Having to run tires developed expressly

Brown stayed out until the last lap of the caution period before coming in to hand the car over to van Overbeek. Class UPVC TWO PIECES & THREE PIECES BALL VALVE Suppliers Drivers Team Chassis/Engine Laps/Notes 1. 6. After their victory earlier this month on the natural terrain Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca road course, we’re confident about our chances as the series returns to road racing at Watkins Glen next month.P Ryan Dalziel/Scott Sharp Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b Honda 6.Scott Sharp (#1 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-02b Honda) started second, finished fifth: “The car was quick all weekend long, but we didn’t think that we would be as handicapped on the restarts as we would be because of the tires.35-mile temporary street course), Detroit, Michigan 2013 winners: Jordan Taylor/Max Angelelli (Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP) Weather: Mostly sunny, mild, 75 degrees FPs.Steve Eriksen (Vice President and COO, Honda Performance Development) on today’s race “With LMP2 cars having to run tires developed expressly for Daytona Prototypes, they have a distinct disadvantage on street circuits, as we saw today in Detroit and earlier this year at Long Beach.The strategy on the #2 was a bit different, however. The strategy was designed to give van Overbeek a chance to run the remainder of the event on one tank of fuel, while everyone else would have had make another time-consuming stop before the end of the race.com/hondaracingtrackside./John Pew Michael Shank Racing Riley Ford 5. The #2 of Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek fell victim to an ill-timed caution flag that put them a lap down by the race’s halfway point, but soldiered on to collect a seventh-place result.GTD Alessandro Balzen/Jeff Westphal Scuderia Corsa Ferrari F458 Italia 56 laps 9.While struggling with tires that came up to temperature a couple of laps after those of their competitors, the ESM team found itself behind the ‘eight ball’ on starts and restarts Saturday.P Oswaldo Negri Jr.P Olivier Pla/Gustavo Yacaman OAK Racing Morgan Nissan 4.The #1 HPD ARX-03b Honda benefitted from some last-lap fireworks to earn an extra position in the final order, moving up a spot to fifth after Joao Barbosa cut a tire and spun after making a pass for the lead.Starting driver Brown ran a clean opening stint and was battling with the Mazda Prototype of Sylvain Tremblay as the day’s first caution flag waved for water on the course. Nevertheless, Extreme Speed Motorsports worked hard to maximize the strengths of our HPD ARX-03b Hondas, and gained valuable points for the season-long championship. The contact required a lengthy cleanup and repair of the barriers, and the seven-lap caution period eliminated any fuel advantage that the ESM Honda might have gained by fuel strategy, dooming the team to finish a lap down to the leaders.GTD Mario Farnbacher /Ian James Team Seattle/AJR Porsche 911 GT 10. The engine even utilizes a stock Honda oil filter. 1.GTD Christopher Haase/Bryce Miller Paul Miller Racing Audi R8 LMS  Extreme Speed Motorsports Earns Pair of Top-Seven Finishes At Belle IsleLast-lap fireworks lead to top-five run for Ryan Dalziel, Scott Sharp Lengthy caution period widens fuel window, ruins fuel strategy planThe Extreme Speed Motorsports squad carried its pair of Honda-powered HPD ARX-03bs to top-seven finishes after a challenging 57-lap sprint race in Saturday afternoon’s Sports Car Classic at Belle Isle Park, Round 5 of the 2014 TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. 5. 1.P Michael Valiante/Richard Westbrook Spirit of Daytona Spirit of Daytona +0. 2. 4.207 seconds 3.  Video News Releases from this weekend’s action at Belle Isle are being posted on a new, specially created “Honda Racing/HPD Trackside” YouTube channel produced by the Carolinas Production Group. Key production-based components that are utilized include block and heads, crankshaft, direct injection fuel system, valve train components, drive-by-wire throttle, alternator, sensors, fasteners, etc. The strength for us is in the consistency and reliability of the Honda engine package and we really leaned on the traction control Honda provides today, it’s just too bad that they don’t do the tires!”.The inaugural TUDOR United SportsCar Championship resumes June 27-29, with a six-hour endurance event at the famed Watkins Glen race facility in New York. 3. The video packages can be found at: youtube. 7.P Ed Brown/Johannes van Overbeek Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b Honda 8. The caution sent most of the leaders in for fuel and driver changes and the #1 ESM Honda joined that group, as Dalziel took the fifth-place car from Sharp and returned to the fray.The timing of the stop put van Overbeek back on track directly ahead of the leaders, where he dropped a lap to leader Ricky Taylor just before the caution flag flew again, this time for contact involving the GB Autosport Porsche of Damien Faulkner.The #1 Honda-powered ESM entry of Scott Sharp and Ryan Dalziel started on the outside of the front row and ran in the lead group all day before coming home in the fifth spot.Circuit: Belle Isle Street Circuit (2. Once the tires reached optimal temperatures, Sharp maintained contact with the lead group through the opening stint, threatening the fourth-place Nissan Morgan of Gustavo Yacaman all the way to the first pit stop. 3.P Joao Barbosa/Christian Fittipaldi Action Express Coyote Corvette 56 laps 7.P Jordan Taylor/Ricky Taylor Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara Corvette 57 Laps 2. 2. The HPD-developed Honda engines used in the TUDOR championship are derived from the Honda “J35” series of production V6 engines and include relevant twin-turbocharger technology, along with the efficiency provided by direct fuel injection.  Headed by longtime motorsports broadcaster Rick Benjamin, CPG will be providing video highlights packages following Honda Racing/HPD events during 2014. The tires took so long to get up to pressure and that held us back on the restarts, but we stuck with it and were able to salvage a good finish.

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