24 Hours of Daytona. I might be counting my chickens before they hatch.

[Bruce_Daddy]

This rocks! I’ve been keeping up with this race since it started yesterday (Saturday) and even kept my laptop in the bed to check the standing throughout the night (thank you wireless and insomnia).

It looks like my boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. along with teamates Tony Stewart (also of NA$CAR stock :snort:) and Andy Wallace are going to take the victory. The announcers seem befuddled at how drivers from a non-road racing background can be competitive, much less win?! (I guess they miss the two road tracks the NA$CAR boys visit every year) They are also completely clueless about NA$CAR racing; one announcer commenting on a sore knee that Jr has - “Well, in road racing one must go between the gas and brake more often as opposed to NA$CAR where you just hold the gas down the whole time.” Uh, no. The only tracks where that happens are Daytona and Talladega.

Good on Smoke and Jr. for their success, along with former winner Andy Wallace. Also thanks to Crawford for giving them a ride. And take that, snotty road course purists!

Now that I’ve posted this, I’m sure the Citco 2 car will blow up.

[blasphmer]

@Bruce_Daddy

This rocks! I’ve been keeping up with this race since it started yesterday (Saturday) and even kept my laptop in the bed to check the standing throughout the night (thank you wireless and insomnia).

It looks like my boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. along with teamates Tony Stewart (also of NA$CAR stock :snort:) and Andy Wallace are going to take the victory. The announcers seem befuddled at how drivers from a non-road racing background can be competitive, much less win?! (I guess they miss the two road tracks the NA$CAR boys visit every year) They are also completely clueless about NA$CAR racing; one announcer commenting on a sore knee that Jr has - “Well, in road racing one must go between the gas and brake more often as opposed to NA$CAR where you just hold the gas down the whole time.” Uh, no. The only tracks where that happens are Daytona and Talladega.

Good on Smoke and Jr. for their success, along with former winner Andy Wallace. Also thanks to Crawford for giving them a ride. And take that, snotty road course purists!

Now that I’ve posted this, I’m sure the Citco 2 car will blow up.

Before I count too many chickens, I’d like to see them in pure Group C (r whatever they’re called now) FIA LeMans Spec cars. The “New” 24 Hrs race is more of a spectacle than pure sportscar racing as Na$car owns that series and has dumbed down the cars for cost and accessability…Thats the same reason you don’t see the quality and variety of European teams that used to do Daytona as a LeMans warmup showing up. The rules have been bent so much, IMHO that a GT class car can be competitive with the WSC class. The first year a corvette “won” overall I laughed my ass off.

[Casey1505]

You sleep with your computer? :dubious:

That’s taking internet porn just a little to far, my friend…
It also casts doubt on your “Crown and Coke” story.

[Bruce_Daddy]

@blasphmer

Before I count too many chickens, I’d like to see them in pure Group C (r whatever they’re called now) FIA LeMans Spec cars.

Me too.

The “New” 24 Hrs race is more of a spectacle than pure sportscar racing as Na$car owns that series

Cite?

and has dumbed down the cars for cost and accessability…

or, made participation more accessable.

An Affordable Race car

When the Grand American staff sat down to develop rules for the Daytona Prototypes, their first priority was to design a car that would be affordable for privateer teams, not just multi-billion dollar auto manufacturers. By restricting the use of exotic materials and relying on proven technologies, a race-winning Daytona Prototype can be manufactured for less than $400,000 - a substantial savings compared to other sports car formulas.

Link

Thats the same reason you don’t see the quality and variety of European teams that used to do Daytona as a LeMans warmup showing up.

Right. Like Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Jaguar, Mercedes, Maserati and Porsche.

The rules have been bent so much, IMHO that a GT class car can be competitive with the WSC class.

Cite?

The first year a corvette “won” overall I laughed my ass off.

Why?

@Casey1505

You sleep with your computer?

That’s taking internet porn just a little to far, my friend…
It also casts doubt on your “Crown and Coke” story.

I love my computer. And you can never take that away from me.

[Bruce_Daddy]

@blasphmer

I’d like to see them in pure Group C

That’s ridiculous. The DP is the fastest on the track. That’s like saying “Well, they’re good in Indy cars but I’d like to see them in go-carts.”

btw, blasphmer, it’s good to have another race fan around here. There aren’t to many of us!

[Bruce_Daddy]

Fuck. Never mind.

[blasphmer]

I don’t have a Cite for NASCAR ownership, I remember a few years back when teh Grand Am name was brought back, et al. that the sanctioning rights of the 24hrs. was “switched” to a nascar affiliated group. Sorry.

I believe that the “cost dumbing” is good for American sports, however, as sportscar racing is not seemignly very popular it seemed like it was an odd move, with the petit LeMans/ALMS and such gaining some popularity in America, to sudden;y cut ourselves off from the parent series by making a budget series. I guess Neither good nor bad. Now, anyone in Trans-Am can run their car at Daytona, however they probably can’t be competitive at LeMans with said entry.

As for the Corvette overall win, I just found it funny as I personally felt the whole corvette thing was a bit overhyped. Privateers ran without support for years and were ignored, then suddenly a pair of factory corvettes show up and it’s news. When they won overall, yes they were good, however I’d felt it was more a matter of having a weak Group C field than having a pair of phenomenal GTS/GT-1 class cars.