Joey Hand chases Bill Auberlen (E46 M3 Gets Hit by Porsche)

Round #3 Race of the KONI Challenge at New Jersey Motorsports Park. In car with Joey Hand in the #97 Turner Motorsport BMW E46 M3, running nose-to-tail with Bill Auberlen in the #96 Turner Motorsport BMW E46 M3, fighting it out with each other and the Porsche for Position in the front of the pack. The incident occurring at 1:50 forced Auberlen to pit out with a flat tire, removing him from podium contention (his co-driver Matt Bell led the race from the poll for 28 laps). Joey Hand continued on for a strong finish -- be sure to watch this race on SPEED saturday May 9th at 12:00pm ET. Be sure to set your DVR!

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[sub3123]

Actually, the very first part of that clip shows the same turn, and the Porsche turns in on the correct line. The second time the Porsche gets to that turn he runs way wide and the incident ensues.

Case closed.

[subeefan]

so much better than F1 nowadays

[grenobel]

This great driving! This year's practice session in Fla. wasn't nearly as aggressive. I commented that it was "crappy driving" because it looked like Joey was almost afraid of pressing the car hard. But this... This is top notch!

[Jacka1]

Impressive driving from Joey. I hope TMS takes it home in 2011

[tonggi]

go joey go!

[BeastEd]

I could watch this all day - great stuff !

[casesully50]

AHHHH!!! TURNER!!! what happened to the 96 car!? you guys had it yesterday!!

[sub3123]

I've driven Thunderbolt repeatedly in a GT3. Tracking "all the way out" in the right hander into the octopus is way off the line I and other Porsche drivers use. I'd like to see some video from previous laps, but it looks to me as though the Porsche blew the right, #96 went in for the pass and the Porsche clipped him trying to get back on line. No one likes to have contact, but this looks to me like a big error by the Porsche driver.

[exz3owner]

you need to see another angles to see the whole story. The porsche tracked all the way out on the right hand turn right before contact. And then the BMW tracked out into his passenger rear wheel. When someone hits you there, its hard to turn left. You end up turning right. If there hadn't been contact, the porsche would have been on the inside of the left hand turn and would have kept both bmws behind him.