American Le Mans Series - Laguna Seca 2009

Fr0dders · 19 Nov 2009 at 20:59

Some will have seen this in the youtube thread, but i thought it would be interesting to Talk about the washup from it that the video doesnt cover.

http://www.oneighturbo.com/2009/10/...l-guest-discuss-the-gt2-last-lap-controversy/

After watching that, i felt sure the both of them would end up with severe penalties and the original result wouldnt stand

The corvette driver for throwing his toys out of the pram and ramming in on the last corner

and the Porsche driver for letting this get the better of him, find out he was loosing and drive the guy into the wall.

Turns out both are now "on probation" next year but the result still stands.

Another interesting topic to note, the 2010 ALMS has abandoned the GT1/GT2 class divide. Was only the corvette factory team that had the money for the GT1 cars anyway, so expect to see the GT3 RSR and the corvettes go head to head in the same class, much the same as they did in the ALMS this year (they abandoned GT1 half way through this year as they knew the 2010 regs were comming)

But they've added a production car class as well, interestingly. This will see the porsche GT3 cup (a standard roadcar GT3 with 500k of weight lost) possibly going up against the Audi R8 GT4 (confusing names or what?)

Meanwhile, the GT3 RSR will compete in the GT class, or what was the old GT2 before they binned GT1.

Fr0dders · 19 Nov 2009 at 23:03

yeah driver was fine. Made a mess of the car, but enough to damage the safety cell

very much of the oppinion that both were as bad as each other though.

Fr0dders · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:05

NightSt@lk3r said:
Patron GT3 Challenge class isnt new for 2010, they ran this year aswell and it will be solely for the 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, but they have also talked of perhaps allowing other 911 GT3 models to run under the Challenge Class aswell such as the Cup S and GT3 R.

As for the end result of the race, the #3 Corvette played with fire and got burned, if you watch the whole race you will see that both Corvette's drove like thugs for the whole race(#4 taking out about 4 cars by going into T2 far to quick on a restart and taking out one of the Dyson Lola's, #3 putting Richard Westbrook off the track, plus hitting 2 or 3 GT3 Challenge Porsche's off).

think the fact he demonstrated he was willing to cross the solid white line and drive onto the pit exit to overtake says it all.

Fr0dders · 20 Nov 2009 at 22:46

he's a complete nutter !