"Viggen" (viggen37)
10/06/2014 at 09:26 • Filed to: None
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"Viggen" (viggen37)
10/06/2014 at 09:26 • Filed to: None | 1
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As I'm sure everyone !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! by now, the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari was rear ended at the end of pit lane by the #911 Porsche, following a red light. The 458 was brought back behind the pit wall for extensive repairs. Suffering damage to the diffuser, half-shaft, and suspension, ultimately it was damage to the chassis sub-frame which ended their day.
Risi Competizione team principal, Giuseppe Risi had this to say about the lack of call.
"We've had no response to our request to Race Control for review or action although, in the past, any misdeeds by our team or drivers have been punished severely and immediately. This leads me to question whether the series even cares if there is a full-season GTLM Ferrari in the race or not, and it must also color my opinion going forward as to whether I want to continue in this championship or not.
Ouch. Your move, IMSA.
Photo Credit: Regis Lefebure, photo found on the Risi Competizione facebook page
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Risi Competizione’s bid for GTLM victory in the final round of the TUDOR United Sportscar… !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
dinobot666
> Viggen
10/06/2014 at 09:29 |
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This whole race was kind of a discombobulated mess.
Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius
> Viggen
10/06/2014 at 09:30 |
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IMSA needs help on the execution of the rules. In general blanket statement. You just don't see as much grief of about enforcement in any other racing series as you see here. Maybe it's like choosing and 'all-star' referee crew for the superbowl instead of choosing one officiating crew that worked together all year long. I'm not sure what the solution is, but this is crazy.
Second, the open the pits, close the pits, open the pits close the pits system just doesn't seem to work either.
Axel-Ripper
> Viggen
10/06/2014 at 09:40 |
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Penalize a factory Porsche? Never.
But in all seriousness there have been many questionable calls this year, including some at the very end of the race with a large and mostly unreported crash in the GTD field coming to 10a on the final lap and the contact between last place Krohn and first place Rayhall that completely destroyed the class leading 8Star PC car with 20 minutes left in the race.
Personally, I thought the race was entertaining (I was there). I'm not going to read into Risi's comments that much. Pretty typical BOP pandering I think. Dodge/Chrysler/SRT/Riley did the same thing earlier this year with some "Financial issues" and suddenly they were a tenth faster than Corvette was and won the championship
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Viggen
> Axel-Ripper
10/06/2014 at 12:45 |
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It was the Krohn Ferrari that hit Rayhall?
I'll be honest I didn't know about the GTD crash because I was glued to the Falken Porsche.
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Axel-Ripper
> Viggen
10/06/2014 at 13:40 |
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Yep. Neither of those incidents had much replay coverage, but it was the Krohn Ferrari that hit Rayhall and sent him spinning in the esses.
The GTD crash was never aired during the coverage due to their coverage of Falken and Taylor's wins. The only reason I knew of it was because I was sitting in 10 at the time and suddenly a car was spinning that barely got missed by an entire pack in the brake zone. I think I saw later that it was the leading GTD car spinning the second place GTD car. Went completely ignored though.