Laguna Seca - Jaguar RSR

Another milestone for JaguarRSR XKR GT since the first completed endurance run at Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway during the six American Le Mans Series race at Monterey Presented by Patron.
laguan race 2010 Taking the green flag on Saturday afternoon with Marc Goossens behind the wheel, the # 75 JaguarRSR XKR GT ran at a reasonable and profits made in the position of the song. On Lap 54, two hours into the race, Goossens came after a trip to ninth place in the GT class to end the first task. With a quick driver changes, pit efficient work by the crew JaguarRSR, things are looking good to continue running the top-ten solid.
But like Dalziel went to restart the car, failed to power up. An alternator belt failure, which causes the battery power is lower than usual to prevent the car from scratch. The crew must work diligently to replace the battery has not been responsive to the cost of precious time. That is the end to run a very positive, but not the end of the day.
"The # 75 JaguarRSR XKR GT has a pretty good balance but it seems we still have to struggle to find grip on the whole," said Goossens. "Towards the end of the race, the tracks get better and more quickly our time. I think that's good for our running consistent and learn as much as we can about the car during this weekend. Unfortunately the battery have occurred since the beginning we lost quite a few rounds which take far less challenging. But it was good that it happened now so that we can start looking into it and found the problem to Le Mans, and that's what we are doing this. "
GT XKR will complete a total of 191 laps around the 2238 mile permanent road course, took the checkered flag to finish 29th overall, 13th in GT class. Goossens posted the best round of the GT XKR race and weekend with a time of 1:26.079. Belgian driving a car from 1-54 laps, Dalziel served long run in the middle of the cloth 55-133, by Goossens climbed back to take the checkered flag. By filling 70% of race distance class winner, JaguarRSR team has earned its first points on the season Alms 2010.
Dalziel added: "Everything was very good, we finish the race - which is the goal. The JaguarRSR # 75 showed great speed at times during the race. We seemed a little closer in race trim and certainly closer in cold conditions. Looking forward to Le Mans we finished six hours and it is to jump the first hurdle. I have a car, a big stable, easy to drive. Marc (Goossens) does a great job, the whole team did a great job today. "
There is a fair share of ups and downs for the team, but leaving this weekend to have a car took the green flag and boxes in the show yet and the other, an endurance event in this case, one can not help but smile Gentilozzi understand and crew's satisfaction.
"It's not pretty, but again the things that make us from developing the car was completed today, tests and events," said Gentilozzi. "We tested a large 500 miles and now we've gone six hours. If not for the failure of the alternator belt, we'll finish better. And now we know that our margin is really less than 2%, we are 98% of those people in the lead and we will continue to beat away at that until we get to the top. "
Trucks JaguarRSR immediately loaded at the end of this weekend's Round 3 of the American Le Mans Series Presented by the Guardian and on the way back home to the team East Lansing, Michigan-based store. The crew will have only five days to prepare and pack the car for the next race - 24 Hours of Le Mans in Le Mans, France, 12-13 June. The team will return to competition at Miller Motorsports Park alms in Tooele, Utah for Round 4, 9 to 11 July.