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TF110 · 3 Aug 2019, 22:28 (Ref:3921038)

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Originally Posted by canaglia

not a surprise!
R10 had 700hp but looking at that car with 2019 eyes, it was just a bodyworked rolling chassis almost without aero and with a huge torque!

DPi have much better and developed aero, better tires, better chassis etc...
a DPI would easily run in 3.21-3.22 at le mans.

As expected, despite bop changes, it remains a mazda vs acura challenge, cadillacs have just been pushed back for good

Interesting hypothetical time... The slowed down lmp2's did a 1:52 flat. I think they'd be pretty close to dpi if they ran as-is and had more veteran teams running. That Audi 1:46.9 was 11 years ago

Think how far we've come since then. I don't want to get caught up on fast laps, but it's taken a while to come back to where we were.

Hope for an interesting race. Usually this track doesn't disappoint but I really hope the Oreca Acura doesn't run and hide.

broadrun96 · 3 Aug 2019, 23:08 (Ref:3921042)

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Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

Wow the bmw m8 pole time is fast too. Entering alms lmpc and grand am dp lap times here.

Oops, below the 50mm ride height limits and they were both sent to the rear. #4 Vette on pole with the #67 Ford alongside now

JoeF · 4 Aug 2019, 00:11 (Ref:3921045)

The All-Time sportscar track record is actually qualifying 2008

Audi R10
1:46.935

**joeb** · 4 Aug 2019, 02:24 (Ref:3921053)

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Originally Posted by skycafe

I don't think you can cross Cadillac out for the remainder of the season. I think they will be riding a BoP wave come Petit time.

I'm not sure why they haven't gotten it already. There are 3 or 4 teams running the cars this year, there can't be any type of across the board sandbagging, so what are imsa seeing in the data that says they should be kept so heavy? And I realize that the caddy's did well at the beginning of the last couple of seasons as well before the tracks began to favor the other cars. Is that still the case?

**joeb** · 4 Aug 2019, 14:34 (Ref:3921141)

I thing that I don't think has been mentioned yet, for those of us stateside the race won't be on TV live, but delayed untill later in the evening on nbcsports. You can stream it live on the nbcsports app however.

**Adam43** · 4 Aug 2019, 15:34 (Ref:3921174)

Fortunately I can live in the UK

cbbrit · 4 Aug 2019, 16:22 (Ref:3921206)

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Originally Posted by chernaudi

I'm surprised that they didn't just buy or rent another R8 to see if it's a problem with that particular car. You'd have to assume that there's some defect with that car or Starworks has badly missed the set up.

So despite having a five weeks break between WGI and RA when the team did a complete tear-down and rebuild of the car, since arriving at RA they have changed all the dampers, the engine and the gearbox, which itself was changed for the WGI race! I guess that ticks off all the boxes on the check-list of things to change! I wonder why the dampers wouldn't have been changed during the rebuild, as the team has plenty of setup data from having run the car here in PWC last year. The whole team must be totally frustrated, and surely it's only a matter of time before they pull the plug and buy a different car. Yet in other Blancpain Series around the world the Audi is still competitive, so I'm confused along with everyone.

broadrun96 · 4 Aug 2019, 16:36 (Ref:3921208)

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Originally Posted by cbbrit

So despite having a five weeks break between WGI and RA when the team did a complete tear-down and rebuild of the car, since arriving at RA they have changed all the dampers, the engine and the gearbox, which itself was changed for the WGI race! I guess that ticks off all the boxes on the check-list of things to change! I wonder why the dampers wouldn't have been changed during the rebuild, as the team has plenty of setup data from having run the car here in PWC last year. The whole team must be totally frustrated, and surely it's only a matter of time before they pull the plug and buy a different car. Yet in other Blancpain Series around the world the Audi is still competitive, so I'm confused along with everyone.

It seems everyone is, think that car is just cursed and hopefully someone bought it to collect and it can be parked and replaced. Although I'm thinking if it's parked the team might be as well.

nasdriv87 · 4 Aug 2019, 18:34 (Ref:3921270)

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Originally Posted by joeb

I thing that I don't think has been mentioned yet, for those of us stateside the race won't be on TV live, but delayed untill later in the evening on nbcsports. You can stream it live on the nbcsports app however.

luck of u...

Fox Brazil won't show us the race and geo-blocked the race from web too...

what a service!!!

**joeb** · 4 Aug 2019, 19:32 (Ref:3921309)

Jesus, it just took me 18 minutes to finally get the nbc stream to work. The app won't work for me, it crashes everytime i click on teh IMSA race and I had to switch to a second laptop to get the stream on the nbcsports website. It shouldn't be this hard. (that's what she said)

**Adam43** · 4 Aug 2019, 19:32 (Ref:3921310)

Streaming is up now on IMSA.tv. Not the greatest bitrate.

Warm up laps underway.

Akrapovic · 4 Aug 2019, 19:38 (Ref:3921316)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

Streaming is up now on IMSA.tv. Not the greatest bitrate.

Literally some pixels on the screen.

I think Acura jumped the start. One of the orange pixels did it.

**Adam43** · 4 Aug 2019, 19:39 (Ref:3921317)

NBC Sports bit rate way better...

**joeb** · 4 Aug 2019, 19:41 (Ref:3921319)

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Originally Posted by Adam43

NBC Sports bit rate way better...

Lap 2 the stream died for me and decided to show a ford commercial instead. I'm having issues getting the RLM audio to stream as well. Maybe issues at the track?

Akrapovic · 4 Aug 2019, 19:42 (Ref:3921320)

My stream has stabilised. I'm a little disappointed. It looked like ISIs Sports Car GT. It was fun.