canciaro - 20 September 2008 07:40 PM

LoveAllRacing - 20 September 2008 07:32 PM

I can't believe they show every second, commercials aside, of the Grand Am race from Utah and yet they won't give equal billing to what will be a better race in Atlanta!

OH MY GOD....Exactly what I was going to say, and when i go to post something, its already been said....haha

This is a total joke, 7 hurs of Grand-Am racing, i cant believe that Speed favours Grand-Am soooo much over ALMS. This is just wrong, any news about a live webcast?????

Well, who is that boring, homogenized, spec sport car racing series?

Why, it's nascar!

So why is anyone surprised? Real racing is usurped by "entertainment".

You should be happy. They know what's best. You will be assimilated!

Dopey

Audi Announces Driver Lineup for Petit Le Mans
Dindo Capello and Allan McNish get their chance to write another historic chapter at Petit Le Mans Powered By The Totally New MAZDA6 Oct. 1-4 at Road Atlanta as Audi Sport North America has added the two-time defending race champions to its two-car lineup. Capello and McNish, reigning champions at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Tom Kristensen, will team with Emanuele Pirro in one of Audi's diesel-powered R10 TDIs.

The addition of Capello and McNish gives the race another marquee lineup in addition to those from the likes of Peugeot, Porsche and Acura in what already was the strongest entry list in the history of the 1,000-mile/10-hour endurance classic. Marco Werner and Lucas Luhr, who earned the Series' LMP1 championship at Detroit in the previous round, will drive the No. 2 entry.

Audi has never lost at Road Atlanta since debuting there in 2000. No driver since Tom Kristensen in 2002 has won both Petit Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the same year. Pirro and Frank Biela accomplished the feat in 2001.
McNish and Capello can become the first drivers to win Petit Le Mans three consecutive years. The only other driver to earn back-to-back Petit Le Mans wins is JJ Lehto, who won in 2003 and 2004. Capello has four victories while McNish has three. Meanwhile Pirro has two victories and Werner one.

"This year we won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the American Le Mans Series and the Le Mans Series in Europe with the R10 TDI," said Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich. "Obviously we'd like to continue our winning streak in the American Le Mans Series' most important race alongside Sebring. In the shape of Acura, Peugeot and Porsche we have very strong competitors, some of which have also strengthened their driving squad. I'm convinced that we are in a good position with our driver lineup."

Don't forget to purchase tickets for the Petit Le Mans at http://www.roadatlanta.com

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-speed-to-cover-petit-le-mans-on-multiple-platforms/

That is very thoughtful of SpeedTV to have the Petit Lemans preview show on Oct. 2nd. That will be something that I can actually watch.

So we still have not heard what those of you at home will be able to watch while the TV portion is away. Will there be a live stream via the web? Acura Onboard?

This is what I won't be watching:

1:00P-3:30
SPEED
NASCAR Sprint Cup QUALIFYING, AMP Energy 500, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, SDD, N

3:30P-4:00
SPEED
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SETUP, Mountain Dew 250, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, L

4:00P-6:30
SPEED
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Mountain Dew 250, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, L

LOKI65 - 23 September 2008 08:42 PM

This is what I won't be watching:

1:00P-3:30
SPEED
NASCAR Sprint Cup QUALIFYING, AMP Energy 500, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, SDD, N

3:30P-4:00
SPEED
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SETUP, Mountain Dew 250, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, L

4:00P-6:30
SPEED
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Mountain Dew 250, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL, HD, L

The sad part is that there are thousands of NASCAR fans per each road racing fan in this once proud nation of ours.

And the seven hours at Miller Motorsports Park was a pretty good race. Sorry ALMS fans, but the P1 and GT1 catagories have been so weak in the car count catagory. And "quality over quanity" arguement is pretty lame when there is Audi-v-Field, or Corvette-v-, well basically nobody, as you can't really count an Aston team that gets beat by most of the GT2 crowd.

I actually like GA and ALMS, so the coverage of the Miller race was very welcome, but I was very busy and did not see much of it.

