micahbones

...with Jörg instructing him in preparation for Patrick's race debut there at an upcoming VLN endurance race with Manthey Racing. And who says video games aren't useful in helping to learn tracks? : )

(iPhone pics taken in Porsche's hospitality tent at Road Atlanta the day after Petit Le Mans)

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ps: TV does not at all capture the speed, elevation changes, & technical challenge of Road Atlanta. Best track I have yet watched a live race at & driven, and well worth attending in person next year if you are even half considering it. Awesome to see 45 cars battling in what often seemed like a 10-hr sprint race.

mobonic

Joerg is a great guy and he also told me that Road America was his favorite track in the USA... because it reminded him of the ring (his all time favorite track)

here is a interview with him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNiUQ2TEnKU&hd=1

micahbones

Asked him the same question, and of USA tracks he ranked Road America the best, with Road Atlanta a close second.

Patrick also seemed stoked to go race the 'Ring for the first time...of course who wouldn't be?! As has been said before, both Jörg & Patrick are not only great drivers, but great guys as well. I would say they have the best jobs in the world..other than being a WRC driver or MotoGP pilot perhaps.

aero997c2s

When is the VLN race Mr. Long will be participating in? Will he be in another RSR or the Hybrid? I've seen an add for tune/performance package for the mk.2 GT3 where power was increased to 473 and in the video it says something about VLN in 2011. Here is the video I saw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDydd...layer_embedded

micahbones

Not sure which of the two remaining VLN races Patrick will be at, the DMV 250-Meilen-Rennen on Oct. 16 or DMV Münsterlandpokal on Oct. 30. He said the race is on the Nürburgring, and that he will be racing an unrestricted (meaning more power than his Lizard RSR, also lower weight) Manthey Racing GT3 R non-hybrid.

micahbones

Mr. Long finished 11th in Australia, will look forward to seeing the race on Speed next weekend. Onto China next...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87697

Nizer

Patrick and Joerg Bergmeister will be driving the GT3 R Hybrid at the 1,000 kilometer race on Nov 7th in Zhuhai, China:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2010/09/...brid-in-china/

micahbones

So his VLN race plans must have changed. Racing in V8 Supercars followed by the GT3 R Hybrid sounds just as fun though!

Speaking of the Hybrid, it was noticeably quicker than the rest of the GT2 field for the first several laps of Petit Le Mans, but then fell off the pace. I had higher expectations for it, & thought it would even finish ahead of the entire GT2 field...

micahbones

Mr. Long finished 11th in Australia, will look forward to seeing the race on Speed next weekend. Onto China next...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87697

micahbones

update: He finished 4th in race 1, 11th in race 2, second best combined of the guest drivers in attendance that included Helio Catroneves, Dario Franchitti, Jacque Villeneuve, Andy Priaulx, Will Power, David Brabham, and others. Excellent work Patrick!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87668

micahbones

Patrick & Jörg housed all the GT2 cars at the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup at Zhuhai, China. Nice work!

Pos Cl Drivers Car Time/Gap:

1. LMP1 Montagny/Sarrazin Peugeot 5h35m39.053s
2. LMP1 Kristensen/McNish Audi + 4.826s
3. LMP1 Capello/Dumas Audi + 49.302s
4. LMP1 Bourdais/Pagenaud Peugeot + 3 laps
5. LMP2 Nicolet/da Rocha/Lafargue Pescarolo-Judd + 26 laps
6. GTH Bergmeister/Long Porsche Hybrid + 27 laps
7. GT2 Muller/Werner BMW + 30 laps
8. GT2 Lieb/Lietz Porsche + 30 laps
9. FLM Zacchia/Zhang/Lee ORECA + 31 laps
10. GT2 Bruni/Vilander/Melo Ferrari + 33 laps
11. GT2 Ragginger/Ried/Roda Porsche + 40 laps
12. GTC Lee/Yoong/Marsh Audi + 40 laps
13. GT2 Ehret/Quaife/Kirkaldy Ferrari + 41 laps
14. LMP1 Mitsuyama/Wakisaka Courage ORECA YGK + 42 laps
15. GT2 Giroix/Goethe Lamborghini + 45 laps
16. GTC Ma/Beche Aston Martin + 60 laps
17. GTC Richard/Li Audi + 61 laps
18. GT1 Bornhauser/Groppi/Lamy Saleen + 62 laps

Retirements:

LMP1 Drayson/Cocker Lola-Judd 141 laps
GTC Watts/Meins/Yu Audi 168 laps
GT2 Westbrook/O'Young Porsche 119 laps
GT1 Iiri/Sekiguchi/Yuya Lamborghini 10 laps
GT2 Goossens/Gentilozzi Jaguar 10 laps

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88020