PWC Live from St. Pete

I'll try to post live look in's from trackside, it appears that the Cadillac Racing trailer is right next to the Budweiser beer truck, it's an omen. If I can keep the wife partially sober,(I know I won't be), then we should get some good pictures.

Too cool! Too bad I spent all my monies at last weekend's Gatornationals. Sounds like a fun weekend. As said before. TAKE PICTURES.

Yeah, do it......DO it.

Volvo's are flying! Qualifying over a second faster than the rest of the GT field...

Helped push Andy Lee's Camaro through Tech, then he goes out and takes the GTS pole, I'm taking credit for that

Awesome dude, need the pics for sure....

We got lucky and the weather held off, you could tell how windy it was when the larger Cadillacs, Camaros and Mustangs ran the back chute and would slide side to side into turn 10.

Figge's Volvo was gone by lap 10, he had a 5-6 second lead until full course caution on lap 32 I believe. The field tightened and the Porsche of Daziel went by with a fantastic move right in front of us with only two laps to go. Still haven't seen the official results, but from what I saw it was, Daziel - Figge- Sofronas (R8) - then the two Caddys and Skeen (Vette)

Lee had GTS won, but we think he had transmission problems, (smelled like it), and Baldwin got by him just after the caution. Aschenbach was running 3rd, but shuffled back, don't know what happened, his bumper was loose on the last lap.

I'm hoping the Mrs. got some good shots, I was bizzy checking times on the IPad and listening to the Cadillac radio feed

Great race, can't wait for them to line it up and run it again tomorrow! This time it will be a standing start.

Saturday Results:

GT
1 - Figge (Volvo)
2 - Sofronas (Audi)
3 - O'Connell (Cadillac)

Figge led most of the race, opening up a 6 second lead at on point. The race was for second with Dalziel, Pobst, O'Connell, Sofronas, Pilgram and Skeen. Once Dalziel got around Pobst and Sofronas passed O'Connell, the two ran after Figge with around 15 laps to go. A caution came out on lap 26, bunching the field. When the race restarted, Figge had his hands full with Dalziel and Sofronos. O'Connell and Pilgram both passed Pobst to move Cadillac into fourth and fifth. On lap 28 Figge pushed wide (right in front of us) and Dalziel made a great move to get by. The checkers came out with Dalziel first in the Porsche, with the Volvo of Figge and the R8 of Sofronas, second and third. Cadillac finished fourth and fifth.

However, after post race inspection, Dalziel's Porsche was found to have an illegal splitter, awarding Figge the win and bumping everybody up one spot.



GTS
1 - Baldwin (Porsche)
2 - Lee (Camaro)
3 - Cunningham (Acura)

The pole sitter Lee, ran the rubber off of his Camaro, but could not shake the veteren Baldwin's Porsche. When the caution flag came out on lap 26, Lee had the lead, followed by Baldwin, Aschenbach, Gleason and Cunningham. With two laps to go, and on cold tires, Baldwin pulled beside Lee into turn 1 and the two went door handle to door handle through the tight turn two right hander. Baldwin pulled passed in turn three and went on to victory. Finishing in the top five was, Lee, Cunningham, Aschenbach and Wilkins. Gleason finished fourth, but was penalized 20 points for avoidable contact with Aschenbach on the last lap and was dropped to eighth.




Sunday's race will be a standing start, (weather permitting), and Sofronas will have the pole in GT with the fastest lap time of Saturday's race, alongside him will be Figge. Dalziel and his rules appropriate splitter will start row two with Pobst. In GTS, Baldwin and Lee will be upfront, with Cunningham and Aschenbach in row two.

It's and early start, 10:25 am EST, but you can catch all the action at:
http://www.world-challengetv.com/

Sunday's Results:

GT
1 - Sofronas (Audi)
2 - Pobst (Volvo)
3 - O'Connell (Cadillac)

Again Figge was hooked up and so was the Porsche of Dalziel, with his approved splitter, but disaster struck them both. Dalziel cut a tire on lap 29 and Figge cut a tire on lap 31, moving Sofronas from 3rd to first with just a couple laps remaining. Pobst gave chase but could not make the move to pass the Audi and Sofronas takes round two.


GTS
1 - Baldwin (Porsche)
2 - Aschenbach (Camaro)
3 - Cunningham (Acura)

Baldwin's Porsche was fast all weekend and after a battle with Lee at the start of the race, and subsequent engine failure in the Camaro, Baldwin boat raced his way to his second victory of the season.

NBC Sports will air this weekends races on Sunday, April 7th at 12:30PM EST
So look for me in turn 10 on Saturday and turn 1 infield on Sunday


Great weekend of racing, next race is at Long Beach on 04/19

Here's 15 year old Ernie Francis Jr in his new Camaro on the back stretch


From the back chute, through the kink, into turn 10


Inside Andy Lee's Camaro


Just behind Alec Udell's Mustang, pushing Andy's car through tech


My view


Johnnie O's ride


Jack Baldwin's old Cayman (driven by Buzz), no more Hot Wheels



More to come...

Good stuff so far Max. Thanks!

Randy Pobst


Alex Figge (won GT Saturday, dude was flying all weekend)


Sofronas (won GT Sunday)


Alex Welch (cool looking car, GMG had five Audi's, four ran)



Adree Toppee (looks like Stalker's Rolex car)


Ryan Dalziel (won on the track, lost in the tech shed)


Tony Gaples

Thats awesome max....

Are the Camaros using the 1LE body or ZL1 body now?

The newer Camaro teams are using the ZL1 style. But some are still using the old body style with a modified ZL1 hood and front bumper.

Here's a tech sheet: Camaro 2010-13

Another you might be interested in: Mustang Boss 302