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[Volcano70]

 

Ah, the Rolex 24- America's Le Mans. A test of true endurance, speed, and reliability. Those words can also be spoken for Le Mans. Both races, along with Sebring, make the Endurance Triple Crown. Ford made the most headlines with their announcement of running two full-time cars in the newly renamed WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Ganassi still has their trademark porototypes, and Scott Pruett looks to finally break Haywood's record of overall wins, but with Action Express. The DeltaWing was out early last year, but we'll see how they do. 

FlexBox Racing's #54 looks to get revenge as an extremely late-race crash in the bus stop cost them victory in PC, but PR1/Mathiesen look to double up on victories in the open-cockpit spec PC.

GTLM in last year's running saw a 4th place overall from Corvette, and an overall victory in the Petit Le Mans, unheard of for a while. The primarily-factory class will be stocked with talent with names of Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia, John Edwards, Lucas Luhr, Joey Hand, Ryan Briscoe, Nick Tandy, Earl Bamber, Giancarlo Fisichella, and many more. This could be the headline-making class in IMSA this year.

An upgrade to the GT Daytona class allows GT3-spec cars to compete regularly, so Lamborghini has many cars in competition.

 

CTSCC will again run the BMW Performance 200 on Friday January 29

 

Track Map

 

 

Official IMSA website- http://www.imsa.com/

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Thread- http://forums.autosport.com/topic/199949-2016-weathertech-sportscar-championship-silly-seasondiscussion/

Feeder Series thread-http://forums.autosport.com/topic/199964-2016-imsa-lower-tier-series-thread/#entry7334748

GT Thread for GT-based series- http://forums.autosport.com/topic/200879-gt-thread-of-2016/#entry7407859

 

Let's Go Racing!!

 

Oh yes, the spotter guide-http://www.spottergu...G_16_DAY_v1.pdf (Thx JP)

Edited by Volcano70, 28 January 2016 - 22:58.

[jonpollak]

Live UK coverage?

MotorsTV I'm guessing?

 

Jp

[Jonnycraig37]

Live UK coverage?
MotorsTV I'm guessing?

Jp

MotorsTV had the USCC so you'd imagine they'll have it. Doubt they'll be covering more than 12 hours of it though in 3 hour blocks.

[HistoryFan]

do anyone know a complete entry list?

[Prost1997T]

Star Mazda alumni topping the P (Luis Felipe Derani) and PC (Jack Hawksworth) classes in this session.

[Viryfan]

MotorsTV had the USCC so you'd imagine they'll have it. Doubt they'll be covering more than 12 hours of it though in 3 hour blocks.

 

Negotiations are ongoing between Rolex 24H and Motorstv.

[Imateria]

Are they still going to be streaming the full race on their website?

[Volcano70]

I think they still would, not sure

[jonpollak]

Well I sure as hell ain't gonna watch FOX coverage after what they did to Bobby V.

[Wingcommander]

I hope that the imsa.com stream is as it was last year. It's a great service for people outside US. 

 

I'm really excited about this race. We have a good bunch of competitive DPs and P2s fighting for the overall win, new GTs and the general excitement of the first race of the year (atleast for me). Bring it on!

[Prost1997T]

Some onboards:

 

 

 

[Volcano70]

Daytona Rising looks good!!

[jonpollak]

Just heard that MotorsTV will NOT be showing live coverage.

Hope my source is wrong but....

 

Jp

[TheRacingElf]

Just heard that MotorsTV will NOT be showing live coverage.

Hope my source is wrong but....

 

Jp

Nope your source is right I fear, that's what I've heard too..

 

They probably won't broadcast the rest of the IMSA championship either

Edited by TheRacingElf, 15 January 2016 - 22:12.

[sportyskells]

who will show it on the UK side of things if that true?

[Sheepmachine]

who will show it on the UK side of things if that true?

BT sport maybe? Although I would have thought it would be a bit to niche for them.

[Jonnycraig37]

who will show it on the UK side of things if that true?

Nobody.

[grackle]

If it makes you feel any better ... I'm not finding any Canadian listings either. :/

[Prost1997T]

It's been on ESPN\BT Sport for the last couple of seasons (same with NHRA).

[grackle]

Nevermind me. I was looking at the wrong weekend.

[Myrvold]

This is the 4th time today I've thought that this was the thread for the 24hrs of Dubai!

[Volcano70]

That's why I linked the GT thread in the OP

[Jonnycraig37]

Sabine Schmitz is now back in at Frikadelli in place of De Phillippi.

[jdanton]

Anyone know what the deal was with IMSA forcing Bob Varsha out on twitter? He has been nothing but class and was quite erudite on twitter about the whole mess. However, it seems like IMSA is doing everything possible to kill the TV audience of this series. 

[Prost1997T]

Anyone know what the deal was with IMSA forcing Bob Varsha out on twitter? He has been nothing but class and was quite erudite on twitter about the whole mess. However, it seems like IMSA is doing everything possible to kill the TV audience of this series. 

 

Not sure what you're referring to? This is what they posted about 2016 coverage: http://www.imsa.com/...vision-coverage

[jdanton]

See here.

 

http://www.racer.com...ead-for-imsa-tv

[paulb]

See here.

