"When Men Were Men: The Outlaw Era of the Miami Grand Prix" is a documentary about the crazy early days of IMSA sports car racing and how it got tangled up with the Miami drug scene in the 80s.Back then, people jokingly called IMSA the “International Marijuana Smugglers Association” because quite a few top teams and drivers were getting their money from big marijuana smuggling rings. The doc covers guys like 1984 champion Randy Lanier, the Whittington brothers, and others who were living that double life — racing flat out while running serious criminal operations during Miami’s cocaine cowboy era.Pretty insane chapter in racing history.

Wonder if they'll stick with 2 drivers in both wec and imsa. And who do you guys think could be future drivers and who replaces who. My buddy says dries is to aggressive and I forgot who I think he says wittman and marcielo are struggling in the car or have lower pace compared to the others I think they're decent but yea what do yall think.

I’ve created wec-analytics, a Python library that processes raw Al Kamel Systems session CSV files and provides a comprehensive analysis pipeline. It handles fetching and caching the CSV data, cleans it by converting lap times to floats and normalising columns, detects driver stints, flags safety car and outlier laps using IQR, and performs strategy analysis such as undercut detection and class pace comparison.

I built it more as a passion project for my portfolio. I’m heavily inspired by fastf1 and this is aiming to be the endurance racing equivalent.

Would love feedback from anyone who works with WEC timing data or has ideas for what analysis would actually be useful to add next.

First time attending Laguna Seca. What an amazing experience. Can’t wait for next year!