Ford GT or 991 GT3 RS
06-14-2016, 11:05 PM
#47
Nordschleife Master
LeMans is this weekend. If the FGT does well or wins its value will double overnight. They won at Laguna Seca in May but LeMans is a different animal.
I haven't seen Team Dempsey/Proton doing very well with the GT3R. I don't think they are getting much factory support or help. Thats major.
The full weight of Ford is behind this years LeMan effort. Unfortunate that the Matech team in 2009 did not have any factory help at LeMans in 2009. Despite that one of their FGTs was leading in class for 8 hours until it was hit by a Peugot coming out of the pits.
I haven't seen Team Dempsey/Proton doing very well with the GT3R. I don't think they are getting much factory support or help. Thats major.
The full weight of Ford is behind this years LeMan effort. Unfortunate that the Matech team in 2009 did not have any factory help at LeMans in 2009. Despite that one of their FGTs was leading in class for 8 hours until it was hit by a Peugot coming out of the pits.
06-14-2016, 11:34 PM
#48
Drifting
Fun thread. I've been paying attention to the FIA results this year for the GT. It's got plenty of pace. They were for sure still sorting out things like door hinges, fires and all kinds of endurance racing niggly bits. But it has also turned plenty of fastest laps. A full 24 hours is a big ask for a first year car. Can't wait for Saturday! Big screen, up 24 hours straight streaming the race...
06-14-2016, 11:40 PM
#49
Burning Brakes
Fun thread. I've been paying attention to the FIA results this year for the GT. It's got plenty of pace. They were for sure still sorting out things like door hinges, fires and all kinds of endurance racing niggly bits. But it has also turned plenty of fastest laps. A full 24 hours is a big ask for a first year car. Can't wait for Saturday! Big screen, up 24 hours straight streaming the race...
06-14-2016, 11:49 PM
#50
Nordschleife Master
I stand corrected. The below is from the Porsche Motorsports site.
Looks like PAG is fielding a factory team with some real heavy weights.
Should be exciting.
As an RS and FGT owner not sure who to route for! I guess I'll route for both.
Definitely don't want to see Chebby win.
Six Porsche works drivers contest the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans for the Porsche Motorsport factory squad. Sharing the cockpit of the No91 Porsche 911 RSR are Nick Tandy and reigning IMSA GT champion Patrick Pilet (France) with Kévin Estre (France). The sister 911 RSR with the starting number 92 has an equally strong line-up. Earl Bamber shares driving duties with Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France). With 14 starts until now, Jörg Bergmeister has the most experience as a Porsche GT pilot at Le Mans. Taking up the race in the 911 RSR run by the Dempsey Proton Racing customer team is Richard Lietz (Austria), the WEC winner of the FIA World Endurance Trophy in 2015 as the best GT pilot, and his works driver colleague Michael Christensen (Denmark), with whom he contests the entire WEC season. Supporting them as the third driver is Philipp Eng (Austria), the 2015 winner of both the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. This will be Eng’s cameo appearance at Le Mans, where traditionally double points are awarded towards the WEC championship. In the GTE-Am class, four other customer teams and two Porsche works drivers race the Porsche 911 RSR: Abu Dhabi Proton Racing with Patrick Long (USA) and KCMG with Wolf Henzler (Germany), as well as Gulf Racing and Proton Competition.
Looks like PAG is fielding a factory team with some real heavy weights.
Should be exciting.
As an RS and FGT owner not sure who to route for! I guess I'll route for both.
Definitely don't want to see Chebby win. Six Porsche works drivers contest the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans for the Porsche Motorsport factory squad. Sharing the cockpit of the No91 Porsche 911 RSR are Nick Tandy and reigning IMSA GT champion Patrick Pilet (France) with Kévin Estre (France). The sister 911 RSR with the starting number 92 has an equally strong line-up. Earl Bamber shares driving duties with Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France). With 14 starts until now, Jörg Bergmeister has the most experience as a Porsche GT pilot at Le Mans. Taking up the race in the 911 RSR run by the Dempsey Proton Racing customer team is Richard Lietz (Austria), the WEC winner of the FIA World Endurance Trophy in 2015 as the best GT pilot, and his works driver colleague Michael Christensen (Denmark), with whom he contests the entire WEC season. Supporting them as the third driver is Philipp Eng (Austria), the 2015 winner of both the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. This will be Eng’s cameo appearance at Le Mans, where traditionally double points are awarded towards the WEC championship. In the GTE-Am class, four other customer teams and two Porsche works drivers race the Porsche 911 RSR: Abu Dhabi Proton Racing with Patrick Long (USA) and KCMG with Wolf Henzler (Germany), as well as Gulf Racing and Proton Competition.
