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No. 20 Dyson Sebring Diary: 17:25 Saturday
No. 20 Dyson Sebring Diary: 17:25 Saturday, with Bonus Coverage of the 16 Car Another hour in the bank and the Dyson Porsches again pitted in tandem about four minutes apart with the 20 Car first. However, breaking with the double-stint driver ...
Published: Mar 16, 2008, 5:44 AM
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No. 20 Dyson Sebring Diary: 17:25 Saturday, with Bonus Coverage of the 16 Car
Another hour in the bank and the Dyson Porsches again pitted in tandem about four minutes apart with the 20 Car first. However, breaking with the double-stint driver shifts both cars have been using, lead driver Leitzinger turned his seat over to Marino Franchitti after only one stint. Asked why, the affable Leitzinger grinned and shrugged, "I don't know."
He's obviously not thrilled with the car at this stage of the weekend. "We've still not got a great balance on the car. It's very oversteery in the fast ones, especially. I actually spun in (Turn) 1, which is generally about the last thing you want to do here. But I didn't leave the road, just flat spotted the tires. It's just not an ideal set-up unfortunately. We had a good one most of the week, but I think the track wasn't up to it. We're going to see if we can adjust it in the pits, maybe if we get a yellow flag.
Asked again about changing drivers more often, Leitzinger offered, "I guess we can do driver changes as quickly as they can fuel and tire the car, so maybe we'll be doing singles from here on out. I don't know."
Again, about four minutes after the 20 Car stop, Guy Smith rolled the 16 into its stall for fuel and tires. It was another really smooth
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