TK doesn’t surprise me nor should it anybody at this point.

Wasn’t Mr YES Network yield his seat to two factory Porsche drivers on his way to victory I believe that was 2004? If TK car is in any position to finish higher than 2nd, I can tell you he will only see the seat again when that position is not threaten.

I agree the car can’t be setup as aggressively but do you need a edgy setup on the Ferrari to make it fast???

He’s the weak link, but he foots the bill. The other 2 drivers can’t tune the car the way they would really want because he has to be able to drive it. Towards the end of a long race he yields the seat to them and they do their thing.

To WIN is asking alot, when you have at least 8 cars ahead of them with proven squads and well developed cars.

Then again, considering what happen before half way last season that saw the lead Risi car eliminated and the lead Tafel car get set back early with cooling problems, Vici with questionable rubber was running 3rd at the half way point.

You also have to remember Jim Tafel’s own car finished way back in 3rd@Sebring.

Is that the issue and why there are looking for a restrictor break?

They didn’t destroke the V8 like Ferrari did to get the car to min weight. They got the pass to move the transmission to help with the weight balance. I just think some engine development is in order to close the gap to the 997 and F430’s. I still think they are a good deal quicker than the aging Panoz and any of the Ferrai’s or Porsche pedaled by gentlemen drivers.

My dark horse(s) is actually the lead VICI Porsche with Basneng, Westbrook, and P Cup standout David Lance Arnold and AF Corse ran Advance Engineering Ferrari 430 with Russo and Bruni. Russo proved quite quick during the season in FIA GT with a convincing victory at the season finale in Argentina.

There will be at least at the start a four to six car battle for the lead in GT2.

Because of the extra points given for pole this season, I expect every teams best effort to get on the front row of the grid in GT2 and they’ll keep that qualifying pace up during the race.

GT2 again will prove to be the War among the Battles during the race…

Automatically writing off #66 Acura because they haven’t won yet? If your talking about drivers, I would put De Ferran’s weakest driver vs Scott Sharp and win. With equal cars what else could prevent them from winning?

DeFerran was a team created out of nothing and competitive from the word jump. Highcroft despite having a serious professional crew and work shop, wasn’t able to challenge for victory until last season. They did it with a complete team effort, not always having the fastest car. AGR and De Ferran were a great deal faster at any given point last season, only driver and crew errors/mistakes prevented from winning.

I like the 908 pedaled by Montagny-Sarrazin-Bourdais for overall victory. I think you’ll see a might battle and plenty of cracked carbon-fiber as accidents will be the call of the day as the top teams push, push, push. Because unlike years past, Audi is being pushed with an all new car, vs another new Acura and evolution of the 908, plus the pesky Acura LMP2 and MazLola coupes.

I however don’t think BMW is sandbagging, I think they know the competition is stiff. What you can say however, since it looks like Rahal-Letterman will not run two cars next season in IRL, the bleed over in talent could help the BMW effort. I don’t think you’ll see the BMW totally on pace until Utah and maybe not until after the other teams return from Le Mans in June.

I think this BMW effort is bothered by budget issues, as the first argument was over who was paying for building the car. When it was finally agreed that BMW AG would build and develop the car, it was up to RLR to come up with the funded since BMW USA would pay for drivers, etc. Coming up with funding for just ONE car to be entered until this week, when the 2nd car was added, I’m sure BMW USA is writing that check.

Otherwise a decent preview, care to put a marker down on your predictions??