PowrslydTodd Journalist

With a front mid-engine configuration, Panoz was a no-brainer to get on board. But with Gurney the pipe dream gets legs. I hope it turns in as well as his AAR IMSA Eagles. I'm still baffled by the physics of it, how the car will turn in in slow corners where downforce is insignificant. Hope they test it out west at Infineon or Laguna Seca. If so, I'll be there.

09/06/2011 11:43

30/05/2011 02:54

The only reason Hildebrand isn't bathed in milk at the moment is because the yellow light didn't come on immediately after the impact in Turn 4. Yes, Weldon did beat him to the checkered, but he didn't take the lead until five seconds after Hildebrand's impact. If the yellow had come out when it should've, Hildebrand was still well ahead on the track and could've been able to seal the deal merely by reaching the checkered flag. In 2002 Paul Tracy lost out to Helio Castroneves in exactly that manner, with the caution lights determining the winner, not who was in front. Why wasn't the caution declared immediately? There was debris and the danger of Hildebrand not being able to keep the car against the wall. That five seconds cost Hildebrand the biggest accolade his sport could offer him.

29/05/2011 10:42

I'm a motorsports photojournalist, mostly writing for the Marin Independent Journal on motorsports for most of the last two decades. A racing fan all my life, my fate was sealed listening to the Indy 500 in 1961 while helping my dad lay a hardwood floor. At 11 I was morning Jimmy Clark, by 14 seeing my first Can-Am at Laguna Seca. I went to every F1 Grand Prix at Long Beach and Las Vegas, with buckets of Kodachrome to prove it. In '79 I put together a racer's dream vacation, hitting the Monaco Grand Prix, the Nurburgring 1000 km (Nordschliffe), and Le Mans on consecutive weekends. From the photographer's hole in the fencing, I'll never tire of the spectacle of a well-driven race car sliding out to the edge of the pavement and riding the exit curbing.

06/03/2011 06:27

Looks like a thoroughbred in the steeplechase with turf in his teeth....

06/03/2011 06:11

06/03/2011 06:07