Carrera world cup will be televised live on Saturday night at 6.45pm on the Eurosport chanel (511) Craig Baird is 38th from 97 cars after first practice, he appears confident of qualifying in the top 20 tonight.
Baird in prime position for Porsche race Australia. Craig Baird will start the Porsche Carrera World Cup with a clear race track ahead of him after qualifying 31st for Saturdays seven-lap timed race. The Porsche Carrera World Cup will see groups of 30 cars starting at two-minute intervals, with the ultimate winner determined by the quickest time a driver completes the seven laps, not the first driver to cross the finish line. Baird will therefore lead the second group at the start of the race, giving the New Zealand born driver a clear track in the opening laps and confidence leading into the largest ever Porsche Cup race. Its a good spot for start the race with the format thats in place. Its a timed race and hopefully Ill be in pretty clean air, said Baird. I was pretty happy with the time; it was probably quicker than I thought Id go here, but I also didnt think the top cars would be doing such quick lap times. I was a little bit tentative today because there were a few wet patches and, with the trees and the shade, I couldnt really see what was completely dry or what was just a surface change.
Both the Porsche world cup race and the N24HR will be streamed by Porsche. http://www.porsche.com/microsite/mot...rnational.aspx The count-downs have started on site already. I use the live brodcast from the circuit radio lemans puts out for my audiio and the other stream for video. Works well! http://www.radiolemans.com/
Yes, quite scarey stuff imho. All about a clear qualifyimg run. Seems Bairdo didn't get one. Next is over 200 mixed class contestants all scrambling for wet grip and a way around. Someone tell me when thy're having fun!!! ROFL
Craig Baird has finished the Porsche Carrera World Cup in 39th position from 97 cars after battling with inexperience on a wet Nurburgring-Nordschleife, Germany. With two cars receiving penalties after qualifying, Baird was promoted to 29th; and with the race starting 30 cars at a time, his move up the qualifying order pushed him to the rear of the front group. Inexperience in the wet conditions, however, made it difficult for Baird to progress through the field and post a competitive outright race time, which ultimately decided final positions, after battling with uncertain grip levels at the iconic 25km track. Baird therefore maintained a cautious approach to the race and finished with an outright time of 1:04:00.504, over three minutes behind Porsche Carrera World Cup race winner Rene Rast. “We needed the rain like a hole in the head at the start of the race,” said Baird. “Realistically, in the dry, we could have kept moving forward, as we were posting quicker times in the dry every lap we did. “We really had to re-learn the circuit in the wet. There were so many different surface changes throughout the track and you just don’t know what the grip levels are. If I had pushed on in the wet conditions I would have been in the fence. I just had to pioneer my way around and get to the end of the race. “It was a good experience, but to do this race you really need to do the VLN race and experience all the weather conditions like the guys at the front did. It’s no different from when the Europeans come to Bathurst. “I’m obviously disappointed with the result but I’m happy the car came back in one piece.” The ultimate race winner was determined by the quickest driver over the six laps, not the first driver to cross the finish line. However, German driver Rene Rast achieved both; reaching the chequered flag first and posting the quickest outright race time – 1:00:48.621. Baird will now return to Australia in preparation for round four of Porsche Carrera Cup Australia at the Sucrogen Townsville 400 on July 8-10, 2011. Porsche Carrera World Cup – Race results Driver Time Gap 1. Rene Rast (GER) – 6 laps 1:00:48.621 2. Norbert Siedler (AUT) 1:00:50.618 +01.997 3. Lance David Arnold (GER) 1:00:52.275 +03.654 4. Sean Edwards (MON) 1:01:06.622 +18.001 5. Nicolas Armindo (FRA) 1:01:18.447 +29.826 6. Kevin Estre (FRA) 1:01:22.057 +33.436 7. Jeroen Bleekemolen (MON) 1:01:25.669 +37.048 8. Martin Ragginger (AUT) 1:01:28.293 +39.672 9. Patrick Huisman (NLD) 1:01:30.805 +42.184 10. Stefan Rosina (SVK) 1:01:59.486 +1:10.865 39. Craig Baird (NZL) 1:04:00.504 +3:11.883 Thanks to Porsche Cars Australia for the constant updates over the weekend.
Sad to see Rusty French's Kremer Porsche 935 K3s up for auction: http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=usa&screen=carsusaquailpreview#
He had three (the other one he sold a couple years ago and wasn't a Kremer K3 but was more special), will have zero if he sells these two. However, I believe he has the molds to build the bodywork of the Kremer K3s, so I suppose he could have more or build more.
Porsche 997 GT2 RS at this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIpKtwvafto&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
Pikes Peak times lose relevance as the paving is extended. That GT-2 run is incompareable with the Group B Lancia and Audi runs of earlier years.
drove a new Carrera with PDK at the dealership......not sure I like the transmission, manual just seems to be more hands on IMO