I hope some other network out bids FOX/SPEED when the NASCAR contract runs out. ALMS deserves better treatment.

LOKI65 - 24 September 2008 11:31 AM

I actually like GA and ALMS, so the coverage of the Miller race was very welcome, but I was very busy and did not see much of it.

I hope some other network out bids FOX/SPEED when the NASCAR contract runs out. ALMS deserves better treatment.

Every series out there other than Cup deserves better than they've been getting lately. USAR and IRL on a network whose daily fare is extreme fighting??? As a racing fan, why would I lobby to get Vs? SPEED signs an exclusive deal with WoO, and rather than have 10 races on SPEED and another dozen on ESPN, we now get a dozen races total, all on SPEED. SPEED World Challenge, sponsored by the very network its on, is on either after midnight or the middle of the day, on weekdays. Thats bound to help develop an audience therefor improving its ratings. The only ARCA races shown are the companion events to some NASCAR deal or another, and the ones they skip are the best, the two infamous dirt shows, as well as Salem, a short track so high banked it makes Bristol look flat.

I wish that TRN, The Racing Network was more than a pipedream, and installed in my home.

PETIT LE MANS PRE-RACE NOTEBOOK

The entry list for Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally New MAZDA6 continues to take shape with several teams adding drivers to their lineups for the annual 1,000-mile/10-hour endurance classic at Road Atlanta. The American Le Mans Series’ founding event gets the green flag at 11:15 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 4.

In GT2, Flying Lizard Motorsports firmed up its lineup by reuniting Porsche factory driver Marc Lieb with fellow works pilots Jörg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler in the No. 45 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. The trio won in class at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring this year. Bergmeister and Henzler can wrap up the driver’s championship next week, as can Flying Lizard in the team standings.

Johannes van Overbeek and Patrick Pilet will drive the No. 46 entry. Seth Neiman, Darren Law and Lonnie Pechnik are teaming in the No. 44 Porsche.

LG BACK ON THE GRID: Lou Gigliotti will bring his Riley Technologies-built Corvette C6 back to GT2 at Road Atlanta and team with Tomy Drissi, who will drive in GT2 for the first time in his American Le Mans Series career.

Gigliotti raced the Corvette for the first four rounds of the Series, teaming with Doug Stevens. The pairing added Marc Goossens for Sebring, and the Riley factory driver could end up as the team’s third driver at Road Atlanta next week.

The Corvette ran as high as third in class at Miller Motorsports Park in May before finishing sixth.

WATTS, PLA IN GINETTA-ZYTEK: Frenchman Olivier Pla, a two-time winner in GP2, will team with Danny Watts in Team LNT’s new Ginetta-Zytek LMP1 entry. Pla made the transition to sports cars this year and placed fourth in LMP2 with ASM-Quifel Racing at the 24 Hours Le Mans; one of his teammates was Dyson Racing’s Guy Smith.

Pla also finished third in P2 at the Le Mans Series’ season-ending race at Silverstone two weeks ago, where he showed blistering pace particularly during a triple stint behind the wheel.


A LOLA FOR AUTOCON

When Autocon Motorsports rolls out of the pits for the first practice at upcoming Petit Le Mans, it will be in a Lola-AER the team recently acquired from Chamberlain-Synergy Racing, rather than the Creation CA06H-Judd that it campaigned since the Utah Grand Prix last season.

The Lola is the fourth different car Autocon has run in the American Le Mans Series since its inaugural series entry of the a Riley & Scott MXIII at Petit Le Mans in 2004. In 2006 and part of 2007, Autocon ran an ex-Dyson Racing Lola EX257, and produced its best performances in that car including leading overall at Lime Rock, and finishing second and third in team points in consecutive years in the P1 class.

The car is outfitted with an AER twin turbo V8 engine, which Autocon will run at Petit Le Mans and the Monterey Sports Car Championship incorporating cellulosic E85R ethanol racing fuel, before deciding on its 2009 power plans.

Chris McMurry, Tony Burgess and Bryan Willman will race the Lola in its first American Le Mans Series start.