This Sunday’s 100-minute qualifying race to set the grid for the IMSA Championship season opener

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Should be a real 100-minute battle to see who wins the pole for the 24 IMSA race the following weekend

IMHO : Michelin should keep their noses out of forcing track rules as hard enough to keep a car racing hard for 24 hours and
not worrying about if tire pressures are too hot or cold

IMSA and Michelin have introduced tire usage requirements for all classes,
including negative camber values in GTD Pro and GTD.
The new operational requirements, which outline minimum cold and/or hot pressures and/or stabilized pressures, will be enforced by in-race penalties if teams are found to be running outside the permitted parameters.

Teams will be given a warning/reprimand on the first violation,
followed by a drive-through penalty for the second violation and a stop-and-hold plus ten-second penalty for subsequent violations.
Additionally, a penalty assessed in qualifying may result in qualifying times being disallowed and an unserved penalty or penalty assessed post-race will be added to the car’s race finishing time and may include a lap count penalty.
 

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Teams and drivers for GT Daytona Pro (GTD PRO)

BMW Team RLL: No. 24 BMW M4 GT3, drivers Philipp Eng, Sheldon van der Linde, Marco Wittman and Nick Yelloly; No. 25 BMW M4 GT3, drivers Connor De Phillippi, John Edwards, Augusto Farfus and Jesse Krohn

Corvette Racing: No. 3 Corvette C8.R, drivers Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor and Nicky Catsburg
No. 4 Corvette C8.R for Rolex 24 At Daytona, drivers Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy and Marco Sorensen

Heart of Racing Team: No. 23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3, drivers Alex Riberas, Ross Gunn and Maxime Martin

Pfaff Motorsports: No. 9 Porsche 911 GT3R, drivers Matt Campbell, Mathieu Jaminet and Felipe Nasr

TR3 Racing: No. 63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO for Rolex 24 At Daytona, drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Rolf Ineichen, Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli

Vasser Sullivan Racing: No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3, drivers Ben Barnicoat, Jack Hawksworth and Kyle Kirkwood

WeatherTech Racing (3 CARS):
No. 15 Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Rolex 24 At Daytona, drivers Austin Cindric, Dirk Mueller and Patrick Assenheimer ;
No. 79 Porsche 911 GT3R, drivers Cooper MacNeil, Julien Andlauer, Matteo Cairoli and Alessio Picariello;
No. 97 Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Rolex 24 At Daytona, drivers Cooper MacNeil, Maro Engle, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella

So WeatherTech owns and sponsors this series, yet biased race results by having 3 cars (2 nameplates),
funny, do not see the BoP wack them as they did for the C8.Rs
 

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ROAR before the Rolex 24 at Daytona
January 23, 2022

Daytona International Speedway
Circuit Length: 3.56 miles
Entry by Class:
DPi - 7
LMP2 - 10
LMP3 - 9
GTD PRO - 13
GTD - 22
Television/Online Broadcast: (ROAR)
Sunday, January 23 (All times ET) Motul Pole Award Qualifying Race
USA:
Peacock TV: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm ET
January 29 11:00 am - 12:00 pm channel USA (tape delay)

International:
IMSA TV: 2:00 pm-3:45 pm ET

LIVE TIMING: Scoring | IMSA

Live Timing for mobile device: http://scoring.imsa.com/mobile.html

Entry List:
ROAR: https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uplo...tryList_v3.pdf

Radio: IMSA Radio
IMSA: TV | IMSA

RS Player

Local: 107.9 FM local at track, 93.5 FM and 1150 AM in Daytona,

2) PIT NOTES: http://twitter.com/ @CorvetteRacing, @IMSA, @IMSAlive, @DISupdates, @Rolex24Hours
Facebook: Corvette Racing Fans

Roar BoP pdf tables: https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uplo...P-01122022.pdf

TICKET INFO:
Corvette Corral sold out. Regular tickets can be purchased at:
https://www.daytonainternationalspee...A/Tickets.aspx

Event Schedule:
Roar: https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uplo...OAR-011222.pdf

Track Map:
https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uplo...ack-Map-v1.pdf

Pit Map:
Roar: https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uplo...-Layout-V4.pdf

WEATHER:
http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Raci...-Speedway.aspx

Hotels:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g3...da-Hotels.html
 

teamzr1

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This is a qualify race today, starts at 2 PM ET

Even though IMSA relaxed the BoP on C8.Rs yesterday they still ran like crap this AM with the 20-minute warm-up laps
Still running 2-3 seconds slower per lap then the lead cars in class

warmuplaps.jpg
 

teamzr1

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Race starting at 2 PM ET Sunday, race is 1 hour and 45 minutes
This decides where cars will start for the Rolex 24 hour race next weekend

You can monitor the live scoring via IMSA at Live scoring
Corvettes are in the Pro class and the Caddys in DPi class
 

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C8.R Corvette Racing finished up its first 3 days of official testing & competition in the new GTD PRO class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Sunday, with work to do ahead of the upcoming Rolex 24 At Daytona.

The team finished poorly in eighth & ninth in class and 14th and 18th among GTD cars following a 100-minute qualifying race to set the grid for the Rolex 24 on Jan. 29-30. Sunday’s race was the first for the evolved Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, which ran for all three days in GTD spec for the first time in a full-field setting.

