. HarryTincknell says the time sheets didn't lie, there was no sandbagging - the Porsche 911 GT3 Rs are in trouble at Daytona IMSA Rolex24
AO Racing's Harry Tincknell believes the lack of pace Porsche demonstrated in qualifying for this weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona is genuine and that the German manufacturer is"miles off" its GT Daytona class competitors.Porsche has seven of its new 992-type 911 GT3 Rs entered for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener across both the GTD Pro and GTD classes, but proved off the pace in last weekend's pre-event Roar test.
Hopes of a Balance of Performance adjustment that might bring Porsche back into contention were dashed on Tuesday evening as IMSA released an unchanged set of figures for the 911 GT3 R. "All there is to say is that gap is a real gap," Tincknell told Motorsport.com."We’re not going to suddenly see any improvement in the race due to sandbagging or holding back.
Tincknell said while he couldn't be certain of the straight line speed deficit Porsche faces to the fastest cars in the GTD division, he offered an estimate of"He added:"Even if you were leading and there was a one-lap dash to the finish [after a caution], we wouldn’t finish in the top 10. It feels like the others have the DRS open and ours is welded shut.
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