24-giu-2012 18.31.56
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24-giu-2012 18.31.56
25-giu-2012 23.39.01
Spyderidol:
Guys, Team Falken Tire Motorsports has an excellent blog with a very intersting interveiw with Porsche Motorsports North America President Jens Walther.
Thanks for sharing, Spyderidol!
We're still in the process of wrapping up Part II of the Porsche blog, but in the meantime, here's a look into the relationship between Falken co-drivers Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler. These two are an absolute blast to work with and are also incredibly professional. They make a great team racing for Falken and hopefully this year, they'll be able to bring home a few more wins!
http://bit.ly/KY8xj0
26-giu-2012 5.48.20
29-giu-2012 21.28.12
Ferdie:
First of all, a very warm welcome indeed. Very happy to hear from you via this thread. Guess there will be plenty of questions coming up in the near future. Until then, could you shed some light on the qualities of your drivers? Ragginger and Henzler have been well known in the Carrera and Supercup and, being Porsche works drivers, seem to make a very good job. How is it possible to receive works drivers from Porsche? I guess providing a great team makes that decision very easy...
I had a sit down with Program Manager Derrick Walker this afternoon, so I thought I'd also get an official quote from him regarding Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler. Here are his thoughts:
"They’re two very different individuals. They have different personalities and they’ve arrived at Falken motorsports from different directions. The good thing about both of them is they’re ideally suited for sports car GT racing, for more than one reason. One of the main reasons they’re ideal for us as a team is they work really well together. The like similar aspects of the car set up, they describe the car in different ways but their combined input is very helpful. They’re tireless workers. They never give up. Not even when we’re maybe not running as quick as we should be. They never give up on trying to improve. They’re just two racers. They’re professional. There’s not much of a separation between the two of them. If there is a difference, it’s more from experience. Wolf has come with a different experience level than Bryan, but they complement each other when you wouldn’t sense it because they work so well together in the process of not only driving but helping the team to understand how to improve the tires, the car, and maximize our potential. Although they’re quite different, they have a lot of similarities in the way they deal with the job of racing in the job of co drivers for Falken Motorsports.
As for Wolf, I can’t think of another driver in the field that is so hard to pass or so hard to get by. He can pass people in so many places that you didn’t think were possible. He’s a devil. There’s just no way he can’t driver around somebody. Or if the pack is coming down on him, and he’s at the end of his run and he’s not able to stay ahead, there’s nobody better than to have holding up the pack until it’s time for us to pit so we don’t lose so much ground. They’re both very similar and we’re fortunate to have both of them.
Of the two, Bryan is extremely valuable when we do a lot of tire testing. Bryan as an ornate amount of feedback. His recalling a lot of small details is quite exceptional. Wolf can be that detailed, but it’s not as spontaneous. Whereas Bryan, it just rips out of him. When you’re doing tire testing, it’s fractions. It’s very small amounts: little bits of grip, little bits of behavior changes. It’s not a ‘wham bam, oh we’re two seconds quicker’ it’s one tenth at a time. Feedback from a driver that can give you a lot of detail, even at small increments, that’s very important. For a Falken tire development program, Bryan has been a big asset there. His feedback and approach to the job is coming from an open wheel perspective, it’s very detailed.
They’re both driving the car wherever they have to drive it to make it quicker. They change their lines, breaking points, and a lot of aspects of how they approach a corner to get around it. If it means running a different line, they’ll do it. Some drivers get stuck in a rut and never do that. These guys are always searching"
3-lug-2012 13.39.11
FalkenALMS:
Spyderidol:
Guys, Team Falken Tire Motorsports has an excellent blog with a very intersting interveiw with Porsche Motorsports North America President Jens Walther.
Thanks for sharing, Spyderidol!
We're still in the process of wrapping up Part II of the Porsche blog, but in the meantime, here's a look into the relationship between Falken co-drivers Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler. These two are an absolute blast to work with and are also incredibly professional. They make a great team racing for Falken and hopefully this year, they'll be able to bring home a few more wins!
http://bit.ly/KY8xj0
Part II of Team Falken Tire and Porsche is up! Here it is!: "Team Falken Tire and Porsche Part II: Fans Ask The Questions"
3-lug-2012 14.32.52
3-lug-2012 14.49.37
3-lug-2012 14.55.55
bobr:
Thanks !!! Looking forward to seeing you at Lime Rock this weekend.
