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Oct 12 2010, 06:30 AM
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Linhbergh
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What's up guys – It's my last ALMS blog for 2010. Thanks for reading this year. I hope they've been entertaining or interesting at the least. I've had a lot of fun writing them and meeting some of you guys at the ALMS races this year. It's always cool to hear from you guys whether you like these or not. This year the ALMS swapped a few races around so that the Petit Le Mans from Road Atlanta would be the last race of the season. The big factory Audi and Peugot teams came...
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Jul 23 2010, 06:40 PM
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SPEEDHUNTING
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Finally! After a long break for Le Mans, the ALMS got back racing again with the 4th race of the season, the Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsport Park. For me, it’s been a slow month and a half. I spent two days with the rest of the team at Road Atlanta a few weeks ago, preparing for this race and for the rest of the season. But I was ready to get back racing again and put Laguna behind me. My week at Miller started pretty early. I had to be there on the Tuesday before the race to help with...
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Apr 02 2010, 04:19 PM
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Linhbergh
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You guys asked for it, so here it is: the Rahal Letterman #90 GT2 BTW hard on the brakes going into turn 7. Head on over to the desktops section to pick up both the widescreen and standard versions! -Linhbergh Speedhunters 12 Hours of Sebring coverage
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Mar 31 2010, 01:55 AM
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Speedhunters
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Sebring 12 Hour - It's one of the biggest sports car races in the US and featured on the American Le Mans Series as the start of the season for a number of years. It's the longest race in our season and it set's the tone for the rest of the year. If you do well here, you put yourself in a good position to challenge for the championship. This Sebring is a little different, though. The tone has already been set in GT2 over the last year or two. All of the top teams know the challenge that...
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Mar 26 2010, 12:40 AM
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Linhbergh
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I know John Brooks always talks about the loonies that party at turn 10. But in my Twelve Hours of Sebring experience, turn 7 is the place to be. It's a fantastic corner to spectate. As the cars exit out of turn 5, they blast into the gentle curve of turn 6 and into a nice straight, then they brake hard into the hairpin of turn 7. The cars back fire as they brake into the corner and there is a ton of passing to be witnessed. At night, this is the corner to sit at to see the brake disks glow red...
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Posted
Mar 11 2010, 03:27 PM
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Rod Chong
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In the build up to the 12 hours of Sebring, our friends at BMW Motorsport North America have just released this video entitled "Joy is Racing"... I'll agree to that!...
:Rod
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Posted
Oct 21 2009, 06:20 AM
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Mike Garrett
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It's the last race of the 2009 ALMS season at Laguna Seca where the finale has been held for the last number of years. One of the best places to finish a season without a doubt. Monterey is one of the prettiest places in the US and the track is one of my favorites. I've had decent success here in the past. I dominated here in 2005 with my teammates Justin Marks and Bill Auberlen in an M3 and finished well in every year after. Last year I lead for an hour or so in the aging Panoz and finished...
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Posted
Oct 20 2009, 03:24 AM
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Rod Chong
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This is Andy Priaulx MBE, Husband to a fantastic wife, father to two gorgeous kids but then I would say that ; racing driver from an early age racing almost everything from Motorbikes and power boats to formula one cars, currently racing in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) having won the title three times in a row now trying to win it back. My experience of GT racing is also varied but my greatest success was to win the Nurburgring race in 2005 with Said, Lamy and Husiman, to master the...
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Oct 02 2009, 11:58 AM
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Rod Chong
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What's up SpeedHunters – I'm Tommy Milner and I'm a 23 year old 'kid', lucky enough to have to have one of the most exciting jobs in the world. I grew up in a racing family, my dad having been in racing since the late 60's, and grew up a big car guy/race fan. Nothing has changed since I was young, as I still watch anything and everything to do with cars or racing, now I'm just fortunate to make a living at it. I started off racing 125cc shifter karts when I was 15...
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Sep 29 2009, 11:14 AM
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Rod Chong
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BMW Mobile Tradition is BMW North America's vintage fleet of race cars that are toured around the country to some of the greatest car shows the US has to offer. These aren't your usual museum show cars though. All of them are fully operational and I've been lucky enough to drive most of them. And drive them hard... I'm not going to go into detail about these cars' history because honestly, Rod knows a lot more about these than I do. What I do know about these cars is how they...
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Posted
Sep 26 2009, 07:05 AM
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Linhbergh
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When you have the time to actually witness a professional racing team do what they do throughout the course of the day, you can't help but to feel intimidated. I had the honor of being a guest with the BMW American Le Mans team and had the opportunity creep, snoop, and stalk the team and their drivers throughout the course of the weekend. This being my first real motorsport and the first non-rice event I've shot, there was a bit of a culture shock as I started to experience the world of real...
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Posted
Sep 09 2009, 07:00 PM
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Rod Chong
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I'm sure that you are all somewhat familiar with this beautiful piece of engineering -the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW M3 GT2.... And lucky for you, BMW agreed to let me get under the skin of the GT2 during my recent trip to Rahal Letterman Racing a few weeks ago. I've been following the development of this car with some interest since the racing program was first announced and made sure that John Brooks took tons of snaps of the car at Sebring earlier this year. The debut of the new racing...
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Sep 02 2009, 04:00 PM
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Rod Chong
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Well BMW Month seems to be off to a good start huh? I'm pretty excited about what's in store for the site for September but am also a bit stressed out by how much work there is to do!... Oh well... All part of the game I suppose. For my first proper BMW feature I thought I'd take you on a quick tour of Rahal Letterman Racing, the team that runs the two M3 GT2s in the American Le Mans series. Based in Hilliard, Ohio, RLR is based out of a whopping 60,000 square foot facility split between...
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