Rolex Daytona 24 hours: the race

[joost]

Voor zij die te lui zijn:

1. Bell-Bell op hun Corvette
2. een mustang GTS
3. zo'n daytona ding
6. Neugarten op een Mosler
26. van de Poele op een 360 Modena
42. zonder tijd: Theys

vind die DP's anders wel grappig (heb niet gezegd mooi). mocht ik naar daytona kunnen gaan met van 19-jarige miekes die spring-break vieren dan ben ik wel kandidaat ook met lelijke prototypes

[laurent]

mardi gras as they call it zeker?

[joost]

Het volledige verslag van de start op DSC.com; maar hier de satnd op dit moment:

At the 20 lap mark, 45 minutes, it’s a Fabcar-Porsche 1-2, another 8 seconds back to the Multimatic and another 6 back to Justin Bell, but his Corvette has been showing some smoke. Buckler leads GT, a short distance ahead of Sascha Maassen. The Rennwerks Porsche is a surprising third in class. The Fabcar-Toyota is a long ways down in 13th while the Lucchini is 16th.

Justin Bell is the first of the leaders to make a stop—another tire problem. The car is running well and the stop became a fuel stop. The Heritage Mustang also makes a routine stop. Haywood takes a trip in the grass while Franz Konrad makes another stop and the Toyota DP is the first of its class to stop.

[joost]

Ondanks fel weerwerk van de Brumos prototypes (#58-59), kom na zo'n 2 uur een GT op kop van de wedstrijd. De #83 rennwerks Porsche 996 GT3-RS van ondermeer Johannes van Overbeek ligt aan de leiding van de wedstrijd, op de hielen gezeten door de twee voornoemde prototypes.
Vroege slachtoffers zijn o.m. de Marcos van Cor Euser, de BMW DP van Quester en de Porsche GT2 van Ried en de GT1 van Gunnar racing (G99 officieel).
De Belgen: Neugarten strijdt mee vooraan, VDP komt kalm maar zeker naar voren en Theys heeft het moeilijk in zijn DP,

Joost

[Werner333]

Ik verwacht niks van die DP's.
De overwinning gaat naar een GTS of een GT.

[joost]

Didier Theys staat stil...

[joost]

Met net geen 4 uur achter de rug:

de Brumos DP's houden stand vooraan, ze zijn terug over de GT 996 gegaan en leiden nu met een ronde voor.
1. #59 brumos Porsche DP
2. #58 brumos Porsche DP
3. #66 The Racers Group 996 GT
4. #83 Rennwerks 996 GT
5. #35 RISI Ferrari 360 GT
6. #24 Perspective Moslet (Neugarten) GTS

16. # Van de Poele (Ferrari 360) GT

[Werner333]

Moslers vallen me wat tegen.
Maar het is nog 20 uur racen dus het kan nog.

[Mark]

let op, een RS gaat winnen.......wat eigenlijk meteen de zwakte aangeeft van deze editie.

[Werner333]

Euser rijdt weer.

[Raceboy]

#21 is gecrasht. caution is out.
eerder was er een caution voor debris on the track.

[joost]

halvarwege is de strijd tussen de Porsches, ferraris en DP's nog steeds open...

[joost]

Starting the 12th hour, the lead gap falls as low as 7 seconds (66—59) before the second placed #59 Fabcar must pit. It emerges 65 seconds adrift.

The Saleen powers on in pursuit of lost time - a flurry of quick laps including two in the 1:51s are beginning to make an impact on the Mosler ahead. The quickest of all of them, a 1:51.4 is good enough for third fastest race lap overall, so far bettered only by the #59 Fabcar and #88 Multimatic.

The leader pits on lap 328 and the #59 Brumos Fabcar moves ahead. Whatever happens now Kevin Buckler and The Racers Group can look back on this race as a fantastic success. They have led the race so far for a total of 156 laps, including an unbroken sequence of 103 laps. Forget the DP / SRP controversy, that's a fantastic achievement by any measure and we're not even halfway there yet.

The #66 car emerges 27 seconds adrift of the new leader.

The #34 Ferrari's woes mean that a GTS car (The #46 Morgan Dollar Corvette) is back in the overall top 10.

10 minutes until the halfway point and there is an unscheduled stop for the leader! A tire went down at start / finish so that the car had to crawl around for service. Scott Sharp took over from Goodyear and they have dropped to third behind the Rennwerks entry. It is now DP cars 3-4-5, Brumos-Cegwa-Multimatic.

The hard-charging #66 car is back in the lead with the #83 Rennwerks Porsche now in second – it’s a GT 1-2 overall for the second time in the race.

The Fabcar rejoins in 3rd place after a 5 minute stop, with the Multimatic closing in.

The Picchio is now back on track, albeit in 33rd slot 146 laps behind the leader. 6th place overall is (still!) the leading SRPII car, the metronomic #97 Lucchini.

Ryan Hampton slid into the wall in the #34 Ferri / Risi 360, at the same exact spot as did Brent Martini in the Washington 360. Luca di Montezemolo has called to complain that Porsche has installed a Ferrari magnet at Daytona. The Risi team expected repairs to take a half-hour. The main problem is that the starter motor bracket has become dislodged.

Mauro Casadei is quite despondent about Ried’s choice of changing a cylinder head on the no. 51 Porsche immediately before the start. He reckons that it caused the car’s early failure.

The race reaches crossed flags under the half-mast Old Glory with the Buckler team in an almost dominant two-lap lead. The Multimatic-Ford is now the fastest car on course, putting some concern into the Brumos pits. Further down the field, the Perspective Mosler has returned to the race. It lies fourth in class, behind the Morgan Corvette, Russkie 996, and the “fast” Rollcentre Mosler.

[Werner333]

Op deze pagina vind je enkele quick time filmpjes waar je de DP's in actie kan zien en horen.

[Werner333]

Na 19 uur racen: slechts 33 seconden tussen 1 en 2.
Neugarten 12de Van de Poele 16de.
Nog 24 wagens in koers.