The VIR Spotter Guide features all 31 entries for this weekends VIR 240. Our focus will be on the GT class with four Porsches 911 GT3 RSR’s entered. Falken Tire, fresh off their win at Baltimore, two for Flying Lizards and Paul Miller Racing.
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2012 American Le Mans Series at Virginia International Raceway Download here
VIR offers six track configurations, of which 2 can be run simultaneously. The “Full Course” is 3.27 miles in length while the “Patriot Course” stretches for 1.1 miles entirely inside the Full Course. The “North Course” is 2.25 miles long and the “South Course” covers a distance of 1.65 miles. Both consist of a portion of the “Full Course” and short connecting sections that connect to portions of the “Patriot Course” to produce the two courses that can run simultaneously. There is a second pit complex that is used only when running the “South Course”. The longest configuration, “Grand East Course”, is 4.2 miles long, and combines most of the “Full Course” and most of the “Patriot Course” by means of two of the short sections of connecting track used to make the “South Course” and “North Course”. There is also another, seldom run, long configuration called the “Grand West Course” that uses the other two short connecting sections between the “Full Course” and the “Patriot Course.”
Some of the raceway’s named curves include “Oak Tree”, “Roller Coaster”, “Hog Pen”, “Horse Shoe”, “NASCAR Bend” (because NASCAR drivers Richard Petty, David Pearson and Wendell Scott had difficulties there during a 1966 Trans Am race), “Snake”, “Spiral”, “Fish Hook”, and “The Bitch”.
### American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron VIR 240 ###
Friday, September 14, 2012
ALMS Practice 1 – 10:15-11:15 AM
ALMS Practice 2 – 2:20-3:20 PM
ALMS Qualifying – 3:30-4:45 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2012
ALMS Warmup – 9:55-10:15 AM
VIR 240 – 2:30-6:30 PM
Live Qualifying:
Friday, 14th – 3:25 PM EDT (ESPN3, XBOX)
Live Streaming:
Saturday, 15th – 2:15 PM EDT (ESPN3, XBOX)
Television Broadcast:
Sunday, 16th – 5:00 PM EDT (ESPN2)
