ALMS at Long Beach

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2013 Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series At Long Beach
Street Course , Long Beach, California, USA
April 19 - 20, 2013
Broadcast Info
Television Broadcast: ABC
Sunday, April 21, 2013 - 12:00pm CDT




Live Streaming: ESPN 3
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 6:15pm CDT




Live Qualifying: ESPN 3
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 7:00pm CDT







LIVE TIMING:
http://www.imsaracing.net/2003/lt/ltc.html
http://scoring.alms.com/



Live Timing for mobile device:
http://scoring.alms.com/mobile.html


SEBRING PIT NOTES:
http://twitter.com/almsnotes
http://www.alms.com/races/tequila-patr%C3%B3n-american-le-mans-series-long-beach-1



RADIO ALMS
http://www.americanlemans.com/


TICKET INFO: 888-82-SPEED (77333)
http://gplb.com/mediafiles/files/2013%20Corvette%20Corral%20Flyer.pdf



Entry List
http://www.alms.com/sites/default/files/races/entry_lists/Long Beach Entries.pdf


Spotters Guide: (03/12/13)
Spotter Guides

Corvette Corral:
Not posted yet

Event Schedule:
http://www.imsaracing.net/2013/events/03-Long Beach/2013 ALMS Long Beach Supp Regs.pdf

Map:
http://www.alms.com/sites/default/files/races/track_maps/Long Beach Track Map_0.pdf

WEATHER:
Long Beach Weekend Weather Forecast (90806) - weather.com

 

[O Vette]

Wish the entire race was live on TV.

I don't really like this or the Baltimore street course. There's not enough room for the cars to really perform. However, I can see why they might be an attraction. They are real easy to get to for the people who live around the city but, I'm not sure they attract as many fans as the race courses. Hope the Vettes are able to escape without serious damage and finish the race. This should be on live TV coverage. The streaming over the internet is not good. The only good part is the British guys who do the broadcasting. Hope they are at Long Beach. They are better than their American counterparts.

 

[Tuna]

The Pirelli World Challenge race will be at Long Beach also. Cadillac Racing team and some private Corvettes are entered.

 

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ClaustoRacing

I don't really like this or the Baltimore street course. There's not enough room for the cars to really perform. However, I can see why they might be an attraction. They are real easy to get to for the people who live around the city but, I'm not sure they attract as many fans as the race courses. Hope the Vettes are able to escape without serious damage and finish the race. This should be on live TV coverage. The streaming over the internet is not good. The only good part is the British guys who do the broadcasting. Hope they are at Long Beach. They are better than their American counterparts.

I'm in complete agreement, O Vette. I hate these over-tight layouts where a car gets taken out the race if one driver slightly overcooks a corner or something... and can we get rid of the useless roving roadblock class that is GTChallenge? That would clean things up for a course like this... Oh wait...thinkin' like an engineer again... :eyerole

 

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CORVETTE RACING LOOKS FORWARD TO LONG BEACH RETURN

(LONG BEACH, Calif., April 19, 2013) – Corvette Racing returns to where its championship season in 2012 earned its first of four victories: The 1.968-mile, 11-turn Long Beach Street Circuit.

Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner, co-drivers of the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R, won at Long Beach last year en route to the Team and Driver championships. It was their first victory as a team, and Milner’s first victory in the American Le Mans Series.

“Long Beach was the start of the run to the Championship for Tommy and me,” Gavin said. “As you so often have to be on street races, we were a little lucky in that the two cars in front of us on the grid had issues on the fourth corner of the race and their race was compromised from there on. We still had to battle our way from then on to the front but our car was good straight off and that was a big plus point.”

One of the keys at Long Beach, Gavin said, is the very last turn.

“The most important corner on the track is the last one and getting off that corner well is vital for lap time and opportunities to overtake other cars,” Gavin said. “If you can get into someone’s tow on the straight it’s the best chance you get to pass others going into Turn 1. Street tracks are always a bit of a lottery, but if you are able to switch on your tires fast, ride the bumps easily and go through and off the corners well, you’ve got a good chance to be fast.”

Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing Program Manager, agrees that luck is important, particularly on street courses.

“There’s a formula that I like to extoll, and it’s for any race: It’s 25 percent great car, 25 percent great team and 50 percent good luck,” Fehan said. “And that gets modified just a little bit when you go to street races, and the good-luck portion plays a much greater role. Because you have a great car and a great team, but in a street race anything can happen to you – from turn one, lap one to turn 10, final lap of the race. You’ve got to have good fortune on your side. Anybody who wins at Long Beach, has good fortune on that day. That’s just the way street races work.”
Corvette Racing, which also won the 2012 ALMS Manufacturer Championship, opened the 2013 season with a victory last month. Milner made a late pass for the lead and held on for the final 15 minutes as the No. 4 GT Compuware Corvette C6.R overcame an early electrical issue and two key penalties to win the GT class 61st Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.
Fehan thinks the one-month break between the first two races will be a good thing for the two Corvette Racing teams.

