IMSA Long Beach GP 2016 GTLM Qualifying

I stood at one corner during Qualifying to capture all of the different exhaust notes of the GTLM class. The new 488 GTLM obviously suffers from the new turbo, but not nearly a bad as the Ford GTLM, which was beautiful but sounded like a large mosquito., and the new BMW M6 GTLM was somewhere in between the previously-mentioned two. The Corvette has always sounded like it could start an earthquake, but the new 911 RSR is by far the best sounding car I've heard yet at Long Beach regardless of class, and I've attended the LBGP 6 out of the last 10 years.

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Did you stay for the race? That ending was pretty messed up. I think the Porsche team intentionally spun the vette so the team car could take the lead and the win. There was absolutely no way he had position in that turn. Bone headed move that took himself out. As for the Ferrari team, I sure hope they can find more speed. They got gapped pretty quick at the very beginning. Their finish was the result of what the Porsche team did and not actual on track performance.

 

I agree, and I'm a huge Porsche fan. dirty racing IMO.

 

I was there all day Friday, and qualy was in the early evening. Saturdays are always madness there, so I just watched the race on TV. With the benefit of hindsight, your conspiracy theory sounds reasonable. Too bad we couldn't hear their radios.....

I spent a fair amount of time in the Risi pit area (and also Scuderia Corsa after qualy) and they told me the big problem is the BoP is different in IMSA as compared to FIA WEC. One of the chief mechanics pointed out that AF Corse was fastest in practice at Silverstone on that same day with their 488 GTLM, while Risi was struggling just to break into the top five (ultimately they didn't).

 

Dirty racing from Porsche is simply more of the same. They crashed out a Corvette at the end of a Laguna Seca race a few years ago to.

 

dude that was like 10 years ago!