Offical Grand-Am GT RX-8 Thread
 

Second practice for the 1000k event

20 07 GT Edwards/ Collins/ Pilgrim Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R 2:55.778 91.875
21 85 GT Farnbacher/ Keen/ Baas Farnbacher Loles Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup 2:55.837 91.844

22 03 GT Holtom/ Curran/ Wilden Georgian Bay Motorsports Corvette 2:56.526 91.486

23 70 GT Haskell/ Tremblay/ Ham SpeedSource Mazda RX-8 2:57.158 91.159

24 65 GT Smith/ DiLeo/ Sellers TRG Porsche GT3 Cup 2:57.695 90.884

25 30 GT Staveley/ Nearn/ Dobson/ Riley Racers Edge Motorsports Pontiac GXP.R 2:57.956 90.751

26 87 GT Miller/ Werner/ Henzler Farnbacher Loles Motorsports Porsche GT3 Cup 2:57.966 90.745

27 06 GT Reese/ Lewis Jr/ O'Connell Banner Racing Pontiac GXP.R 2:58.486 90.481

28 42 GT Sahlen/ Nonnamaker/ Nonnamaker Team Sahlen Corvette 2:58.986 90.228

29 40 GT Foster/ Espenlaub/ Dempsey Hyper Sport Mazda RX-8 2:59.286 90.077

30 69 GT Assentato/ Longhi/ Segal SpeedSource Mazda RX-8 2:59.367 90.037


Hypersport is getting right up there with Speedsource!!!

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You can see the Green and Black Hypersport RX-8 in the background!!
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It is good to see another team to begin the chase. The only other RX8s to compete were at the Daytona 24Hrs.

nice, that should be a sweet series to watch

nice pics:evil_laug

Are the races televised? I would want to TIVO them.

Of course! They are on the SPEED Channel if you get it up in Canada

aw man, i hate losing my dvr

when are these races televised?

for those that havent seeing this races, they rae the most exciting race series on tv right now, most races are decided by fractions of a second and are long duration races

qualifying is on right know, you can check it out here:

http://www.livetiming.net/Rolex/Livetiming.asp

qualifying is over we got: 2nd, 4th and 8th :Eyecrazy: :spank:

all 3 in the top 10!!!!!!!!!!

some more pics

is it obvious to assume the sobe rx8 has a 3 rotor as well? kinda dumb q i guess.....

it is the same car, built by speedsource

sweet! 20B FTW!

there are some differences between the #69 and #70 cars (at least the pictures make it seem that way) so I'd imagine the cars are not completely identical, just -very- similar~

GO SPEEDSOURCE!

that reminds me, isnt rolex series on this weekend?

yes, you are right, the 69 is an evolution of the 70, it is lightter and better balance, we should asume that some changes where made to the 40, this cars are never exactly the same.

#70 in heavy crash on lap 2

the car is in pieces!!!!!!!!!!!!

^Heavy Crash.. um no.. try Devistating Crash.
Seen the replay twice already, and that SS 8 just flipped and rolled :( :( :(
Ham is ok they are saying but omgf.. my jaw dropped when I seen the footage.

omfg, stupid stupid DP!!! man i hope Nick Ham is okay

this is a long race and to end it this early is very sad... they do have a chance of winning it. man..... devastating.

SS has a few months to build a entirely new car i guess, with lower weight and better balance....... but man this is SAD!
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That DP driver needs to be thrown out of the series...absolute stupidity...he could have KILLED Nick Ham.

Still, congrats to Speedsource...its been a great year...too bad that some jackass DP driver had to end the season this way.

They said that driver has been told to go see the big man (forget his name) and the announcers said that he is gonna get a stern talking to. I sure hope so, I'd imagine that these guys have spotters to help them out and whatnot, what with the amount of dust covering the guys windows you'd think he'd want some help to make sure something like this wouldnt happen. Rookie mistake and its shown in spades.

on the other hand, the #40 is doing quite well at 5th place. their first ever race in the brand new RX-8.
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RIP #70 car :(

Thank god Nick is ok, that crash was one of the worst I've ever scene in this series. That other driving is fucking idiot. Can Nick jump in the #69 car and run?

