Daytona 24 Hours notes, stories, etc Marshall Pruett and others
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Published on Jan 9, 2017
Apologies for the shakey cam. Ground was wet and wind was high.
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Apologies for the shakey cam. Ground was wet and wind was high.
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Roar before the 24 Friday
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This is absolutely fantastic footage! I love the low shots in the paddock. Are you using some sort of device for those? I assume you weren't laying on the ground the whole time haha.
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This is absolutely fantastic footage! I love the low shots in the paddock. Are you using some sort of device for those? I assume you weren't laying on the ground the whole time haha.
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Just playing around with iMovie on my iPhone seeing what I could create while out with my son at the 2017 roar before the 24 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Just playing around with iMovie on my iPhone seeing what I could create while out with my son at the 2017 roar before the 24 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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By: godwinkelly - News-Journal Motorsports Editor and Outdoors Editor. Started as a cub reporter and now I'm a full-grown Grizzly Bear. I have covered every Daytona 500 since 1979, when the Allison brothers and Cale Yarborough fought in the infield.That was my introduction to racing. I grew up in the Daytona Beach area. I have fished all my life, thanks to my father's love of the outdoors. His favorite area to fish was around Ponce Inlet and up Spruce Creek. I'm from the work-hard, play-hard era of journalism. I still like to have fun especially with these social media platforms. I called them "playforms." So, you will get the facts and information you want and the entertainment value you need! Informed and fun.
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By: godwinkelly - News-Journal Motorsports Editor and Outdoors Editor. Started as a cub reporter and now I'm a full-grown Grizzly Bear. I have covered every Daytona 500 since 1979, when the Allison brothers and Cale Yarborough fought in the infield.That was my introduction to racing. I grew up in the Daytona Beach area. I have fished all my life, thanks to my father's love of the outdoors. His favorite area to fish was around Ponce Inlet and up Spruce Creek. I'm from the work-hard, play-hard era of journalism. I still like to have fun especially with these social media platforms. I called them "playforms." So, you will get the facts and information you want and the entertainment value you need! Informed and fun.
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afternoon practice
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No annoying music or fancy editing, just pure motorsports.
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[h=2]PRUETT: Lessons from the Roar[/h] Friday, 13 January 2017
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Last week's Roar Before the 24 IMSA test at Daytona International Speedway was packed with action on pit lane, in the garages, and on track during seven sessions spread across three days.
Parsing through all of the information generated by the 55 cars in attendance would trigger an aneurism, so I've concentrated most of my efforts on Prototype – the one WeatherTech SportsCar Championship class where every single car is new for 2017.
A few GT-related nuggets have also been included, and as we get closer to the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona race on Jan. 28-29, we'll take a much bigger dive into the GT Le Mans and GT Daytona categories.
With six brand-new models in Prototype (three conforming to Daytona Prototype international rules and three to World Endurance Championship P2 regulations), the Roar provided an interesting look into the performance possibilities and readiness of each model.
Among the overriding takeaways, it's safe to say at least one DPi manufacturer was slower than expected, and with a long history of carefully managing its pace at the Roar, questions of sandbagging were rife throughout the test. Thankfully, IMSA – through its new standalone data loggers placed in each car – has the ability to identify those cars or teams running at speeds below their ultimate potential.
This should, in theory, help the series to disregard any requests for Balance of Performance adjustments made by manufacturers or teams that partook in sandbagging.
On an unrelated but pertinent topic, of the 12 cars entered in Prototype at the Roar, only one completed each of the seven sessions. Only four missed a single session. The remaining seven cars missed two or three sessions, which speaks to the ongoing mechanical or electrical issues that are to be expected for new models with an overall lack of testing time.
From that last note, it might help to explain why the one prototype, ORECA's 07 (pictured), that is heavily based on its predecessor, the ORECA 05, showed up in Daytona to make a loud statement on its pace and readiness
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With that said, of the six prototype models at the Roar:
Owing to the dominance of the ORECA 07 WEC P2, IMSA will balance the performance of its DPis upward to match the French chassis. The questions for IMSA's technical team to answer involve the relative readiness of its DPis to run with a proven car like the 05-based ORECA 07, and the veracity of the performance data its DPi manufacturers generated during the Roar.
Take the Nissan Onroak DPis (pictured above), for example. There's no doubt the Tequila Patron ESM-run cars will be fast and competitive at some point in the near future, but considering how both of the twin-turbo V6-powered prototypes arrived around Christmas, the program is understandably behind the other DPi manufacturers in mileage and chassis setup knowledge.
