but im still a little confused on the classes. i understand the gt class but was the rest of it nascar or le mans or something? ive never seen that body stye before

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Bugatti's Aftershave Joined: Dec 28th, 2007 Last Online: 12:08 PM Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 213 Car: 2005 MB C240 4matic, 1977 Yam XT500 Rep Power: 13	It's called "Daytona Prototype". Looked bizarre to me, too.

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Crash Override Joined: Feb 8th, 2007 Last Online: 09:25 PM Location: Alfred/Utica, NY Posts: 19 Car: 91 Infiniti G20 Rep Power: 0	If you guys liked what you saw, the races are usually much closer than this (think first portion). It's a great series; I've been following it since the Daytona Prototype idea was thought of in 2003. Now only two months away until my next fix. __________________

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