Shinka-Dono

I have some videos up on youtube of the 3 rotor RX-8s in the Rolex Series at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, CT (5/28/2007). Done with a dopey little digital camera but for what its worth:

8s in the "recon laps":
recon lap

Good lord they sound nice:
Speedsource 8s leaving paddock

Short clip of the 8 breathing fire:
short clip

8 was in 1st early. Vid cars lining up behind pace car:
1st place

Speedsource 8 pitting

scremn8

yeah i watched the whole race. they could not get a grip on the track
plus the the lack of low torque doomed them in the end. but still the way
they were running the first part of the race i thouhgt they had a good chance
to finish better then 11th...

DRKSYDE

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Yeah I was there watching the race....


Nick Ham was doing a great job driving, towards the middle of the race when they needed to pit for tires he was all over the place.

I don't think it was torque they were lacking, the car actually had mechanical issues IMO. He steadily fel back and could keep up. By the time they pitted and Sylvan took over you could noticably hear the misfiring.

NoTears316

I never catch these races. I'm guessing it was on Speed?

DRKSYDE

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Correct No tears.... It was pretty fun to watch the Mustang go up in Flames. Well catch fire at least. It encountered some body panel damage on the right side so they had that new speed tape holding it together, well thats where the exhaust is too sooooo it was a matter of time and POOF fire fire fire! Nothing too major though.

NoTears316

Damn, now I really wish I had seen it!

DRKSYDE

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Here's one for you No Tears. The corner crew was too quick and put it out before I could get some flame shots...

NoTears316

Thanks! OMG that is awesome!

DRKSYDE

iTrader: (1)

No prob! The crew was right on it as its already extinguished yet you can still see the driver running away on the right side.

Driver actually did a great job and drove the car straight to the corner crew cause the car was flaming pretty darn good.

Shinka-Dono

Yep, thats what it looked like. If the engine didn't have enough torque then it wouldn't of had enough early either when the 8 was doing well (and the 20B should have plenty of torque?).

Oh well, great day anyway. Only I need to get a real camcorder for these things. Pics will be up at some point and j67345 will have some pics as well.

Already some from the day here

j67345

Pete, nice videos! I have like 550 pictures I need to go through this week...as soon as I can get to them, I'll post a bunch more! I do have some nice shots of the 8's breathing fire

dshiznit1489

man i was so excited when the 8 was in 1st, but then that damn g6 POS....hence my sig ....

Shinka-Dono

Yeah, that sucked. I wanted to get a video of the RX-8 in first but of course when they came around turn one is when the Pontiac GXP overtook it.
Speedsource is now tied with Farnbacher Loles Motorsports (Porche GT3) for first place in the series. The RX-8 did have the best lap time (not that it helps when it finished 11th): 54.745 seconds.

Here is a better look at the 3-rotor flame:
Speedsource RX-8

dmp

LMAO! When that video opened my Cat was eating here beside me - as soon as the vid started my cat Dropped the foot and RAN out of the room. Skeerd him

lesper4

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love the vids just love the sound, i need to reorder my cable.

Mass 8

I could hear the #70 misfiring coming out of the esses. It was in gear just after passing the corner crew, 2 to 3 misfires under load. They must have been having some having some issues. They just kept falling back toward the end of the race.