Likewise! Be sure to stop by and say hi!
Also, every race event, we hold a contest on twitter and allow the winner and a friend to have lunch with Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler at the track. This event, it will be a caption contest on Thursday July 5th and the lunch will be Friday, July 6th. I don't want to get spammy on the forum, so if you're interested, just follow on twitter @FalkenALMS for details. It'd be great if a forum participant won! (You of course, have to be attending Lime Rock in order to win)
8-lug-2012 15.13.35
FalkenALMS:I had a sit down with Program Manager Derrick Walker this afternoon, so I thought I'd also get an official quote from him regarding Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler. Here are his thoughts:
Thanks very much for your effort. Almost thought that you overlooked my request but obviously you just prepared an elaborate answer.
28-lug-2012 20.14.49
Porsche pilots yield best result of the season...
3-ago-2012 23.47.16
2012 Porsche 997 GT3 R -- VLN race footage...
Video link 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3DbwnmAixM&hd=1
Video link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5lmA3AR1WU&hd=1
Video link 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbQVlcVZwo&hd=1
Video link 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwdDYW8maFk&hd=1
Video link 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPV6daRe00&hd=1
Video link 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0Ao49u25E&hd=1
...thanks to Falken Tyre Europe and Porsche Motorsport!
4-ago-2012 10.29.59
PORSCHE 991 FOR WEC IN 2013? — The word in the ALMS paddock is that Porsche’s new 991 GTE car will debut in next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship as a development program run by a single factory supported team, with a full customer roll-out expected for 2014. It would thus leave Porsche with two distinct GTE models for next year, with both likely present at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. - SPEEDTV.com
3-set-2012 12.59.22
reginos:
The Falken Porsche RSR of Henzler/Sellers won the ALMS race at Baltimore.
There is still life in the old 997 based race car, but the new 991 based car can't come soon enough.
Absolutely, 991 RSR can't come soon enough. You have to wonder if the rumored merger of GrandAm & ALMS for 2014 season in the US didn't have an impact on the introduction of 991 RSR to US based teams. Perhaps Porsche, along with the other manufacturers, is working behind the scenes on the regulations for the comnined series.
2006 997 C2S Cab, Triple Black, 2006 Cayenne Titanium Iceland Silver Metalic New York
3-set-2012 18.51.40
Spyderidol:
Well, I certainly hope so. First reactions to the merger are not very promising.
There is certainly a concern about who will dominate - Nascar or ALMS in the combined series. With DP, LMP1 & LMP2 car counts down, you have to wonder what the class layout will look like. The rumored merger announcement is to take place on Wednesday.So let's just hope ALMS takes the lead in the newly merged series.
2006 997 C2S Cab, Triple Black, 2006 Cayenne Titanium Iceland Silver Metalic New York
3-set-2012 19.29.10
Spyderidol, This piece on GrandAm-Alms merger might be of interest.
http://www.autoextremist.com/fumes1/
2006 997 C2S Cab, Triple Black, 2006 Cayenne Titanium Iceland Silver Metalic New York
3-set-2012 20.00.59
4-set-2012 13.06.38
4-set-2012 13.30.47
4-set-2012 18.20.41
FalkenALMS:
Thanks for the well wishes! It's been a crazy weekend and feels amazing to come home with the win for the second year in a row!
Wolf did a great job staying out of the traffic jam in turn 1 at the start. Kind of reminded me of his move at Mid-Ohio last year when he went past the pile up at the restart in the rain to take P1. Let's hope VIR brings another podium finish for Bryan and Wolf..
2006 997 C2S Cab, Triple Black, 2006 Cayenne Titanium Iceland Silver Metalic New York
18-set-2012 21.19.43
2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR -- Team Falken -- ALMS Road to Victory at Baltimore...
"With strong performance, driving flair, a flawless pit stop and the experience from last year's victory, Team Falken enabled history to repeat itself by taking the American Le Mans Series GT class win on the streets of Baltimore..."
2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR -- Team Falken -- ALMS Road to Victory at Baltimore -- Video Link