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At 1:20- Well, if you're not faster than the car in front of you, you can always try to T-bone the leading car at the apex. That wasn't sporting at all. That should have drawn a drive-thru penalty for avoidable contact. I wouldn't want to own a Porsche, if the drivers are the type to take cheap shots like that.
+kickinbackinOC , He probably was given a penalty but it didn't matter because he broke his car with his bone-headed maneuver anyway. I think he should be given a penalty for the next race because it was such a huge infraction.
For me, that's what makes it so egregious. The Porsches WERE faster than the Corvette. Speed isn't everything, though, in racing. The Corvette had track position through the turn. The #912 Porsche was already lining up the hit BEFORE the turn. He couldn't have gotten inside for a pass from that position! All he could possibly do was T-bone the Corvette!
Well... it WAS an exciting battle until... Not quite sure what Mr. Frenchy 911 Guy was thinking as that pass was never going to happen. Ollie and Tommy, you have my condolences on a scheisty end to what could have been a great win.
+matthew von I dunno..."outpaced"? I understand what you mean BUT, Mac didn't have the line going into the hairpin (aside from the fact that the hairpin isn't anywhere near a good point to pass). It has the appearance of foul play to let his team mate through. This wasn't something that was built up like in 2009 between the Flying Lizard team and the Corvette team. Mac is a great driver, he absolutely knew he didn't have the angle to make that turn. He wasn't even beside the Corvette enough to make a case for it.
+sqcomp1 Yea, this one looked worse then what one of the Porsche did at Sebring as he just didn't have that line and yet went for it anyways. It is hard to make a decision to punish the Porsche team due to the action of one of the cars though if they were to find out that the move happened on purpose to let the other car through then the ban hammer might come out.
I'm sorry, I should clarify. I don't hate porsche, I actually love them but their drivers have been behaving very badly during races taking others out who are in a better position than themselves. It takes away from a good brand.
The production/commentary has improved from the beginning of the year by a lot, it's a shame that Brian Till's microphone didn't really work. That said, Bob Varsha is a legend and I'd like to see him back in the booth.
Are they going to penalize the Porsche team? Otherwise you may see teams doing this kind of thing in the future. If I was Porsche, I'd not want to see a big yellow machine in my rear view.
+JojoTheMongol I don't think it was intentional though. Corvette left the door open by going just a tad bit too wide and Porsche stuck its nose in. I doubt he would have been able to make the pass but his team mate may have sling shotted through. Unfortunate, but I believe it was just a rookie race indecent that shouldn't have happened.
+Victor Lopez It was blatant stupidity. Best case scenario is, he intentionally made contact so that his teammate could win. IMSA needs to come down hard on them for this.
+Victor Lopez He didn't stay to the racing line though. The vette was wide, but the Porsche basically dive bombs the corner. Had he not hit the vette he'd definitely either hit the wall on the exit of the corner, or he would really have to scrub a bunch of speed off to make it.
+Victor Lopez , The Corvette didn't go wide though. That's the angle you have to approach the apex in order to make the turn through that hairpin. If the Corvette wasn't there and the Porsche was just going around that hairpin by itself, it would have never been able to make the turn at the angle he entered it anyway.
This isn't the first time I've seen Porsche's race team pull the job they did on that Corvette....but I digress. Seeing the lines that Porsches can take around a race track, I think it's time GM start to consider a rear-mounted or center-mounted engine on their production machines. It's clear, on the track at least, Porsche is the REAL competition, not Ford. While I expect that to change after Le Mans, for now, Corvette is Porsche's only competition.
+Arnold Triyudho haha I'd say Ferrari but who knows Ford might find themselves ahead of Porsche soon, maybe even caused by pit stops, wouldntt surprise me at this rate
Man when I see the actually cool Porsche guys trying to go for the Vettes like that, then I do get angry. I would have shown the Porsche guy this very special finger at the very special place of my hand, if I would have been Tommy Milner and then I would have tried, a bit like he did, to turn my car so that he has to wait for me and lose lots of time. I'm happy the sporty Volkswagen wrecked himself, just like in Sebring, for that hell of a smartass move!
im loving these uploads but your sound is crap. i cant even hear the cars at all and the comentators voices are way to loud. the car sound are great in the qualifying for this race but the race day upload has crap sound.
Clous von when their is an additional class missing, 25 cars isn't a tiny grid. The unofficial rule is series with more than 20 cars are making profit, less than 20 cars are making a loss. The regular grid features an extra dozen cars.
Long Beach is a shortish, fast track for these world-class machines. It looked less crowded than it actually was. It's hard to pass around this type of track. Like Monaco, or Misana. Besides, there was an entire class, the GT-D machines not on track for some reason unknown to me....
mclanta they don't run the whole field at Long Beach because of the capacity. The regular grid is even larger, an additional dozen cars. And in 2019 IMSA has exceeded the entry capacity for some races-so it is hardly ruined when their is more than 43 entries.
magnummax78 not every class does every race to reduce costs, create the best racing experience (eg 4 classes at Lime Rock or Long Beach wouldn't work well), and due to track capacities.
