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TUDOR United Sportscar Championship Round 8 of 12: Lime Rock Park
A short-notice thread for a short-track race.
Yeah, yeah, we've got that freaky twenty-four hour massage/facial/skin 'exfoliation'/running-out-of-innuendos thing going on in some forest in Europe right now, but don't forget about 'Murica!
Totally not pandering to the lowest common denominator here. Not one bit.
Round 8 of the Tudor United Sportscar Championship aka 'Variable-Length B#%&ch Session About DPs and American Racing While Cars Inconspicuously Circulate in the Background' commences in a little under two hours. The series will have to find a new name this weekend, as its hottest topic won't even be doing the rounds; today's race will feature only the PC and GTD classes, whose illustrious rosters have included renowned names such as Gaston Kearby and Martin Plowman. I'm reduced to using 'names' as a descriptor because I couldn't think of anything more spectacular to call them.
Series fan-favourite Christina Nielsen is also competing in the 007 Aston Martin this weekend. Try to contain your excitement.
The only thing I tend to remember about this track is that Honda's ARX-03a owned everything a few years ago when it came back from three laps down to win. I'm not posting a video for fear you'll watch that instead of the race, you cold-hearted series-killer.
Not that coming back from three laps down would be a particularly noteworthy achievement here:
If the race is boring you, try unraveling the paradox of the mysterious 'no name straight'. Successfully doing so may cause you to travel back in time.
Nestled in the hills of a little town whose name resembles a command (though I'm still not sure what an 'icut' is) Lime Rock Park has been a staple of American racing for years, having been driven by legends such as Mario Andretti and Stirling Moss. At 1.5 miles, the laps are going to tick by faster than you can say 'full-course yellow'. Most classes here will lap around sub-50 seconds, which means there's going to be twice as many opportunities as normal for an am driver to ignore blue flags and go all DRACONE on his pursuers.
At the very least, we'll finally get an answer to the age-old sportscar racing question, 'are moving chicanes still moving chicanes if you remove all the faster cars?' Somehow I have a feeling the answer is still going to be 'yes'.
IMSA 'employs' its own 'Nigerians' to manage streaming for its series--you can watch the whole race right here, no questions asked! Just be sure to include your routing number and mailing address.
http://www.imsa.com/camera/imsatv
Green flag is at 3:15 PM/15:15 hours local time. If you're not sure how to translate that into your language, use this thing! (Hint: it's in about one-hour and forty-five minutes from the thread start time.)
See you guys when the green flag drops!
