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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 12:09 PM
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Default Some images from ALMS @ VIR last weekend...

Enjoy... I sure did!!

















More here: http://asphaltventures.smugmug.com/A...5417203_Cbrxps
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 01:20 PM
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great shots...

BTW, for those who haven't heard the all time lap record was broken by the Muscle Milk car.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 01:22 PM
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Yup! 1:34.4

Insanity!
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Nice pics. Wow 1:34.4!
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Old Sep 24, 2012 | 05:42 AM
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Nice pics. Wow 1:34.4!
Coming from you, that means a lot! Thanks!!

And yes... 134.4 is insane.

Check this one out...


Standing outside the fence on the uphill esses... panning fast enough that the thinner catch fence was "blurred out" just perfectly

Muscle Milk car was clocked (by Chuck's hand-held radar gun) at 167 mph through the esses.

Watching the prototypes and the GT cars make that run from where I was at was SCARY. It literally looked like a video game they were so fast and so glued to the track.
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Originally Posted by Stack
Coming from you, that means a lot! Thanks!!

And yes... 134.4 is insane.

Check this one out...


Standing outside the fence on the uphill esses... panning fast enough that the thinner catch fence was "blurred out" just perfectly

Muscle Milk car was clocked (by Chuck's hand-held radar gun) at 167 mph through the esses.

Watching the prototypes and the GT cars make that run from where I was at was SCARY. It literally looked like a video game they were so fast and so glued to the track.
167 mph! Damn. I wonder what an F1 car could run at VIR? My buddy Greg has the EP record at a 2:06 something in his 240Z...

http://www.ncrscca.com/Pdf/TrackReco...l-May_2009.pdf
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Originally Posted by jmark
167 mph! Damn. I wonder what an F1 car could run at VIR? My buddy Greg has the EP record at a 2:06 something in his 240Z...

http://www.ncrscca.com/Pdf/TrackReco...l-May_2009.pdf
The old record was held by 1997 Benetton F1 car at 1:36.3

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Fantastic photos. Wish my ALMS photos from Laguna last year turned out half as well
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Honestly, an F1 car is going to be flat through the esses near 300km IMO. A factory backed 2012 F1 car would run at least 12-15s faster than the MM car around VIR. Just look how much faster indy cars are. Indy was 7s faster at Mid-O. We can all agree F1 would be significantly faster than the 2012 Indy cars.

Again speculation, but internet racing is what is.

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