[marcva]

Originally Posted by N & M

Clearly. Instead of wasting a glorious nameplate on a failed family hauler, BMW should develop a more focused and sportier 6 as its answer to the 911 and AMG GT. The 8 frees of the need to chase the GT segment and a new 6 would be an amazing base chassis for motorsport.

Funny, that used to be the M3s job...

[Darth One]

Alex Zanardi. What an impressive human being.

[bradleyland]

Originally Posted by adc

Wowzers. I’m impressed.

Does anyone know if Zanardi will drive more races for BMW? I’d love to watch him race....

He is intended to race at the endurance races, so 12 Hours of Sebring, 6 Hours of The Glen, and Petite Le Mans remain.

[adc]

Originally Posted by marcva

Funny, that used to be the M3s job...

The classes used today in racing are perhaps too disparate to be covered by a single car. The GTE/GT3 class is now so far removed from an actual car you can buy, as to render it almost meaningless. Effectively silhouette racers. The 911 is mid-engine, that is a huge change.

So for example Porsche decided to build a silhouette car with the engine in a different location for the GT3/GTE class, and use a more recognizable 911 for the GT4 class. You could say that Porsche is covering those classes with the same car but that would be wildly inaccurate. They are covering them with the same nameplate.

BMW is covering those classes with 2 different cars, and nameplates: the M8 and the M4 - no doubt thinking each one is better suited for its category.

Right or wrong? Not sure this question is meaningful anymore. Just watch the spectacle.

In any case if you want to feel a sense of pride in your daily driver, look at the GT4 class results, not at the GTE.

[bradleyland]

Augusto just posted this to his IG. This pass is just... insane. Augusto is used to intense close-in racing in DTM, so it's no surprise he had the cajones to go for it.

This was at the bus stop, a spot where sooooo many drivers blew it yesterday. Such an amazing pass to win the race.

[de Witt]

Originally Posted by bradleyland

Augusto just posted this to his IG. This pass is just... insane. Augusto is used to intense close-in racing in DTM, so it's no surprise he had the cajones to go for it.

This was at the bus stop, a spot where sooooo many drivers blew it yesterday. Such an amazing pass to win the race.

Fantastic pass, feels good to have BMW win the class. Here is a longer clip with the pass set-up occurring at the 8:15 mark:

[cbertels]

Originally Posted by bradleyland

Did anyone see the Joey Hand interview where he laid into Fred Makowiecki? Rarely do you see IMSA drivers get so direct. After having just been plowed into by Fred, Joey says something like, "Well, some of us can handle ourselves out there, while some of us clearly cannot. Although we've seen plenty of this kind of thing before out of the Porsche drivers."

If I recall, it was the 2017 season where Porsche drivers were ruining other drivers' races left and right. I'm not sure if it is just frustration, or if their team management have told them to drive elbows out, but I really hope we don't see a repeat this year. Porsche are used to winning races, but they don't get the same breaks here in the US as they do in Europe.

Sure did! Pretty pointed responses from him. That race was a sloppy mess!

[Scout10]

That was one WET race ! ! !
The last green flag period was more a demolition event than anything.

[antzcrashing]

Where can I watch the full race replay?

[shadowfax]

Originally Posted by antzcrashing

Where can I watch the full race replay?

https://racer.com/2019/01/31/2019-rolex-24-at-daytona-replay/

[bradleyland]

Originally Posted by antzcrashing

Where can I watch the full race replay?

IMSA has a playlist up on their official YouTube channel as well:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...onnALDae44CMxh

Works on mobile

[bobdavisnpf]

That's so cool #25 pulled out the win! Glad to see the M8 out there; M6 was so plagued so often at this level, the new platform is a relief to me.

I'm so used to seeing Porsche outperform the field in the wet, it's good to see some intense driving by Augusto and team put our roundel on the top step in such conditions.

Shell racing is kinda frustrating to me. I get the whole BOP thing, and race control has gotten really good, but when I see factory teams racing custom builds so far from what they'll sell to the street I feel like they should just go do F1 or Nascar or something.

[m3fan143]

i used to live in Daytona...about 3 mile from the track and you could HEAR the cars engines racing at 2 AM ...AMAZIN!!
This was in 1996 to 1999...I would go to the track at 3 AM in the morning and it would be 40 deg in Florida ( yea it was COLD to me)..
cannot forget those days

Bill Auberlen was drivin along with Boris Said