Have you watched any of the in car feed? What do you think of the racket the Ecoboost V6 makes? I find it much better than the new F1 turbo V6s despite running at a much lower RPM.
12 Hours of Sebring
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Have you watched any of the in car feed? What do you think of the racket the Ecoboost V6 makes? I find it much better than the new F1 turbo V6s despite running at a much lower RPM.
Xcentric
GT Owner
Yes, but it has been real racing for the limited time under green. As opposed to the finish-in-the-order-you-started-with-no-passing-as-long-as-you-don't-shunt F1 "races."
Ecoboost sounds and looks good. Well, it doesn't sound nearly as good as the Corvettes, but it sounds pretty good for a V6.
This is my "Space Odyssey" post.
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p.s love the nexus of technology and entertainment. Mac Pro streaming coverage on the 50" while it runs applications on the 30".
Xcentric
GT Owner
My streaming has been jittery. How is yours? We have fiber to the house, but the internet viewing still sucks compared to tv.
I was at home and it was hit or miss, but that's because Comcast is alternately phenomenal and a disaster. Kept flopping between 95 mbps and 5 mbps.
Came up to the office, U-Verse is running at a slow but consistent 11 mbps and it's absolutely perfect piped to the TV through the Mac Pro's HDMI. Wouldn't have a clue the source was anything but hardwired HD cable.
Streaming for last race on IMSA.com sucked but it's been spot-on today.
Came up to the office, U-Verse is running at a slow but consistent 11 mbps and it's absolutely perfect piped to the TV through the Mac Pro's HDMI. Wouldn't have a clue the source was anything but hardwired HD cable.
Streaming for last race on IMSA.com sucked but it's been spot-on today.
Cobrar
GT Owner
Xcentric
GT Owner
Not following continuously, but every time I look, they are under yellow. A record for non-racing at the Sebring 12 hrs?
Ecoboost, Corvette, Nissan, Corvette, Ecoboost, HPD, Corvette, Ecoboost after 8 1/2 hours? Totally freaking awesome. This is what racing is all about.
Ecoboost, Corvette, Nissan, Corvette, Ecoboost, HPD, Corvette, Ecoboost after 8 1/2 hours? Totally freaking awesome. This is what racing is all about.
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Definitely an abnormal amount of yellows. They just did have a 100+ minute stretch of green though.
Should be a good finish.
Should be a good finish.
Xcentric
GT Owner
THamonGT
GT
The end of this race is going to be spectacular with as many cars on the same lap. It's hard to take a bathroom break, I'm afraid I'll miss something.
arty
THamonGT
GT
SEBRING, Fla. (March 15, 2014) – America’s oldest sports car race made history in many different ways on Saturday in the inaugural TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup event at Sebring International Raceway.
The 62nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida marked the first victory for the brand-new Ford EcoBoost turbocharged engine. It was the first overall Sebring victory and the record 57th in North American endurance sports car competition for Scott Pruett, coming 28 years after a GTO class victory in the 1986 Twelve Hours.
Co-drivers Pruett, Memo Rojas and Marino Franchitti also made Chip Ganassi Racing – in its first Twelve Hours of Sebring appearance – the first team to win Sebring, the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
“It’s incredible,” Pruett said. “After all those victories you hope to get, this was still one on my bucket list. I’ve won here in class but never won overall. It’s even more exciting to win it overall, and to win it for Ford both times. I can’t say enough about the Ganassi group. We all worked together as a team and kept digging.”
A race that featured 30 lead changes –one shy of the event record – among 11 different cars came down to the final pit-stop sequence in the final hour. When Ryan Dalziel brought the No. 1 Tequila Patrón HPD ARX-03b/Honda onto pit road for its final service with just less than 40 minutes remaining, Marino Franchitti steered the No. 01 Telcel Ford EcoBoost/Riley DP to the front of the field, having completed its final service with just more than 50 minutes to go.
The race’s 11th and final full-course caution set up a final, 20-minute shootout between Franchitti and Dalziel. Franchitti managed to hold off his hard-charging fellow Scotsman to secure the victory by 4.682 seconds in the closest “contested” finish in race history, topping the 2005 event. (An “orchestrated” team finish had a 0.482-second margin of victory in 2001.)