06-15-2016, 06:40 AM
#52
Race Car
Fun thread. I've been paying attention to the FIA results this year for the GT. It's got plenty of pace. They were for sure still sorting out things like door hinges, fires and all kinds of endurance racing niggly bits. But it has also turned plenty of fastest laps. A full 24 hours is a big ask for a first year car. Can't wait for Saturday! Big screen, up 24 hours straight streaming the race...
06-15-2016, 08:18 AM
#53
Race Car
06-15-2016, 10:03 AM
#54
Burning Brakes
06-15-2016, 10:07 AM
#55
I stand corrected. The below is from the Porsche Motorsports site.
Looks like PAG is fielding a factory team with some real heavy weights.
Should be exciting.
As an RS and FGT owner not sure who to route for! I guess I'll route for both. Definitely don't want to see Chebby win.
Six Porsche works drivers contest the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans for the Porsche Motorsport factory squad. Sharing the cockpit of the No91 Porsche 911 RSR are Nick Tandy and reigning IMSA GT champion Patrick Pilet (France) with Kévin Estre (France). The sister 911 RSR with the starting number 92 has an equally strong line-up. Earl Bamber shares driving duties with Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France). With 14 starts until now, Jörg Bergmeister has the most experience as a Porsche GT pilot at Le Mans. Taking up the race in the 911 RSR run by the Dempsey Proton Racing customer team is Richard Lietz (Austria), the WEC winner of the FIA World Endurance Trophy in 2015 as the best GT pilot, and his works driver colleague Michael Christensen (Denmark), with whom he contests the entire WEC season. Supporting them as the third driver is Philipp Eng (Austria), the 2015 winner of both the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. This will be Eng’s cameo appearance at Le Mans, where traditionally double points are awarded towards the WEC championship. In the GTE-Am class, four other customer teams and two Porsche works drivers race the Porsche 911 RSR: Abu Dhabi Proton Racing with Patrick Long (USA) and KCMG with Wolf Henzler (Germany), as well as Gulf Racing and Proton Competition.
Looks like PAG is fielding a factory team with some real heavy weights.
Should be exciting.
As an RS and FGT owner not sure who to route for! I guess I'll route for both.
Definitely don't want to see Chebby win. Six Porsche works drivers contest the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans for the Porsche Motorsport factory squad. Sharing the cockpit of the No91 Porsche 911 RSR are Nick Tandy and reigning IMSA GT champion Patrick Pilet (France) with Kévin Estre (France). The sister 911 RSR with the starting number 92 has an equally strong line-up. Earl Bamber shares driving duties with Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France). With 14 starts until now, Jörg Bergmeister has the most experience as a Porsche GT pilot at Le Mans. Taking up the race in the 911 RSR run by the Dempsey Proton Racing customer team is Richard Lietz (Austria), the WEC winner of the FIA World Endurance Trophy in 2015 as the best GT pilot, and his works driver colleague Michael Christensen (Denmark), with whom he contests the entire WEC season. Supporting them as the third driver is Philipp Eng (Austria), the 2015 winner of both the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. This will be Eng’s cameo appearance at Le Mans, where traditionally double points are awarded towards the WEC championship. In the GTE-Am class, four other customer teams and two Porsche works drivers race the Porsche 911 RSR: Abu Dhabi Proton Racing with Patrick Long (USA) and KCMG with Wolf Henzler (Germany), as well as Gulf Racing and Proton Competition.
Crap, for being a young group of factory drivers, relatively, Porsche's Team of Drivers is quite Successful.
06-15-2016, 10:41 AM
#56
LeMans is this weekend. If the FGT does well or wins its value will double overnight. They won at Laguna Seca in May but LeMans is a different animal.
I haven't seen Team Dempsey/Proton doing very well with the GT3R. I don't think they are getting much factory support or help. Thats major.
The full weight of Ford is behind this years LeMan effort. Unfortunate that the Matech team in 2009 did not have any factory help at LeMans in 2009. Despite that one of their FGTs was leading in class for 8 hours until it was hit by a Peugot coming out of the pits.
I haven't seen Team Dempsey/Proton doing very well with the GT3R. I don't think they are getting much factory support or help. Thats major.
The full weight of Ford is behind this years LeMan effort. Unfortunate that the Matech team in 2009 did not have any factory help at LeMans in 2009. Despite that one of their FGTs was leading in class for 8 hours until it was hit by a Peugot coming out of the pits.
That said, be simple headline of "Ford wins," will overwhelm 99.9% of potential buyers. I would not discount Chevy, their team as well seasoned and they have excellent equipment.
But as a street car, the technology, mass, power, and bespoke nature of the GT makes it head and shoulders above the RS in my opinion.
Oh and for those who have the means to say that if you can afford one, you can afford both, bully for you, but there might be a few of us not quite in that boat.
06-15-2016, 11:03 AM
#57
Burning Brakes
It's just inheritance money.
The children will understand.
06-15-2016, 01:59 PM
#58
Nordschleife Master
