. BMWMotorsport RLLracing's CDePhillippi believes double-stinting the tires in IMSA races allows the drivers to make more of a difference in terms of technique and smarts
BMW’s Connor De Phillippi believes that double-stinting tire sets in IMSA’s GTP division gives a teams and drivers a chance to vary their tactics and technique.The #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 of De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly has scooped two second-places in the last two IMSA rounds at Sebring and Long Beach, and currently lies fourth in the championship, just 21 points from leaders Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet of Porsche Penske Motorsports.
“That’s a big thing we don’t know yet either. Laguna puts a lot more energy through the tires, so the warm-up phase will be so different from Long Beach. At Long Beach in qualifying it took everybody 11, 12, 13 laps to get the tires to really switch on; that’s not going to be the case at Laguna, although it is going to be on the chilly side as it normally is up there.
“I’ll never forget my out-lap at Long Beach, changing to fourth and fifth gear out of Turn 8 and still getting wheelspin. That was a ‘Holy smokes!’ moment. But it makes the car fun. It’s not the 1000hp that they had back in the day, but it certainly gives you that sensation, that feeling. “I think it’s proven this year that you don’t really know what to expect going into a weekend, as far as who will be strong, who will have an advantage,” he said. “Certainly we’ve been on the back foot with late development and slowly playing catch-up. Everyone in the team from BMW and RLL have worked hard to close that gap and at Long Beach we made a big step.
Asked where he felt the team had made the biggest gains since the season started, De Phillippi replied: “For us it’s really been about trying to connect all the elements together. A lot of it has been on the systems side – traction control, braking, how the whole hybrid system is working.
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