Congratulations and best of luck to Haskell and Tremblay at Phoenix this weekend. Haskell captured the pole for the 5th time this weekend.

 

sweet!

 

That was a great race! Real nice guys too. As soon as my finals are over I'll post some pics and vids in the gallery.

 

how did they do?

 

The #70 RX-8 placed 1st. The cobalt (#29?) that was in the lead for the first half of the race do to it's over agressive driver had to pit and then it was no contest. It was a tough course for the 8. It always out performed the others in the twisties but there is a tight turn before the large bank that required a serious reduction in speed. This is were the high hp cars made it tough on them. Great driver, setup and car. He just seemed to do it right and keep the long run in mind, all 99 laps of it.

 

Also #70 had atleast a 4sec lead on the second place car towards the end. It was crazy.

 

Is the last Grand Am Cup race going to be televised? I can't find it anywhere?

Zoom, Zoom!

 

Should be on Speed TV 10/15

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/122/

 

Thanks expo1. It looks like the Phoenix race is showing in Oct and the Virginia race will not be shown until Nov.

Zoom, Zoom!

 

Go Speed Source! Zoom-zoom

 

Question: what type of tires do they run on these cars? is it a spec tire series?

 

Not sure if this helps or not.

 

Here's a pic of all 3.

 

Thanks. That does help. I can't believe they run Hoosier slicks. I say that because I saw the qualifying results for the Mosport 200 yesterday and thought the times were kinda slow. On slicks, they are ULTRA SLOW!!

http://www.grandamerican.com/Events/...?SessionID=523

For comparison Speed World Challenge Touring cars run the track in 1:30:xx on Toyo Proxes RA-1!! you can knock a good 3-4 seconds off with slicks on that track. Hell. I have run a 1:25:8 there!!

http://www.world-challenge.com/2005/...s/tc-qual.html

Now again, I don't know much about the Grand am series, so maybe the cars are underpowered or something, but I would have thought they would have been atleast 5 seconds faster. 1:35 on slicks is just slow for a race car.

 

All I can tell you since I'm not an avid race fan is what they told me. The minimum for the class is 2700lbs and modifications are some what limited.

 

Grand-Am Cup runs Hoosier R-Compound tires, they are not slicks. They are actually harder than the DOT R-Compounds that Hoosier sells to the public due to the increased punding they take running in endurance races.

That said, the SPEED World Challenge Touring Cars are many times the cost of a well set up Grand-Am Cup Sport Touring Car. The level of modification allowed in the two series is night and day.

Grand-Am Cup has street cars with race prepped suspension (no geometry changes) and mildly, very mildly modified engines.

SPEED World Challenge Touring Cars are ground up racecars. They have fully race prepped suspension with altered geometry allowed. The engines are fully race prepped. These cars share very little, other than their shell, with the street cars on which they are based.


Grand-Am Cup = Street Stock Series
World Challenge = Full-bore Race Cars

These are two very different series with vastly different prep rules for the cars racing in them.

 

Well there you have it. I knew there must be a reason for it. Thanks!!

 

I really like the way the 68 one looks. The more I look at it, the more I want to get the MS kit and go at it. :D

Jamie