RSRRacer

WHat does being seventeen have to do with wanting a second look??

Jean

Just a note here, the Cup cars are not setup with different ride height for Daytona, I think it is just a visual effect . In fact they are never 100% at the same ride height left and right but that is not done on purpose.

The Cup cars for this race are not the usual Cup cars, they have small differences in bodywork and more powerful engines than the regular Cup cars (Some drivers say up to 40-50HP). Redline is beyond 9K RPMs (shiftpoints around 8800 RPMs vs. 8200 RPMs for supercup) also and they have specific restrictors for this series.

srf506

At Daytona every fractional point of Cd and every HP count big time. Especially in qualifying. Interesting comment Jean. I couldn't remember us ever having set the ride heights different because of the banking either. Thought maybe it was a new development with these "new-fangled" cars. We usually wanted the car right on the splitter the whole way round the track (about .5 inch clearence). In fact, seems to me we set the 3.8s up for what was then known as the "International Hairpin" or turn 4 IIRC. So the car was set up to take a slow-speed, right hand turn, not a left. The lefts were pretty much benign except for the one back onto the banking out of the infield. Its problem was more of the transition from the flat to the banking then anything else. The turn itself is a pretty big radius.

kingleh

theres like 12 cars that have a good chance to win....

i hope it goes well and we dont have bad luck...

but with it so competative... the winner will get nothing but good luck.....

Stuttgart

Leh,
Good luck this year, you have a hell of a lineup. Just make sure they use the Water Flush this year instead of taking the freaking cap off and trying to pour water into the system like they did last year.
-Phil Gilsdorf

ZAPmobile

Regarding set-up, each team and each driver within the team has a different approach to how the car should be set up, but from what I hear, all the cars are set up with some degree of understeer so that they can induce as much throttle oversteer as they want. How the teams actually corner balance the cars, along with other tricks, are of course team trade secrets.

Leh,

I wish you guys good luck. While, as you obviously know, we are rooting for Andy in the #66, it would be great to see you guys come across the finish line in a dead heat. Good luck to you. If we get a chance, we'll come by and say, "Hi."

GREEK-TURBO-RACER

You are right Leh. Really hard to say who WILL win. FL, TRG, Speedsource, Blackforest , the Pontiacs..... or even my old team Alegra could suprize again.

Let's see. Will be interesting.


Theo

RSRRacer

Leh,

When you are at the Sebring club race (if you make it) I will strong arm Russell into buying you a shot o' Whiskey for every lap you crank out under 1:50 so get busy.

Good Luck!!

Chris Brown

jrgordonsenior

Leh what's the difference in the new Hoosiers?

coryf

The grand-am engine is the same as the 08 cup engine except for the headers. 8500 redline in 1-5 and 8200 in 6th. Grand-am gives us a restrictor to put in as well. The front fenders are wider to accomodate the 285 size front tires. The rear are 305.

coryf

I think a sub 50 will be tough. The pirelli's dont have that magic lap with new tires. They take several laps to come up to temp and stay very consistent. Some of our fast laps came on 40 lap tires.

The mazda that busted off a lap at testing was imeadiately taken to the grand-am tech shed. I heard the mazda guy was not too happy with them for going that fast.

RSRRacer

OK I will amend my offer and say a sub 1:51 lap. But it will need to be cheaper whiskey

Circuit Motorsports

I know the same thing happened to the cars turning the fastest laps in the ST class as well.

Sounded like there were a few team owners saying to the tech officials "go ahead and pull my data but how bout you look at those other cars that you can hear lifting the entire time they are on the banking"

Lots of sandbagging as usual at testing.

gt3skea

SAVE YOUR MONEY, GET A CUP CAR

bgiere

Good luck to all the RL Porsche Pilots! I'll be cheering you guys on.