 

http://www.racer.com...ead-for-imsa-tv

 

That sux. I much prefer Varsha over Creamer. Perhaps Varsha is not a good yeller.

[Volcano70]

At least Radio Le Mans has good announcers still

[Volcano70]

That's how many days to go, but it is even less than that!!!

This race should be a good one!

[JHSingo]

That's how many days to go, but it is even less than that!!!

This race should be a good one!

 

The off season blues hit me this weekend. I was wishing the race was on this weekend, so that I could get my motorsport fix!

 

Hopefully we see a classic this year. The fantastic entry list and the close times from testing means I'm really looking forward to it.

[SKL]

Much prefer Varsha-  maybe he finally moved over to NBCSN so he could do F1. Hope so...

 

Look forward to seeing the new  Ford GT-  that is the best looking new race car in a LONG time.

[Risil]

The off season blues hit me this weekend. I was wishing the race was on this weekend, so that I could get my motorsport fix!

 

Hopefully we see a classic this year. The fantastic entry list and the close times from testing means I'm really looking forward to it.

 

Don't forget we've got a Klassic KART watch-a-long this evening at 5 GMT. I promise it will be a barrel of laughs and/or recriminations.

[TheRacingElf]

With Motorstv not broadcasting this event, will there be any other way for people outside of the US to watch? Will they have a free stream or do I have to look for some Nigerians?

[Risil]

Should be broadcast on imsa.com

 

How those servers will hold up during the race is anyone's guess.

[TheRacingElf]

Should be broadcast on imsa.com

 

How those servers will hold up during the race is anyone's guess.

Thnx, well at least there is an option to watch it

[Prost1997T]

Rubens Barrichello will be the fourth driver for Wayne Taylor Racing: http://www.motorspor...-racing-670002/

[jonpollak]

DAYTONA 24 NIGERIAN SPOTTERS GUIDE

 

Jp

[Dan333SP]

One of the Vipers got a new paintjob for Daytona-

 

 

That's a lot going on. I still miss the factory cars with their red w/white striped liveries, but this is certainly interesting.

[Risil]

Hey, they're the same people who're sponsoring the Sage Karam Dreyer & Reinbold car at the Indy 500.

[JHSingo]

One thing I am a bit confused about for this race, is why there is an "Aston Martin Racing" entry in GTD rather than GTLM. Now, I may be wrong, but as far as I understood it, GTD was supposed to be mostly a privateer class, with the manufacturers fighting it out in GTLM.

Just something that stood out as a little odd to me when looking at the spotter's guide.

[Prost1997T]

GTD = GT3, it isn't a privateer-specific class.

[Nathan]

FWIW Gas Monkey is based in Dallas, they basically buy/sell collectible cars and do customization/restorations.  They broke out with a TV show called 'Fast'N Loud', have added a second TV show based on internet videos, and all this had led the brand to start opening bar/grilles and selling merchandising (I imagine the cash cow).

[Volcano70]

Aston did run Daytona and Sebring in GTLM last year, wonder why they switched. I preferred the Viper Exchange Liveries

[TF110]

At least it matches the mirrors. The rules say gtd cars have to run the lime green mirrors and rear wing end plates.

[Victor_RO]

Magnus Racing's always awesome (completely intentional) preview video:

 

[stewie]

Is there any news on the UK coverage yet?

[Kev00]

Motors TV doing 2 hour highlights on 6th Feb. Not showing anything live and they haven't said if they will show any other races.

[August]

One thing I am a bit confused about for this race, is why there is an "Aston Martin Racing" entry in GTD rather than GTLM. Now, I may be wrong, but as far as I understood it, GTD was supposed to be mostly a privateer class, with the manufacturers fighting it out in GTLM.

Just something that stood out as a little odd to me when looking at the spotter's guide.

 

Seeing Dalla Lana in the lineup, I guess it's him who pays the bills. Maybe that's why they went into the Pro-Am class.

[Dan333SP]

Seeing Dalla Lana in the lineup, I guess it's him who pays the bills. Maybe that's why they went into the Pro-Am class.

 

Has to be something to do with that. The only GTLM entry they made last year at Sebring and Daytona had their normal factory hotshoes Mucke and Turner along with Dalla Lana and Mathias Lauda. I think they're content to just race their factory GTE cars in the WEC, unless someone is willing to pony up and pay for a car to be run stateside, and then the person paying is the one that dictates whether it's a GT3/GTD or GTE/GTLM.

 

Kinda the same deal with the "factory" Aston-Lola that ran in the ALMS in 2010. They wouldn't have been in the US at all except for Adrian Fernandez getting Lowe's to sign on to sponsor them.

Edited by Dan333SP, 27 January 2016 - 14:32.

[Dmitriy_Guller]

Much prefer Varsha-  maybe he finally moved over to NBCSN so he could do F1. Hope so...

 

Look forward to seeing the new  Ford GT-  that is the best looking new race car in a LONG time.

I don't think Varsha is going to do Formula 1 again.  Leigh Diffey seems to be the NBC man of the future.  Varsha has 20 years on Diffey, and I assume must be nearing retirement.  It's a shame, because it really is no contest between Varsha and Diffey.