coupe3w Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Ford did good during the race finished: 15th only 28 laps down 43rd 85 laps down 47th 96 laps down not bad for the first outing with new cars and engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickF1011 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 I believe all 3 ecoboost cars held the overall lead at at least one point as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Rosadini Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Caught one piece in which they said 70% of the motor was stock production gear-hopefully they weren't playing "statistics 101" and that 70% figure was by weight-in which case they were talklng bout the raw block casting Hopefully a sign of future success. In any case good residual Ford Blue coverage in the form of an old Ford tractor that had a power broom cleaning up wreck debris. Ah the good old days- farm tractors, loader backhoes, big trucks, Crown Vics...interesting that in the usual news coverage of the latest disaster, CV's still seem to get the most face time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drob23 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 You all see the crash between the Ferrari and Corvette LMP car? Holy hell that looked brutal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Rosadini Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 You all see the crash between the Ferrari and Corvette LMP car? Holy hell that looked brutal... For sure- can understand how the Nascar boys survive some of the wrecks they are in given "purpose built" nature of those cars- I guess these "sports cars" are not that less "purpose built". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMSA-XJR9 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Sports Cars have been purpose built for some time in most higher-end series (IMSA GT/GTO/GTU/GTP, Group C, LMP, DTM, Super GT, etc.) Great article by Gordon Kirby . . . http://www.gordonkirby.com/categories/columns/theway/2014/the_way_it_is_no418.html I heard an earful from many people in the garage at Daytona and decided to sit down for a pair of thorough discussions about the teams' worries with Chip Ganassi's sports car team manager Tim Keene and Extreme Speed's director of operations Rob Hill. Ganassi's team races Ford V6 turbo-powered Riley Daytona Prototypes while Extreme Speed runs HPD ARX-03b-Honda P2 cars so Keene and Hill provide perspective from both sides of the TUSC's performance-balancing game. "The most frustrating thing for us is the rules administration keeps giving us a very limited amount of time to respond," Keene commented. "They keep issuing new technical bulletins asking to make changes in an impossibly short space of time. "We know this is a work in progress. But they're trying to balance the performance too much and make all the cars the same where we would rather see something that said: here's your low downforce number and here's your high downforce number and let us decide where we want to run in between those numbers. That's what we would like to see rather than the sanctioning body telling us we have to run this amount of downforce. You've got to allow the teams to play with it. "I've had dinner with Robert Yates and his guys and they say it would be a lot easier for them to run with Hendrick and the other big teams if NASCAR would open up the rules rather than trying to make all the cars be the same. Yates believes they could more competitive at more tracks if NASCAR would allow them to play around a bit and I'm sure they're right from what I've seen here. "The sanctioning body is trying to do our jobs for us, which is frustrating. It's up to us to balance performance, not them. There's got be some rules but we have too many. You've got to open up the box or window so it's not too small to get through." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97svtgoin05gt Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 NASCAR won't change the rules because then it won't favor Chevy which of course is NASCARs darling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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