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Originally Posted by Purist
Before someone else mentions it here, purely changing up minimum weights won't fix things entirely, or reduce costs on materials. As important as the overall weight is, that placement of that weight is paramount, so use of exotic materials would continue in GT1 and/or GT2 even if the minimum weight was increased.
My thought about AGT and Trans-Am cars is simply in response to the fact that GT1 has so few cars as it is in the US. There are quite a few AGTs and Trans-Am cars lying around, and a number of them ought to be reasonably well-sorted, so why not allow pre-existing cars of that type into GT1? And to be clear, I am not proposing that we allow new "tube framers", or whatever, to be built specifically for GT1.
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It opens pandora's box, not that, that box, is not alreay unsealed.
Well if a more realistic minimum weight, 2,700 lbs dry, were applied, only so much can be shifted before the cars balance is gone, plus eliminate the carbon bodies and make them use material based off of the prod. car for the bodies.(The ZO6 is not legal, so neither should its carbon body be.)
The bizarre fear of adding weight to slow cars down, verses the seeming love for contrived spec. style regs., and non-street related aero aids, is odd at best.
They could simply eliminate the wings and diffuser, which would, even without restrictors, slow them down considerably.
The ACO/IMSA will not allow engines to simply produce power available because the cars might be "Too fassst" for their tender opinions, but they allow cars to gain huge amounts in cornering speeds, by allowing aero items the street cars do not have.
THey are being hypocrites at best but really a bit moronic and disingenuous.
Bob