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Second Chance

Grand-Am will be initiating the Second Chance (yet to be sponsored) rule wherein the highest placed lapped car at the time of the wave by at the end of a full course caution will be waved by the overall race leader and get a lap back. This will be used in both the Rolex Series and the KONI Challenge Series races.

http://www.the-paddock.net/content/view/241398/49/

tcmc5

Gee, wonder where that rule came from.

AU N EGL

Plus they MUST MAKE A MANADTORY Pit stop with in the first 45 min of the race.

28tudor

After all, It IS run by the NASCAR roundy-round left turn boys.... It's a circus, not Racing. (Too dumb for Opera...Too smart for NASCAR)

davidfarmer

NASCAR sort of does it too.

I think it only makes sense to let lapped GT cars by the lead DP cars, so you can keep the GT cars together. In other words, if half the GT field has been passed, and a caution comes out, they pretty much automatically go nearly a lap down to their class leaders, who technically would not be that close to them.

Grand Am's putting on some great races these days, but the cars are still ugle. ALMS on the other hand, has gotten so boring that they aren't even getting Live TV this week, but the cars are awesome!

micro

how is GT2 in ALMS boring? It would only get better if P&M joined it.

Racer-38

I think Grand Am racing is presently the best racing to watch. I used to think the DP cars were butt ugly...but they are growing on me. I love the ALMS cars...and GT2 always is a good show....and P2 is really good this year witht the Porsche and the Acura. But car counts are down, there is only one team in GT1 (how stupid is that for pro racing)..and instead of showing the great GT2 racing, they show the P1 cars 80% of the telecast I think it is time to unrestrict the vette and let them go after the P1/2 cars

davidfarmer

I personally find GT2 interesting racing, but the cars are pretty boring. Spec series with a couple 430's and 911's. Better than it was a year ago, when only the 911's were competitive, but you need diversity to have an interesting series.

And again, with GT2 being the bottom tier in the series, you don't get to see much of it. Last lap of Sebring was exciting in GT2, but for the most part, you don't get to see the action

LMP2 has potential, but they are too busy racing the Audi to race each other.

I watched Long Beach over the weekend (ALMS), and it was a very dull race for me.

RMVette06

The Koni challenge is the best racing series in the U.S. right now, anyone who watched the end of Daytona this year would probably agree with me too!

micro

How is GT2 a spec series? One can run any tire and two teams have Yokohama tires (PTG Team Panoz and the Team Trans Sport Porsche). The Ferraris were competitive last year as they won 4 races and they had 1 F430 at many races.

The F430 GTC that caught fire in Sebring will likely be back in Utah next month which will make it 4 F430s.

Speed TV did cover the mistake that Risi made in the pits at Sebring which cost 20 seconds and then covered the Flying Lizards 911 catching up in the final 20 to 30 minutes.

Car counts in ALMS will soon be the best in four years. The Corvettes need to join GT2 rather than ask IMSA to run with over 800 hp.

boerio

Rumor says Aston Martin is coming back to GT1 later this year (2007).

Jeff

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perhaps for the last three races which are in four months.

Why not just enter GT2?

Doug Fehan, program manager Corvette Racing, (#3/#4-GT1 Corvette C6.R) "We have this race broken up into 39-minute segments and will do tire testing. We have four sets. Any advantage the cars want, they have to earn it. With the extra stops, it will be very difficult to finish ahead of the GT2 cars. I think you might see the Aston Martins back at Detroit."

- http://www.americanlemans.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=3120