We camped for the weekend at Laguna Seca for the Petit Lemans and had a great time. The Porsche LMP2 car finished second overall beating BOTH the Audi's! I let my son take the C4s for two parade laps Saturday. I rather think he enjoyed that experience.

Here is the pcar in the hot pits

pit2 penske team

porscheplatz 914gt

rear view

orange

917

imabigfan

RS

porscheplatz

scary1

p car lead

rear

corkscrew1

screw2

screw3

screw4

jimtab's sweet zambezi 914. Nice talking to ya!

rgruppeblack

nice pair

f-mazda meltdown

again

he said she said

what finger am I holding up? You want a Danica Patrick smack up side o yer head?

The Porsche lmp2 had a pit incident and the extra cowl had to be hung

cowl2, the boy cops a carbon fiber feel

hairpin as night falls
maserati (dropped out early, angry sounding car)
aston martin (Great sounding car!)
vette (Vettes were very steady and FAST)
saleen (collided with vette in the hairpin)
vette

my b-inlaw Bob Dylan as temps start to drop

My son shivering on the hairpin hill

a little nacht music

and the winner, the number 15 zytec car.

Nice, looks like a lot of fun.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the shots.

See you at Infineon on the 13th.


KT

Awesome pics, Thanks for sharing!!

The Porsche spyder RS finished first in the P2 class, but finished 5th overall. Not second.

1st was the zytek car, 2nd went to audi R8, 3rd was a dyson lola, 4th to the other Audi R8, and 5th to Massen and Luhr in the Porsche RS.

The Penske Porsche surprisingly pitted for fuel with 3 minutes left in the race. It has been speculated that they didn't really need fuel.
A couple of reasons might be that they didn't want to show up the P1 cars and get the rules changed to slow them down (as has happened many times in the past), or that Penske was sandbagging and didn't want the competition to know how good of fuel mileage they were actually getting.
They had no chance of catching the 1st place overall P1 Zytek car and there was no way that the second place car in P2 could catch them so pitting didn't hurt them at all in class.
It like a chess match with lots O'politics thrown in.
Next year the Porsche RS spyder will kick ass and take names, as long as they don't get penalized for being too fast. Deja Vu.

We thought second overall, oh well must have been the reposado.

Patrick,

Great shots and commentary....THANKS for sharing with those of us who couldnt be there. Did Dylan sing ?

Greg

No, he had a frog in his throat....for the past twenty years!

QUOTE (Sammy @ Oct 18 2005, 09:37 AM)

A couple of reasons might be that they didn't want to show up the P1 cars and get the rules changed to slow them down

It certainly looked to me, throughout most of the race that the Porsche was just cruising along behind the P1 cars - didn't want to go by, but certainly no slower...

I expect it will be a LOT faster next year

Richard

More Pics of the LMP2 Porsche

me so jellious....
that LMP-2 is just developmental. Porsche apparently will have to field an LMP-1 car soon. You KNOW they aren't supposed to see Mazda (no slur intended, really) as the competition. Lookout Audi- you guys better get that R-10 out!
ALMS racing is the best racing in America!

OK, ponder this: they run this car and kick butt in 2006 and sell a whole bunch of cars, then they take a couple of them and add some weight down low, and turbocharge them fior the 2007 season. Boom, instant P-1 and overall winners.
I can dream, can't i?

QUOTE (ppickerell @ Oct 17 2005, 11:34 AM)

jimtab's sweet zambezi 914. Nice talking to ya!

THANKS....it works for me....

Nice pics Scott! Atttached is one of yours in the Corkscrew to which I applied some Photoshop tricks; now I've got a nice wallpaper!

QUOTE (Scott Carlberg @ Oct 18 2005, 01:51 PM)

More Pics of the LMP2 Porsche

from a 6speedonline.com thread: Here She is....doing the screw

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/showthr...&threadid=35273


and

OUCH, for you Aston Martin fans, look out!

Saw that one of the Aston Drivers was female.