pellisS2k

It's still a couple of months off, but anyone interested in going for the Saturday Practices/Races or the Sunday Races?

The Schedule (from http://www.americanlemans.com):
Friday, July 20, 2001
8:00 am - 8:30 am Practice - Star Mazda
8:40 am - 9:25 am Practice - SPEEDVISION World Challenge
9:35 am - 10:05 am Practice - Historic GTP
10:15 am - 10:45 am Practice - Star Mazda
10:55 am - 11:25 am Practice - Trans-Am Series for BF Goodrich Tires Cup
11:25 am - 12:10 pm Lunch
12:10 pm - 12:40 pm Practice - Star Mazda
12:50 pm - 1:20 pm Test Session - ALMS (GTS/GT)
1:20 pm - 2:20 pm Combined Test Session - ALMS (LMP 900/LMP 675/GTS/GT)
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm Test Session - ALMS (LMP 900/LMP 675)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Practice - Historic GTP
3:40 pm - 4:10 pm Practice - Trans-Am Series for BF Goodrich Tires Cup
4:20 pm - 5:05 pm Practice - SPEEDVISION World Challenge
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Qualifying - Star Mazda

Saturday, July 21, 2001
8:00 am - 8:45 am Qualifying - SPEEDVISION World Challenge
8:55 am - 9:55 am Combined Practice - ALMS (LMP 900/LMP 675/GTS/GT)
10:05 am - 10:50 am Qualifying - Trans-Am Series for BF Goodrich Tires Cup
11:00 am - 11:30 am Qualifying - Historic GTP
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Combined Practice - ALMS (LMP 900/LMP 675/GTS/GT)
1:40 pm - 2:10 pm Practice - Trans-Am Series for BF Goodrich Tires Cup
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Star Mazda Race - 45 Minutes
3:25 pm - 3:45 pm Qualifying - ALMS (GTS/GT)
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm Qualifying - ALMS (LMP900/LMP675)
4:40 pm - 5:30 pm SPEEDVISION World Challenge Touring Race (50 Minute Window)

Sunday, July 22, 2001
8:00 am - 8:25 am Combined Warm Up - ALMS (LMP 900/LMP 675/GTS/GT)
8:50 am - 9:40 am SPEEDVISION World Challenge GT Race (50 Minute Window)
10:00 am - 11:00 am Historic GTP Race - 60 Minutes
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Lunch
12:00 pm - 2:45 pm American Le Mans Series Race - 2 Hour 45 Minutes
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Trans-Am Series for BF Goodrich Tires Cup Race (100 Miles)

SaV

How much are the tickets? After watching Driven, my girlfriend and I are really thinking about attending a race event (sans Drag event, those are sooooo boring). Latez!

Bob Moss

I never miss an ALMS event.....you actually LIKED "Driven"? Too many technical inaccuracies for my taste. Believe me any real race is better than any "Hollywood" version, even "Grand Prix" which had great technique but the story kinda sucked. Of course maybe seeing a movie is better than going to all the trouble of attending a CART race and then having it cancelled i.e. Texas. I was at Fontana watching an ass-kicking Winston Cup event! As Steve McQueen once said.."Racing is life....all the rest: just waiting".

JohnA

Bob, I loved "Driven", more laughs than the original "Airplane", but all unintended (think "Plan 9 from outer space") If I wasn't cracking up about the leaden acting, God some of them were worse than Stallone; I was rolling in the aisles over drivers reversing on the track to go back to pull a car out of the drink. Champ cars on city streets; helmets, we don't need no stinkin' helmets. There should be a contest to count the inaccuracies, blunders, and impossibilities. And almost forgot, how about the "coin trick", oh brother!
JohnA
Sorry I missed you at Fontana, my plans kept changing and by the time I knew where I'd be and when, you were gone. See you next time or at a meet. It was a heck of a race, good for old Rusty.

[Edited by JohnA on 05-02-2001 at 10:19 AM]

Bob Moss

I was given a pretty detailed review by my very CART-savvy buddy and that is how I made my initial assessment. I still intend to see it for myself so thanks for the permission to laugh. Besides the movie critic on KNX down in LA pretty much slammed it. I am quite surprised it was that bad considering all the supposed trouble Stallone went to including all that time spent romancing Bernie Ecclstone before Sly abandoned F1. But once again as I said the real thing kicks most any movie/TV or other fictionalized version of racing squarely in the ass.
Despite the horrific traffic this time it was quite a fine event. Many in the group I go with are huge Rusty fans so it was a happy result. I am big into Ricky Rudd so 6th was not too bad.
We will make a better effort to hook up next time. By the way my wife and drove all over Northern and Southern Cal over the last 10 days and only saw two S2000's. One was up in St. Helena and the other was parked in front of the Honda showroom in Pasadena or somewhere there next to the 210.

JohnA

Bob,
Traffic seemed much worse this year. More cops & control = bigger delays & problems? Oh well it still has to go some to rival Sears Point. Are you headed to the vintage racing this month at Sears? Would have loved to be a fly on the wall at some of those Sly and Bernie get togethers, what a pair!
JohnA

[Edited by JohnA on 05-03-2001 at 10:00 AM]

Bob Moss

According to reports there were accidents in the back up this year....I actually missed the start back in 1997 sitting on the 10, but this year was the worst since then. And yeah, I am still not ready to try Sears Point on Sunday yet for Winston Cup. I am still bitter about missing the start in 1992!!
I always try to make the vintage race there, last year I was finally able to meet my life-long all-time hero Dan Gurney up there. I probably will pass on Monterey this time as Bentley does not really thrill me (although they will be at Le Mans this year!). We should plan a little S2000 get together around that deal, eh??

pellisS2k

We're getting close.. So do we want to have an S2000 contingent going?

loki

I'll definitely be there, do you know where we can get tickets online for it? I'll most probably go sunday at least and maybe saturday if I have the time. Might take the motorcycle to bypass traffic but I gotta root for the v8 M3.

pellisS2k

Im not sure which day(s) ill be going yet. Any recommendations on where to sit? I think id like a view of turn 3, turn 7 or the esses. hmm..

tickets:https://secure-web-services.net/SearsPoint/...ets/lemans.html