“It lets the guys wind down a little bit, and you clearly get to take more time and get the car correct and ready for the next race,” Fehan said. “There’s a huge emotional build-up to that event at Sebring, and a huge emotional release when you’re victorious, so to have a little extra time to catch your breath, get yourself sorted out, and enjoy and contemplate what you’ve accomplished, and then re-focus on what you have to do. So, the break is actually pretty good.”

The No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R, driven by Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen, looks to bounce back from an electrical issue at Sebring.

“The issues that we had with the 3 team at Sebring were just devastating,” Fehan said. “As it turns out, a simple little pin on one little wire, and it took those guys out of contention – and they had a car that was good enough to win. Now, if you do this game long enough, you’re going to have those experiences. Everybody goes through that. They all want to perform at their optimum, they all want to make sure that they bring a car that they know can win. And they did that at Sebring. It just didn’t work out. It was one of those racing bad days. As quickly as that can happen to you, it can turn around. I think they are very energized by that, I think they know that at a street race it is anybody’s ballgame and the 3 guys are not at all down and out about it at this point. You go home, you get past it and you come back harder than ever.”

Corvette Racing has 78 ALMS class victories, including four in 2012, making it the most successful team in American Le Mans Series history.

CORVETTE RACING​

86 RACE WINS (78 ALMS, 7 LeMans, 1 GRAND-AM) ​

AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES​

CORVETTE RACING ADVANCE​

Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach​

LONG BEACH TEMPORARY STREET COURSE​

LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA​

APRIL 17, 2013​

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CORVETTE RACING FOR THE FANS AT LONG BEACH:
• Fans can visit the Corvette Racing and Chevy IndyCar Display in the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
• Fans can check out great Chevrolet vehicles including: 2014 Corvette Stingray, 2014 Silverado, 2014 Impala, Camaro ZL1, Volt, Malibu, Traverse, Sonic, and Spark.
• At the display fans can see a variety of show cars and specialty vehicles including: The IndyCar Series Series No. 1 Dallara-Chevrolet show car, the Turbo movie Camaro show car, Corvette C6.R and 60[SUP]th[/SUP] Anniverisary Corvette 427.
• Fans can see a sample of engines, parts and accessories available for purchase from Chevrolet at their local Chevrolet dealer.
• Other activities at the Corvette Racing and IndyCar Display include a variety of interactive games for adults and kids.
• Display hours of operation: Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; and Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

CORVETTE RACING IN AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES (ALMS) COMPETITION:
• Corvette Racing has 78 ALMS class victories, making it the most successful team in American Le Mans Series history.
• Longest winning streak in GT1 (25, 2007 Sebring-2009 Long Beach)
• Corvette Racing has nine Manufacturer and Team Championships, and eight Drivers Championships.
• Corvette Racing was the Michelin Green X Challenge GT Manufacturer Champion (Chevrolet) and Team Champions (No. 3 Corvette C6.R, Jan Magnussen/ Antonio Garcia) in 2012.

CHEVROLET ON THE TRACK—GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH:
• Corvette Racing has participated in every ALMS race in Long Beach, winning three straight in the GT1 class (2007-09) and one in the GT class (2012).
• The team also scored consecutive runner-up finishes in 2010-11 after moving to the GT category.
• Corvette Racing has qualified first in class three times in Long Beach (Qualifying was cancelled in 2012 due to rain).
• Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner’s 2012 victory in Long Beach was the first for this driver combination, and Milner’s first career ALMS win.

CORVETTE RACING IN THE PADDOCK AT LONG BEACH GRAND PRIX – DOUG FEHAN
“There’s a formula that I like to extoll, and it’s for any race. It’s 25 percent great car, 25 percent great team and 50 percent good luck. And that gets modified just a little bit when you go to street races, and the good-luck portion plays a much greater role. Because you have a great car and a great team, but in a street race anything can happen to you – from turn one, lap one to turn 10, final lap of the race. You’ve got to have good fortune on your side. Anybody who wins at Long Beach, has good fortune on that day. That’s just the way street races work.”

CORVETTE RACING FROM THE DRIVER’S SEAT, LOOKING BACK ON 2012 RACE IN LONG BEACH – OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 COMPUWARE CORVETTE:
“Long Beach was the start of the run to the Championship for Tommy and me. As you so often have to be on street races, we were a little lucky in that the two cars in front of us on the grid had issues on the fourth corner of the race and their race was compromised from there on. We still had to battle our way from then on to the front but our car was good straight off and that was a big plus point.”

