This weekend sees the return of LIVE FREE STREAMING of the American Le Mans' 6th race of the year, at Mid Ohio. Be sure to check it out tomorrow at 2:30 PM, Eastern. Sign up at www.americanlemans.com/live to take advantage. Coverage is thanks to our friends over at Falken Tire. As always you can listen on Radio Le Mans as well.
In qualifying today it was everything but Porsche, with the Ferrari's from Risi battling the Corvettes from Pratt & Miller, but the Italian horsepower trumped American torque and saw the two red F430 GTs sweep the front row. Corvette lined up 3rd and 4th, while BMW rounded out the top 7, with one of the Extreme Speed Ferraris sandwiched in between. Flying Lizard, with Patrick Long handling the wheel on the 45 and team principle Seth Neiman in the 44, could manage no better than 8th and 13 in class, respectively. Team Falken Tire struggled with the pace throughout all the practice sessions and it continued during qualifying, placing 11th on the grid, a mere 3-tenths faster than the Jaguar which has found quite a bit of speed. Although the big Jag still lacks the ultimate pace to take a podium or a win, the improvement is nothing more than huge in a program which has up to this point been a bit of a disaster.
Black Swan continues to dominate the GTC class, with Jeroen Bleekemolen wheeling the 2010 Porsche GT3 Cup to pole position.
The deck is stacked against the Porsches this weekend in GT. It will take a bit of a Miracle to pull out a podium let a lone a victory at Mid Ohio, but with the number of offs and cautions in practice they could prove to be the deciding factor in the race. Getting caught out and at the wrong place and time could mean a wrecked race car or at least being put at the wrong end of the pace car, which could mean artificially going a lap down. One puts you out of the race, the other instantly out of contention.
Should be a great show!
_WRS
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