{"id":309,"date":"2011-01-30T21:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:24:49","slug":"randy-wells-photography-classic-porsche-automotive-travel-music-reviews-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"355\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OU0GRl-Xi6M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>THAT&#8217;S RACING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes race team owners are better off leaving the driving to the pros. That&#8217;s what happened when Chip Ganassi&#8217;s Dinan-BMW team finished 1-2 picking up its fourth victory in the prestigious Rolex 24 hour race. Scott Pruett held off teammate Scott Dixon for the win today in a final-lap shootout at Daytona International Speedway. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Porsche was on pole with uber-pilots Jorg Bergmeister, Patrick Long and  Johannes van Overbeeck at the controls. After two consecutive Porsche Daytona 24 victories, the Flying Lizard Riley-Porsche DP was well on its way to winning the race when a team owner let the lead slip away by going off track avoiding a spin. <\/p>\n<p>In the GT class, Andy Lally, Steve Bertheau, Brendan Gaughan, Spencer Pumpelly, and Wolf Henzler gave TRG and team owner Kevin Buckler the GT victory in the clutchless # 67 Porsche GT3 RSR 911. Andy qualified fastest in GT but post qualifying inspection deemed the car&#8217;s rear wing was out of spec, so they had to come from the back of the grid to win their class!<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dempsey&#8217;s Mazda team finished third in the GT class. Dempsey, a star in the hit television show <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em>, was full of confidence in Florida. &#8220;I&#8217;m retiring from <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em> as of today,&#8221; he proclaimed. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be racing full-time from here on in. There&#8217;s a headline for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THAT&#8217;S RACING Sometimes race team owners are better off leaving the driving to the pros. That&#8217;s what happened when Chip Ganassi&#8217;s Dinan-BMW team finished 1-2 picking up its fourth victory in the prestigious Rolex 24 hour race. Scott Pruett held off teammate Scott Dixon for the win today in a final-lap shootout at Daytona International &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19707,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/19707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}