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handfulz28
01-24-2009, 08:01 AM
Is it me or is 3:30pm a late start? Fox coverage at 3pm, moves to Speed at 4 I think.

p729lws
01-24-2009, 08:36 AM
Yep, I thought it was always a noon to noon race. It was the year we went.

Dan

Last Tango
01-24-2009, 12:43 PM
Race was changed to 3:30 this year. This allows more folks to arrive and see stuff before the start. Also gives them extra time to run more support races like to Legends and a couple others. Also allows more time for the Corvette Club to make their parade lap (Corvettes are painfully slow).:popcorn:
Also makes Sunday a bigger day of racing so folks feel like coming back the second day. Lots of my buds are skipping Saturday and going Sunday to watch the finish.

Also, this aligns it more closely to the 24 Hours of LeMans start/finish time of 1600.

mjw930
01-24-2009, 04:58 PM
Normal race start has been 1:30 for at least the last 10 years but it has had later starts in the past. So far I would day the start time has had little effect on the Saturday crowd but we'll see what Sunday looks like.

We always go for the start and this year we showed up at 10:00 not trusting the crowds so we ended up with 3 extra hours to kill after we walked the paddock and the pits. Kind of boring actually.....

We'll drop back in later after dinner then early in the morning to watch them race into the daylight then we're out of there.

I actually liked the earlier start time because I gave us back Sunday afternoon. Now I need to be near a TV @ 3:30 (no way I'm waiting at the track and fighting the exit crowds.... Ain't happening just to see the finish live.

FISHIN SUCKS
01-24-2009, 07:41 PM
Also allows more time for the Corvette Club to make their parade lap (Corvettes are painfully slow).:popcorn:

...And just what are you rolling that is so fast????? FYI, parade laps are paced not to exceed 45 mph on most major tracks. Reason: Idiots deciding to take it upon themselves to take a turn like they are actually in the race and crash into the barrier wall. This happened about 9 years ago at the Indianapolis 500 track when a MORON from the Viper club lost control, wrecking the car, puking anti-freeze on the track before a major event. When I paraded the Indy 500 track in 2002 with the 'Corvette Club', we were instructed by track officials of speed, single file formation, and if we violated their rules, we would be escorted off the premises with potential fines. They were also the ones that informed us of the Viper Club mess.

Last Tango
01-24-2009, 10:59 PM
Ah-hhhh! I KNEW I would suck in some Corvette puke! LOL

Hey! Instead of Parade Laps, maybe you should try some real laps.

But you know, I can see why you love Donzi's. Big V8 surrounded by fiberglas.

(PS If Fishin' Sux, why did you snag my bait? LOL)

Breathe easy. I know your butt us frozen in up there. I was just lookin' to pick a fight.

Dads Thunder
01-25-2009, 07:34 AM
:shark:Nice!!! Picking on all of us in the snow and dreaming of nice sunshine and sunshine and sunshine Oh I guess it will come soon . At least we can go in the water here in the summer for a swim and not be BAIT !!
:shark: :frown::shark:



:mad::shark:
:nilly::shark:

:boat::shark:

FISHIN SUCKS
01-25-2009, 10:23 AM
Ah-hhhh! I KNEW I would suck in some Corvette puke! LOL
Hey! Instead of Parade Laps, maybe you should try some real laps.
But you know, I can see why you love Donzi's. Big V8 surrounded by fiberglas.
(PS If Fishin' Sux, why did you snag my bait? LOL)
Breathe easy. I know your butt us frozen in up there. I was just lookin' to pick a fight.
How original, a Guards Red Nazi go-kart, actually looks pretty nice! From the looks of it, THAT has obviously not seen any track time (no battle wounds)! You must be a spectator:nilly:, where I am a participant:yes:. I doubt that you would remember seeing it (being a Corvette and all), but we had it in the parking lot of the park when you guys had a Donzi get together/picnic just West of Orlando in August of 2006 (we road with Phil Reed). I raced out at Sebring and Orlando Speedworld that week. With the trash you were throwin' out from your previous posts, I figured you for a nissssan/hyyyyundai with trashcan-tailpipe kind of guy! Nice to see you own something SOMEWHAT respectable (LOL)! BTW, I love your ZX, she's a beauty. There, that may be our only common ground....and yes, at 8 degrees outside, it is cold:eek:

http://www.donzi.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=27518&d=1173365483

Last Tango
01-25-2009, 04:08 PM
FS,
I think we have a lot more in common than Donzi's. And I think that is a good thing.
The Nazi gokart is a 1999 Porsche Carrera (996) - 10 years old as of last month. And I do have a couple track miles on it. It has seen over 50 Porsche Club of America Driver Education events in the last 10 years. Roebling Road, Daytona, Sebring, Road Atlanta, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen. And I am a PCA National DE Instructor, which means the car and my butt see double duty most of those weekends. I'm also an Approved DE "Ride-Along" instructor, which means when I am not running in my own group, or instructing with a student in their car, I give nuggets a taste of the track as passengers. My job is not to scare them, but to sink the hook.

As for the "beauty shot", that was done after a freshening of the front bumper paint, which occurs about every other year to remove the track rash.

Come to Savannah, Georgia in April and join the Florida Crown Region, Porsche Club of America, for a DE weekend. I'll see you there. The Jacksonville Corvette Club usually provides a few of their members to play with us.
www.PCAFCR.org
:convertib:

FISHIN SUCKS
01-25-2009, 04:47 PM
*****ATTN: TEMPORARY THREAD HI-JACK*****

Hey LT,
I would probably agree then, we may have more in common. In addition to Sebring, I have also run Roebling Road and Mid Ohio as well as Putnam Park, Nelson Ledges (the attached picture, '80 Corvette), Gateway Int'l, Las Vegas, and Gingerman. My mom's name (retired) still holds track record in her class at Road Atlanta set in 1975 ('75 Corvette). I have a couple of friends in the PCA, one of them might still race (my neighbor). I grew up with and belong to NCCC (Nat'l Council of Corvette Clubs).

No wonder your car looked so good, you took it to the salon! And I figured it for a trailer queen, my bad!

March and April are pretty hectic for me this year with travel, but I appreciate the invite and I will check out my schedule. Roebling also doesn't like my sidepipes without mufflers, the last I knew they want you under 92db and I'm blowin 99 with empty tubes goin to turn 1. Twice a year Corvette Troy and the Porsche club put on a shoot out at Kilkare Raceway in Dayton, OH, maybe you come up, and I go down. Lately, I've been playing more boat than car the last two years, so I may need to wipe off a few cobwebbs:)


***END OF HI-JACK******JUST WANTED TO SHOW LT AND I CAN PLAY NICE

Last Tango
01-25-2009, 05:01 PM
And just to slide us back to the topic at hand, Brumos Porsche #58 finished First OVERALL today. And their other car, #59 finished Third OVERALL. Unless Juan Montoya was driving a Corvette powered car #01 (Second OVERALL), then the Porsches take home the watches today. Been a long time since Brumos was in the winner circle at the 24 Hours of Daytona. I am as happy as I can be for them. Too bad Hurley Haywood was in the 3rd place car. Would have been nice for him to win another 24 hours.
We both celebrated our 60th birthdays last year.

Congratulations Brumos Racing!