bgiere

I love it..."Porsche eventually complied, producing the exact car IMSA demanded:

The No. 911."

ProCoach

I knew about everything leading up to this, except THAT.

Sheesh...

Cory M

Crazy that TUSC had a year to prepare and they blew it so badly on so many levels...

Carrera51

So they produce the no.911 car to serve a penalty incurred by the no. 912 car and caught on video.

Maybe other teams should try that in other series...

mdrums

Knuckle Heads! Someone or group of people in the control box need to go aways and serve some penalties

gums

It cost McNeil and Job a win, and for some reason they just won't set it right

mklaskin

Which could cost IMSA a team and a sponsor.

And give them more bad PR.

BlueRiver86

They lost my viewership when they decided it took an hour to remove the Whelen DP which had coasted up the escape road, in a blatant attempt to ruin the end of the race. I spent almost five years as volunteer race crew for two teams in Grand Am so I am no stranger to officiating incompetence, but this event brought it to a whole new level.

bgiere

Well I will say that depsite the screw ups and mis-communication there has never been so much interest in sports car racing...could this be a case of "no publicity is bad publicity"? I mean, how many people will tune in just to see what IMSA screws up next...and then possibly become sports car freaks after watching the race? Sometimes these things work in funny ways...Either way Ii am sure they will eventuially straighten it out and TUDOR Racing will be competently run.

multi21

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a team or two quit the series after the first race of the year? Although they didn't say it directly, the implication was that this series was not professionally run and they caught some flack. Look like their decision was right to leave.

ProCoach

Level 5, one of the biggest budgets in ALMS. For years...

BlueRiver86

The rumor last week was that Turner is departing as well for the greener pastures of WC, but I think that remains to be proven.

ProCoach

Turner is signed up for a pair of street races to "sample the waters," but not as a substitute for TUSC. BMW has that specified in the contract. The fact that the manufacturer-paid drivers are contesting the PWC rounds IS significant, though.

I do remember this same whinging going on with the technical aspects of PWC over the last two years, so no series is immune.

Remember Ryan Dalziel winning in a Porsche for TruSpeed and getting thrown out for some petty splitter dimension issue at the PWC round at St. Pete last year? They didn't come back, even though they had a championship caliber car, driver and team...

Pro racing is no fun. That's why I'm glad I don't do to much with it...

BlueRiver86

Interesting. Since your information is obviously better than mine, I was wondering, do they plan to run both series with the same cars, or how will that work?

GTgears

Kind of makes you wish the Grand Am Marshalls got the jobs instead of the ALMS folks.