Mcrider

What a NAIL BITER!!

I was watching the C7 3 car dash cam during the race and when he hit the wall coming out of the pits, my heart sank. I figured the Drivers Championship was gone, as did pretty much everybody EXCEPT the pit crew of the 3 car.

Watching it pull behind the wall, and then the crew rip the front end of the car off and replace the pieces in 3 MINUTES!'

Then the 4 car, really stepped up and did their job by chasing down the 67 car and pushing them so hard that ultimately, they made that mistake Chevrolet needed.

The 3 car may have that trophy, but it belongs to the pit crew and the 4 car as well.

Damned good racing and high drama!!

Next stop for Corvette racing....CHINA!!!!!!!

rumor is that it's going to be a 2 car effort!!!

Steve Snake Driver

At Petite LeMans Corvette Corral they (Doug Fehan and some others) talked a bit about the effort to China and the discussion was that it will be a single car (#4) going. It will have a unique paint job for that race. It is going to be a low cost effort as they said they couldn't make the financial case for taking the whole team. Fehan said he wasn't even sure that he was going.

'Shifter

What a great race for CR's pit crews! Getting Tommy out ahead of the Porsche and more importantly the #67 was a thing of beauty, and he rewarded them by driving flawlessly. Getting The King of Spain's front end back together in so short a time was incredible!

Thanks teams for a job well done!

F4Gary

I was shocked (happily) how much the 67 fell off.

'Shifter

I think I heard that they went with the wrong tires....considering they didn't do a driver change, something went away...

Mcrider

I was listening to the race on IMSA Radio and when the announcers first realized the 67 had slipped back a few places, (it was night), Shea Adams their outstanding pit reporter said that after talking with the 67 crew, the car had NOT experienced any failures, and at that point the announcers attributed it to the 67 taking a corner too wide and losing positions by going off track.

Watching from the 3 in car camera as they ripped that front end off and replaced it was absolutely some of the best racing footage of any kind I have ever seen.

'Shifter

Considering that the #67 was gunning for a championship, you'd think that they would have broadcast an off...but, that's Faux Sports for you.

Mcrider

FS only gives a **** about the prototypes.....

blackbeast99

It was a great race, and even more b/c I was there!

F4Gary

No kidding. I'd be happy if the Pcars, as they are today, just went away.

'Shifter

Hopefully Motor Trend/Velocity Network will do a much better job!

z28lt1

One of the big problems with Fox is that the announcers are not at the track They are literally watching the TV in the studio just like we are, so it is up to some producer to show them footage of what to talk about.

They then leave it to the announcers to follow time and scoring and race control, which is not super easy to do when you are announcing. If they at least had a couple of eyes on timing and scoring, they probably could at follow the story lines better and show or talk about more interesting events. It is so frustrating looking at timing and scoring and seeing GTLM or GTD front runners nose-to-tail, seeing a couple of passes made, and the only thing I'm seeing on the tv screen is in-car from a prototype that has a 13 second lead.

I'm holding out hope coverage will be better because it is hard to imagine worse, but if they choose the same setup, not sure we'll get better results.

85nova

It was great to watch Chevy's teamwork! Fortunately they won the team championship too. https://sportscarchampionship.imsa.c...ngs/team%C2%A0 Ford was pretty excited that they finally took the manufacturer's title: http://performance.ford.com/series/f...s-results.html

It would be great if FS cared more about the GT cars. The majority of the time they run the overall/prototype place sequence in the upper left of the screen and only seldom provide an update for the GT car's present leaders. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to simultaneously post tabs on all three classes. Certainly, they'd be appeasing more customers. . . .

'Shifter

Get the crew of Radio LeMans, and things will improve drastically....Jeremy Shaw and John Hindaugh are the Real Deal.

KnightDriveTV

I will second that ^ J Shaw and Hindaugh are the best of the best. I use a vpn application in the chrome browser and stream the race on IMSA.com because my IP then comes from France. That feed, with J shaw and Hindaugh is the only way I can watch the race...lol. Even in their case though, a lot is missed in GT and GTD. I think multiclass racing, needs a multiclass visual approach. Covering multiclass races like it's F1 or Nascar, where you're focus is on the front, doesn't apply...yet this seems to be the prevailing approach much of the time. I've questioned and questioned, why simple split screen approaches aren't applied. Sometimes, just a small corner feed of a battle, even if you aren't talking about it, would be huge.

Don Lambert

I was in the Pratt & Miller shop a few weeks ago. The car going to China is a third chassis, it is not the #3 or #4 car specifically. There was some discussion that chassis had previously had a fire and was rebuilt.

Don

KnightDriveTV

^That sounds like the former Labre Competition WEC car from 2017. That was the C7R they rebuild that was indeed, a fire bomb. Makes sense, as that was always the car that ran in WEC.

z28lt1

Unless I'm mistaken (and that is always as possibility - the chassis have moved around a bunch) Larbre only had a pre-2016 chassis, which would not be used. I also had assumed (and we all now what that means) that Larbre owned the car, not sure why it would have been returned, particularly since Corvette Racing would have no use for a pre-2016 car.

Corvette has brought 3 cars to Le Mans the last 2 years, to avoid a repeat of 2015 when the crash in practice left them with only 1 car for the race.

As a wild guess, they probably switched to the spare when the 'previous #4' had the fire at the 2017 roar. I think that was the worst of the fires, but there have been a few.

KnightDriveTV