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January 26, 2006

Daytona Report: Wednesday 1/25/2006

Bernheim Racing.

Bernheim Racing #03 Porsche 996 Carrera running in Grand-Am Cup Grand Sport.
Contributed by Joe Hullet
(Digital Competition Systems)

We got to the track and got our rigs parked and headed off to tech as there was no tracktime today. There are 169 cars to go through tech and it took hours. We still have to report to tech again in the morning before we take the track at 11:30.

We got our pitlane assignments and ended up first hot pit in pitlane. Could be good or bad as we cannot get a pitlane speed penalty coming in but it could be a curse as we need to watch any pace car position as it takes 40 seconds to get out. We have to be out of pitlane before the pace car with the field in tow crosses start/finish or we get held up to let the field by and going down 1 lap. It should take some crafty strategy...

We have 2 sessions tomorrow to get our setup right and then we qualify for Fridays race at 5:30. We believe we have a good setup to start and are only looking to fine-tune the suspension during our sessions. We will also need to calculate our fuel strategy by tomorrow night and hopefully get in some pitstop practice.

Browsing the paddock, we found no less than 30 cars running the MXL data systems and several utilizing the DaVid video system. Race teams using AIM components have increased by over 300% in Grand-Am Cup since last year. 3 AIM support representatives (Mario Trujillo, Chad Brackens and myself) are onsite to make sure all the customers and products are performing at their best.

Posted by aimsports || erik at January 26, 2006 02:53 AM

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