Picks for 2008 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring
03-08-2008, 05:25 PM
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Picks for 2008 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring
Saturday March 15, 2008 on the Speed Channel
9:30AM EDT Live Coverage
My picks
LMP1: # 07 Peugeot Sport, Peugeot 908 HDi FAP, drivers Nicolas Minassian, Stéphane Sarrazin, Pedro Lamy
LMP2: # 32 Barazi - Epsilon, Zytek 07S, drivers Juan Barazi and Michael Vergers
GT1: # 3 Corvette Racing, Chevrolet Corvette C6.R, drivers Johnny O'Connell, Jan Magnussen, Ron Fellows
GT2: # 62 Risi Competizione, Ferrari F430 GTC, drivers Mika Salo, Jaime Melo, Gianmaria Bruni
New videos on the left of previous ALMS races:
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/lemans-alms/
http://www.americanlemans.com/home/ALMSHome.aspx
A look back to last year's epic battle in GT2 between the # 62 Ferrari of Jaime Melo and Jörg Bergmeister in the # 45 Porsche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWo8VdMb8I
9:30AM EDT Live Coverage
My picks
LMP1: # 07 Peugeot Sport, Peugeot 908 HDi FAP, drivers Nicolas Minassian, Stéphane Sarrazin, Pedro Lamy
LMP2: # 32 Barazi - Epsilon, Zytek 07S, drivers Juan Barazi and Michael Vergers
GT1: # 3 Corvette Racing, Chevrolet Corvette C6.R, drivers Johnny O'Connell, Jan Magnussen, Ron Fellows
GT2: # 62 Risi Competizione, Ferrari F430 GTC, drivers Mika Salo, Jaime Melo, Gianmaria Bruni
New videos on the left of previous ALMS races:
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/lemans-alms/
http://www.americanlemans.com/home/ALMSHome.aspx
A look back to last year's epic battle in GT2 between the # 62 Ferrari of Jaime Melo and Jörg Bergmeister in the # 45 Porsche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWo8VdMb8I
03-08-2008, 08:06 PM
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Let me join you out on the limb if I may.
P1- Hard to go against the Audi's. They know Sebring and the platform is proven. HOWEVER, Sebring does funny things to cars, thus my outlandish prediction of car #10, the ECO Racing Radical with the AER/ECO V-10 turbo diesel.
P2- Penske finally won the Daytona 500. He gets his Sebring win with the RS Spyder too. The only question is which car number. The #7 car did it all last year, and I think they do it again, although I'd like to see Sascha on the top podium step. My big question is how does Dyson step up this year? I think the #20 car is second, with an Acura rounding out the celebration.
GT1- Corvette. Next...
GT2- Do we go with the pre-race rumors of a much faster RSR, or stay with the proven winner from Maranello? Dark horse from the newer entries? No way. Jorg Bergmeister gets it done in spectacular fashion in the Flying Lizards #45 followed by 2 F-cars.
P1- Hard to go against the Audi's. They know Sebring and the platform is proven. HOWEVER, Sebring does funny things to cars, thus my outlandish prediction of car #10, the ECO Racing Radical with the AER/ECO V-10 turbo diesel.
P2- Penske finally won the Daytona 500. He gets his Sebring win with the RS Spyder too. The only question is which car number. The #7 car did it all last year, and I think they do it again, although I'd like to see Sascha on the top podium step. My big question is how does Dyson step up this year? I think the #20 car is second, with an Acura rounding out the celebration.
GT1- Corvette. Next...
GT2- Do we go with the pre-race rumors of a much faster RSR, or stay with the proven winner from Maranello? Dark horse from the newer entries? No way. Jorg Bergmeister gets it done in spectacular fashion in the Flying Lizards #45 followed by 2 F-cars.
03-08-2008, 08:43 PM
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Let me join you out on the limb if I may.
P1- Hard to go against the Audi's. They know Sebring and the platform is proven. HOWEVER, Sebring does funny things to cars, thus my outlandish prediction of car #10, the ECO Racing Radical with the AER/ECO V-10 turbo diesel.
