![]() ![]() I’m not even there and I look at the timing and all of a sudden we’re down a lap. I had to leave right after my stint to fly to Portland to do a vintage rally with my sister in an old Aston-Martin. Then Siegel got in and blew the red light at the end of pit lane and got a stop-plus-60-second penalty. ![]() Ended up coming in in fifth place, legitimately. One of the best stints I’ve had all year. Not to the Lexuses they were in a class of their own. I qualified ninth, which the position wasn’t all that great but the times were all close so we knew we had a somewhat competitive car. At Mosport, I started and it was a 2 hour and 40 minute race and Jeff Segal finished. My other co-drivers each had one of the two penalties, and when I was getting in the car on pit lane the car caught on fire during refueling. (Three) races ago at Watkins Glen, we had two penalties and a fire. If it was easy, there’d be no satisfaction in winning. That’s one of the nice things about IMSA is there are eight or nine manufacturers in GTD, so there’s a lot of competition. I’d like to go out and win every race, but I can’t. So to win a championship, you have to stay off the radar, which means finishing third, fourth, fifth every race. But when the balance of performance is based on previous race results … the unfortunate evolution of the sport has come to BoP racing. But obviously a level, fair playing field is all I can hope for, ask for. So that’s difficult, not to say it should be easy. They don’t help it as much as they normally help cars that are struggling. Meaning IMSA doesn’t want to help it (with balance of performance adjustments) because it’s won. The car has the biggest target on its back. So they have the biggest target on their back. It’s tough when you’re driving a car that’s won the championship the last two years in a row with the team that’s won the championship the last three years in a row. I felt that was really the start of the bright part of the season for us, and then Alessandro (Balzan) all of a sudden couldn’t drive. We … had a great car at Daytona and had a steering wheel issue and finished top-10 or something, but then we finished second at Sebring, which was great. ![]()
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