It will be much less of a problem by the time we get to Sebring in March, but for now, and in light of their late start, should IMSA overcompensate with a generous BoP for the Nissans so they can be competitive at Daytona? Or should IMSA maintain a hardline stance with a BoP that leaves it up to the team and Nissan to reach its full potential despite the limited time they've had to work with the cars?
Between sandbagging and some models being weeks or months away from hitting their competitive stride, the Rolex 24 at Daytona BoP process should be an interesting one for IMSA's tech team to manage leading into the race.
GTLM'S COME TO JESUS
The one big performance-related note to come from IMSA's GT ranks took place behind closed doors at Daytona. Multiple sources told me a meeting was called during the event by the series involving the technical directors and team leaders from each of the five GT Le Mans manufacturers, and the message was clear: Stop the sandbagging.
Calling back to the aforementioned IMSA data loggers, the widespread efforts by some (or possibly all) GTLM brands to fudge their maximum potentials was met with a harsh response by the series, and it's believed those representatives were given a choice: Quit the sandbagging and start running hard so proper performance data can be generated or, keep playing around and your data will be disregarded along with any complaints about a BoP imbalance for the race.
Across the six dry sessions, and keeping in mind Corvette skipped the seventh final session after the No. 4 caught fire in Session 6, here's the top three from those six sessions for BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, and Porsche:
RICKY TAYLOR'S SISTER
And finally, on the lighter side, Sunday closed with a delightful interaction between Ricky Taylor and a thoroughly drunk fan in his 50s.
After barging past the barriers to walk into the Wayne Taylor Racing garage, the gentleman grabbed Ricky to say how much he liked him and how he'd met Ricky's sister a few times. The fan also shared the secret ingredients of the sports bottle he was drinking from (vodka with a few fruity mixers, I believe).
The imbibed fan then left, walked out past the barriers, but returned 60 seconds later to repeat the same things – big fan of Ricky...really liked meeting his sister. Once the message was complete, Ricky graciously said goodbye and walked to the WTR transporter with a big smile on his face.
Only two things made the fan's encounter stand out: He was speaking to Jordan Taylor the entire time (Jordan's name was on his firesuit), and Taylor brothers don't have a sister.
With that said, of the six prototype models at the Roar:
- The ORECA 07 WEC P2 was the fastest chassis in six of seven sessions.
- The ORECA 07 was also the fastest WEC P2 in every session.
- The only DPi to lead a session belonged to Cadillac's DPi-V.R, which was fastest in the wet FP3 when only four prototypes ventured out (two Cadillacs, two ORECAs).
- Among DPis during the six dry sessions, Cadillac was the fastest three times and Mazda was fastest in the other three.
- Mazda (pictured, top) missed the first session and skipped the rain session, leaving five head-to-head sessions with Cadillac. Of those five, Mazda was fastest in three.
- From the six dry sessions led by the ORECA 07, the best DPi was slower in FP1 by 0.332s, 0.875s in FP2, 0.14s in FP4, 0.668 s in FP5, 0.02s in FP6, 0.285s in FP7.
- The closest a DPi came to matching a WEC P2 was in FP6 with Mazda's RT24-P (-0.02s).
- The Nissan Onroak DPi started off the test with the biggest lap time gap to the fastest car (-2.619s) and reduced it to a much smaller margin by the final session (-1.265s).
- The Riley/Multimatic MK 30 (pictured) started the test with the biggest gap among WEC P2s (-2.475s) and cut it down considerably by the final session (-0.579s).
- The fastest single lap per model across the six dry sessions and the gap to the fastest lap:
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- ORECA 07 (1m38.343s)
- Mazda RT24-P (1m38.363s, -0.020s)
- Ligier JS P217 (1m38.596s, -0.253s)
- Cadillac DPi-V.R (1m38.693s, -0.350s)
- Riley/Multimatic Mk 30 (1m38.922s, -0.579s)
- Nissan Onroak DPi (1m39.608s, -1.265s)
- The fastest average lap time for the six prototypes across the six dry sessions, and the average gap to the fastest model:
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- ORECA 07 (1m38.839s)
- Cadillac DPi-V.R (1m39.541s, -0.702s)
- Mazda RT24-P (1m39.555s, -0.716s)
- Ligier JS P217 (1m40.296s, -1.457s)
- Riley/Multimatic Mk 30 (1m40.521s, -1.682s)
- Nissan Onroak DPi (1m40.879s, -2.04s)
- Testing mileage was the most valuable commodity for Prototype teams at the Roar. Of the six models:
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- Cadillac amassed 1,947 miles across three cars
- ORECA went 1,812 miles with three cars
- Nissan achieved 990 miles with two
- Mazda logged 922 miles with two
- Ligier went 577 miles with one
- Riley/Multimatic covered 420 miles with one
Owing to the dominance of the ORECA 07 WEC P2, IMSA will balance the performance of its DPis upward to match the French chassis. The questions for IMSA's technical team to answer involve the relative readiness of its DPis to run with a proven car like the 05-based ORECA 07, and the veracity of the performance data its DPi manufacturers generated during the Roar.
