Lou's Car is Out. Anybody know what happened?
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Lou's Car is Out. Anybody know what happened?
As the title says.
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from pit notes:
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
At 1:53 pm (3h 23m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) slow on course.
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
At 1:53 pm (3h 23m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) slow on course.
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from pit notes:
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
At 1:53 pm (3h 23m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) slow on course.
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
At 1:53 pm (3h 23m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) slow on course.
At 2:00 pm (3h 30m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) into the pits. No fuel, no
driver change. long stop to inspect gearbox. The temp was climbing and climbing, going behind the wall.
At 2:44 pm (4h 14m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) officially retired:
mechanical.
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from pit notes:
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
At 12:22 pm (1h 52m running), Lucas Molo (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) off, stopped, and continued
at turn 5 after contact with Marco Werner (#1-P1 Audi R15 TDI) which also stopped, and continued. The Audi
tried to make an inside pass and both cars touched, spinning off
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further info:
At 2:00 pm (3h 30m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) into the pits. No fuel, no
driver change. long stop to inspect gearbox. The temp was climbing and climbing, going behind the wall.
At 2:44 pm (4h 14m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) officially retired:
mechanical.
At 2:00 pm (3h 30m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) into the pits. No fuel, no
driver change. long stop to inspect gearbox. The temp was climbing and climbing, going behind the wall.
At 2:44 pm (4h 14m running), Lou Gigliotti (#28-GT2 Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6) officially retired:
mechanical.
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Here are a bunch of pictures of Lou and the #28 team from yesterday at Sebring. It was a tough day. Lou can explain what actually happened when he gets back home. The car was running so nicely up until the final moment.
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That last picture was taken just moments after the decision had been made to pull the plug.
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I tuned in later in the day looking for him and didnt see him. Thats really to bad. Good luck next time LG.
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Sorry to hear the bad news, the amount of effort it takes to run and than not to be running at the end totally sucks
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Hi guys,
Full race report later but just to touch on the race issues, we broke a ring and pinion in our EMCO TransAxle.
We might not have kept good enough mileage on the part because it should have made it through the event without any problems. But we might have missed it and it was timed out.
That is what money can buy you. When a part is close to being timed out, you change it.
We may or may not go to St Pete in two weeks. That is still up in the air.
We had a Brazilian driver who was young and had never been to Sebring. Needless to say he was a bit off.
Eric Curran did a great job for us again. He is almost half my age and he will have a great future with some manufacturer.
ALSM Tech did radar trap speeds and we are about 10 kph slow on the long straight. That is about 6.2 mph slow with the new restrictor rules, which is very hard to over come.
So now we have to get these issues worked out before we beat our head against the wall much more.
Thanks for all the support.
Lou Gigliotti
Richard---Great pictures. thanks for the great effort with the camera. Possibly see you in sebring.
Full race report later but just to touch on the race issues, we broke a ring and pinion in our EMCO TransAxle.
We might not have kept good enough mileage on the part because it should have made it through the event without any problems. But we might have missed it and it was timed out.
That is what money can buy you. When a part is close to being timed out, you change it.
We may or may not go to St Pete in two weeks. That is still up in the air.
We had a Brazilian driver who was young and had never been to Sebring. Needless to say he was a bit off.
Eric Curran did a great job for us again. He is almost half my age and he will have a great future with some manufacturer.
ALSM Tech did radar trap speeds and we are about 10 kph slow on the long straight. That is about 6.2 mph slow with the new restrictor rules, which is very hard to over come.
So now we have to get these issues worked out before we beat our head against the wall much more.
Thanks for all the support.
Lou Gigliotti
Richard---Great pictures. thanks for the great effort with the camera. Possibly see you in sebring.
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It was sad to hear about your day being cut short. I did see a couple of cool video shots with your car. One was the Audi passing your car like it was sitting still. I can't believe the speed differential between the GT2 and LMP1 cars. The other shot was when the Audi ran into your car. It didn't show much. What happened exactly? Was that what caused the rear end to break?
Curran is a stud! Every time I watch him, I'm really impressed. I think that you could have some very good results if you don't have any bad luck with both of you driving.
Curran is a stud! Every time I watch him, I'm really impressed. I think that you could have some very good results if you don't have any bad luck with both of you driving.