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Car Forum / Porsche / Porsche Cars / February 2006Rolex 24 Hr.
Porsche finished 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and a few other spots in the GT class at this year's Rolex at Daytona. The top Porsche in GT was also 9th overall. The top Porsche powered entry in DP was 3rd. > Porsche finished 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and a few other spots > in the GT class at this year's Rolex at Daytona. The top Porsche in GT was > also 9th overall. > > The top Porsche powered entry in DP was 3rd. While we all love seeing Porsche win, it'd be nice if there was some serious competition. >> Porsche finished 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and a few other spots >> in the GT class at this year's Rolex at Daytona. The top Porsche in GT [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > While we all love seeing Porsche win, it'd be nice if there was some > serious competition. Other makes included Pontiac GTO (2nd in class), Corvette, Mazda, BMW and Ferrari. <<Other makes included Pontiac GTO (2nd in class), Corvette, Mazda, BMW and Ferrari.>> Anyone else noticed that the flamers touting the "supremecy" of the C5-R race car seemed to disappear over the last year or so? They seemed real prevalent when the car was winning but when it became obvious that the Porsche's essentially own the GT class, they sort of went the way of the Dodo. The C5-R has been retired. The C6-R , like the C5-R, will race in a class above GT. And they have been dominating that higher performance class. Looks like the C-6R won 1st place in the GT1 class 10 of of 11 starts last year. And C5-C6-Rs won their class in 3 out of 4 in the last 24 hours of Leman. <<The C5-R has been retired.>> I'm well aware, but the Corvette "groupies" who seemed to be hanging around disappeared well before the car was retired and havn't been back to talk-up the C6, which is good. <<And they have been dominating that higher performance class. Looks like the C-6R won 1st place in the GT1 class 10 of of 11 starts last year. And C5-C6-Rs won their class in 3 out of 4 in the last 24 hours of Leman.>> All of which is respectable, it's nice to see that a domestic manufacturer can still build a worthwhile race car even while they can't seem to build anything street-legal that's worth buying. Nonetheless, the Corvette fanatics seem to have very consistantly over the years set their sights on Porsche owners/lovers to be the targets of their pumped-up machismo, and the fact that the C5-R was winning races only fueled their fire. I'm simply glad their gone. I had thought (obviously incorrectly) that some variant of the C5 had competed in GT with the 911s, but my memory must be getting the better of me. <I had thought(obviously incorrectly) that some variant of the C5 had competed in GT with the 911s, but my memory must be getting the better of me.> No, you are right. They did. They competed in the GT class (I can only assume it was an open GT class) The highest the Corvette placed was 15th in class and 28th overall. The Porsche GT3 won the GT class and 9th overall. The Corvettes were not even a factor, but Pontiac was running some GTO's that were very competitive. > <<The C5-R has been retired.>> > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > (obviously incorrectly) that some variant of the C5 had competed in GT > with the 911s, but my memory must be getting the better of me. It's interesting to me that the GTO would have been succesful in any racing arena where the Corvette was not. The Vette' has the more advanced platform, and I'd imagine that the variant of the small-block in the Vette' is better than what's used in the GTO, although I've always had a hard time keeping track of what made one version of the 350 different from another. The Sunfire Pontiac's seem to do quite well though, which is interesting, Pontiac hasn't had a particularly illustrious racing history. |
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