“It wasn’t too bad on the final restart,” Franchitti said. “I had a break with a couple of GT cars that helped me get a break on the first lap. To rebound from Daytona like this, and to bring Chip the victory in his first Sebring Twelve Hours, and to follow cars like the GT40 for Ford, is an … exciting day.”
The Rolex 24 At Daytona-winning trio of Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais completed the podium with a third-place run in the No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette DP.
Chip Ganassi Racing also celebrated a victory in the second round of the four-race Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup. No. 02 Ford EcoBoost/Riley DP teammates Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon and Sage Karam earned the most points from Sebring’s three segments toward the $100,000 prize for the top-performing team in endurance races at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen International on June 29 and the Road Atlanta season finale on Oct. 4.
- See more at: http://www.imsa.com/articles/ganassi-ford-ecoboost-wins-sebring#sthash.XF129jSM.dpuf
The 62nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida marked the first victory for the brand-new Ford EcoBoost turbocharged engine. It was the first overall Sebring victory and the record 57th in North American endurance sports car competition for Scott Pruett, coming 28 years after a GTO class victory in the 1986 Twelve Hours.
Co-drivers Pruett, Memo Rojas and Marino Franchitti also made Chip Ganassi Racing – in its first Twelve Hours of Sebring appearance – the first team to win Sebring, the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
“It’s incredible,” Pruett said. “After all those victories you hope to get, this was still one on my bucket list. I’ve won here in class but never won overall. It’s even more exciting to win it overall, and to win it for Ford both times. I can’t say enough about the Ganassi group. We all worked together as a team and kept digging.”
A race that featured 30 lead changes –one shy of the event record – among 11 different cars came down to the final pit-stop sequence in the final hour. When Ryan Dalziel brought the No. 1 Tequila Patrón HPD ARX-03b/Honda onto pit road for its final service with just less than 40 minutes remaining, Marino Franchitti steered the No. 01 Telcel Ford EcoBoost/Riley DP to the front of the field, having completed its final service with just more than 50 minutes to go.
The race’s 11th and final full-course caution set up a final, 20-minute shootout between Franchitti and Dalziel. Franchitti managed to hold off his hard-charging fellow Scotsman to secure the victory by 4.682 seconds in the closest “contested” finish in race history, topping the 2005 event. (An “orchestrated” team finish had a 0.482-second margin of victory in 2001.)
“It wasn’t too bad on the final restart,” Franchitti said. “I had a break with a couple of GT cars that helped me get a break on the first lap. To rebound from Daytona like this, and to bring Chip the victory in his first Sebring Twelve Hours, and to follow cars like the GT40 for Ford, is an … exciting day.”
The Rolex 24 At Daytona-winning trio of Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais completed the podium with a third-place run in the No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette DP.
Chip Ganassi Racing also celebrated a victory in the second round of the four-race Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup. No. 02 Ford EcoBoost/Riley DP teammates Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon and Sage Karam earned the most points from Sebring’s three segments toward the $100,000 prize for the top-performing team in endurance races at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen International on June 29 and the Road Atlanta season finale on Oct. 4.
- See more at: http://www.imsa.com/articles/ganassi-ford-ecoboost-wins-sebring#sthash.XF129jSM.dpuf
Sinovac
GT Owner
Cobrar
GT Owner
Congrats to Ford and Scott, good pairing! Liking the durability of the EB motor. Need to tune the EB for a 24 hour race, let's see what it has.
Howard
GT Owner
Twelve hours after winning in GTLM at Sebring, Patrick Long was at a charity Go Kart enduro and car show in Palmetto, Florida. Three Forum members were there to greet him. Also present were Sabastien Bordais and Tommy Kendal.
Howard (Patrick is not the scarey guy on the right)
Howard (Patrick is not the scarey guy on the right)
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I was racing at Sebring with my Radical in the HSR support races and there was a red Ford GT 40 run by Mershons that claimed to be a real car . I think it is a combination of parts from other real GT 40's , it did race and was very cool to watch .