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Post by Alta Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:37 am

As we have come to know as fans of motorsports the winter time has been always been a time of no racing/no fun. (well with Formula E now it's scarce rather than none) But at the same time it makes the hunger for our loveable racing cars to come back much more stronger when the new year comes, and as we get into the dying days of January the party is about to get kicked off once again...But before it kicks into high gear the racing season likes to give us a little sample of the cake...A pre-show more less, and what better way to get in the motorsports season mood then a cake that lasts 24 hours! I'm talking about America's grand 24 hour sport car race The Rolex 24 at the Daytona International Speedway presented by the TUDOR's United Sportscar Series/IMSA.

Last year's had it's moments of good and bad, Good as in the the closing battle in the GTD class between the Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari driving by Alessandro Pier Guidi and the Flying Lizard Audi driven by legendary European GP race leader in 2007 leader Markus Winkelhock in which it was ended by a wild side by side move that ended in the grass which gave the win to Level 5. Good for the Action Express tag team of the final boss of 2000's Champ Car Sebastian Bourdias, Joao Barbosa, and Former Champ Car/We don't talk about his NASCAR career Christian Fittipaldi who took the victory in last year's race and with the same tag team back again for another war with the 24 can they do it again? The bad side of this last year had the horrifying crash with the  GTLM Risi Competizione Ferrari driven by Matteo Malucelli and the Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing DP driven by Memo Gidley in which the faster DP slammed into almost stalled GT car ending in one of biggest frontal impacts that we've seen in racing for years. Gidley has not raced since the accident and is still recovering from the accident but recent reports have said he will be able to get in a race car again sometime in the future. Matteo Malucelli is currently not entered for the Rolex 24.

Who knows what wild moments and crazy stuff we'll see this year? Will we see another neck and neck battle? Will we see a surprise team come up in the win race? Will we see the 3 hour fog full course cautions that we've come to see in the morning hours? Who Knows!

For the Americans watching the race the schedule for where the race is airing goes like this.

From 2:00 to 4:00 PM EST will be on the main FOX channel
From 4:00 to 8:00 PM EST will be on Fox Sports 2
From 8:00 to 10 PM EST will be on Fox Sports 1
From 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM will be IMSA.com with live video stream and live commentary courtesy of Radio Le Mans
From 7:00 AM to the finish of the race will be on Fox Sports 1

Also for people looking for potential fun in the late night hours/the race from a team's perspective the GTD Magnus Racing team has streamed the race from their perspective the last few years although it is not confirmed if they will be doing it again this year at this time.


Entry List: (Courtesy of IMSA.Com): http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/races/entry_lists/2015%20TUDOR%20Championship%20ROLEX%20Pre-Event%20Entry%20List_1.pdf

Notable drivers/teams in the field:

Prototype Class:
The #0 Delta Wing tag team features Ganassi turncoat Memo Rojas, The Queen of 2000's Champ Car Katherine Legge, and Indy Lights champ Gabby Chaves
The #1 Extreme Speed team has one of the more well known drivers of early Indycar in Scott Sharp and former Champ Car driver Ryan Dalziel
The #2 Extreme Speed team has former Gainsco driver Jon Fogarty
As mentioned above the winning #5 Action Express team is the same
The #7 Starworks entry has Brittney Rosberg's hair rival Brendon Hartley, Former F1/Supposedly nearly got a ride with Caterham this year driver Rubens Barichello, and Indycar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay
The #10 Wayne Taylor tag team is the same as it's always been pretty much
#31 Action Express entry has the experience Nascar/CART/F1/Ultimate Slap-Fight Championship driver Max Papis
#50 Highway to Help racing team has former Fox Sports commentator Dorsey Schroeder returning to the Rolex 24 for the first time in 13 years
The #60 Action Express machine has Nascar driver AJ Allmendinger along for the ride
The #70 Mazda Slow...I mean Speedsource team has Indycar's Peoples Champion James Hinchcliffe back for the adventure
The #90 VisitFlordia.Com team has well known Audi Le Mans driver Mike Rockenfeller
Ganassi Stable 1 has former Nascar and CART driver Scott Preutt, well known sports car racer/"that guy that flipped at mid-ohio that one year" driver Joey Hand, Indycar driver Charlie Kimball, and potential future Indycar star Sage Karam
Stable 2 has Indycar Champion Scott Dixon, Indycar Champion Tony Kannan, I'll be shocked if he doesn't race Indycar down the line Kyle Larson, and probably won't race Indycar/ Ben's Wife Jamie McMurray

