Cory M

Sounds like they ran pretty good once they got on track. Article says that PWR quit supporting them and then Michellin refused to sell them tires, anyone with more details?

Here is the article:

http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_5934062

Veloce Raptor

Wow, I am really surprised that Petersen/White Lightning are such ****bags. Nothing Michelin does any more surprises me, however, since Edouard Michelin sadly died last year.

Mike Buck

The statement that Michelin "refused to sell them tires" is a bit misleading.

mdrums

Wow, kinda makes me want to pull for Pruitt and his Ferarri...talk about being the underdog.

Veloce Raptor

Care to elaborate?

cooleyjb

Did someone say Ferrari off-track??



took me a good hour to clean up myself and the gear after that.

Veloce Raptor

LMAO....they ALL do that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

paradisenb

Lowers my respect for White Lightning. But remember we aren't gettin the whole story from the Salt Lake Tribune. Still, makes ya question the integrity of WL. Perception is everything.

Veloce Raptor

Especially after they stripped the car before shipping it to Italy. Nice touch, guys.

A.Wayne

Yes, Hmmmm

DrJupeman

Are we surprised by Petersen White Lightning anymore? They ditched Porsche for Ferrari, what else do we need to know?

Mike Buck

i don't work for michelin, i don't speak for michelin

But as I understand, the #48 car was a surprise arrival at Utah. There is a typical lead time on getting tires together and teams wishing to have them need to make their desires known well in advance of a race. #48 did not make such a request, afaik. The tires brought to utah were initially allocated to the other teams first, while another batch flew in at great expense in order to support the #48 car

carreracup21

Yikes, 600k for the car then 300k in repairs right out of the box. Reminds me of that old joke: How do you make a small fortune in racing ?.... start with a large fortune. Its nice to have a variety of marques out there in ALMS going at it, but if I was paying the bills, I would have just started with a Porsche RSR and never looked back.

Congo

It's just a racecar and they did a decent job of building an F430 GTC from scratch for the Long Beach race.

http://www.petersenmotorsports.com/s...tem.asp?ID=338

Hasn't the cost of buying a running a new 997 RSR gone up from the 996 RSR?

"We have a client/friend that has just taken delivery of a 997RSR to compete in the American LeMans Series for 2007.

Chassis #916 traveled via 747-400F from Germany to Atlanta on Polar Air Cargo. Since the 996RSR was dimensionally smaller, it could fly in what is known as a “Combi” or combination freight/passenger plane, which has a lower cargo deck that takes large items. With the added height and width of the 997, the car now has to fly in a pure freighter. The added cost for that alone was enough to make you question why in the world you got started in this hobby in the first place."

(team trans sport http://www.transsportonline.com/home.html)

https://rennlist.com/forums/racing-and-drivers-education-forum/324636-997rsr-photos-and-team-introduction.html

From the May, 2007 issue of 911 & Porsche World:

It costs 330,000 euros or £225,000.

Nordschleife

There are often tears when an amateur starts to move in professional racing circles. I wouldn't draw any conclusions based upon a couple of articles in newspapers.
Amateurs work best when they deliver a ton of money to the team, and then go off and invest another ton of money learning to drive properly. If they turn up to drive with a glamourous, friendly, helpful and attractive partner who is happy to buy the team all the icecream, steak sandwiches and beer they can consume, so much the better. Life really inmproves when the amateur invest more money in paying good professionals to come and co-drive.
People who do it this way often go on to have an enjoyable and successful time racing, age tends not to dim their skills.

R+C