IMSA 2023

Also interesting...in 2008 the LMP2 cars were faster than the Audi LMP1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Monterey_Sports_Car_Championships

Pos Class Team Qualifying Driver Time[1]
1 LMP2 #9 Patrón Highcroft Racing David Brabham 1:10.103
2 LMP2 #15 Lowe's Fernández Racing Luis Díaz 1:10.202
3 LMP2 #7 Penske Racing Timo Bernhard 1:10.351
4 LMP2 #66 de Ferran Motorsports Gil de Ferran 1:10.451
5 LMP2 #26 Andretti Green Racing Tony Kanaan 1:10.567
6 LMP2 #6 Penske Racing Sascha Maassen 1:10.586
7 LMP2 #5 Penske Motorsports, Inc. Ryan Briscoe 1:10.606
8 LMP2 #16 Dyson Racing Guy Smith 1:11.010
9 LMP1 #1 Audi Sport North America Emanuele Pirro 1:11.264
10 LMP1 #2 Audi Sport North America Lucas Luhr 1:11.825
11 LMP2 #20 Dyson Racing Butch Leitzinger 1:12.089
12 LMP1 #48 Corsa Motorsports Johnny Mowlem 1:12.819
13 LMP2 #8 B-K Motorsports Ben Devlin 1:13.321
14 LMP1 #37 Intersport Racing Jon Field 1:13.379
15 LMP1 #88 Creation Autosportif Stephen Simpson 1:13.481
16 LMP1 #12 Autocon Motorsports Chris McMurry 1:14.549
17 GT1 #3 Corvette Racing Jan Magnussen 1:19.291
18 GT1 #4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin 1:19.790
19 GT2 #87 Farnbacher-Loles Motorsport Dirk Werner 1:22.060
20 GT2 #45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister 1:22.380
21 GT2 #71 Tafel Racing Dominik Farnbacher 1:22.701
22 GT2 #46 Flying Lizard Motorsports Patrick Pilet 1:22.869
23 GT2 #62 Risi Competizione Mika Salo 1:22.962
24 GT2 #99 JMB Racing Pierre Kaffer 1:23.243
25 GT2 #61 Risi Competizione Niclas Jönsson 1:23.928
26 GT2 #21 Panoz Team PTG Joey Hand 1:24.084
27 GT2 #18 VICI Racing Nicky Pastorelli 1:24.111
28 GT2 #007 Drayson-Barwell Jonny Cocker 1:24.626
29 GT2 #54 Black Swan Racing Anthony Lazzaro 1:24.711
30 GT2 #40 Robertson Racing David Murry 1:24.727
31 GT2 #73 Tafel Racing Pierre Ehret 1:24.970
32 GT2 #11 Primetime Race Group Chris Hall 1:26.124
33 GT2 #44 Flying Lizard Motorsports 44 Seth Neiman 1:26.704
34 LMP1 #10 ECO Racing Did Not Participate No Time

 

No more full factory Corvette team for next year. Customer teams only. Upside is the article mentions 4 full season IMSA entries next year running Corvettes.

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/gm-rules-out-full-factory-corvette-gt3-team-in-2024/

 

I seem to recall a quote from Jordan Taylor somewhat recently that he had no interest in pro-am racing. Didn't want to race with or against gentleman drivers. Maybe a dad and brothers reunion is coming?

 

The article mentioned the customer teams have already been chosen for next year. 8 total. 4 full season IMSA. Sounds like they expect some in WEC, though I have no idea how they are going to choose who gets a GT entry and who doesn't.

With the Camaro going away (and the GT4 car going with it) I wonder if we could see a GT4 version of the Corvette.

 

57 cars for Watkins Glen. Been a few years since I have been there so I am really looking forward to going to this one!

https://www.imsa.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2023/06/14/Watkins-Glen-IWSC-Pre-Event-Entry-List.pdf

 

Kinda surprised to see WTR and Whelen running 3 drivers. Usually the prototypes only run 2.

 

It's not his fault they put the barrier there..

And besides its not like there is ever an incident at the start of the 6hr.