Ford GTs at the 2016 Rolex 24 at Daytona

[Saint Ho]

Daytona, Free Practice 2: Ford GT before two Ferrari 488 GTE !

January 28, 2016

After a wet track while ago at the first meeting, the rain came to set in during free practice 2 benefiting GTLM. The best time of the session was signed by Sebastien Bourdais in 1: 56,024, driving the Ford GT # 66 Chip Ganassi Racing. After the best time in Free Practice 1, the Ferrari 488 GTE # 62 Risi Competizione now points to second place with the second fastest time in 1: 56,420 Giancarlo Fisichella. James Calado takes over the third fastest in 1: 56,492 at the wheel of the Ferrari 488 GTE SMP Racing # 72 he shared with Gianmaria Bruni, Viktor Shaytar and Andrea Bertolini. The two Corvette C7.R # 4 and # 3 Corvette Racing follow in fourth and fifth place.

 

[SteveA]

Is that a bitchen looking car or what?

 

[Cobrar]

I'm sure you'd agree that it would look far more 'bitchen' if it were red with a white stripe. Maybe next year. ;-))

 

[dbk]

Weather looking great this morning! Yeehaw!

 

[MNJason]

See you all soon!

 

[dbk]

Was it wet yesterday? Just a bit....

 

[ByeEnzo]

Camilo and his cabana boys.

Hah! Wonder who told you that!

 

[jasonjsipos]

Nice wake on the GT, can you ski behind that?

 

[Brombear]

Ouch ...

 

[RALPHIE]

Looks like they reopened the front NACA duct in the center of the hood -

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[AJB]

The Vehicle in the rain reminds me of our Rally at VIR in the rain. !
Keep the pictures coming ! It is a nice sunny day here in Michigan ...but Cold.. !

I can follow you guys and your 'antics' on the Forum.
andy (ajb)

 

[Cobrar]

Looks like they reopened the front NACA duct in the center of the hood -

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Yep. There goes the luggage compartment. :biggrin

 

[MNJason]

Congrats to the 350Rs for coming in First and Second at the BMW 200 Performance Race today!

www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/race_result_files/2016_ICTSC_Daytona_UnofficialResults.pdf

Hard fought race to hold off several Pcars!

 

[Mike Mosing]

...and congrats to my Lil Brother for winning the ST class...and he was already warned by Pikul not to interfere with the GT tomorrow when he races the Viper.

 

[Saint Ho]

No. 66 Ford GT (Joey Hand, Dirk Müller, Sébastien Bourdais)

Joey Hand: “The conditions were treacherous. I’m actually surprised we were qualifying in those conditions. You couldn’t even get through the Bus Stop. The Bus Stop is usually third or fourth gear, and this was first gear. There are a lot of places that were just not good and I thought we could’ve wrote off some cars. A lot of guys took it easy. Our main goal with this car is not really to throw down the ultimate lap in this first race it’s to finish 24 hours. We hate to get in a situation and get the car in the fence and have the guys have to work all night to just get a pieced together car to go race 24 hours, so our main thing when we left pit lane was to get it back in one piece and that’s what we did. We went out a little late. We then caught a red flag at the beginning, so we didn’t get our laps in the way we should have or could have. The good thing is, I don’t think the car is bad in the rain. I think it’s actually pretty good. We just had to really tip-toe in these conditions and make sure we had a race car come the start of the Rolex 24.”

No. 67 Ford GT (Richard Westbrook, Ryan Briscoe, Stefan Mücke)

Ryan Briscoe: “We only did one timed lap, so it was really a challenge. There was a lot of standing water and I was just trying to keep it on the track, to be honest. We got our timed lap and the car’s in one piece, so we’re ready to go racing and that’s the important thing.”

 

[cobrajeff]

The Gang's all here....

Sorry about the rain on Thursday, guys....the rest of the weekend should really look like Florida...lots of sun, mild temps, and wailing GTs!





Jeff

 

[Specracer]

Great start to the weekend. Glad the Thursday rain is over.

 

[BtwoG]

Anyone know anything about the black GT race car (2nd picture)? I see it has a wirewheel windshield decal. Wirewheel sells a bunch of race cars (lots of Panoz) but I dont see the GT on their web site. Wondering if they have it for sale or it's the owners personal car.
I also never knew Panoz won the 2002 Trans Am series. That would be a cool car to have (for sale on the wirewheel site)

 

[Triheart7]

I cannot find any television coverage, any suggestions?

 

[RALPHIE]

I cannot find any television coverage, any suggestions?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/30/10872676/rolex-24-hours-daytona-start-time-channel

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