Roar Before the 24 - IMSA test weekend

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Teams and trailers unload for the first test of 2017. Woohoo!

Friday, January 6 (all times Eastern)
10:20 a.m. -12:05 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice

Saturday, January 7
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice
1:05 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice

Sunday, January 8
10:20 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice

Pics from Sportscar365.

WEC drivers Olivier Pla and Harry Tincknell

CTSC Champion, WEC Driver Billy Johnson

First GTLM practice is tomorrow at 10AM.

 

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Thanks for the heads up. Will be on my IMSA app tomorrow.

Vince H

 

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I was hoping for the 1% chance they would change the livery this year. Bummer. I am all for the red, white and blue but that thing deserves some better skin.

 

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Wish we could be there... will be on the IMSA app as well

 

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Unbelievable how time flies. Seems like yesterday when those cars made their debut at Daytona. With one year behind them, it should be a more consistent year of racing.

 

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Mustang GT4 looks good. GS field is freaking huge now.

 

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DBK said:

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There it is: the new Porsche Cayman ! :wink

 

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First practice results:

 

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RSR is playing the game early......

 

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http://livetiming.alkamelsystems.com/imsa/

That link has an even more detailed live timing system. Same provider that puts up all the ultra detailed data after each session.

Interestingly, the GTD cars were ending up with fractionally higher max speeds than the GTLM cars overall in practice 1.

 

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Thats not good, means passing them in the safe straights is even harder.

DBK said:

http://livetiming.alkamelsystems.com/imsa/

Interestingly, the GTD cars were ending up with fractionally higher max speeds than the GTLM cars overall in practice 1.

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Practice 2 in the books.



Day 1 done. Successful first day of the 2017 season.

 

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DBK said:

Mustang GT4 looks good. GS field is freaking huge now.

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Wow! Ford give us the street version of that!!

 

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Gonna be a rainy Saturday. Some good pics from yesterday.

2017 Rolex 24 Ford CGR Competitors

 

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And good to see the WEC squad has apparently brought back Drew Gibson and his photo team. Absolutely fantastic photos every race last year.

Tony Kanaan & Andy Priaulx

Billy Johnson

Love this angle. Total missile.

 

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Wet practice 3 complete. A lot of cars sat this one out. Billy Johnson a bit of a wet weather specialist...

 

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Fantastic pictures. I still can't believe we are in the middle of a GT race and production car program.

 

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Wet mess