The results show the uphill battle facing last year’s GT Le Mans (GTLM) race-winning program. Antonio Garcia and Jordan Taylor last year’s GTLM champions and Rolex 24 winners with Nicky Catsburg in the mid-engine No. 3 Corvette C8.R led the team’s efforts but finished a lap behind the class-winning Lamborghini.
The C8.R has undergone a number of changes from its two-year GTLM campaign to bring it in line with the existing GTD cars. Corvette Racing is running with more weight, less power, a higher level of drag, customer Michelin tires and an ABS system for 2022 compared to 2021.

Even with a mid-week Balance of Performance adjustment by the sanctioning body in an attempt for more evenly balanced competition, the Corvettes still faced a significant performance deficit in Saturday’s qualifying and Sunday’s race.

Sunday’s race ran green for the full 100 minutes. Garcia ran the first half of the race and gained three spots in class in the opening 10 minutes. He remained there before the GTD pit stop cycle began and handed off to Taylor, who rejoined in the same position after Sorensen made the class’ final stop with 45 minutes remaining.

Tommy Milner and Marco Sorensen teamed in the No. 4 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette in their first race together.
Sorensen turned his first laps in competition as a member of Corvette Racing as the pair will drive with Nick Tandy. Milner opened with the longest stint of any GTD PRO drivers at 55 minutes, but the top-speed deficit hurt his progress before the pit cycle began.

Corvette Racing returns to the Daytona track Thursday for the opening practices for the 60tth Rolex 24 At Daytona. The race begins at 1:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 29. Television coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. ET on NBC before transitioning between the USA Network and the Peacock streaming service before the final two hours of NBC coverage Sunday afternoon.
The full race will stream on Peacock while live IMSA Radio coverage will air on XM 202, SiriusXM Online 992 and IMSA.com, which also will host live timing and scoring.

ANTONIO GARCIA, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R EIGHTH IN GTD PRO:

“Knowing how little testing we did before the Roar, we used this race as a big test for tires.
There are a lot of different things with the tire regulations where you have to run a certain pressure, and we learned a lot about that.
It’s the first experience we’ve had with this. I was driving and learning how to maximize the tire performance.
Even if we didn’t have the overall pace to be farther up, I think we can a lot from here for the race.
Even if it’s only learning how to run a double-stint, it’s better than nothing.

Almost all the other GTD teams have been running this tire on their car for a long time, so there is a lot of catching up we need to do on this little thing.
Let’s see if we can come back stronger in a few days, so we can be where we need to be.”

JORDAN TAYLOR, NO. 3 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R EIGHTH IN GTD PRO:

“The race was a qualifying race, so you can’t really win too much in that event. It’s pretty much just about setting us up for the Rolex. For us, we know the car we have now. Throughout the Roar, we made some developments and gathered more data to hopefully set us up well for next week.

That’s the one that counts. We still have some more work to do in order to understand the ABS, the new tire and everything.
The guys will have a busy week ahead, but I know we’ll come back strong next week.
Understanding the race craft of this category was important. We’re now mixed into a new class with GTD and Am drivers as well.

Understanding how they race and how we will interact is useful. It’s a lot harder to get by them now that we have the same BoP, so it will make for a long and interesting 24 hours. It will make staying out of trouble that much more important than years past.”

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R NINTH IN GTD PRO:

“We’re obviously not thrilled with our ultimate pace. There is still a lot to learn with tires and things like that, experience that will help us for the race. Today was good for us as drivers to learn more about the tires and about interacting with the other competitors in GTD. This played out as we probably expected.

The plan, of course, was to learn as much as we could. From my perspective, learning where some other cars are fast and where they aren’t, how they race… that will be a huge part of 24 hours here with 35 cars all near our pace. From that standpoint, it was successful.
The car is in one piece, and we stayed out of trouble. There’s lots of race data for the engineers to pour over and make our Corvettes as fast as they can.”

MARCO SORENSEN, NO. 4 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R NINTH IN GTD PRO:

“First off, it’s amazing to drive a whole stint in the Corvette. I got to understand the car in a totally different way.
The tires we are on now are new for the team, so it was good to get some data on how much as a driver you can push on these tires.
I’m still on a very steep learning curve with this car, and I want to keep that curve going up, so we are 100 percent ready for next week.

I was a little surprised it was green all the way. You drive to the limit of the car, and then you just sit on the straights and wait!
There were some silly overtakes out there that people probably didn’t have to make in a qualifying race.
I’m happy to have done my first race in a Corvette now. We have to now keep it going for the next week.”
 

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The tyre rules will be to prevent failures. A blowout on the banking will not be pretty.

Guess WeatherTech does not feel they need to abide by rules everyone else has to

Look who the cheaters are ! :)

A few GTD Pro and GTD cars will not start the Rolex 24 where they apparently qualified after they were found to be outside tire usage requirements in the Rolex 24 qualifying race.

Following post-race inspection, the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Porsche and the No. 97 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GTD Pro entries,
along with the No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche GTD car, were given the time equivalent of drive-through penalties for failing to operate within parameters defined by Michelin and IMSA.

Teams were given a warning in-race for the first infraction, before penalties were applied for a second.
The No. 79 Porsche finished second in GTD Pro, while the No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche was third in GTD.

In a tech bulletin issued prior to the start of the Roar, Michelin outlined certain requirements on cambers and pressures.
Negative camber beyond 3.5 degrees is prohibited, and the bulletin specified what minimum stabilized pressures had to be for given camber ranges, starting at 29psi.
 
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