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- sBzDarkhelmet
bad caution. cars dead leave it parked near the wall where it was in the relief area. no need for that and it was decisive at the finish.
2014 Twelve Hours of Sebring
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- Tired_Tyres
- Tired Tyres
That's the last race I watch in this series. 👎
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- PsuPepperoni
I could probably be a GT driver as long as other people get penalties when I cause accidents.
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- Mr_Tim-Tim
What about the penalty for the 912? Is that just going to magically disappear now?
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- sBzDarkhelmet
ya
Smoke and mirrors for the factory team and class winner
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- Com_Fox5
- EelX 5
Guess so, remember the penalty at Daytona which was forgotten.
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- HamiltonMP427
Wonder how much Porsche America is paying to win two in a row 
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- sBzDarkhelmet
Maybe endurance racing needs to take a rule from soccer and add penalty time to the final race time. I'm not advocating for all the caution time to be replaced, but maybe for some calculated average of time used to get cars off the track and for the full course red.
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/darkhelmet98765/slideshow/12hrsebring14
brief slides from the screens I took watching the race...
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/darkhelmet98765/slideshow/12hrsebring14
brief slides from the screens I took watching the race...
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It does seem farfetchedWonder how much Porsche America is paying to win two in a row
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- sBzDarkhelmet
Both #911 and #912 spun out a car without taking penalty. the #912 was to be penalized and somehow the officials penalized the a GTD Porsche ahead of the incident with No explanation or recourse other than -Woops.
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- Rektxngle
- iMikeTheKing
Over 5 hours of the race was spent under caution.
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- sBzDarkhelmet
Leading into the AusGP in a few hours, I don't know what to expect from the HybridF1's but I can only pray that the race is decided on the track. But its F1 so that factor has already been taken out smh.
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- Mr_Tim-Tim
I'm pretty sure they said the 911 did take a penalty. But still both cars were involved in incidents with running into cars even before they spun the 49.
Are you talking about the plenty at the end because that was reversed.
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- macospet1
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Not sure if I'd go that far... Come on now, even with the crappy calls and stupid moves by some of the "racers" it wasn't a half bad race (when it was green anyway)
Wonder how much Porsche America is paying to win two in a row
It's nice to see someone on equal footing with Corvette now, with full factory support and dollars.. The chink in the armor has been exposed. Should be a fantastic battle all season and you can't count out the BMWS and Vipers.
Positive:
-Exciting racing in all the classes
-Prototypes now appear to be getting closer to each other in terms of BOP
-Quality field (with the exception of a few)
Negative:
-Too many bogus and stupid crashes that could have been avoided
-Too many cautions as a result of this, and these took WAY too long thanks to stupid caution rules
-Bogus call on the 22 Weathertech GTD Porsche, and frankly embarrassing for the 3 stewards who "assessed" it.
I find it was an improvement from Daytona, still some work to do and some brains to be turned on, but they're getting better.
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@Mr.Tim-Tim Oh, I fought they just made the penalty magically vanish.
Did the 22 car get penalized?? For what? That was the car I was rooting for in GTD
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Did the 22 car get penalized?? For what? That was the car I was rooting for in GTD
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- HamiltonMP427
It has nothing to do with not seeing equal footing, this would hardly be the first time and the Vette would have easily been running for third if it didn't run out of gas under caution and make an emergency pit. Last race Vette didn't have a chance to win because they had major issues that they didn't iron out, but BMW were looking to win it and a helpful caution at the end of the race like this one came out. Same situation here, now Viper with no issues like Daytona is looking to win along with Corvette and yet another end of caution and to write the script even further, Porsche become the only car to pit in the right time. That was my point, if you want to attribute it to my Corvette fan ship that's fine but I'm quite the critical fan and when my team screws up I will admit it and they did mess up at least Gavin did.
Also what chink in the proverbial armor are you talking about? That Corvette Racing has a newer car in use than Porsche and everyone else that isn't perfect yet? Or that other teams when looking as if a win is in the bag have to get stacked up under caution, lose their lead because of a "gimmick" to make the race more exciting?
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I only watched the first 3 hours. Didn't feel like watching the stream, and from what I can tell, from on here and twitter....
The "race" was awful.
I had a feeling it was going to be awful when a minor incident + a Viper catching fire took 59 minutes to clear up in the first hour of the event.
The "race" was awful.
I had a feeling it was going to be awful when a minor incident + a Viper catching fire took 59 minutes to clear up in the first hour of the event.
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- PsuPepperoni
I have a theory on this... with Porsche preparing to run an LMP at Le Mans, they decided to begin prepping the 911's to use as a defensive line against 458's, kind of like bomber escorts.
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