9Eleven

Congratulations to Turbo Performance Center/TPC Racing for winning their class in the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona! The local guys from Jessup, Maryland win a big one. To Randy, Mike, Tom, and the rest of the gang, great job. Just a note, they used last years 996 Gt3 cup and smoked the competition. They are a true class act. See you guys soon.

NJ-GT

Congratulations to TPC !!!

The 996 GT3 Cup beats the 997 GT3 Cup.

Z06

Did you see the Daytona Pole winner a 996 Cup, it was sent to the back for having the suspension spec changed...could it be the RS parts? they were quite a bit quicker than the rest.. over one second..

TPC has done a great job with the 996 Cup car.

Ray G

I wonder if it might be a little embarassing for Porsche that a 996 body car won, when there were several 997 Cup cars entered. I wonder how the new trannys held up?

dmac

It was a very good race. I think that the race would have been more interesting if Aston Martin and the Corvette Racing Team would have been able to enter.

9Eleven

I believe there was one (1) Corvette that ran the race. Unfortunately only one. I would like to see some more different entries too.

Dave 86 930 Fl

There were 2 or 3 Vettes, but very disappointing performance. It seems as though the the Vettes are only competitive when the GM team shows up. I think it says alot about the P car, in that many private teams are able to put together a competitive car. BTW, Mazda had a couple of entries, RX-8's with rotary engines that were super fast in the early stages and they sound like formula 1 cars ... very high pitched and LOUD.

One other note, Randy Pobst is from little Melbourne, Florida. I met him at Alex Job's race shop a few years back at a PCA event ... he is a very nice guy and obviously a great race car driver.

While the Daytona 24 hour race is some good fun, nothing compares to the 12 hours of Sebring.

AW

It was a great race. It will take me at least a week to watch the speed coverage... It is too bad there was no viper competition coupe to compete in GT. So out of curiosity, who builds the DP chassis?

A

roberga

are the vettes have the same drive train as the GT1 class?

9Eleven

Dude, I didn't know that, I grew up in Palm Bay, Fla. My brother went to Melbourne High School. Small world. How is Indiatlantic Beach, paradise I bet. That's how I remember it. I miss the Inlet.

Woodster

congrats to TPC,
they deserved it.
Mk

GREEK-TURBO-RACER

Two things here. First off, a BIG congrats to TPC. I know what they had to do to make the car fast/reliable in order to run with the a couple of 997 cars. When TPC and our # 22 car car were on false grid, we both admitted what we had to do to stay up to a couple of the FACTORY BACKED 997 cars. And laughed about a 1, 2 996 finish. In the end, a couple of our drivers had brain farts with contact twice, and 2 rear hubs bit our a$$. At 6:15 am Sunday, we were forth in class when the left rear hub needed changing. An hour later, the right rear. Talk about snake bittten. Nevertheless, GREAT WORK with a deserving result for TPC.

Lastly, I know for a fact PMNA and and the boys from Germany are not happy. They did what ever it took to get Henzler the win in 2005. And wanted a repeat for 2006. LAST on their minds was to have a 996 win over the new car. It's going to be an interesting year .............



Theo

Greg Fishman

Various entities. Fabcar, Crawford, Riley, Doran, Picchio are the several of the companies that make a DP legal chassis.
Go to www.grandamerican.com for more info.

JasonAndreas

How much of this was the fault of the 997 drivers at winter testing going 1 second faster than everybody else? Had they not been weight penalized would the outcome of the race been the same? (i missed most of the race)

NJ-GT

The weight penalty was only 50 lbs. A 50lbs penalty won't increase the lap times by 1 second at Daytona ( a 2 minutes lap on GT cars). The closest 997 GT3 Cup to the TPC's 996 GT3 finished 8 laps behind.

Let's assume that we remove the 50 lbs weight penalty from the 997 GT3 and the car becomes 1 second faster a lap (which is a huge mistake to assume that 50# weight reduction gives 1 second advantadge on a 2 minutes track). In such hypothetical scenario, the Farnbacher Loles 997 GT3 Cup should have finished still 2 laps behind the TPC's 996 GT3.

The fastest race lap posted by the 996 GT3 Cup was 1:54.804 (Randy Pobst), and the fastest race lap posted by a 997 GT3 Cup was 1:53.866 by either Wolf Henzler, Johannes Van Overbeck or Liddell.

That one second difference can't be translated as the time difference between cars, because 50# is a barely noticeable weight penalty on an almost 3000# car (race weight including a full tank and driver). As much as I'm a big fan of Randy Pobst because of both his autocross and racetrack experience, there is the Henzler/Liddell factor on that 1 second difference.