|
||
| Pit Notes | ||
| Thursday, March 15, 2001 -- Page 8 | ||
|
SUPERFLO 12 HOURS AT SEBRING PIT NOTES: Page 8 PRESENTED BY DODGE THURSDAY MARCH 15, 2001 The morning qualifying session for the Panoz GT Pro Series was canceled after driver Belinda Endress crashed in turn 17 in the opening moments of the session. The car slid into the tire barrier and then became airborne, coming to rest on its roof. Endress, who exited the car under her own power, was examined and released from the track care center and plans to drive another car in this afternoon's session. Endress was a regular the past two years on the Women's Global GT Series and had been among the fastest in practice for the GT class of the new Panoz Series. "The only thing I can tell you is that I got into the marbles and I couldn't save it. I was on my first lap and had gotten the tires good and warm because these tires are really good on their second lap. I was ready to rock and roll. After the car stopped, I realized I was hanging upside down and it was a weird feeling. I'd never rolled a car before. Some fluids started leaking and I wanted out of there now. I just unbuckled and crawled out. My neck's a little sore, and I'm sure I will be sore all over tomorrow. I'm glad I was in a good, safe car. I hate that I hosed everybody's qualifying session." Conditions for the final round of ALMS qualifying: 84°F, mostly cloudy, wind from the southwest at 17 mph gusting to 29 mph, humidity 62 %. ALMS GTS and GT final qualifying: At 2:37, green flag. At 2:42, #43-GT BMW M3 (Dirk Müller) stopped off course at turn 6, oil coming from the car and onto the track, Black flag all. The team reports the race engine blew. At 2:52, after only a couple of hot laps, #00-GT Porsche 911 GT3 RS has the fastest lap in GT class with a 2:08.819. At 2:55, green flag. At 3:00, #52-GT Porsche 911 GT3 RS spun and continued at turn 10. At 3:02, #3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R (Fellows) sets the fast lap of the session with a 2:00.728, still slower than the current pole. At 3:03, #26-GTS Saleen S7R (Gavin) sets the fast lap of the session at 2:00.689, still slower than his own pole speed (2:00.552). The fastest in GT is #30-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS with a 2:08.137 (time to beat: 2:06.763). At 3:07, #42-GT BMW M3 GTR (Jorg Muller) sets the fastest time in GT at 2:07.420 (third best combined). At 3:09, #26-GTS Saleen S7R (Gavin) sets the fastest time in GTS with a new pole time of 2:00.426. Oliver Gavin takes the pole for teammate Terry Borcheller. At 3:10, checkered flag. Car #23-GT Porsche 911 GT3-RS retains the pole in the GT class, #26-GTS Saleen S7R retains the pole in GTS class, with the #3-GTS Chevrolet Corvette C5-R moving up to second in class. This is the first pole for the Saleen racecar in only its second appearance in the ALMS (Laguna '00). This is the first pole for driver Oliver Gavin. ALMS Prototype final qualifying (time to beat - 1:49.110): At 3:17, green flag. At 3:22, #2-P Audi R8 (Pirro) sets the fastest lap in this session at 1:49.427. At 3:23, #11-P675 Lola B2K/40/Nissan (Huertgen) lowers their pole time with a 2:01.074. At 3:23, #2-P Audi R8 improves his time with a 1:49.397. At 3:24, #18-P Audi R8 into the run-off at turn 10 and continued. At 3:37, checkered flag. No change in the top three from yesterday. The #37-P Lola B2K/10/Judd (Jon Field) improved to 5th overall from 7th with a 1:53.182 passing the #50-P Panoz LMP07 and #16-P R&S MKIII C/Lincoln. |
||
|
Contact us at info@professionalsportscar.com
with comments or questions. |
