Rx8 at the 25 hours of thinderhill
12-07-2013, 12:10 PM
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Rx8 at the 25 hours of thinderhill
Thunderhill Qualifying Update: Congrats to Dennis Holloway and Sonny Watanasirisuk for Mazda-powered class pole positions.
Dennis Holloway put the No. 34 RDR Mazda RX-8 on the front row of the E2 Class running a time of 2:05.215.
"I had a couple of consistent laps in the low 2:05's," Holloway said. "There was a little more in the car. It was cold and starting to rain, so I thought it might get a little slippery. You really need to watch the mirrors at night as the closing rates are amazing. Go RDR!"
In E3 the No. 05 949 Racing Mazda Miata driven by Sonny Watanasirisuk put in a time of 2:06.150.
"We went out right at the beginning of the session to get the lap in quick," Watanasirisuk said. "The car is handling beautiful. I had no real moments on the track that made me anxious. Snow, rain it don't really matter to me, I will just drive through it. I want to thank 949 Racing, Track Speed Engineering and Stop Tech Brakes for their support
Dennis Holloway put the No. 34 RDR Mazda RX-8 on the front row of the E2 Class running a time of 2:05.215.
"I had a couple of consistent laps in the low 2:05's," Holloway said. "There was a little more in the car. It was cold and starting to rain, so I thought it might get a little slippery. You really need to watch the mirrors at night as the closing rates are amazing. Go RDR!"
In E3 the No. 05 949 Racing Mazda Miata driven by Sonny Watanasirisuk put in a time of 2:06.150.
"We went out right at the beginning of the session to get the lap in quick," Watanasirisuk said. "The car is handling beautiful. I had no real moments on the track that made me anxious. Snow, rain it don't really matter to me, I will just drive through it. I want to thank 949 Racing, Track Speed Engineering and Stop Tech Brakes for their support
12-08-2013, 07:56 AM
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Live Timing for the race is at: http://www.nasa25hour.com/live-timing-feed.html
Race Announcers are at: http://new.livestream.com/endurance-...hour&cat=event
There is a little less than 6 hrs left at this point.
Race Announcers are at: http://new.livestream.com/endurance-...hour&cat=event
There is a little less than 6 hrs left at this point.
12-08-2013, 11:49 AM
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very fast car very fast drivers, last night about 5 hours into the race they were leading the e1 e2 second place was 6 laps behind and they are passing those diesel 6s like they are standing still. They had a problem with a solenoid which set them back a bit, and then a differential replacement which put them back quite a ways, but they have the ability to make up a lot of time.
12-08-2013, 02:29 PM
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CHECKERED FLAG ON THE LAST RACE OF 2013. The LONGEST RACE OF 2013. AND THE COLDEST RACE OF 2013. Congratulations to the Mazda Miata racers at Sector Purple Racing and RJ Racing for class wins in E2 and E3. The three Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesels all finished with not even a hiccup from the powertrain (5,000+ miles in 25 hours between the three cars). Congratulations to the Mazda “dealers” for winning the internal race against our “factory” guys. A salute to the Rotek Racing team for taking the overall win. And a special shout-out to everyone at Team RDR for never giving up with the #34 RX-8 which recovered to finish fourth in the E2 class. A complete press release will be posted later this afternoon.
12-10-2013, 12:08 PM
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12-17-2013, 02:24 PM
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the first is fuel mileage, in a race this long, it matters a LOT. we can do a fuel+driver change in about 2 minutes, which is the same as 1 lap, so every time you stop for gas, you loose a lap. also the class they are in only allows 10 gallons per pitstop.
the second is durability, again staying out of the pits is important. they were dominating until the kill switch died (we had the same thing happen in 2009, its a bigger to figure out, cause its a name brand race car part, and it acts like an alternator failure). so perhaps 5.12 is too risky? maybe they wanted to be a little easier on the engine? or maybe they found they they could use one or two gears for the whole track or something?
so i don't know, but maybe the pieces added up to make 5.12 not work for that race?
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