’10 ALMS Round 5 • Lime Rock • - Page 6

cmk · 24 Jul 2010, 18:21 (Ref:2731779)

Our obligate amateur hour caution appears early.

Bad for Cocker, good for Pickett/Cytosport because Greg was going to struggle to stay on the lead lap for the first 45.

**joeb** · 24 Jul 2010, 18:22 (Ref:2731780)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Is that the "lone" Alex Job car in the fence?

yup, hope the yellow doesn't impact the gt field too much

dj4monie · 24 Jul 2010, 18:24 (Ref:2731781)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmk

Our obligate amateur hour caution appears early.

Bad for Cocker, good for Pickett/Cytosport because Greg was going to struggle to stay on the lead lap for the first 45.

This is why I'm puzzled people want to see even more Gentlemen Drivers. If they earned their keep, nobody will talk about them. The ones that get in the way. We have a few of them in Indy Car (Hiro and Mika), its not a good thing.

If you make a standard like some percentage rule, then it would be easy to keep the turtles out.

Fogelhund · 24 Jul 2010, 18:24 (Ref:2731782)

Overall race essentially over. :-( Camber plate, in suspension broken on Intersport. Looks like Field and the AJR car came together.

courageous · 24 Jul 2010, 18:24 (Ref:2731783)

GT leaders all in pits for a splash of fuel - just to make sure they can get by on 1 proper stop

Dyson goes behind the wall
Intersport LMP damage being repaired in the pit lane
Pickett acting as an anchor for his Porsche
No Autocon this weekend
4 down - only Drayson to go & his Lordship will surely prevent them challenging

picchiofan · 24 Jul 2010, 18:25 (Ref:2731784)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fiend540

I wonder how much of their funding comes from Mazda because it would be nice to see them with a motor that will stay together for next year.

Given that their program went from 2 cars to one, and that the only mention of the ALMS on any of Mazda's corporate or racing websites consists of a few pictures of the old BK motorsports effort, I'm going to say "very little".

fieldodreams79 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:25 (Ref:2731785)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fogelhund

Overall race essentially over. :-(

True...
but the GT battle should be AWESOME!

fieldodreams79 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:26 (Ref:2731786)

...and we see why the 37 had a tire go down.

dj4monie · 24 Jul 2010, 18:26 (Ref:2731787)

I hope they send John Field the bill for that.

cmk · 24 Jul 2010, 18:26 (Ref:2731788)

Ah, it seems the obligate amateur hour caution is actually the obligate Jon Field-induced caution.

fiend540 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:26 (Ref:2731789)

Nice of field to dump that Alex Job car...

NightStalk3r · 24 Jul 2010, 18:28 (Ref:2731792)

Guy's don't look, you might have a heart attack but the Jag is in 3rd, the leader lights on the side of it are finally getting some use, untill it pits.

dj4monie · 24 Jul 2010, 18:30 (Ref:2731793)

Once Graf is in the car, the real race will begin. RLM "Greg is doing some competitive race laps" ? My gawd man he's 5 seconds off the pace... If the lap was longer you would really be in trouble.

**joeb** · 24 Jul 2010, 18:30 (Ref:2731794)

Doonan just said the "guys in the engine shop" need to put their heads down and get to work to solve the Mazda engine problems.....

cmk · 24 Jul 2010, 18:30 (Ref:2731795)

What more, Goossens' best lap is less than a second shy of Murry's.

cmk · 24 Jul 2010, 18:31 (Ref:2731796)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj4monie

Once Graf is in the car, the real race will begin. RLM "Greg is doing some competitive race laps" ? My gawd man he's 5 seconds off the pace... If the lap was longer you would really be in trouble.

Actually just the opposite, a long lap would make it much easier to remain on the lead lap when only lapping at 90% of the leader's pace ie losing about 5 seconds per minute of racing.

dj4monie · 24 Jul 2010, 18:31 (Ref:2731797)

Challenge for the lead in GTC.. Luke Hines....

fiend540 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:31 (Ref:2731800)

Wow gt's everywhere and looks like highcroft will get another win

NightStalk3r · 24 Jul 2010, 18:31 (Ref:2731801)

Carnage!

It's over for Melo!

dj4monie · 24 Jul 2010, 18:32 (Ref:2731804)

What the hell happen?

Looks like Jamie missed his braking point. At least the #61 is leading.

EDIT, hmm looks like the #3 Corvette push him off into the grass...

**joeb** · 24 Jul 2010, 18:32 (Ref:2731805)

man, this race is a madhouse!

Speedblood · 24 Jul 2010, 18:33 (Ref:2731806)

We see less carnage at a street track!

Dario911 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:33 (Ref:2731807)

Quote:

Originally Posted by TWK

"Makes the rules" is right. Meaning, of course, that the rules are fixed in Porsche's favor so that a dumb and obsolete layout can compete with a real mid-engine car.

Even Porsche's Weissach engineers have been lobbying to abandon the 911 for the Cayman as a racing platform.

It's typical of ferrari and its fans to whine, and find excuses, when they are not able to win on the track. You are only confirming this, poor man!
Porsche 911 wins since 50 years.
Shut up, numbers are speaking...

fieldodreams79 · 24 Jul 2010, 18:34 (Ref:2731808)

Maybe more retirees will free some space on track.

Uh oh...contact between the 62 and 3!

NightStalk3r · 24 Jul 2010, 18:34 (Ref:2731809)

I don't know Hindy, I don't think Melo is the kind of driver to loose it all by himself in T1 at that speed.

EDIT: just seen the replay, a tiny touch with O'Connell

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