P2- Penske finally won the Daytona 500. He gets his Sebring win with the RS Spyder too. The only question is which car number. The #7 car did it all last year, and I think they do it again, although I'd like to see Sascha on the top podium step. My big question is how does Dyson step up this year? I think the #20 car is second, with an Acura rounding out the celebration.
GT1- Corvette. Next...
GT2- Do we go with the pre-race rumors of a much faster RSR, or stay with the proven winner from Maranello? Dark horse from the newer entries? No way. Jorg Bergmeister gets it done in spectacular fashion in the Flying Lizards #45 followed by 2 F-cars.
P1- Hard to go against the Audi's. They know Sebring and the platform is proven. HOWEVER, Sebring does funny things to cars, thus my outlandish prediction of car #10, the ECO Racing Radical with the AER/ECO V-10 turbo diesel.
P2- Penske finally won the Daytona 500. He gets his Sebring win with the RS Spyder too. The only question is which car number. The #7 car did it all last year, and I think they do it again, although I'd like to see Sascha on the top podium step. My big question is how does Dyson step up this year? I think the #20 car is second, with an Acura rounding out the celebration.
GT1- Corvette. Next...
GT2- Do we go with the pre-race rumors of a much faster RSR, or stay with the proven winner from Maranello? Dark horse from the newer entries? No way. Jorg Bergmeister gets it done in spectacular fashion in the Flying Lizards #45 followed by 2 F-cars.
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03-09-2008, 04:10 AM
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"Turn 17 is one of the most challenging braking points I know"
- Dirk Muller, describing a lap of historic Sebring International Raceway, in preparation for next week's Twelve Hours of Sebring. "You arrive in 6th gear and you trail brake towards the tire wall. It is quite bumpy here. Once you have control of your car you hit the power very early again. The bumps at the exit are tricky in terms of loosing car."
# 71 Ferrari with Dominik Farnbacher and Rob Bell on Michelin tires
http://motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=281558
http://www.tafelracing.com/index.php/Team-Bios/
- Dirk Muller, describing a lap of historic Sebring International Raceway, in preparation for next week's Twelve Hours of Sebring. "You arrive in 6th gear and you trail brake towards the tire wall. It is quite bumpy here. Once you have control of your car you hit the power very early again. The bumps at the exit are tricky in terms of loosing car."
# 71 Ferrari with Dominik Farnbacher and Rob Bell on Michelin tires
http://motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=281558
http://www.tafelracing.com/index.php/Team-Bios/
03-09-2008, 09:55 AM
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That can still happen in my scenario. With the ECO Radical R10 winning, it menas that there has been mechanical/shunt problems with the Audi's and Peugeot. Could elevate P2 to the overall win... Could.
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03-10-2008, 01:07 AM
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Tafel Racing Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring preview
http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/03/...bring-preview/
Team from Slovakia back for 2008's endurance race
The # 77 911 of Autoracing Club Bratslavia is of Miro Konopka's team from Slovakia and competed in this race last year.
http://www.mirokonopka.sk/
http://www.fiagt.com/driverinfo.php?...e=Miro+Konopka
http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/03/...bring-preview/
Team from Slovakia back for 2008's endurance race
The # 77 911 of Autoracing Club Bratslavia is of Miro Konopka's team from Slovakia and competed in this race last year.
http://www.mirokonopka.sk/
http://www.fiagt.com/driverinfo.php?...e=Miro+Konopka
03-10-2008, 04:16 PM
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The top three in GT2 Monday morning looked very much like the final championship standings from 2007. Risi Competizione's Jaime Melo in the No. 62 Ferrari F430 GT was quickest at 2:01.423 that was more than a second better than last year's qualifying record. The Risi squad won its second straight class championship in 2007 and won last year's Sebring race by just 0.202 seconds.
The team it beat was second fastest in class Monday morning. The No. 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister, Wolf Henzler and Marc Lieb was 0.213 seconds back of the Risi car. Tafel Racing's new No. 71 Ferrari F430 GT was third in class at 2:01.882.
From the ALMS website
The team it beat was second fastest in class Monday morning. The No. 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister, Wolf Henzler and Marc Lieb was 0.213 seconds back of the Risi car. Tafel Racing's new No. 71 Ferrari F430 GT was third in class at 2:01.882.
From the ALMS website