Prototype Challenge:

#11 RSR Racing team has former CART driver Bruno Junquiera and current Indycar driver Jack Hawksworth
The #16 BAR1 Motorsports team includes guy that's show up in Nascar every now and again "Hollywood" Tomy Drissi and Indycar driver "The Plow" Martin Plowman
The #54 Core Autosport team which won in class last year has Former Nascar driver Colin Braun
For whatever reason the #61 BAR1 Motorsports has Martin Plowman listed in twice so i don't know if that's a mistake or Plowman is trying to combine the cars to make some sort of Transformer Autobot thing, but i guess we should believe in the Plowman who believes in you.

GTLM

The All-American Corvette tag team of cars has in the #3 Corvette has well known Danish driver and father of at this time of a former f1 driver, Jan Magnussen as well as Australian driver and looking for a ride in Indycar right now Ryan Briscoe
The #4 Corvette has French Indycar driver Simon Pagenaud in helms of that team
#24 BMW team has son of Bobby Rahal and current (Bobby...why?) Indycar driver Graham Rahal.
The #62 Risi Competizione team has "I'm not that David Ragan" and former GP2 driver Davide Rigon and Former F1 driver and #2 driver champion Giancarlo Fischella.
#98 Aston Martin Racing team has former F1 driver Pedro Lamy and Son of former F1 driver and current Nascar Europe driver Mathias Lauda
The winning #911 Porsche North America team is back with it's previous line-up of Nick "Space" Tandy, and Patrick Pilet, however the "newbie" in the folds is Marc Lieb.

GTD:

The #22 Alex Job Racing/Half-Life 3 confirmed team has Australian V8 Supercar driver and still looking for that soup from the 2014 race in Shane Van Gisbergen
The #44 Magnus Racing team has Former Nascar driver Andy Lally on the team. (If Magnus does the stream again you'll probably get to chat with Lally and more)
Everyone's favorite driver Markus Winkelhock is spyked back into the the #45 Flying Lizard team
#58 Wright Motorsports team has former Champ Car driver Jan Haylen and the actor dude Patrick Dempsey
The #63 Scuderia Corsa team has one-off Indy 500 driver Townsend Bell and former Nascar driver Anthony Lazzaro going into battle
The #81 GB Autosport team has Sports Car Driver and holder of the Attack Girlfriend Mike Skeen ready to slap up the competiton
#97 Turner Motorsport has well-known sports car driver/Nascar road ringer...Wait who said that? Oh! Boris Said that.
#007 Aston Martin team wraps it with Australian driver and Indy 500 entry last year James Davison
The Level 5 Motorsports team that won last year will not return to this race.

And there you have it...Let's start the racing season boys!


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Post by Spannerhead29 (Nelson) Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:49 am

"Australian V8's driver and Indy 500 entry last year James Davison"

James has never done V8 Supercars, but is cousins to Will and Alex Davison.
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Post by Alta Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:57 am

Spannerhead29 (Nelson) wrote:"Australian V8's driver and Indy 500 entry last year James Davison"

James has never done V8 Supercars, but is cousins to Will and Alex Davison.
I could've sworn he ran part-time, but yeah i goofed lol.
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Post by SpeedDemon37 Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:11 pm

I've really started to enjoy sports car racing more and more over the last couple of years. I'm very much anticipating this race to kick off the new year! (Especially since I lost the last 5 hours of last year's Petit Le Mans - the last race that the TUSCC has run - in a DVR mishap.)
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Post by navycook75 Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:44 pm

For people wondering if Magnus Racing will stream again, they will.

I'm ready.
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Post by Alta Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:17 pm

Your pole sitters for each class,

Overall/P: #60 Michael Shank Racing Honda HPD. Pew/Negri Jr./Allmendinger/McMurry
PC: #16 BAR1 Motorsports Oreca FLM09. (THE SPONGEBOB CAR) Mowlen/Papadopoulos/Driss/Alder/Plowman
GTLM: #4 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette. Gavin/Miller/Pagenaud
GTD: #007 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin V12 Vantage. Nielsen/Davison/Nygaard/Davis

Full Results here: http://imsatiming.com/Results/2015/TUDOR%20Championship/01-Daytona%20Rolex%2024/TUSC%20Rolex%2024%20Daytona%20Qualifying.pdf
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Post by Alpineopossum Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:31 pm

