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Continental Tire Pit Notes - Detroit
NUTS & BOLTS
WHO’S RACING
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (P, PC & GTD) – June 3, 2017
Detroit Belle Isle – 2.3-mile, 13-turn temporary road course
100 minutes
TIRE SETS
P teams will be allotted 7 sets of tires (including dry and wet tires) and PC and GTD teams will receive 6 sets.
Continental Tire has designated Blacks as the dry tire to be raced at Detroit. If teams move to wet tires, the P and GTD classes will move to Blacks. This is the same tire that teams are currently scheduled to run at all other tracks (Daytona is the lone exception).
CONTINENTAL BY THE NUMBERS
- - Number of tires brought to the track (dry and wet) for three classes.
- – With just 100 minutes of race time, look for some teams to double stint or just change two tires at Detroit.
- – Two teams have claimed the five trophies at Detroit since the first Grand-Am race in 2012. Action Express claimed victory in ’12 (Darren Law & Joao Barbosa) and ’15 (Eric Curran & Dane Cameron). Wayne Taylor Racing took the win in ’13 (Jordan Taylor & Max Angelelli), ’14 & ‘16 (Jordan & Ricky Taylor).
- – Four different GTD manufacturers have driven on their Continental tires to victory at Detroit: ’16 (Dodge Viper GT3-R), ’15 (Porsche 911 GT America), ’14 (Ferrari 458 Italia), ’13 (Camaro GT.R), and ’12 (Camaro GT.R).
DID YOU KNOW?
- – May 28 – June 3 is National Tire Safety Week and Continental Tire reminds you to take five minutes a month to check your tire pressures (Use the vehicle manufacturer’s recommended inflation pressure.) when they are cold to help optimize vehicle safety and fuel economy. And don’t forget the spare!
A survey by the Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA), the national trade association for tire manufacturers, found that 69 percent of vehicles in the US have at least one under inflated tire. And did you know, properly inflated tires can improve vehicle fuel efficiency by 3.3 percent and save motorists about eight cents per gallon (www.fueleconomy.gov).
- – Continental Tire is once again the presenting sponsor of the Hot Rod Power Tour set to kick off in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, June 10. The tour will run over 1,600 miles and end in Bowling Green, KY. Make sure to follow Continental’s social media channels for live updates from the road compliments of, Ryan Eversley. Ryan will take you with him via Twitter (@continentaltire), Instagram (@continental_tire) and new this year, Facebook LIVE using #RE. Follow the entire tour using #HRPT17.
FROM THE DRIVERS SEAT
Jordan Taylor:
Detroit is compared to Long Beach as a street course which is difficult for drivers and teams, there’s no room for error, it’s bumpy, and it’s very abrasive so you have to have a car that works well mechanically. It’s not super aero-dependent so you’re working mainly on the mechanical side of it to understand how to use the tire properly and how to get the most out of it.Jeff Segal: Detroit is a tricky one. Very, very bumpy, lots of changes of pavement. You’ve got to have your car really dialed in well there.
Jordan Taylor:
It’s nice to have the 100 minute races where you know you’re only going to have one stop and it equals out on the stint length so you know you can push the whole way through. The street course races are fun as a driver because normally you can push all the way through and not worry about fuel management or tire management.Jeff Segal: Detroit is always track position so that’s where you start to push the tires harder and you really ask a lot from them in terms of longevity. I don’t know exactly what our strategy will be but I suspect there is a reasonable chance that people might look at doing the entire race on one set or just changes two tires depending on how quickly you can do your driver change.
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