12 Hours of Sebring results!

[pimp racer]

No topic on this? VERY ODD!
Anyways Aston gets first in GT1!


LMP1
Car #1 Audi R8 in first
Car #2 Audi R8 in second
Car #16 Dyson Lola in third

LMP2
Car #10 Miracle Courage C65 in first
Car #27 Kruse Motorsport Courage C65 in second
Car #37 Telisis Intersport Racing Lola B05/40 in third

GT1
Car #57 Aston Martin Prodrive DBR9 in first
Car #3 GM Racing Corvette C6R in second
Car #4 GM Racing Corvette C6R in third

GT2
Car #31 Peterson Motorsport/White Lighting Porsche GT3 RSR in first
Car #79 J3 Racing Porsche GT3 RSR in second
Car #45 Flying Lizard Porsche GT3 RSR in third

 

[fangorn_forest]

DBR9 wins first time out. How does Dave Richards keep doing it .

 

[kensei]

Way to go Aston Martin!!! It is great to see them back in world sportscar racing. The DBr9 has to be the best looking GT car evr made. Brilliant. Richards is amazinging as well

 

[Solid Fro]

Ah man, how did the DBR9's beat the C6R's?

I only caught some of it because, I had work. The Corvettes had a hefty lead.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Ah man, how did the DBR9's beat the C6R's?

I only caught some of it because, I had work. The Corvettes had a hefty lead.

They lost because of crashes. They were in the lead the entire race until the last four hours or so. Jonny O'Connel's car blew a right-front rotor. He induced a spin to reduce speed because he knew he was going to hit the wall. The damage was bad, but his crew got it back in the race about four laps down. They weren't able to get back the lead because the DB9 ran super strong.

When the crashes happened, the DB9 was on the same lap and keeping great pace to the 'Vettes. This is going to be a great ALMS season!

 

[mustang_4_ever]

amazing driver, johnny thinked fast, realy fast seams like evry race vettes have some trouble that plauges them.

 

[VIPFREAK]

Ah man, how did the DBR9's beat the C6R's?

I only caught some of it because, I had work. The Corvettes had a hefty lead.

Because they finally are starting to have some equal decent competition since the Vipers left.

Aww... poor C6R lost, not so good now when there's actual competition eh? 👍

 

[PSG]

I'm not making excuses for Corvette, but the #4 car was the class of the field. With 4 hours remaining (before the brake rotor shattered on the #3 and the #4 collided with a GT2 car), the Corvettes had a full lap lead over the remaining Aston and 4 laps on the Acemo Saleen. The Aston set the fastest lap of the race for GT1 cars, but the Corvettes had consistently fast times throughout the stints. But that's what you get with endurance racing, crap happens.

I'm a big Prodrive fan, so I can't really complain either way.

 

[pimp racer]

This is going to be a great ALMS season!

Hell yeah man I cant wait! This year is gonna kick some serious ass! BTW I heard something about the Ferrari F430 coming in next year?

Because they finally are starting to have some equal decent competition since the Vipers left.

Aww... poor C6R lost, not so good now when there's actual competition eh? 👍

 

[sUn]

Woo, go DBR9's!

 

[Solid Lifters]

Hell yeah man I cant wait! This year is gonna kick some serious ass! BTW I heard something about the Ferrari F430 coming in next year?

I doubt that very much. Ferrari is going to be too busy trying to get Renault from their number one position. Heh. Not only that, Ferrari haven't been mentioned much about ALMS racing since the Vettes beat them, by only one point, back in 2003.

 

[Layla's Keeper]

Oddly enough, Ferrari wasn't making any noise about ALMS when the Corvettes beat out the Prodrive Maranellos either.

You know why?

Ferrari wasn't involved as a factory with ALMS or FIA GT racing until the construction of the 575GTC privateer car. The Prodrive cars wore the self-titled designation "550 GTO" and debuted in 2001. Ferrari didn't build the first 575GTC until 2003.

There are also significant aerodynamic and chassis layout differences. The 575GTC was designed with FIA GT competition in mind and contains more production elements than the 550 GTO which was a GTS car from the outset.

There's a Prodrive 550GTO

There's a 575GTC. See the difference?

 

[The359]

Prodrive's car is called the 550-GTS, not O.