Take the Nissan Onroak DPis (pictured above), for example. There's no doubt the Tequila Patron ESM-run cars will be fast and competitive at some point in the near future, but considering how both of the twin-turbo V6-powered prototypes arrived around Christmas, the program is understandably behind the other DPi manufacturers in mileage and chassis setup knowledge.
It will be much less of a problem by the time we get to Sebring in March, but for now, and in light of their late start, should IMSA overcompensate with a generous BoP for the Nissans so they can be competitive at Daytona? Or should IMSA maintain a hardline stance with a BoP that leaves it up to the team and Nissan to reach its full potential despite the limited time they've had to work with the cars?
Between sandbagging and some models being weeks or months away from hitting their competitive stride, the Rolex 24 at Daytona BoP process should be an interesting one for IMSA's tech team to manage leading into the race.
GTLM'S COME TO JESUS
The one big performance-related note to come from IMSA's GT ranks took place behind closed doors at Daytona. Multiple sources told me a meeting was called during the event by the series involving the technical directors and team leaders from each of the five GT Le Mans manufacturers, and the message was clear: Stop the sandbagging.
Calling back to the aforementioned IMSA data loggers, the widespread efforts by some (or possibly all) GTLM brands to fudge their maximum potentials was met with a harsh response by the series, and it's believed those representatives were given a choice: Quit the sandbagging and start running hard so proper performance data can be generated or, keep playing around and your data will be disregarded along with any complaints about a BoP imbalance for the race.
Across the six dry sessions, and keeping in mind Corvette skipped the seventh final session after the No. 4 caught fire in Session 6, here's the top three from those six sessions for BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, and Porsche:
- Corvette, Ford, Ford (Fri)
- Ford, Ford, Corvette (Fri)
- Wet (Sat)
- Ford, Ford, Ford (Sat)
- Ford, Ford, BMW (Sat)
- Ford, Ford, BMW (Sun)
- BMW, BMW, Porsche (Sun)
RICKY TAYLOR'S SISTER
And finally, on the lighter side, Sunday closed with a delightful interaction between Ricky Taylor and a thoroughly drunk fan in his 50s.
After barging past the barriers to walk into the Wayne Taylor Racing garage, the gentleman grabbed Ricky to say how much he liked him and how he'd met Ricky's sister a few times. The fan also shared the secret ingredients of the sports bottle he was drinking from (vodka with a few fruity mixers, I believe).
The imbibed fan then left, walked out past the barriers, but returned 60 seconds later to repeat the same things – big fan of Ricky...really liked meeting his sister. Once the message was complete, Ricky graciously said goodbye and walked to the WTR transporter with a big smile on his face.
Only two things made the fan's encounter stand out: He was speaking to Jordan Taylor the entire time (Jordan's name was on his firesuit), and Taylor brothers don't have a sister.
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[h=2]IMSA: Rolex 24 at Daytona BoP released[/h] Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Marshall Pruett (words and images)
IMSA has distributed the Balance of Performance (BoP) tables that will be used to govern the four classes set to compete on Jan. 28-29 at the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener at Daytona International Speedway.
Its premier class, Prototype, has received fewer changes than might have been expected from the base BoP used at the recent Roar Before the 24 test at Daytona.
No power additions or restrictions were made among the six unique prototypes (three in Daytona Prototype international and three in WEC P2 configuration). The unique, low-downforce "Daytona" aero specification was confirmed for all prototypes with some tweaks to certain models.
Cadillac's DPi-V.R has gained some of its aero slipperiness by having its entire rear wing assembly leaned back by two degrees (from 15.0 to 13.0), and new minimum standards for the lone main plane (0.5 deg) upper wing element (24.8 deg) package has been set. Mazda's RT24-P was given separate minimum main plane angles for its two approved rear wing options. Riley/Multimatic's Mk 30 chassis was also given minimum main plane angles for its two approved rear wing options.
