Much as I enjoy watching Liam Dwyer drive, it's starting to get to be like watching Ryan Fitzpatrick play. Every game - "And did you know he went to Harvard?!"
MiniOne82 whatever change was made to autocorrect recently has regressed the tech many years. Perfectly spelled words are replaced with words that make no sense in context. You know how many times I've texted to my gf "I'm coming homosexual." ????
Congrats to the #1 Mustang !! #15 Multimatic Motorsports Gt350R Congrats to the #1 Mustang Driver !! Billy Johnson and Scott Maxwell Congrats on winning the race fellas
GS needs to go back to 30 thousand dollar muscle cars. mustang, camaro, dodges...the basic v8 cars along with M3s, 350z etc to bring back more interest. Need to aviod factory assisted cars in this series
Stevenson motor sport was running the camaro until the gt350 hit the scene and all those caymans it couldn't compete anymore with those 2 chassis's. Should be interesting when GM brings in the next gen camaro.
GS is having issues because the Stevenson and Multimatic are on to bigger series, and not even producing customer cars for privateers. I think you would see more if Multimatic had the resources to chuck out a few customer GT350R-C. Chevy also has no car offered for sale for this class. I'd hate to see the brick wall you would hit in the rule book if you tried to develop one without the manufacturer support.
valid point, the other issue is that the series lets new faster cars come in and make what they had uncompetittive and obsolete....i know the series needs to grow and develope but maybe they should sit and think what direction they want the series to take. they even thought about adding prototypes to the series, which makes me think they are clueless. Fortunately ST is still the only grassroots pro series because GS has gotten out of hand and PWC is cool too but they lack as a series IMO. we will see, GT4 may work out for them if gentleman racers with $$$ come in
GS class makes me sad everytime I see it I remember when it was the bigger class back in the Firestone days, I remember when it had over a dozen of cars during the Koni days... but ever since Chevrolet, FORD and Porsche decided to make it a dick-measuring contest for trackday-ready cars they have RUINED IT COMPLETELY!!! GET THE Z28R, GT350C and GT4 OUT!!!
sergio pizana BMW M3, Aston Martin Vantage, Subaru Impreza Sti, Mustang 302... Also, check out the old Firestone Firehawk Series or the Bridgestone Supercar series. You can see even early 90s sportcars there! I think the whole timeline goes from Firestone to Bridgestone to Koni to Continental... or something like that
If they ban those cars they would logically have to ban certain models of the Miata (I forget what it is called) for the same reason. I agree that these "race cars for the street" do give an unfair advantage. Why not just petition to have 100 lbs added to these cars, in the front bumper for the mustang and in the back bumper for the Porsche? Of course, as long as those sponsorship dollars roll in from Ford and Porsche I highly doubt anyone at IMSA will be chomping at the bit to fix this.
WH17Y IMSA made the same mistake the FIA made during the Group A days: allow special homologation cars. The original intent of all these "improved streetlegal" competitions is that the cars are actual fairly normal models... which then you improve to be race-ready but then manufacturers decide to read the rulebook very closely and start building the special models and produce just enough units so they are allowed to have the huge advantage the Z28R, GT350C and other cars have now
I guess you are un-aware that the GT350R-C has less special parts than the GT350 much less than the GT350R. Tires are spec, and narrower than stock. They require 18" rims, which means the stock brakes have to hit the bin, smaller brakes go on. Engine has a restrictor, and its set by actual performance so making the street car have more power does nothing to produce more power at the track. Only place you might argue advantage outside of weight reduction by way of interior removal is the spool valve shocks might be better for the track vs magnaride.
Thank you!!! More IN-CAR views please!! with speed / tachometer
Much as I enjoy watching Liam Dwyer drive, it's starting to get to be like watching Ryan Fitzpatrick play. Every game - "And did you know he went to Harvard?!"
the gs class is missing cars again :(
great race. I don't thing I've ever seen a caution free race at lime rock.
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MiniOne82 whatever change was made to autocorrect recently has regressed the tech many years. Perfectly spelled words are replaced with words that make no sense in context. You know how many times I've texted to my gf "I'm coming homosexual." ????
love the intro
Congrats to the #1 Mustang !!
#15 Multimatic Motorsports Gt350R
Congrats to the #1 Mustang Driver !!
Billy Johnson and Scott Maxwell Congrats on winning the race fellas
Super nice intro!
Time 38:50
thought VW had a car in this series? the golf or something
i was there
Me too!
I was the kid with the red white and blue umbrella im the beginning
GS needs to go back to 30 thousand dollar muscle cars. mustang, camaro, dodges...the basic v8 cars along with M3s, 350z etc to bring back more interest. Need to aviod factory assisted cars in this series
Stevenson motor sport was running the camaro until the gt350 hit the scene and all those caymans it couldn't compete anymore with those 2 chassis's. Should be interesting when GM brings in the next gen camaro.
yea, unfortunately those cars came from Riley and cost over 200k. those cars and circumstances need to go IMO
GS is having issues because the Stevenson and Multimatic are on to bigger series, and not even producing customer cars for privateers. I think you would see more if Multimatic had the resources to chuck out a few customer GT350R-C. Chevy also has no car offered for sale for this class. I'd hate to see the brick wall you would hit in the rule book if you tried to develop one without the manufacturer support.
valid point, the other issue is that the series lets new faster cars come in and make what they had uncompetittive and obsolete....i know the series needs to grow and develope but maybe they should sit and think what direction they want the series to take. they even thought about adding prototypes to the series, which makes me think they are clueless. Fortunately ST is still the only grassroots pro series because GS has gotten out of hand and PWC is cool too but they lack as a series IMO. we will see, GT4 may work out for them if gentleman racers with $$$ come in
GS class makes me sad everytime I see it
I remember when it was the bigger class back in the Firestone days, I remember when it had over a dozen of cars during the Koni days... but ever since Chevrolet, FORD and Porsche decided to make it a dick-measuring contest for trackday-ready cars they have RUINED IT COMPLETELY!!! GET THE Z28R, GT350C and GT4 OUT!!!
what other cars were there before the dick measuring contest?
sergio pizana BMW M3, Aston Martin Vantage, Subaru Impreza Sti, Mustang 302... Also, check out the old Firestone Firehawk Series or the Bridgestone Supercar series. You can see even early 90s sportcars there!
I think the whole timeline goes from Firestone to Bridgestone to Koni to Continental... or something like that
If they ban those cars they would logically have to ban certain models of the Miata (I forget what it is called) for the same reason. I agree that these "race cars for the street" do give an unfair advantage. Why not just petition to have 100 lbs added to these cars, in the front bumper for the mustang and in the back bumper for the Porsche? Of course, as long as those sponsorship dollars roll in from Ford and Porsche I highly doubt anyone at IMSA will be chomping at the bit to fix this.
WH17Y IMSA made the same mistake the FIA made during the Group A days: allow special homologation cars. The original intent of all these "improved streetlegal" competitions is that the cars are actual fairly normal models... which then you improve to be race-ready but then manufacturers decide to read the rulebook very closely and start building the special models and produce just enough units so they are allowed to have the huge advantage the Z28R, GT350C and other cars have now
I guess you are un-aware that the GT350R-C has less special parts than the GT350 much less than the GT350R. Tires are spec, and narrower than stock. They require 18" rims, which means the stock brakes have to hit the bin, smaller brakes go on. Engine has a restrictor, and its set by actual performance so making the street car have more power does nothing to produce more power at the track.
Only place you might argue advantage outside of weight reduction by way of interior removal is the spool valve shocks might be better for the track vs magnaride.