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Farnbacher finishes third in Long Beach
The No. 91 Fast & Furious 6
Viper GTS-R driven by Domnik Farnbacher and Marc Goossens finished third in the GT class at Saturday’s American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron. The No. 93 Pennzoil Ultra Viper, driven by Kumo Wittmer and Jonathan Bomarito finished in eighth place after a couple of time-eating spins knocked them off the pace.
The No. 91 Viper led for much of the race before worn tires and dwindling
dropped the car behind the RLL team’s new BMW Z4 GTE. Then Farnbacher went wide in Turn One, allowing the No. 56 Bimmer to get by and finish second.
After the race, Farnbacher said, “We’re still learning but we couldn’t be happier with our result, a podium and third-place. I mean five races ago, we were still further back. All in all, it was a great race for us. I think we can all be proud of it.”
Marc Goossens, Farnbacher’s teammate, said, “We were close, I mean ten minutes from the end we were still P1. If you would have told me that before the weekend, I would have signed for it straight away. It proves that the whole team is working very hard. The entire SRT Motorsports team is getting there, slowly. We shouldn’t forget that it’s only race six and we’re already on the podium and could have won. We might have had some issues with tire management there towards the end of the race but that’s part of the learning curve. We need to learn about all these different types of tires, need to learn about these street courses. It was a totally new game for me here. My task was to keep it up front at the start. It’s a mandatory thing that I have to start the race on the qualifying tires that Dominik used yesterday. Last night they went through a heat cycle and I don’t think they take that very well because my
was really well balanced. The problem was that I had zero grip from them. It’s something that we need to learn about the tires and how they behave during the race, temperature related and everything else. All in all, I think we should be very, very happy.”
Of the No. 93 car’s eighth-place finish, driver Jonathan Bomarito said, ”At the end of the race, it was a little bit of a frustrating day after we got spun. But the big picture is that our SRT Vipers were fantastic this weekend. My hat’s off to everybody. So much hard work has gone into this program. This team has worked so hard since Sebring. We came to Long Beach and qualified 1st and 3rd, put the No. 91 Viper GTS-R on the podium which is a great weekend. I’m really happy for the guys.”
Kuno Wittmer commented, “The race was off to a good start and with Marc leading in the 91 and myself in third position, you know, sandwiching the Corvettes was actually a lot of excitement for us. For the first 20, 25 minutes it was going really, really well. The car was working really, really well. The SRT Viper GTS-R was handling outstanding. It was working just in the right direction that we would have a strong finish for this race and just out of the blue, I was turning into corner 11. I guess the number 62 Ferrari just locked up and t-boned me. It put a lot of damage on the car which is unfortunate. We fell back to eighth and that’s where we finished.”
Posted on April 21st, 2013 • by Bill Cawthon
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The No. 91 Fast & Furious 6
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Viper GTS-R driven by Domnik Farnbacher and Marc Goossens finished third in the GT class at Saturday’s American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron. The No. 93 Pennzoil Ultra Viper, driven by Kumo Wittmer and Jonathan Bomarito finished in eighth place after a couple of time-eating spins knocked them off the pace.
The No. 91 Viper led for much of the race before worn tires and dwindling
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dropped the car behind the RLL team’s new BMW Z4 GTE. Then Farnbacher went wide in Turn One, allowing the No. 56 Bimmer to get by and finish second.
After the race, Farnbacher said, “We’re still learning but we couldn’t be happier with our result, a podium and third-place. I mean five races ago, we were still further back. All in all, it was a great race for us. I think we can all be proud of it.”
Marc Goossens, Farnbacher’s teammate, said, “We were close, I mean ten minutes from the end we were still P1. If you would have told me that before the weekend, I would have signed for it straight away. It proves that the whole team is working very hard. The entire SRT Motorsports team is getting there, slowly. We shouldn’t forget that it’s only race six and we’re already on the podium and could have won. We might have had some issues with tire management there towards the end of the race but that’s part of the learning curve. We need to learn about all these different types of tires, need to learn about these street courses. It was a totally new game for me here. My task was to keep it up front at the start. It’s a mandatory thing that I have to start the race on the qualifying tires that Dominik used yesterday. Last night they went through a heat cycle and I don’t think they take that very well because my
car
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was really well balanced. The problem was that I had zero grip from them. It’s something that we need to learn about the tires and how they behave during the race, temperature related and everything else. All in all, I think we should be very, very happy.”
Of the No. 93 car’s eighth-place finish, driver Jonathan Bomarito said, ”At the end of the race, it was a little bit of a frustrating day after we got spun. But the big picture is that our SRT Vipers were fantastic this weekend. My hat’s off to everybody. So much hard work has gone into this program. This team has worked so hard since Sebring. We came to Long Beach and qualified 1st and 3rd, put the No. 91 Viper GTS-R on the podium which is a great weekend. I’m really happy for the guys.”
Kuno Wittmer commented, “The race was off to a good start and with Marc leading in the 91 and myself in third position, you know, sandwiching the Corvettes was actually a lot of excitement for us. For the first 20, 25 minutes it was going really, really well. The car was working really, really well. The SRT Viper GTS-R was handling outstanding. It was working just in the right direction that we would have a strong finish for this race and just out of the blue, I was turning into corner 11. I guess the number 62 Ferrari just locked up and t-boned me. It put a lot of damage on the car which is unfortunate. We fell back to eighth and that’s where we finished.”
