Porsche: Rolex 24 Hr.

"Jim Keenan" <net> wrote in message
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While we all love seeing Porsche win, it'd be nice if there was some serious
competition.

"John Doe II" <net> wrote in message
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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.

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