Round 1 : Daytona 3 Hours

Simulation: NASCAR Racing 2003 Season using the Redline GTP Mod
Race Server IP: check race mail
Password: check race mail
Race Date: Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Race Length: 116 Laps
Yellows: Off
Starts: Single file, Staggered with 0.5 - 1 second interval
Weather: 70° Clear, FIXED
Practice Time: 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm (GMT)
Qualify Time: 4:45 pm (GMT)
Happy Hour: approximately 4:50 pm (GMT)
Qualifying Laps: 3
Race Time: 5:00 pm (GMT)
Pace Lap: Short
Pit Road Speed Limit: none (even if Nascar says you have to respect a 70MPH Pit Road speed limit, you can actually blast through the pit lane at 200MPH+ with no penalty)
Car Setup: Open
Hardcore Mode: Driving Aids Off & Open Cockpit View
Pitstop Frequency: 1x
Damage: Moderate


Safety

We will be starting the race Single File Staggered to assist in eliminating the first lap incidents. You MUST start with a minimum of a .5 - 1 second gap to the driver in front of you . If a driver is too close at the start, or causing problems, we may consider restarting the race. No pass in the first few corners is going to win the race for you.


Chatting

During, Qualifications and Race, no chatting whatsoever will be tolerated. Even to warn other drivers that you're exiting/entering pits, or to thank a lapper for letting you through. If you do chat, you will receive a warning


-Please confirm you presence or absence to the race in this topic

Drivers having missed two races in a row without prior notification in the race's thread will be withdrawn from the Entry list.

You can as well post your pre/post race impressions here


A bit of history : As you know, the first round of the 1991 IMSA Camel GT championship was actually a 24hr race on the Daytona Road Course. We've chosen to run a 3hrs event to have a bigger and stronger field!!

In 1991, the Nissan armada was a dominant force for the bookmakers, but the always reliable Joest Racing emerged as a brillant winner with its ageing Porsche 962. Nissan managed to secure 2nd spot nevertheless, while Hotchkiss Racing took an unexpected 3rd in what proved to be a high-attrition race.

Let's hope that the HSO event will be as exciting, with a 20+ cars field expected, it ought to be good fun indeed !



Confirmed drivers :

Daueur Racing :

#0 : Milt Minter Jr
#00 : Matt Watkins

Bud Light Jaguar Racing :

#2 : Sasha Sosnowski
#3 : Guillaume Siebert

Milner Racing :

#4 : Kevin Lewis

Dyson Racing :

#16: Brendan Kaczmarek

MOMO :

#30: Thomas Cazorla

Spice Engineering :

#33 : Frank Verplanken

MTI Racing :

#64 : Bruno Goujon
#65 : Antoine de Mautor

Nissan Performance :

#1 : Alex Shurikus
#84 : Jim Ray

All American Racers :

#98 : Bill Yarbrough
#99 : Jerry Foehrkolb

Essex Racing :

#8 : Doug Tevik
#9 : Hervé Sabathé

David Tennyson Racing :

#19 : Texas Nation

Carlos Bobeda Racing :

#20 : Guy Pitra

Ecurie Scientific :

#36 : Andre Lagunzad

Comptech Racing :

#48 : Brad Otto
#49 : Alessandro Milano Rossini

Bieri Racing :

#80 : Troy Null

I'll be there

I can't wait for race day ! What a great field ! This is gonna be awesome !

I didn't get race mail. Can somebody send it to me via PM?

Monster Milt will be there in the #0 Dauer Porsche!

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Will definitely be there!

The #84 Nissan will be there. Nice paint by the way. Thanks.

Present

I'm there

This is 11:30 AM EST right?

Alex Shurikus wrote:

I didn't get race mail. Can somebody send it to me via PM?

I'll send it the day before the race !

Texas, EST is GMT-5

I will be in attendance for the race

Here now to confirm my entry for Daytona 3 hours. Good luck all!


---Alaster

Présent !

The #98 All American Toyota will be there! All American Toyota...kind of a stange name?

The #4 will be there

Is this a Sprint?

it is indeed. 12hrs of Sebring will be (hopefully) the only endurance event of the year.

Bill Yarbrough wrote:

All American Toyota...kind of a stange name?

To be fair, All American Racers was Dan Gurney's team since the begenning. They ran Eagles in Formula One and at Indy through the late 60's, then moved on to some more American-focused racing in the 70's-80's. They were hired by Toyota to represent the Japanese brand in the IMSA GTO series in 1987, and then stepped up to GTP racing, first with a Toyota Group C car and then with an all-American built chassis. To sum it up, the workforce and the chassis were American, and the money and the engine were Japanese!

I will be there then

So being that this race has become a sprint then, will it count for regular season sprint points?

As stated in an update of the rules :

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

The Daytona event having had its length reduced from 24hrs to 3hrs, the Bonus points for this race is now ONE instead of EIGHT.

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

To be fair, All American Racers was Dan Gurney's team since the begenning. They ran Eagles in Formula One and at Indy through the late 60's, then moved on to some more American-focused racing in the 70's-80's. They were hired by Toyota to represent the Japanese brand in the IMSA GTO series in 1987, and then stepped up to GTP racing, first with a Toyota Group C car and then with an all-American built chassis. To sum it up, the workforce and the chassis were American, and the money and the engine were Japanese!

True, true, but all Toyota racing matters in the USofA were in the hands of Toyota Racing Developments (TRD) which was based in the USA and employed mostly Americans. So they were very much American cars imho, much more than a Ford Escort or a Cortina if you ask me .

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Antoine de Mautor wrote:

To be fair, All American Racers was Dan Gurney's team since the begenning. They ran Eagles in Formula One and at Indy through the late 60's, then moved on to some more American-focused racing in the 70's-80's. They were hired by Toyota to represent the Japanese brand in the IMSA GTO series in 1987, and then stepped up to GTP racing, first with a Toyota Group C car and then with an all-American built chassis. To sum it up, the workforce and the chassis were American, and the money and the engine were Japanese!

True, true, but all Toyota racing matters in the USofA were in the hands of Toyota Racing Developments (TRD) which was based in the USA and employed mostly Americans. So they were very much American cars imho, much more than a Ford Escort or a Cortina if you ask me .

Ya I met Dan in '85 at Monterey..I'm about 6'3" and he was quite a bit taller..No wonder they had to put a plastic bubble on the roof of the famed GT-40 Ford at Lemans..
I was also noticing a picture of Graham Hill up there..He,My Dad,Paul Newman-and another driver I can't remember,attempted to break the 24Hr Closed couse speed record at The Bonneville Salt Flats..But the Ferrari Broke..

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089075/index.htm

Drank a beer with Paul Newman once at Laguna..Didn't know he was into Chug-a-luggin'!

I will be there