Roar before the 24 friday pics

"Joest" (Joest) 01/06/2014 at 16:03 • Filed to: Tudor United Sports car, Tusc, Uscc, roar before 24. Imsa

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Here are a few of my favorite shots from friday..I'm a little slow editing since I'm sick and all. I might post Saturday and Sunday to if you guys like them.

willkinton247 > Joest 01/06/2014 at 16:14

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Awesome pictures man, but you should put commas in between your tags so they can fall in with the other tags.

daender > Joest 01/06/2014 at 16:18

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Interesting...is Turner running a 2013 model? It's missing the splitter and extra foglights, along with different and less aerodynamic mirrors, compared to the factory Z4M team.

willkinton247 > daender 01/06/2014 at 16:23

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Turner is running a modified version of the GT3 car, and the factory team is running the GTE car.

daender > willkinton247 01/06/2014 at 16:43

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Ah, okay! I'd like to see on race day how similar (or not) the cars are in terms of lap times and side-by-side racing.

willkinton247 > daender 01/06/2014 at 16:47

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Well at the Roar the GTE had fastest laps of 1:46.877 and 1:46.977 and the GTD had a fastest lap of 1:49.249

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > daender 01/06/2014 at 16:59

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TMS has a Z4 GT-D.... GT-D has different ruleset from the GT based on ACO rules

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > willkinton247 01/06/2014 at 16:59

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neat comparo.... but I imagine there's some sandbagging going on

GRawesome > Joest 01/06/2014 at 16:59

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Great pics! Can't wait to be up there in a few weeks to watch the race.

Where were you for most of those shots? Inside turn 1 by the tunnel, shooting onto the infield?

daender > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 01/06/2014 at 17:02

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Okay, that makes sense but to be clear here, they won't be running in the same class?

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > daender 01/06/2014 at 17:14

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No, not the same class...

GT-D (from the Rolex Series of last year) and GT-LM (from the ACO-based ALMS of last year) are 2 separate classes, running the track at the same time since USCR (or is it USCS??) is the complete series from when Grand-Am (owned by NASCAR) bought out ALMS from Dr Panoz....

To be clear, it wasn't a unification but a buyout

daender > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 01/06/2014 at 17:15

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I was semi-up-to-date about the merge between ALMS and Grand-Am but I never figured out all the classes. Thanks for the clarification!

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > daender 01/06/2014 at 17:20

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glad I can help :)

remember though... It's not a merger...it's a takeover... subtle difference, but hard core racing fans get a lil pissy about it

Stef Schrader > Joest 01/17/2014 at 17:16

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Tie-dye 911? Me likey.