I touched that car a year ago at Sevenstock, this makes me want to cry.

same, i just got home from mowing the mother in law yawn. got home just in time to see the first lap. Then next thing i see Nick is flying in the air. glad he is doing ok. nick and his co pilot are awesome drivers. hate to see him out of the race in the first lap :(

can they even keep anything from that car after a crash like this?! It was travelling down fast(100mph?) the straight and hit the almost stationary DP...
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I'd assume they'd do some quick test on the chassis (unless cracks and bends are obvious) and test's on the engine. Be a complete loss/waste to just toss the entire car without checking it to me atleast.

I'm still sad I was hoping to see the SS 8 in this race longer than a lap, hell its the primary reason I'm staying home and away from the GF this afternoon (hehe). Also I didnt know the race was a long endurance race.

Ahh they are talking to Patrick Dempsey right now about driving the #40 Sobe Rx-8. He seems like a cool guy and aprently does alot of racing who knew?

holy my wife is going to trip out, when i tell her patrick dempsey is a co driver for the sobe rx8 lol

^haha.. well atleast now you know she wont be mad at you when your watching them race lol.. she'll be their beside you drooling ova Mc Dreamy lmfao

THAT GUY SHOULD BE SHOT!!!!!!!! IF YOU CANT SEE ASK FOR HELP IDIOT!!!!!!!!

Patrick is one of the drivers, it is oficial, my wife its still freking out over this she has ask me about a 100 times if he will be at sevenstock

I HATE PONTIAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

show this to your wife

i'm a little pissed about the wreck...

hope the team comes back even stronger in '08 (does any one know their plans?)

lmao, yah every time i see the sobe car next year, ill be saying look hun there is patrick dempsey driving (even though its his co driver that is driving) so she can stop telling me change the channel :)

Yikes I can't see if there are any cars coming. I'll just cross my fingers and wish for the best.

damn no coverage on my cable channels untill 2:30 (west coast) any video of the crash?

im still mad, that SOB :rant:

#69 is 4th right now!!!! GO GUYS!!!!

yah! we are a lap behind, but go get them 69! get the pontiac!!!
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i guess that goes for a couple of us here as well, staying home just to watch this race............ only to see what that pontiac did to our SS 8... :banghead: ...

the Sobe RX-8 is still doing amazing, they're currently 10th with half the race to go. TV coverage should be back on soon.

As for next season, I hope more teams gain interest on running the RX-8 against Porsche. The Hypersport team (no ties with Mazdaspeed) is showing that the car can run in the top spots.
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speed latino is showing the entire race :)

The sobe car is doing great for its first race

you're lucky RC, guess what, we just had 3 hours of nascrap.
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yah :( it was good time for me to do Time Attack on F1 CE for the ps3, since the wife is in flordia visiting family for the weekend :)

damn damn damn i just saw a recap of the first few hours when coverge was back on tv. that crash with the 70 car was awefull. that p1 car must be crazy and should be fined. what the hell was he thinking. at lest the 69 is doing great and kudos do the sobe car, got to switch form soda to sobe now.

hahaha +1
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the rules must be checked for next season, the pontiacs have a large avantage over the other cars, the mazda its just not capable of runing with the front runers, the pontiacs are more than 3 seconds a lap faster than the mazda, the porches 2 seconds

I think they should let the mazda run the same tires as the rest of the cars

Jon dounang just said in an enterview that they sold one more car to a formula mazda team and they are about to close the deal on 2 more for next season

ZOOM ZOOM!!!!!

confirmation of ANOTHER RX-8 by John Doonan for Daytona!!

Thats 4 cars that could run the entire season + pettit, goldin bro (not mazdaspeed), spencer for Daytona, total of 7 RX-8s wow.
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that w oudl be cool, but i can see them throwing out the mazda is the lightest car blah blach

so what will be at ss now with the crash the 69 i guess and that is it. has anyone seen an interview with the 70 driver?

i didint realiza that the other cars had an advantage with the tires.

Speed interviewed Nick Ham, he was okay.

I believe we have narrow front tires.
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an m6 for next season, I dint know BMW wanted to race that car

http://www.grand-am.com/News/Article.asp?ID=9151

Yah, why not the new M3. The new M3 is powered by a V8 now, so it'll be good advertising as well..... M6 is ugly as hell too... The announcers were talking about how strong the BMW V8 is in the DPs, this M6 should be fast, and its fielded by a very good team.

I cant wait for next year's race. I forsee it'll be Porsche vs Mazda, with SS leading the pack of 8s, well and the two G6s (GM factory backed), I dont think any new teams will join the G6s boat tho.
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