Chevrolet American Le Mans Series Statistics​

Manufacturers and Team Championships
Total (2001-2008, 2012): 9

24 Hours of Le Mans Class Wins
Total (2001-02, 2004-06, 2009, 2011): 7

Drivers Championships
Total (2002-2008, 2012): 8

2013 Event Victories
(Sebring): 1

2012 Event Victories
(Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, Virgina International Raceway): 4


The Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach starts at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, April 20. GT Qualifying is at 5:25 p.m. Pacific time on Friday.

 

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Qualifying for the "race"

The Vettes, thanks to their win at Sebring, weigh ~80lbs more than the 8L Vipers due to "performance adjustments", making the idea of racing a farce - ya know, like Nascrap.
I know this is nothing new, but there's just no truth in it. So, if the Vettes don't get wiped out in this crashfest, we can look forward to non-stop crap from SRT/Viper/Dodge/Fiat (whoever they are this week) if they finish first?

 

[cor123]

CORVETTE RACING QUALIFIES 4TH AND 6TH AT LONG BEACH

(LONG BEACH, Calif., April 19, 2013) – Jan Magnussen, driver of the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R, qualified fourth (1:19.047 secs.) in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) GT Class at Long Beach. Tommy Milner, who won his first ALMS race at this event last year, qualified sixth (1:19.083) in the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn Long Beach Street Circuit.

“We definitely made some good improvements between practice and qualifying,” Magnussen said. “It’s always hard here because there’s such a long time between the two sessions, so you really have to think about how the track is going to develop, so I think we made some good choices. We’ll go back and look at some old data and fine-tune a little bit, but overall, I’d be happy to race this car.”

Magnussen added that the No. Corvette C6.R experienced a minor problem during practice, but it was fixed before qualifying.

“We had a small issue shifting this morning. Fixed. All gone,” Magnussen said. “I’m really looking forward to tomorrow.”

Magnussen will team with Antonio Garcia for tomorrow’s race.

Milner will again team with Oliver Gavin. The two won the 2012 ALMS drivers’ championship, and opened the 2013 season with a victory at Sebring last month.

“Obviously, it’s super, super close, as it always is in GT,” Milner said. “So, the position doesn’t sound great; sixth is not what I was hoping for, but it was only two-tenths off the pole. That’s pretty close.

“Obviously, I’d love to get a win here again, like I did last year, my first win in ALMS, but at the end of the day is the championship and finishing the race and keeping the nose of the car clean, give it to Oliver and let him work his magic like he did last year.”

Corvette Racing has 78 ALMS class victories, including four in 2012, making it the most successful team in American Le Mans Series history.
The Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach starts at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, April 20.

 

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Uphill

The Vettes, thanks to their win at Sebring, weigh ~80lbs more than the 8L Vipers due to "performance adjustments", making the idea of racing a farce - ya know, like Nascrap.
I know this is nothing new, but there's just no truth in it. So, if the Vettes don't get wiped out in this crashfest, we can look forward to non-stop crap from SRT/Viper/Dodge/Fiat (whoever they are this week) if they finish first?

Great - 8L Vipers didn't win. Non-existent "Z4" won.

Can we shed the bullsht weight and fueling restrictions and get back to true Vette-capable racing? ad

 

[O Vette]

The Long Beach race is kind of a joke. Truck the cars all the way to CA from FL for a two hour race on a narrow street where luck of not getting in a crash is as important as engineering a car. There were about 45 minutes of caution so the race was really only an hour and fifteen minutes. Long Beach is not worth it and should be dropped. If I understand it correctly, does anyone know why 80 pounds were added?

 

[cor123]

The Long Beach race is kind of a joke. Truck the cars all the way to CA from FL for a two hour race on a narrow street where luck of not getting in a crash is as important as engineering a car. There were about 45 minutes of caution so the race was really only an hour and fifteen minutes. Long Beach is not worth it and should be dropped. If I understand it correctly, does anyone know why 80 pounds were added?

apparently it is 33 pounds and not 80. from Doug Fehan-

C- We started the season the same as when we ended 2012. We got a 15kg reward based on the performance data recorded at the Sebring event.
Rx

 

[ltmax]

Us and Dem...

apparently it is 33 pounds and not 80. from Doug Fehan-

C- We started the season the same as when we ended 2012. We got a 15kg reward based on the performance data recorded at the Sebring event.
Rx

Check with IMSA rules on the added weights. the Vettes are ~80 lb more than the "Z4" and viper. You can check the Badboyvette.com site, there's a thread going on there about it too.

Z4 BMW's beat ZR-1 Vettes on a road race. Riiiight......