IMSA 2023

Here at Laguna Seca. Qualifying about to start

 

I saw some of the Miata race....Hate the new runoff extended areas...changed the track/line completely.

 

GTP about to start

 

Yes it does

 

NBC preempting with some kind of mongrel football.

 

That was a pretty crazy crash happened right in front of us
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It was Jarrett Andretti's fault.
I turned it off as there's now 20 minutes of yellow flag.... 40 minutes of 'racing'...football for the 1st 10 minutes, then a 20 minute caution.

 

i turned on late on peacock...I've seen all of it so far...can FF through the cautions...


sjd

 

there are just as many commercials on peacock....jeeez.

 

just got to the porsche crash on cold tires...shocked there wasn't another yellow...jeez...

 

I think that Laguna is just too short for that many cars. I think that they should split the field and run separate races for prototypes and GT cars.

 

was ferrari in the prototype race? is this their series?

 

Ferrari doesn't race in IMSA, only in WEC.

 

They will race against the same cars. Not on this series as mentioned earlier

 

The Cadillac sounds absolutely amazing in real life. The Acura sounds very F1 carish

 

Current era, I'd expect?

 

Yes 1.6 V6

 

it's basically next year's IndyCar package (2.4l V6 with hybrid system), with an F1 ECU

pretty cool crossover between the 3 programs

https://racer.com/2022/08/29/hondas-new-imsa-powerplant-has-indycar-roots/

https://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/acura-arx-06-lmdh-prototype/

 

Great information! The engine design is a “mono” block with no removable heads. Thanks for sharing this.

 

Is that now true? Last I heard IndyCar was staying with the current engine...or?

 

to be honest they've changed their minds so many times I lost count

https://www.autosport.com/indycar/news/why-indycars-engine-backtracking-is-causing-widespread-frustration/10437984/

looks like it's 2.2 (current engine) with hybrid next year, 2.4's at some point beyond that (?)

 

I actually really like the sound of the BMWs. They could be a little louder though.

I missed the race last weekend. Will have to watch it on YouTube when they upload it.

 

The BMW does have a great sound

 

Interesting that the pole laptime in Laguna Seca round in ALMS back in 2007 was 1:10.528 for the Porsche RS Spyder Evo, which ran in LMP2. The pole time for the Porsche 963 over the weekend was 1:14.774. Hardly seems like progression.

 

It is interesting. Pole last year in the Acura dpi by WTR was a 1:13.924.