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Well in what the announcers are calling a upset the Penske Porsche Spyder # 7 beat the Audi's. It was a great race with dry and wet conditions and pit strategy thrown in also. If you haven't been following the ALMS series the Penske Spyders have been improving and not only win their division ( P2 ) but have one 5? overall wins beating the P1'S
 I can't wait for the Petit LeMans in Atlanta
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Caught the end of this race. Very impressive for the Penske Spyders to beat the almighty Audis at a big, long track like Road America.
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08-12-2007, 02:15 PM
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Good stuff indeed! Nice to see Porsche consistently taking it to the Audi's.
+1 on the comment about the Petit ... it should be a great 12 hour race this year 
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08-12-2007, 04:52 PM
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I got to meet Jim Tafel and the rest of his crew last weekend on their way up there. The RS spyders were AMAZING cars up close. Also saw the new 997 GT-2 prototype. Rowr!
(These are a repost from another forum, but I had to brag a little. ) Familiar faces?  Yep, Robin Liddel and Wolf Henzler who are running the new 997's...  They had another car there that I thought you might like as well, I don"t even know where to begin talking about the amazing engineering in all of these machines... Little hidden details like aero-devices inside even the side cooling ducts...  I was lucky to "just happen to have" my old helmet in the car and got them to make it a nice piece of display art for my trophy-shelf.  Wolf and Robin were nice gentleman, as was Jim Taffel. They were happy to talk shop and answer questions about the season, and racing in general.
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08-12-2007, 05:58 PM
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As far as I can tell, the Porsche RS Spyders have been running away with this year's ALMS. I personally witnessed one 1-2 finish for the Penske cars, and apparenly there have been 5 or 6 other Porsche wins. This would be a vast majority of the races, non?
According to the newest issue of PANORAMA, the governing body thinks that the LMP2 Porsches just SHOULDN'T be easily beating the LMP1 Audis, so there will be rule changes implemented for 2008 that will handicap the Porsches.
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