Some other notables

* The Ganassi team ran second and third.
* The defending winners of the race, The AER #5 was 4th.
* The DeltaWing was fifth.
* A seriously amateur-ish Ohio effort called RG Racing (driven by businessman Mark Kvamme, who if I'm not mistaken was appointed to an economic development board by Governor John Kasich in the not too distant past) qualified 11th, and outpaced a few Pro cars.
* The Kings of LMPC, CORE Autosport came second in class.
* The Vettes set a new track record.
* Porsche had a disasterous run in GTLM, coming in 8th, 9th, and 10th.
* The #009 Aston, which included former F1 driver Eliseo Salazar as an "amateur", did not set a time. The GB Autosport #81 and the Extreme Speed Motorsports #1 Honda prototype did not either.
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Post by f1fan12 Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:43 pm

Well, the Delta Wing puffing smoke...
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Post by PYLrulz Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:01 pm

You're kidding me. Fox Sports cuts out early to say they are going to overtime for a college basketball game...

THEN THEY GO AN AIR A UFC THING?!?

Fox Sports, get your shit together!
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Post by f1fan12 Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:04 pm

Wow Fox, another reason why I hate you!
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Post by PYLrulz Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:10 pm

Well back on now, but still, Fox Sports is just horrible. If it ain't hand egg, they'll punt it around like one on 4th down.
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Post by Mother of Invention Sat Jan 24, 2015 5:56 pm

PYLrulz wrote:You're kidding me.  Fox Sports cuts out early to say they are going to overtime for a college basketball game...

THEN THEY GO AN AIR A UFC THING?!?

Fox Sports, get your shit together!

no, the UFC was the one that got interrupted by the basketball so UFC got moved to FS1


Also I would venture to say UFC brings in more eyes then USCC
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Post by HelloMyNameisPancho Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:14 pm

A Ferrari driver makes a bonehead move...am I surprised? Psyduck Headache

Also, this battle with Bourdais and Taylor is pretty awesome, mini throwback.
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Post by HelloMyNameisPancho Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:56 pm

2nd place #5 Action Express car stopped on the track and not firing back up! Shame, had a great race.
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Post by Liam O'Brian Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:33 am

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Post by Liam O'Brian Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:38 am

If that 81 car was a song it would be "Highway to Hell"
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Post by Alpineopossum Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:39 am

The two factory Porsches took each other out overnight. Un-f**king-believeable.
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Post by BWard Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:43 am

And here's how that happened.
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Post by BWard Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:24 am

Also, this how the #44 Magnus Racing car went out:

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Post by bsoyuz Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:31 am

Apparently, from what I watched in their Stream, Andy Lally was driving normally and suddenly the possum swerved into the track, and Lally didn't even knew.
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Post by RyanB06 Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:31 am

Ow. (Or rather, ew.)
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Post by Alta Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:04 am

Any idea what happen to the Brazilian Ferrari car? I Know it wrecked but was wondering what was the cause.
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Post by bsoyuz Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:37 am

Alta wrote:Any idea what happen to the Brazilian Ferrari car? I Know it wrecked but was wondering what was the cause.

Not sure why, but seeing who the driver was at the time (Francisco Longo), I wouldn't be surprised if it was by major idiocy.
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Post by RetrogradeRenegade Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:49 am

Alta wrote:Any idea what happen to the Brazilian Ferrari car? I Know it wrecked but was wondering what was the cause.

The #44 had a ton of smoke pouring out at around the same time, it might've been oil but I haven't heard for sure. If it was then that was probably it.
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Post by Lucstar88 Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:58 pm

That was a wacky couple of minutes, and the 54 who dominated PC, is out.
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Post by navycook75 Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:58 am

BWardboy88 wrote:Also, this how the #44 Magnus Racing car went out:

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#AvengeBallast was the hashtag they used after the accident.

Felt bad to hear about that in more ways than one, not only did it kill an animal (wasn't anybodies fault), but it took them even more out of contention.
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Post by Mother of Invention Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:34 am

http://sportscar365.com/imsa/tusc/wayne-taylor-racing-loses-podium-over-drive-time-issue/

Wayne Taylor Racing DQed due to the mishap with driving time management.
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Post by BWard Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:47 am

And yet another team has had its Daytona podium taken away from them.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117575
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Post by Alta Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:59 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:And yet another team has had its Daytona podium taken away from them.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117575
NO NOT SPONGEBOB!
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Post by HelloMyNameisPancho Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:24 pm

Alta wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:And yet another team has had its Daytona podium taken away from them.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117575
NO NOT SPONGEBOB!

And the winner now is...ROCKY!!!

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