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| Corvettes Hit LimeRock. LimeRock Hits Back. | |
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|  | | July 10 2011 12:52:54 PM EST | |
| It was a classically-beautiful New England day. Lime Rock Park was awash in sunlight, pastoral green, and a full corral of Corvette street-car wonder. The Chevy Display featured a yellow ZR1 'G-loaded' with new Nurburging-laptime-lowering Michelin Cup tires.
ALMS had decreed that the ugly-to-drive-and-watch chicane before the bridge would be scrapped for the 2011 race. The return of the ultra-fast West Bend was applauded by all.
Until 20 minutes into the race. Then, Lime Rock fate hit Corvette.
The circumstances that create racing luck go deeper than just chance.
* BMW knows they have speed-in-hand vs the competition. Rules that still allow their bigger front diffusers / that high rear wing AND speed-equalizing rules adjustments that have NOT been taken have helped the M3's.
* Talking to godug, CR going hard / all-out / all-the-time was the official response to the only thing Corvette could do vs BMW's LimeRock speed.
* Qualifying IN the pack, vs in-front, creates bad possibilities.
* Pro-Am driver requirements in certain Le Mans-style classes- LMPC and GTC [not just in ALMS, ILMC too, btw] added to the bad scenarios potential.
Mix it all into a Cuisinart Blender-of-a-track [with low-50 second GT laps] that creates traffic and negates fuel / pit-stop strategies, the recipe is trouble. But, rumor is a rules adjustment is coming. As is the next race in Mosport. |
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