{"id":3357,"date":"2010-03-15T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2010-03-16T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T01:30:05","slug":"bmw-rahal-quietly-confident-for-second-run-at-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/bmw-rahal-quietly-confident-for-second-run-at-12-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW, RAHAL QUIETLY CONFIDENT FOR SECOND RUN AT 12 HOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bobby Rahal: “You can have the perfect race going and someone makes a mistake and takes you out with them.” <\/span>
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As a former overall winner of America\u2019s greatest sports car race, Bobby Rahal knows all too well the difficulties and challenges of Sebring International Raceway. That\u2019s why he\u2019s cautiously confident as his BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team prepares for the 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida, the opening round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate being overconfident,\u201d said Rahal, whose organization is starting its second year of a partnership with BMW North America that features two BMW M3s in the Series\u2019 GT class. He also was a guest Sunday on SPEED\u2019s Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain. \u201cI think we\u2019re competitive. It\u2019s an incredibly tough class. We\u2019re not the main group in the championship but I think it\u2019s the most competitive group.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BMW\/RLR partnership debuted in 2009 with one class victory at Road America and a third-place finish in the GT2 team championship. For Sebring, Joey Hand, Dirk M\u00fcller and Andy Prialux will drive one M3 with Bill Auberlen, Tommy Milner and Dirk Werner in the second M3. The BMWs debuted here last year but both failed to finish the race.<\/p>\n

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\nBMW and Rahal Letterman will start their second year together at Sebring.
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\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had a good testing season so far, and I think we\u2019re much better prepared than we were a year ago,\u201d said Rahal, who won the 12 Hours in 1987 and was on pole position in 1982. \u201cBut at Sebring it\u2019s not all about you. You can have the perfect race going and someone makes a mistake and takes you out with them. It\u2019s a very long, very difficult race. Finishing the race is an accomplishment in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n will open its 12th season with America\u2019s greatest sports car race, the 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida from March 17-20. The green flag will fall at 10:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, March 20 with live coverage on SPEED starting at 10 a.m. ET. Live coverage also will be available on American Le Mans Radio, as well as Sirius Channel 127 and XM Channel 245. Visit the Series\u2019 schedule page for ticket and accommodation information. Live Timing and Scoring, track schedule, entry list and much, much more will be available on Racehub at americanlemans.com.<\/p>\n

Courtesy ALMS \u00a9 RIF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Rahal: “You can have the perfect race going and someone makes a mistake and takes you out with them.” \u00a0 \u00a0 As a former overall winner of America\u2019s greatest sports car race, Bobby Rahal knows all too well the difficulties and challenges of Sebring International Raceway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[833,5264,5334,970,788,969,207,786,790,971,100,190,751,5352],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}