Countdown to the Rolex 24 at Daytona

[brave1heart]

The Rolex 24 is coming up this weekend This is the 50-th anniversary so it's shaping up to be a big event. One Hot Lap has all the details on how Turner Motorsport prepares for the event here:

http://www.onehotlap.com/2012/01/rol...countdown.html

[BostonRocket]

Can't wait!!

[e92motorsports]

Excited to watch this!

[FrenchBoy]

This is going a great weekend!

[brave1heart]

The SpeedTV live stream is awesome. http://stream.speedtv.com/rolex24

Holy crap, I can't believe how much contact there is out there!!

Turner's stream is pretty cool to check every once in a while too: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/turner-motorsport-live

And here's the live timing and scoring: http://grandam.racersites-cluster.co...=2377&VN=92908

[paradocs98]

...and Brian Johnson from AC/DC is running in it this year!

[brave1heart]

Originally Posted by paradocs98

...and Brian Johnson from AC/DC is running in it this year!

LOL! I think that's Billy Johnson and he's out...

[JAJ]

No, it's Brian Johnson from AC/DC and he's in car 50, which is still running.

[brave1heart]

Originally Posted by JAJ

No, it's Brian Johnson from AC/DC and he's in car 50, which is still running.

Holy crap, you are not kidding!!

http://www.grand-am.com/teams/team.c...ies=r&tid=2260

ROTFL!!

[brave1heart]

So the #94 car was out ~ 4 hrs into the race. The #93 car is still running P16 in GT.

[mastek]

Not into this ..... as an e9xm3 owner.
It's all a farce as far as the BMW marque in this competition.
The 2 Turner cars are the same tube chassis that was the M6 last year, only now with e92m3 body panels. They have S62 engines. So not a single piece of that car is an e9xm3. Yet they are getting their ass kicked by factory built tub chassis Porsches, Ferraris and Audis (the Mazda RX8 and Camaros are also tube chassis)

And the 3 Riley BMWs are loaded with Dinan Stroked S62 engines and got man handled by Fords

On top of that, BMW was running commercials featuring the M3 GTS which is not sold in the US = wtf??

This Daytona 24 was a fail for BMW by BMW

[JAJ]

Originally Posted by brave1heart

Holy crap, you are not kidding!!

http://www.grand-am.com/teams/team.c...ies=r&tid=2260

ROTFL!!

Derek Shepherd, an attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital took a day off to drive in the Dempsey Racing #41 Mazda. I guess driving at Daytona really is brain surgery.

[paradocs98]

Originally Posted by mastek

Not into this ..... as an e9xm3 owner.
It's all a farce as far as the BMW marque in this competition.
The 2 Turner cars are the same tube chassis that was the M6 last year, only now with e92m3 body panels. They have S62 engines. So not a single piece of that car is an e9xm3. Yet they are getting their ass kicked by factory built tub chassis Porsches, Ferraris and Audis (the Mazda RX8 and Camaros are also tube chassis)

And the 3 Riley BMWs are loaded with Dinan Stroked S62 engines and got man handled by Fords

On top of that, BMW was running commercials featuring the M3 GTS which is not sold in the US = wtf??

This Daytona 24 was a fail for BMW by BMW

I was REALLY hoping the 01 Pruett Dinan BMW DP car would win so that Dinan would run another 20% off promotion!

[VSmotorsports]

Was a fun race to watch. Really rooting for the weather tech car in GT to see a fellow racer in our T2 class win. (Cooper MacNiel) but their axle broke just before the end.

[paradocs98]

Regardless of how BMW as a marque did, it was fun to watch just for the racing--an amazing feat for drivers, crews, and cars to sustain 24hrs. And there are other good guys to root for in the series besides the Turner crew or Fall-line or Ganassi/Dinan: there's Leh Keen, former frequent m3poster, who runs in the #59 Brumos Porsche, and there are the Taylor boys--Jordan is in the #88 Camaro, and Ricky races in the SunTrust DP car. They're young, incredibly talented, and a class act.

[LiM3y]

Originally Posted by paradocs98

Regardless of how BMW as a marque did, it was fun to watch just for the racing--an amazing feat for drivers, crews, and cars to sustain 24hrs. And there are other good guys to root for in the series besides the Turner crew or Fall-line or Ganassi/Dinan: there's Leh Keen, former frequent m3poster, who runs in the #59 Brumos Porsche, and there are the Taylor boys--Jordan is in the #88 Camaro, and Ricky races in the SunTrust DP car. They're young, incredibly talented, and a class act and have a rich dad who runs a race team.

Fixed.

[paradocs98]

Originally Posted by LiM3y

Fixed.

Good point. Ricky is undeniably talented, though--at 19 years old he was consistently setting poles and leading last season, sticking it to older, more experienced drivers like Scott Pruett and Alex Gurney.