2023 Rolex 24 at DAYTONA

[FLRacingFan]

ROAR weekend starts today -

Friday:

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET Practice 1

4:15 PM to 6:00 PM ET Practice 2

Saturday:

11:15 AM to 12:45 PM ET Practice 3

3:10 PM to 4:10 PM ET Practice 4

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM ET Practice 5

Sunday:

1:25 PM to 3:00 PM ET Qualifying (IMSA.TV)

Entry list - https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/08/20/2023_IWSC_Roar_Official_EntryList.pdf

 

[KTMLew01]

No TV coverage till Sunday?

 

[Kiante]

ROAR weekend starts today -

Friday:

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET Practice 1

4:15 PM to 6:00 PM ET Practice 2

Saturday:

11:15 AM to 12:45 PM ET Practice 3

3:10 PM to 4:10 PM ET Practice 4

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM ET Practice 5

Sunday:

1:25 PM to 3:00 PM ET Qualifying (IMSA.TV)

Entry list - https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/08/20/2023_IWSC_Roar_Official_EntryList.pdf

I love that new car smell.

 

[FLRacingFan]

No TV coverage till Sunday?

Besides the support series no, timing & scoring plus IMSA Radio coverage.

 

[Hotrod]

Finally!!! There is light at the end of the tunnel of the off season.

NFL and Australian Open just are not doing it for me.

Alkamel seems to be showing timing in all sessions:

LT2

livetiming.alkamelsystems.com

 

[FLRacingFan]

Not much of a surprise there:

 

[Charlie Spencer]

70% chance of rain Saturday, estimated to be .25 to .50 inches.

20% - 30% Sunday with wind gusts to 25mph.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

1st practice has been red for several minutes. Anyone know what's up?

 

[Hotrod]

1st practice has been red for several minutes. Anyone know what's up?

Not sure , but I do know from the Roars I have been to ,
they will throw a red for even a roll off in the grass, just
to be on the safe side .

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Not sure , but I do know from the Roars I have been to ,
they will throw a red for even a roll off in the grass, just
to be on the safe side .

I hope it wasn't something more significant. They lost the last fifteen minutes. That sounds like a long time just for mowing the grass.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I hope it wasn't something more significant. They lost the last fifteen minutes. That sounds like a long time just for mowing the grass.

They went back green with a few minutes left, never found what exactly it was but the Corvette was stopped in NASCAR 3.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Zane Smith just finished P1 in session 2 of MPC testing by almost half a second.

 

[Hotrod]

I have a feeling the Penske Porsche is going to be a force to be reckoned with all season.
Spent a few years on the fence line watching the yellow DHL Spyder spank the
field and class in several races 15 /16 years ago. Feels good to have them back.

 

[FLRacingFan]

The Corvette had a steering failure out of the chicane and got into the wall, kinda scary but lucky it didn’t happen at full speed. Penske #6 (rear suspension, front wheel bearing) and AXR (shifting) missed a decent amount of time yesterday.

Other than that MSR picked up where they left off, with Colin Braun leading the early session and Helio the evening session.

Daytona Friday Notebook – Sportscar365

John Dagys' Friday notebook from Roar Before Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway...

sportscar365.com

Rolex 24: Castroneves’ late flyer puts MSR top in second Roar session

Meyer Shank Racing led an Acura 1-2 in the second Roar Before the 24 practice session, as defending Rolex 24 race-winner Helio Castroneves took advantage of cool conditions and a clear track to grab P1.

www.motorsport.com

 

[Hotrod]

VP Challenge race#1

boogity boogity boogity lets go............. oh nevermind.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Not a bad little race. Some good racing, some screw-ups, no cautions.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I have to laugh at these being two generations of the same model from BMW



I think it’s great Jim Farley is actually out there racing Mustangs. The new broadcast graphics seem good but I could do without the race title circle being so big.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Four straight sessions led by MSR now, including three straight Acura 1-2s with WTR. All four sessions also with the GTD leader ahead of GTD Pro.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Four straight sessions led by MSR now, including three straight Acura 1-2s with WTR.

You'd think those guys would be smart enough to sandbag like the rest of them.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Pretty rainy evening and into the night so most of the field stayed in the garage in the final practice session of the weekend.

 

[Doc Austin]

The last session was wet, so it's hard to draw any real conclusions. https://racer.com/2023/01/21/porsche-tops-wet-fifth-roar-before-the-24-session/

Still, the new cars look great.

 

[Kiante]

IMSA has to do better with practice coverage. GT World offers all of it on YT.

 

[Doc Austin]

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[Charlie Spencer]

Second VP Challenge is on. Gods, I missed this stuff.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

TV production team wisely ignoring the uncompetitive LMP3 class and focusing on the top seven GSX spots. Good stuff going on there.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

I don't know how the body colors are applied on the #10 but it is frickin' cool. On the ****pit camera shots, you can see the clouds reflected in the front fenders, shifting around as the car changes direction, as if they were blue mirrors.

 

[FLRacingFan]

 

[Kiante]

John Ferano pretty much destroyed that thing.

 

[FLRacingFan]

GTP onboards sound awesome with how much higher revving all four engines are compared to the DPi machines.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

John Ferano pretty much destroyed that thing.

More or less than Tandy just did to the Porsche?

EDIT: eh, hopefully it's just body parts.

 

[FLRacingFan]

These things look like a handful so far, man.

 

[Kiante]

More or less than Tandy just did to the Porsche?

One way to find out the limits there.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Heck, the splitter and fender look fine in the back of the truck. Bolt them puppies back on.

 

[Kiante]

Blomqvist is an animal.

What a stonking lap.

 

[Doc Austin]

As of right now, every LMDh is in the 1:34s. For first time out of the box that's remarkably competitive.

 

[FLRacingFan]

New year, new car, same Acura.

Give Blomqvist more time to get heat in the tires and the track record is finished I think.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

New year, new car, same Acura.

Same BMW too.

 

[FLRacingFan]

First real competitive session and everyone finished within 8 tenths of each other, pretty good I’d say.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I’m glad the GTP guys decided to put on a show because GTD was the biggest sandbagging session anywhere since Le Mans 2016.

 

[Kiante]

Same BMW too.

BMW has been very quiet, but you never know with new cars. Maybe their car lasts the duration of the race.

I think they will be fine, but I think BMW knows they have an uphill battle. To be within that 0.6 - 0.7 tenths range is not too bad to start off.