Race!!!

4:42 pm - No. 64 Corvette stopped on course.

4:36 - Joerg is out again quickly.

4:34 - The crew will take advantage of the yellow to pit for fuel and tires.

4:33 - The No. 3 Audi appears to have impacted a wall with major rear body damage. Driver appears fine. Full course yellow.

4:27 pm - Joerg in P 5.

4:14 pm - Joerg radios in that it's very hard to see where it is wet and where it is dry on the track. Know that he's on slicks, he needs to use caution if the track is wet. Thomas Blam, our chief strategist comments that he believes that the IMSA Porsche is still on rain tires.
Positions: P 1 No. 87; P 2 No. 93 Porsche; P 3 No. 86; P 4 No. 76; P 5 No. 81 P 6 No. 80

4:11 pm - Joerg pits for tire change back to scrubbed slicks.

4:05 pm - Safety car on course but we don't yet know why. Joerg is out of the pits on rain tires. TV coverage shows that the No. 21 Radical prototype is limping back to the pits with some bodywork damage.

4:01 - Joerg back in P 2 now. P1 is still No. 76 IMSA Porsche. P 2 No. 80; P 3 No. 87; P 4 No. 97.
Joerg reports rain in Indianapolis but it is just sprinkling here. He reports that there will be standing water soon. I can see the tire engineers getting rain tires ready. Joerg is going to have to make the call if he can continue on slicks or if he needs to pit for rain tires. It is nearly impossible for drivers to go at speed on slicks in rain. Joerg makes the call to pit now for rain tires and nearly simultaneously it began to pour on the front straight.

3:51 - Joerg reports it is starting to rain lightly. We just saw the No. 87 Ferrari in the pits on the radio, although based on timing and scoring it doesn't appear that they did a driver changes.
After our pit stop, positions are: P 1 No. 76 Porsche; P 2 No. 97 Ferrari; P 3 No. 87 Ferrari; P 4 No. 93 Porsche; P 5 No. 81 Panoz. We are in P 8. Once all cars have done their first pit stops, we'll report positions again after things settle out.

3:48 - Joerg is out now for his first stint. Luckily still no rain.

3:41 pm - Thomas Blam, chief strategist calls Johannes into the pits. Joerg will get into the car for his first stint.

3:28 pm - Johannes in P2. Positions are: P. 1 No. 76 IMSA Porsche with Patrick Long; P 2 No. 80 Flying Lizard; P 3 No. 87 Ferrari; P 4 No. 97 Ferrari.

3:22 CET - No. 32 prototype spun on course but has continued. The No. 99 Krohn racing No. 99 Ferrari was in the gravel but is back underway. Johannes radioed in that 4th gear is sticking, requiring him to lift off the throttle to upshift to 5th gear. The transmissions in the Porsche are designed as a no-lift sequential shifter, so this will cost the No. 80 car time on every upshift.


3:08 CET - It looks like the No. 53 Lamborgini has stopped in the gravel and may be out of the race.

3:05 - Johannes moves to P3, moving past the No. 97 Ferrari. P 1 NO. 87 Ferrari; No. 76 IMSA Porsche P 2; No. 80 Flying Lizard P 3; No. 97 Risi Ferrari in P 4.

2:39 pm CET - 20 minutes to go before race start. The cars have done their recon laps and are on the grid ready for race start. The weather is still highly variable - it's unclear if it will rain or not - th eteam has elected to start on slick tires, not rain tires. Today's race will be clearly a strategists race as the team engineers and strategists try and outguess the weather.

Because the team has elected to start on slicks, instead of rain tires, if Johannes does the pace lap then decides that it it too wet to drive with slicks, he will pit on the pace lap for change to rain tires. So if you see him pit prior to race start it is for this reason.

Johannes is starting the race.

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