Rolex 24 hours at Daytona .

the entry list for this year Rolex 24 is huge : more than 70 cars !!! the double of the ALMS field !!

Erm...the entry list was up on the official site for a couple days but it was preliminary and has since been taken down; what are you looking at? Last years?

Not that 70+ cars isn't likely, however. It would have been one greater were it not for Honda's involvement. :P
( http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=240392 )

Romain Dumas will join fellow Porsche works drivers Jorg Bergmeister and Pat Long in the #23 Alex Job Racing/Crawford Porsche.

Definitely a car to watch.

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Originally Posted by Abel Karaj

Romain Dumas will join fellow Porsche works drivers Jorg Bergmeister and Pat Long in the #23 Alex Job Racing/Crawford Porsche.

Definitely a car to watch.

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true but I think that Jorg Bergmeister is no longer a factory Porsche driver, or am I wrong ? :)

He is rumoured to be a factory driver again. But I haven't seen a confirmation yet (Porsche has yet to announce their new drivers after Luhr and Rockenfeller left for Audi).

the AJR Porsche could easly have won the DP championship in 2006 without the foolish rules adjustments that GARRA have done to prevent Porsche from completely dominating the Rolex Series.

for the 2007 I hope that AJR will win the Rolex 24 the whole Grand Am series and come back to ALMS in 2008, with an RS Spyder or the brand new 997 GT3 RSR

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Originally Posted by Subaru WRX

the AJR Porsche could easly have won the DP championship in 2006 without the foolish rules adjustments that GARRA have done to prevent Porsche from completely dominating the Rolex Series

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AJR finished on the podium every single race in which some incident did not otherwise take them out of contention. You can't blame the rules for the broken shift linkage at Laguna, the electrical difficulties at Phoenix and Mid-Ohio, getting pushed into the gravel by the Cheever Porsche Crawford at Watkins Glen, AJR setting themselves on fire in the pits at Infineon, or the broken control arm at Miller. They rules had nothing to do with all the points they threw away in those races.

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Originally Posted by Danske

AJR finished on the podium every single race in which some incident did not otherwise take them out of contention. You can't blame the rules for the broken shift linkage at Laguna, the electrical difficulties at Phoenix and Mid-Ohio, getting pushed into the gravel by the Cheever Porsche Crawford at Watkins Glen, AJR setting themselves on fire in the pits at Infineon, or the broken control arm at Miller. They rules had nothing to do with all the points they threw away in those races.

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I agree on this one.

It was much the same in 2005 when the same kind of problems robbed Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard of the ALMS title they deserved.

Not to mention the fact that Job did not enter or race at Mexico City.

It's pretty tough to win a title when you score zero points at a race. The fact that the 23 even came close speaks volumes about their performance.

Interestingly, it also cost them the opportunity to participate in the Pacesetter bonus program, which is only available to teams which entered every race in the previous season.

I would love to go back to Daytona for the 24 hours. I am not a fan of the Rolex cars that are out there, but they do put on a good race.

Those who have been there will tell you hardly anyone sits in the stands except maybe for 10 minutes at the start. Are there 80000 people there? I doubt it. I suspect that is the total 3 day attendance, the most I think I could figure might have been there would be a little less than that.

Sebring and Daytona are however two classics, and any race fan who loves endurance racing could not go wrong by going to either one. It may not be LeMans, but Daytona is a spectacle even when you are there on a non-race day. To see that big oval and those stands makes one realize size does MATTER!!!