Fuel cell size and refueling hose flow restrictors were adjusted or set for first time for some models.
Mazda's RT24-P DPi received a two-liter tank increase (from 75L tested at the Roar to 77L) and the Nissan Onroak DPi has been given five extra liters (from 75L to 80L).
The three WEC P2s from Ligier, Multimatic/Riley and ORECA, and Cadillac's DPi-V.R have been given 25.5 mm flow restrictors; IMSA's thirstier DPis have been given more free-flowing restrictors with Mazda at 26.5 mm and Nissan at 28 mm.
The PC class has lost five liters of fuel capacity from each car (from 85L to 80L) and will refuel at a slower rate with new hose restrictors (from 33.5 mm to 29.0 mm).
Similar to Prototype, the five brands competing in GT Le Mans will run with the same weight and used at the Roar, and only Ferrari's twin-turbo V8 488 has undergone power alterations through boost adjustments. The Italian supercars will have slightly less boost available at lower RPMs and slightly more as they reach the redline.
Changes to some GTLM rear wing minimum angles have been adjusted with BMW's M6 gaining some slipperiness (from 3.0 mm to 2.0 mm), Ford's GT losing some (from 1.0 mm to 2.0 mm) and Porsche's 911 RSR has joined Ford with an increase (0.0 mm to 1.0 mm).
GTLM fuel cell changes have been made to BMW (from 101L to 99L) and Ford (from 90L to 92L). Refueling flow restrictors were set for all five cars (BMW at 32 mm, Corvette at 27.5 mm, Ferrari at 25.5 mm, and Ford and Porsche at 29.0 mm).
Sweeping changes to GT Daytona highlight the Rolex 24 BoP.
Multiple weight adjustments were made (the Acura NSX GT3 moves down from 1320 kilos to 1300 kg, Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 down from 1300 kg to 1280 kg, Ferrari 488 GT3 up from 1325 kg to 1335 kg, and Lexus RC F GT3 down from 1320 kg to 1310 kg).
Power was taken away from four models through air restrictor changes (Audi R8 LMS GT3, Lamborghini Huracán GT3 and Porsche 911 GT3 R -1.0 mm, Mercedes-AMG GT3 -1.5 mm). Ferrari's twin-turbo V8 488 GT3 received boost increases throughout its rev range.
Fuel capacities were reduced for three models (Lamborghini Huracán GT3 from 90L to 89L, Lexus RC F GT3 from 94L to 91L and Mercedes-AMG GT3 from 106L to 102L).
Refueling flow restrictors were set for all nine models (Audi at 30.5 mm, Aston Martin at 35.5 mm, Audi at 26.0 mm, BMW at 34.0 mm, Ferrari at 28.5 mm, Lamborghini at 25.5 mm, Lexus at 26.5 mm, Mercedes-AMG at 32.5 mm and Porsche at 25.5 mm).
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[h=2]IMSA: Turner Motorsport confirms Rolex lineup[/h] Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Marshall Pruett (words and image)
Turner Motorsport will fire its latest shot at winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona with the No. 96 BMW M6 GT3. Longtime team member Justin Marks will have three familiar factory names in Jens Klingmann, Maxime Martin and Jesse Krohn to share the twin-turbo V8-powered machine as the Massachusetts-based BMW tuners make their 354th start representing the German brand.
"We are looking forward to being back at Daytona for our eighth race start for the Rolex 24," said team owner Will Turner. "Although we had a strong finish last year, Daytona has still remained that one race that we dream about winning. I think that with a full season under our belts with the M6 GT3, we have enough experience and familiarity with the car to do really well if we can avoid trouble and any mechanical issues. Here goes another Rolex 24 and to another year with the M6 GT3."
Turner earned the MG GT3's first North American win last year in IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona class, and with Marks back with the team, adding the series' crown jewel to their accomplishments on Jan. 28-29 would make for a perfect reunion.
"This is a program I'm really excited about," Marks said. "I have a lot of fond memories with Turner Motorsport from earlier in my career so to kind of come home to one of the teams that is familiar is going to be a lot of fun. The IMSA GTD class is quickly becoming one of the most competitive and diverse in all worldwide GT racing. Turner and BMW have had a lot of success in North America so I think we'll be very good so I'm very much looking forward to driving the M6 GT3."
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