By the way, I was in an interview with Mikey Waltrip when he mentioned that he plans to compete at the Sebring 12 hour and the 24 hours of the Nurburgring in addition to a return to Le Mans this year.
When asked about the Nurburgring he said (you have to read this in his voice, or else it's less effective) "I've always wanted to go there, it's just such a cool place. What's that place got, like fitty corners?"
Maroon92 wrote: By the way, I was in an interview with Mikey Waltrip when he mentioned that he plans to compete at the Sebring 12 hour and the 24 hours of the Nurburgring in addition to a return to Le Mans this year. When asked about the Nurburgring he said (you have to read this in his voice, or else it's less effective) "I've always wanted to go there, it's just such a cool place. What's that place got, like fitty corners?"
I commented to my dad, while watching the race together last night, that Michael Waltrip seems like a genuinely cool guy and someone who would be fun to hang out with. He's funny as hell!
Nice work Brad, keep up the great reports.
I'm sitting in the hospital with my son, the upside is they have speed.
I am surprised that the pit crews are not waring helmets.
I love how close these 24 Hour races have been the last couple years. completely glued to the TV right now
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I love how close these 24 Hour races have been the last couple years. completely glued to the TV right now with the sound turned up.
FTFY 
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I love how close these 24 Hour races have been the last couple years. completely glued to the TV right now
The rules changes have helped make them close. I love it too! 20 hours in and the top 3 cars are nose to tail!! 
Go McNish (or basically anyone but Pruett. He has too many Rolexs as it is) 
<--- has fallen off of edge of seat...
that was some bad luck for Pruett, huh?...(snicker)
I don't care for him either
hotrodlarry wrote: that was some bad luck for Pruett, huh?...(snicker) I don't care for him either
I'm a fan of Scott but would like to see some new teams win. And I'm good with any of the top three with 55 min left. ;)
dyintorace wrote:DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I love how close these 24 Hour races have been the last couple years. completely glued to the TV right nowThe rules changes have helped make them close. I love it too! 20 hours in and the top 3 cars are nose to tail!!
Besides the rule changes I'm impressed that that many cars and teams can go that hard for 24 hours with so few mechanical problems and errors.
The wife is starting to catch on too. The Porsches have big round eyes, the Ferraris looked very angry and the Mazda had a bright red smile
Congrats to Mike Shank Racing, AJ Allmendinger, Justin Wilson, Ozz Negri and John Pew.
MSR took P3 too.
Just a dam good race all the way around!!!! I really enjoyed it. I wish speed left there cameras on over night instead of just the incar's but it was still very good.
Ford 1-2-3!!!!. I was sure that the corvettes were going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Couldn't make it down this year (dammit), was the infield as packed as the TV people said...biggest crowd ever ??
it was full but didnt feel cramped. they really controlled the drive thru crowd this year. I didnt seem to have as much trouble moving around as in the past few years
We Got back to Crystal River thanks GRM another great time and class act event You Guys/Gals put on ! We loved the Art car and The dinner was great . The weather was a GRM awesome . See You Next Year ! 
anyone know who won the chili cookoff?
I just have to say that the 458 Italia makes a desperately pretty race car.
nicksta43 wrote: I just have to say that the 458 Italia makes a desperately pretty race car.
And being a rotary owner, how quiet it is!
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
Here's what happened. I had to record it because I wasn't home. Then Sunday afternoon my sister says "look at this". She's showing me her phone. I look and it's a text telling her (and me, damn it!) who won. I could have killed her right there, except my Mom was there and would have killed me.
Maroon92 wrote:SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: So no one has answered my question. What's with all the neon lighting on the cars? I feel like I've never seen this before.It's to differentiate the cars at night. It's specific to endurance events that go through the night. You can easily tell that there is a 458 coming down the pit lane, but you don't know WHICH 458. The LED lights (usually different colors) can tell a team that their car is coming down the lane, even when their radios have malfunctioned.
And it's interesting how those ID lights have evolved over the years--from nothing to simple lights to today's LED arrangements. The Momo car was hard to miss.
Momo car looked dead sexy!
My buddy's team in the #20 LubriMoly Porche made it 18 hours before retiring, sadly...
irish44j wrote: Momo car looked dead sexy! My buddy's team in the #20 LubriMoly Porche made it 18 hours before retiring, sadly...
According to the MOMO guys, the paint work was 15,000 dollars. 
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