2011 Sunoco Porsche Daytona 24hr Concept car

[QuickNick]

At Silverstone Wednesday I spotted the American Sunoco Daytona 24hr team with their 2011 concept car. Thought its definately worth putting online.

I got a quick bit of film of the car leaving the pits. Dont expect any racing but it is a glimpse of an awesome new race car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrlWZ8JDLw

Was trying to get a video window to open but cant find the right tags! Mods feel free to help me out on this one..

[Speed-King]

That's a plain old Crawford-Daytona Prototype...

[fieldodreams79]

Who was the pilot? Was it his/her first time in a DP?
And what's the pipe "extensions"? Is that the big changes in the DPs?

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Who was the pilot? Was it his/her first time in a DP?
And what's the pipe "extensions"? Is that the big changes in the DPs?

Here are some details


The extensions are silencers as the car was too loud for regular trackday conditions...

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Here are some details


The extensions are silencers as the car was too loud for regular trackday conditions...

Thanks, as always, SK.
Was there really a "stir" created at Silverstone, besides the noise level?

[joeb]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Thanks, as always, SK.
Was there really a "stir" created at Silverstone, besides the noise level?

I guess seeing something different can be entertaining once in a while! That is a nice program to get drivers more experience too.

[Dead-Eye]

Compared to the Clio leaving the pits in front of it it probably is

[Jonerz]

Biased, undoubtedly. However, DP's do handle like brutes in that they don't produce the mega downforce that modern prototypes do and were never intended to. GARRA want(ed) big enough horsepower to give drivers a little bit of throttle-induced over-steer, combined with lower downforce levels that require the driver to wrestle them around corners more than a modern (ACO) prototype.

Chris

[cmk]

This thread title is amazing.

GARRA takes NASCAR's laughable use of the phrase 'Car of Tomorrow' to the nth level by making their 2011 concept literally be a car 5 years out of date.

PS This is Zak Brown's car.

[picchiofan]

Originally Posted by cmk

This thread title is amazing.

GARRA takes NASCAR's laughable use of the phrase 'Car of Tomorrow' to the nth level by making their 2011 concept literally be a car 5 years out of date.

Grand Am wrote this guy's post?

[cmk]

It's called a joke. Take off the tin foil hat.

[picchiofan]

Originally Posted by cmk

It's called a joke. Take off the tin foil hat.

Learn how to write at above the level of a second grader and we'll talk.

[Jonerz]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty amusing. However, I think the GA article said it was just a DP that created a stir, no concept.

Perhaps OP interchanged prototype with concept. And seeing as how virtually no one outside of the Grand-Am offices has heard of a Daytona Prototype this was probably the first time he'd seen such a thing.

Chris