Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge - Page 3

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 19:24 (Ref:3115351)

Be nice to have timing working

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Working on getting live T&S to refresh with testing times. @muellerdirk leads early at 1:23.345 for @RLLracing and @BMWNA_Racing #ALMS

Working now..

Creep89 · 2 Aug 2012, 19:31 (Ref:3115354)

Dominik Fahrbacker? Hahahaha what's that

I only know a guy called Farnbacher.

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:36 (Ref:3115355)

I know it's only the first few minutes of the session, but right now the vipers are sandwiching the Lotus and are around 3 seconds off the front pace

WMUCarGuy · 2 Aug 2012, 19:43 (Ref:3115356)

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Originally Posted by joeb

Practice begins in a few hours. Can't wait to see what the Viper does.

They're gonna go out and be slowish. They'd be dumb to come out and show up the field in their first race.

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:51 (Ref:3115359)

OMG Sascha Maassen just ran the fastest lap 1:18.722 that's 2 seconds clear of Dirk Mueller in 2nd place! He must be on fire for his 100th start!

(That's also a little under 2 seconds faster than the 2011 GT pole time)

seanyb505 · 2 Aug 2012, 19:51 (Ref:3115360)

Yeah they shouldn't really draw attention to themselves with the 8.0L engine. Are there no protos running now? I thought there was only one test session today

nvm

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 19:52 (Ref:3115361)

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Originally Posted by FstrthnU

OMG Sascha Maassen just ran the fastest lap 1:18.722 that's 2 seconds clear of Dirk Mueller in 2nd place! He must be on fire for his 100th start!

(That's also a little under 2 seconds faster than the 2011 GT pole time)

Gotta be some sort of timing error.

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:52 (Ref:3115362)

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Originally Posted by seanyb505

Yeah they shouldn't really draw attention to themselves with the 8.0L engine. Are there no protos running now? I thought there was only one test session today

The protos are rolling out now according to T&S. The Dempsey PC is the first one running right now

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 19:53 (Ref:3115363)

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Originally Posted by seanyb505

Are there no protos running now? I thought there was only one test session today

http://www.alms.com/sites/default/fi...Schedule_0.pdf

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Test Session - ALMS (GT/GTC)
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm Test Session - ALMS (All Classes)
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm Test Session - ALMS (P1/P2/PC)

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:54 (Ref:3115364)

Some of this makes me LOL

no labels for the Vipers yet

?? Driver 3 ?? for the PR1 poor Marino Franchitti

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:57 (Ref:3115365)

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Originally Posted by Fogelhund

Gotta be some sort of timing error.

Looks like you're right, PMR got kicked down to 6th place 1:21.231

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 19:59 (Ref:3115367)

Muscle Milk is rapidly dropping their times (2 seconds each lap!), looks like they could level out under the 2011 pole time, at least by qualifying

also, not surprisingly, Seth Neiman is slower than about half the GTC field

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 20:00 (Ref:3115368)

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Originally Posted by FstrthnU

Some of this makes me LOL

no labels for the Vipers yet

?? Driver 3 ?? for the PR1 poor Marino Franchitti

The Vipers Labels are up... They don't have the Driver tag # for Franchitti yet... team went out without communicating it.

Can't update system until it is live...

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 20:02 (Ref:3115369)

the #95 is running right now, we're gonna have 4 in P2! (but no sign of the Dempsey on T&S yet)

There must have been a lot of aero development on the P2s over last year, level 5 is now 3rd ahead of the 2nd (2011) Dyson.

Also, looks like we're gonna have another good battle in PC if the back markers in the class don't screw up

Sweet, Marino is mixing it up with his PC amidst the P1s and P2s

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 20:13 (Ref:3115374)

Miller racing does it again... LOL

1:04.857

Somehow tripping Timing as they exist the pits.

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 20:14 (Ref:3115375)

wow, the T&S on the Paul Miller Racing car is really broken, they just ran a 1:04.857

edit: nvm, it only appeared on 1 update

WHOA, Marino is already 3rd overall ahead of all of the P2s!!

I really hope SRT is just sandbagging, because they are running last and 3rd to last around the Lotus

TF110 · 2 Aug 2012, 20:15 (Ref:3115376)

So far the Viper is only 2 tenths up on the Evora.

Fogelhund · 2 Aug 2012, 20:17 (Ref:3115377)

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Originally Posted by TF110

So far the Viper is only 2 tenths up on the Evora.

Can't be too quick first time out.

TF110 · 2 Aug 2012, 20:20 (Ref:3115379)

Thats why I said 'so far'. I guess playing it safe can be a reason for the times. We'll see soon where they're really at!

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 20:36 (Ref:3115387)

Muscle Milk is about a tenth off Dyson's 2011 pole ATM, Dyson is shamefully 3 seconds slower than that! The same model as last year's car (the #20) is 4 seconds off the old pole!

Actually, the Muscle Milk time is only .006 seconds off the 2011 time, which is practically nothing. But I have no doubts they will get it into the high 1:11s at least

TF110 · 2 Aug 2012, 20:44 (Ref:3115393)

1:12.8 to 1:15.1! Thats a G A P!

FstrthnU · 2 Aug 2012, 20:52 (Ref:3115398)

My T&S seems to be stuck at 1:25:54 and not updating any newer, is it the same for everyone else?

seanyb505 · 2 Aug 2012, 21:01 (Ref:3115399)

34 mins left here, so yeah seems stuck

TF110 · 2 Aug 2012, 21:23 (Ref:3115410)

Low 1:12's for M-Milk, over 2.5 seconds faster than Dyson Mazda.

Purist · 2 Aug 2012, 21:29 (Ref:3115411)

It seemed to keep going for me.

Cytosport finished the session on a 1:12.331. We definitely need to see what Guy Smith can do in the #16.

Something just seems off to me. I don't think Dyson has gone downhill as a team that much since last season, if at all. Heck, they practically had their own car by the time they were done with that one Lola coupe, and it wasn't slow. Also, even though it was grandfathered, the Lola-Aston run by Cytosport was no slouch of a car either, considering the Gulf-AMR cars at Le Mans actually stuck with the Audi R15s pretty darn well for a while (certainly much better than the Rebellions have been able to stick with the diesels the last couple years).