GRAND-AM Road Racing

http://www.grand-am.com/

Does anybody else follow the Rolex Sports Car Series? Multiclass racing with Daytona Prototypes and a GT class.

There is also a support series, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, those races are usually good and feature two classes, Grand Sport and Street Tuner. They don't show too many Continental Tire races on TV unfortunately.

Anyways, the Memorial Day Classic is underway at Lime Rock. The dominant duo of Pruett/Rojas are out of the race and will not win for the 2nd race in a row.

The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is always really good fun to watch.

The closest thing to proper Group A Touring Car racing in the world!

...and im here at home playing Fm3 where i could be at Lime Rock watching this..... fuuuuuuuuuuuu. it'd be over by the time i get up there. (roughly 1hr away)

Lime Rock is about two or three hours south from where I am, and I've got a few friends in CT so hopefully next year I'll have some money to go.

6 Hours at the Glen is on now.

Live Timing and MRN radio stream:
http://www.motorracingnetwork.com/small_audio_stream.html

HOOLY [Censored]!!!! that was a scary crash. Watching Road America race.

EDIT: They've been under caution for 50 minutes now. I'm surprised they haven't just red flagged the race.

damn.

walked away unhurt too.

amazing.

Woah there!

Thats no place to be doing high jumps.

Wasn't really much impact, the car just sort of went into the tyres which carried on under the car. Much better than going head on into a static wall.

Bad crash or not u KNOW there is unpleasant elements in his fire suit!!! There would be in mine

Yeah that would be scary as hell!

"[Censored], NO brakes. Sorry MAZDA!!!!...... oh [Censored], wall!!!! (closes eyes at this point)

Pretty crazy crash, me and my dad were amazed he walked away after something like that when we were watching the race this morning. 2 weeks time though, Laguna Seca. Already have my tickets.

Ooooh mama, I love the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. This really needs to be the world standard for Touring Car regulations, this can't be more expensive than doing NGTC, surely?

Better still, take the Camaro's and Mustang's out of the top class and use 'em for NASCAR.

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/458-grand-am-2011-07-21

the 458 Italia Grand Am's remarkably similar to the Euro-spec 458 Italia GT3, only a bit worse.

Looks better though...

I like it. When is it supposed to race, 2012?

Why does Grand-Am still go to New Jersey? Just now watching the Rolex race from this past weekend and, like last year, numorous reports of drivers having to go to medical center due to overheating. Something like 160 degrees F in the cockpit.

One of the Speedsource Mazda GT cars is actually running WITHOUT a cool suit system to save weight. Absolutely mental...